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...OPPOSITION. Anti-abortion forces are active on several fronts (TIME, March 29) and have organized mail and telephone campaigns to pressure legislators into voting against abortion liberalization. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York has founded a group called Birthright that seeks to offer women with unwanted pregnancies an alternative to abortion. The organization, which provides counseling, prenatal and postnatal care and adoption services, has received 1,800 calls since its formation last spring...
...Some are orphaned, some maimed, some merely lost. Only 50% attend the first three grades in school. A professor at Saigon University remarks, "When I was growing up, the rice fields were full of herons and cranes. These are things I can never show my children."Denied their traditional birthright, many of Viet Nam's youngsters are spending their childhood cooped up in cities that have become seemingly permanent bomb shelters...
...necessity of a morally upright police force, and it accepts the necessity and usefulness of science and technology. It refuses, however, to allow the human spirit to be subjugated to these powers. It demands only that each and every human being be allowed to realize what is his birthright as a man: full consciousness...
Other organizations focus on different kinds of action. In Washington and Atlanta, largely female groups calling themselves "Birthright" operate anti-abortion telephone hot lines, counseling troubled pregnant women and directing them to agencies offering special care. Chance of a Lifetime, also in Washington, distributes a bumper sticker...
...abortions on demand. They desire round-the-clock, state-supported child-care centers in order to cut the apron strings that confine mothers to unpaid domestic servitude at home. The most radical feminists want far more. Their eschatological aim is to topple the patriarchal system in which men by birthright control all of society's levers of power?in government, industry, education, science, the arts...