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...York Governor Mario Cuomo distorts and oversimplifies the American Lutheran Church's position as supporting legalized abortion [NATION, Sept. 24]. Actually, the church's 1980 statement on abortion "affirms that human life from conception, created in the image of God, is always sacred" and "deplores the absence of any legal protection for human life from the time of conception until birth." The American Lutheran Church acknowledges that there may be circumstances when "an induced abortion may be a tragic option." But it notes "the alarming increase of induced abortions since the 1973 Supreme Court decision and views this...
...York Governor Mario Cuomo, his wife Matilda, two of their children and the family dog were upstairs in the executive mansion in Albany last week when a neighbor, Julian Quarles, 25, paid them an unexpected visit. Sometime between midnight and 7 a.m., Quarles climbed a 7-ft.-high fence outside the house, broke a window to unlock the front door, and walked in, unnoticed by the two guards stationed outside. He took a video recorder, a silver punch bowl, two candlesticks, a tray, a coffee urn and two platters...
...European tour he will promote foreign-language editions of his novels. The State University of New York at Albany, where Kennedy holds a professorship, sponsored a weekend of cultural events in his honor. In addition, one of the writer's best-known fans, New York Governor Mario Cuomo, signed a bill granting $100,000 a year to support a series of writing workshops and lectures that Kennedy started at SUNY with a $15,000 grant. "You become successful, and the first thing you turn into is a patron of the arts," he was told by Saul Bellow, who once...
...Cuomo is a devout Catholic, why does he not use his office to urge support of the church's drive to end all abortions? The Governor argued that he does not believe that, even if enacted, an abortion ban could be enforced or would achieve the goals that the church seeks. "It would be Prohibition revisited." As for stopping Medicaid funding of abortions, Cuomo claimed that poor women would merely find other ways to obtain abortions, while "the rich and middle classes" would be unaffected. "The hard truth is that abortion is not a failure of government. No agency...
...current church-state battle. Archbishop John J. O'Connor of New York tested his side of the frontier when he declared, "I don't see how a Catholic in good conscience can vote for a candidate who explicitly supports abortion." At which point Governor Mario Cuomo of New York, a Catholic, took the unusual and politically courageous step of challenging the Archbishop. (Last week Cuomo followed up with a thoughtful meditation, delivered at Notre Dame, on the tension between religious and public morality...