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...battle in Protestant-Catholic relations is over a number of bills to liberalize abortion laws that are currently pending in state legislatures, designed to provide for legal abortions in cases of rape, incest, and a threat to the mother's health attested to by qualified physicians. In every case the Catholic Church, which considers abortion equivalent to murder, is fighting hard to kill these measures. In Chicago last week, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops authorized a new "educational campaign" against the proposed laws, with a first-year budget of $50,000. In New York, an abortion bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE CHURCHES INFLUENCE ON SECULAR SOCIETY | 4/21/1967 | See Source »

...birth-control pill is being developed for use the day afterward. Yale University's Dr. John McLean Morris has given large doses of one of the standard estrogens to more than 100 women for four or five days immediately after unwanted coitus-in many cases from rape or incest. There have been no pregnancies. In the absence of any short-order pregnancy test, no one knows how many there would have been without the medication, and the drug produces severe side effects (bleeding, clotting, nausea) when used this way. But the idea is so attractive that virtually all pharmaceutical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Contraception: Freedom from Fear | 4/7/1967 | See Source »

...history in a single night's sleep." He is a pubkeeper named Porter, but his Freudian alias in the dream is Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker. Why Earwicker? Well, Porter's night life is invaded by an incestuous passion for his daughter Isobel (Iseult-Isolde). The inadmissible word "incest" sneaks by as "insect," specifically "earwig." Thus the odd name, says Burgess, is "dreamily appropriate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Funagain | 2/24/1967 | See Source »

...codes would supersede existing laws-of the kind that are in force in most states-that flatly bar all abortions, including therapeutic ones, except to save the life of the mother. Instead, the bills would allow committees of doctors to authorize abortions in cases of 1) rape or incest, 2) substantial risk that the infant would be born defective, or 3) substantial risk to the mother's "physical or mental health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Morality: The Rights & Wrongs of Abortion | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

...Game Is Over, which transposes a novel by Emile Zola (La Curée) into the present Paris scene, he gives them little else. Game tells the gamy tale of a hot young wife who commits incest with the hot young stepson (Peter McEnery) of her cold old husband (Michel Piccoli), and Vadim finds opportunities innumerable to show the world what a lucky man he is. Mrs. Vadim is exhibited stark naked in a bed of lust and rising from a garden pool like the White Rock girl. She also appears topless in a bathroom and bottomless under a hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Something Nue | 1/13/1967 | See Source »

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