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CORRESPONDENCE Journey to life Spokane, Wash, To the Editors: I extend to the editors and staff of Commonweal my deep personal appreciation for the special supplement you prepared [August 9] on...
...Tiller, or anyone else, freedom to kill children...
...In writing my letter I had no intention of impugning the missionary work of Father Eugene Hillman, described by Father George Crocenzi [Correspondence, June 1...
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...acts, albeit undaintily, as if this right were indeed a fact of life...
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...Physician-assisted suicide dehuman- izes this most fundamental encounter with life...
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...Thirty-one of these abortion-bound women that we know of have decided to continue their pregnancies...
...Tiller states that he does 600 of these third-trimester abortions a year, or more than ten each week...
...If the O.R...
...The movement has always said that the unborn child is fully human, with an inalienable right to life...
...Were these children to be born, even in the case of seventh- month abortions, they would have an excel- lent chance of living outside the womb...
...For government to truncate its respon- sibility for humanizing society, destroys the very human solidarity from which govern- ment receives its mandate...
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...To the Editors: I have noticed a curious omission in most media coverage of the Operation Rescue [O.R.] activities in Wichita, Kansas: failure to explain why prolifers are peacefully blocking access to Dr...
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...The next time you see a newborn baby, imagine that you are seeing a lifeless body about to be disposed of in George Tiller's crematorium...
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...The depart- ment is both cowardly and wrong to enforce the death warrant, signed by Judge Kelly, that gives Dr...
...I hope that more citizens wilt begin to acknowledge O.R.'s actions as truly self- sacrificing, penitential works for God's kingdom, acts that are worthy of emulation...
...We Catholic feminists must remind celi- bate males that we have more sensitivity to the impact on women of subjugation and oppression than they, and we respond accordingly when we read about the con- tinuation of cultural practices that are con- trary to the gospel message and Christ's own behavior toward women...
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...To the Editors: Keeping in mind Abigail McCarthy's recent plea for civility in intra- church debates, I nevertheless want to con- tinue the creed and culture controversy that I launched here [Correspondence, April t 9...
...The Justice Department is tight to take issue with Federal Judge Patrick Kelly, who compares O.R.'s nonviolent baby-saving actions with KKK terrorism...
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...The technology and trauma of modem medical experience tight- ly cause individuals to fear dying more than death...
...Tiller boasts of "expertise" in doing thirdtrimester abortions, and says he performs them for any reason on women who have been pregnant for up to 8 1/2 months...
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...Life autonomy is the human question for the twenty-first century...
...It is true, as Father Crocenzi argues, that many American marriages fail, but I suspect any woman would prefer the American model, problem-ridden as it is, to being the fourth wife of an African tribal chief...
...The fundamental dialogue will not be over on November 5 with the votes of the citizens of Washington...
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...I've heard little or nothing about attempts by the church to limit these practices...
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...CORRESPONDENCE Journey to life Spokane, Wash, To the Editors: I extend to the editors and staff of Commonweal my deep personal appreciation for the special supplement you prepared [August 9] on Initiative 119, which is currently being presented to the voters in our state of Washington...
...performs an act of kindness to a fellow being: sparing the child in the womb from the irrevocable act of abortion-violence...
...Tiller has installed an incinerator in his abortion center...
...CElL G. REr~ In defense of Lustiges" Paris, France To the Editors: This is in response to the review by Steven Englund of Norman (Continued on page 590) Commonweal, is indexed in Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, Catholic Periodical Index, Index of American Periodical Verse, Book Review Digest and Book Review Index...
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...people can keep these pregnant women out of the hands of George Tiller for a few more days, childbirth will occur...
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...Tiller delivers not babies but bod- ies, so many that he faces a problem in dealing with them...
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...As believers we do not morbidly glo- rify dying, but we journey through death to life...
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