Word: criminalled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Criminal Investigation Department
Conditions outside the cells in the courthouses were almost as grim. From criminal court in Brooklyn, TIME'S Paul Witteman reported: "The smell of vomit permeated the lobby. There were puddles of urine on the floor. In one corner, a Hispanic woman shrieked uncontrollably. Court officers administered oxygen to...
Both technically and morally, the most difficult problem is to decide at what precise instant life occurs. Is it in the actual conceptive collision of sperm and egg? Is it only when the fetus "quickens," at five months or so? The Supreme Court in 1973 simply said that abortion in...
The other reality is just as disturbing. Without legal and affordable abortion, many lives in progress are hopelessly ruined; the unwanted children very often grow up unloved, battered, conscienceless, trapped and criminal. A whole new virus of misery breeds in the accidental zygotes.
The National Council for Civil Liberties promptly denounced the judgment as "a dangerous new form of censorship." Several newspapers agreed. The Guardian, for one, expressed doubt whether "blasphemy as a criminal charge is germane to contemporary arguments." A Labor M.P., Brian Sedge-more, joined in with an appeal that Britain...