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...central question was whether it should be made easier for women to get legal and safely sterile abortions. Boston College's Jesuit Theologian-Lawyer Robert F. Drinan contended that even a therapeutic abortion under the model code recommended by the American Law Institute and recently adopted, in essence, by three states means taking a life. To ensure that no abortion should have legal sanction, Father Drinan suggested that the states should repeal all abortion laws...
...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...
John Doar, Chief of the civil rights division of the Department of Justice; Robert F. Drinan, S. J., dean of the Boston College School of Law; Marian Elizabeth Wright, Legal Defense Fund attorney in Jackson, Miss.; and Bayard Rustin, organizer of the 1963 march of Washington, will also speak...
Panelists addressing questions to Thurmond included Robert Braucher, professor of Law; Richard B. Dellheim, a lecturer on Constitutional Law at Boston University; and Father Robert F. Drinan, Dean of the Boston College Law School. The Forum was moderated by Fleming Jones, visiting professor...