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...Right Rev. James A. Pike has long contended that what Christianity needs is fewer beliefs but more belief. In his previous ventures into pop theology, the resigned Episcopal Bishop of California has been mostly concerned with explaining why he regards such dogmas as the Trinity and the Virgin Birth as beliefs he can do without. Now, in a new book called If This Be Heresy (Harper & Row; $4.95), Pike tries to explain what he does accept and why, summing up his formula for faith in a neat little equation: "data + inference = modest faith-affirmation...
Risks and Rejections. Legality aside, most of the discussion concerned abortion as a means of ex post facto birth control. "The 'disease' of an unwanted pregnancy is usually not fatal," said Obstetrician Kenneth J. Ryan of Case-Western Reserve University School of Medicine, "but living with it is so onerous that many women risk death via criminal abortion rather than suffer its far-reaching effects." How many? No one knew. "Estimates" running from 200,000 to 1,500,000 a year in the U.S. are worthless guesses, said the Population Council's Dr. Christopher Tietze. He also...
Father Drinan saw race discrimination in North Carolina's relaxation of its abortion law because, he said, it was mainly aimed at reducing the Negro birth rate. But the National Urban League's Whitney Young Jr. (TIME cover, Aug. 11) saw the poor as the target and suggested that some states might make abortion easier to reduce the wel fare rolls. Young complained that the poor were discriminated against in that they could not obtain costly but safe abortions in the U.S. or travel abroad for them as can the well...
...cells with a notched or other wise damaged chromosome. But in LSD users, the rate soars to 19%, and-at least in the test tube-still higher with some other drugs. Granted also, said the panelists, that they have seen no proven case of a birth deformity in an LSD user's child, but they are investigating several suspected cases...
Conducting an experimental program in 25 hospitals in 14 countries, the council delivered its message to 300,000 women. In some hospitals, the approach was soft sell, with tasteful leaflets, individual talks and optional group discussions. In Ankara and Trivandrum, the birth controllers took advantage of the fact that they had a captive audience: over loudspeakers, interspersed between news and music, were frequent plugs for family planning and playlets demonstrating its benefits. Worldwide, one woman out of three accepted birth-control advice and supplies (free or at nominal cost), including pills and intrauterine devices. Among these 101,725 women...