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...University Health Services gynecologist and a Medical School psychiatrist testified yesterday in Boston's U.S. District Court on behalf of birth control advocate Bill Baird's challenge to Massachusetts's new abortion...
...little water isn't going to change anything. Carol Morreale and William Baird knew this. What they really wanted and got was a lot of cheap publicity for the right to abort life...
...their heavily Catholic (80% of the 30,000 population) town of Marlboro. The antis were lined up solidly behind a proposal to ban abortion clinics in the city. The defenders of the clinics, some of them Catholics like the Morreales, were led by an outsider, Abortion Advocate William Baird of Long Island. After their baby's baptism was halted, the distraught Morreales called Baird for advice, and he flew to Boston eager for a public showdown. Unfortunately, perhaps, the archdiocese of Boston was in a mood to oblige...
Church officials first quietly offered the Morreales a compromise: the baptism would be allowed if Mrs. Morreale would privately drop her support for Baird. She refused, because "it felt somehow like a bribe." Boston's archbishop, Humberto Cardinal Medeiros, told a TV newsman that no priest in the archdiocese would baptize the child unless Mrs. Morreale backed down. Baird countered with a dramatic nationwide call for a volunteer to perform the baptism...
...group that disputes the church's teachings on abortion. On the steps of Immaculate Conception Church, whose doors were firmly locked, O'Rourke baptized Nathaniel Ryan Morreale with the ancient formula, "I baptize you in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit." Bill Baird, a former Sunday school teacher who now professes "no formal religion," was invited to make a sign of the cross on the child's forehead...