Word: jeffersonism
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...Mildred F. Jefferson, a Massachusetts Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, last night called on all Americans to "fight for those who can't fight for themselves" and put an end to abortion...
Abortion replace "the sanctity of life ethic with the quality of life ethic." Jefferson told an audience of 50 at Phillips Brooks House, in the newly forward Harvard-Radcliffe Students For Life group's fifth sponsored event this year...
Speaking for close to an hour-without any prepared notes, Jefferson assailed what she called doctors' ignorance in confronting the moral dilemma of abortion. Jefferson referred to a statement in the Hippocratic Oath--"I will not aid a woman to procure an abortion"--and added, "unfortunately people in my profession know lens about legislature than the average layman...
...Jefferson said she is a viable candidate in the three-way struggle for the Republican nomination. Recent polls show her trailing former U.S. Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson '41 and businessman Raymond Shamie...
...public squares and prayers in the public schools, why should they be forced to back down for a discomfited handful? Whose country is it anyway? And then there is the time-honored (and politically useful) association of the national identity with God. In spite of radicals like Jefferson and Madison, who erected the so-called wall of separation between church and state, the fact is that from the start the Government has been bound up with religion. In the majority's name are there Army chaplains, House and Senate chaplains, prayers for Congress. Not even the Supreme Court meets...