Word: clinics
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...member of BIRTHRIGHT, a prolife, alternative-to-abortion group, I was appalled to read of the refusal to baptize Nathaniel Morreale because his mother supported the establishment of an abortion-information clinic. Father Roussin and Monsignor Meehan have failed to grasp the basic moral premise of the prolife philosophy: the child, born or unborn, should never be discriminated against for the sins or misfortunes of his parents. For example, a fetus should not be punished by murder because his father was a rapist or his mother was pregnant out of wedlock. The fetus, and by extension the infant, is always...
...York Jesuit Joseph F. O'Rourke anticipated some sort of trouble when he went to Marlboro, Mass., recently to baptize the baby of Mrs. Carol Morreale (TIME, Sept. 2). Incensed by her advocacy of an abortion-information clinic, local priests had refused to perform the baptism, and O'Rourke stepped into the breach against orders from his immediate superior. Last week it was clear that the Jesuits took O'Rourke's disobedience much more seriously than he had expected: his New York provincial superior, the Very...
...Snow did not state that Dr. Klotz ordered urine injections, and TIME regrets the error. She said: "Dr. Klotz ordered me to have students at Green Valley collect dirt and dust from the school grounds. From this, Dr. Klotz prepared a serum and instructed the nurses at his clinic to inject a small amount into every Green Valley student sent...
...Catholic. Guests were beginning to gather for a gala baptismal party. Then the phone rang: a call from Father John J. Roussin, assistant pastor of the church. Was she the same Carol Morreale who had been quoted in a Marlboro newspaper as supporting the establishment of an abortion-information clinic in the city? She was. In that case, warned the priest, "there might be some problems...
...there were. When the couple arrived at the church, Mrs. Morreale was told that her son would not be baptized unless and until she withdrew her support of the proposed abortion clinic. Roussin and the church's pastor, Monsignor Francis X. Meehan, feared that her views on abortion so seriously contradicted church teachings that the child could not be brought up as a believing Catholic. They may have misunderstood Mrs. Morreale, who says she does not favor abortion herself, only the right of others to choose it. But one church canon does enjoin priests from baptizing an infant unless...