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...To the Editors: I wish to commend you for the written debate and rebuttals, "The abortion decision: two years later" which appeared in the February 15, 1975 issue...
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...First, regarding the essential concept of freedom, Father Decker suggests that maintenance of free conscience is the only criterion of freedom...
...The point of television criticism may not be to find in shows materials that no one else in the world could see except the privileged critic and a few of his peers...
...sons in the whole sense" and "capabil- This tortuous concept, at the heart of ity of meaningful life" so that even the so-called right-to-life movement, is pro-abortion Yale law professor John the attempt to equate a miscarriage (an Hart Ely calls Roe v. Wade a bad de- abortion which is not induced) with the cision, a frightening decision, and a victim of, say terminal meningitis...
...But most disturbing of all is that the poorest of the poor are women workers...
...distinct change from those days not so I do not believe I have had the very long ago in which backers of pleasure of meeting Father Decker...
...It owes much to Karl Adam and Edward Leen---two theologians who, as Sheed points out, lay under a cloud of suspicion in their own lifetime...
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...Nowhere in his article does Father Decker give recognition to this primary fact in the appraisal of the Roe-Wade Decision...
...But some kind of earthy humanity suggests that freedom of conscience is useless unless you are alive to exercise it...
...but his or her return must always be to a medium shared by all...
...Our national arms trade has tentacles around the globe, but a good example of its mode of operation and its perils is currently provided in our dealings with the nations of the Persian Gulf...
...rl I'd like to know more about the F.O.R...
...But Father Decker appears to juxtapose the historical sequence and interaction between civic and religious traditions and ideologies, although that history reinforces his main thesis...
...DR, JOSEPH T. SKEHAN President, National Association of Laity Nashotah, Wise...
...To the Editors: I read Fr...
...If the law is an amoral chess game, then Father Decker's statements are incontrovertible...
...Television presents, by contrast, something like a Protestant reformation in fields of criticism: everyone his own experience...
...MURPHY, $.J', Bloomington, PA...
...S/ogle copies t0c 000000000000000000 REGIONAL ARMS RACE "Merchants of Death" is what they used to call the world's arms suppliers---a somewhat melodramatic term, perhaps, but painfully accuratz...
...May I say that such a persuasion is II Apdl 1975:60 strengthened in me by the recent treatment of abortion in Commonweal...
...The critic might help them to see what is working, and why...
...In Father Decker's rebuttal Prof...
...they argue about quality of life...
...He is apparently unaware that this sentence in the Constitution on Revelation is a quotation from Leo XIII and Benedict XV, and that it expresses a commonplace of medieval scholasticism...
...For example, he attempts to prove the Real Presence from "the plain meaning of the words uttered by Jesus within hours of his death on a matter which he had already declared to be a matter of life and death...
...City, State, Zip...
...University of Nijmegen) ot Christ in Contemporary Thought Mary Peter McGinty, CSJ, Ph.D...
...Address...
...Gregorian University...
...ture) say it is...
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