CORRESPONDENCE
CORRESPONDENCE Clean Sweep Providence, R.I. To the Editors: Brian Wicker, still tingling from his brief brush with Charismatic Renewal [June 18], facilely sweeps aside the very real concerns...
...BARRY R.L...
...but in 1860, now relabeled as the Republican party, they swept Lincoln into power, and the one-issue of anti-slavery close to its final victory...
...Second, though predictably McCormack got only 200,000 votes in the primaries, there seems reason to be-(Continued on page 543) CORRESPONDENCE (Continued from page 515) lieve that many pro-life voters turned to Reagan instead of giving a "thrown away" vote to McCormack...
...Can this have been a substantial factor in transforming Reagan's early poor showing against Ford into a real challenge now to Ford...
...REV...
...CHARLES D. GORMAN...
...REV...
...If these are Mr...
...First, a large majority of the candidates, be it from conviction or convenience, have announced they personally are opposed to abortion, even though only Reagan and Wallace indicated that they would favor a right-to-life amendment...
...CONNERTON Pro-Life Politic* Ridge, Md...
...Wicker's criteria for determining the height and breadth of an assemblage, may I respectfully suggest that his next stop be the National Fuller Brush Convention...
...and in their stead prefers to be bowled over by the "charity and integrity of purpose among that large crowd...
...So it seems to be happening...
...To the Editors: Brian Wicker, still tingling from his brief brush with Charismatic Renewal [June 18], facilely sweeps aside the very real concerns about the movement (regressive fundamentalism, theological physicalism, etc...
...Third, at the Democratic Convention, whoever places Ellen McCormack's name in nomination, will have the opportunity to present the so-called one issue of pro-life to a huge national audience...
...In 1852 they drew even less...
...It is interesting to recall that the one-issue of Anti-Slavery first got off the ground politically when the new Free-Soil Party in the 1848 election garnered a mere 275,000 votes...
...To the Editors: In his "Politics and Abortion" [July 2], Gerard A. Brand-meyer maintains that Ellen McCormack, champion of a right-to-life amendment, hurt her cause by becoming a candidate...
...This "one-issue" is making a politically credible beginning...
...When the election campaign is over, I predict that it will be evident that McCormack will have exceeded her realistic objective, that is, to get the issue before the public (despite much of the media's determined silence), and to command some political leverage, by gaining a three-percent "swing vote," which she stated as her expectation, speaking outside the Capitol at this year's January 20 "March for Life...
Vol. 103 • August 1976 • No. 17
