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Not a luxury In his September 10 column ("None of the Above"), John Garvey writes that if John Kerry loses to George W. Bush, Garvey will "mourn Bush's victory and celebrate a well-deserved loss."...
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...If abortion were to be-come a criminal offense after being legal for thirty-some years, the result would make the lawlessness of Prohibition look like a Sunday school picnic...
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...Yet should Bush or Kerry be elected president in November, abortion will, unfortunately, still be legal in America...
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...JOHN GARVEYRatzinger's feminism Sidney Callahan is one of the few Catholic feminists who can be both kind and truthful when it comes to commenting upon the hierarchy's strange teachings on women ("Ratzinger, Feminist...
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...Yet I can't disagree with the conclusion that abortion should not be re-criminalized at this late date...
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...To William Cooney: I don't think abortion is the central issue of this election—Iraq is—but Kerry has not distinguished his position from Bush's in any interesting or significant way...
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