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Starting to Scare. Director Padnos, 33, a University of Chicago Law School graduate, is the man most responsible for turning the Atlanta Legal Aid Society into an effective and exciting organization. "We're just scratching the surface," says Padnos, who wants to double the size of his volunteer staff to 100 lawyers this year. "There are still plenty of people being victimized for every one we help." But the weekend lawyers are at least beginning to fight back against those who once took advantage of the poor without risk of either exposure or interference...
...Western country with a heritage of Judaeo-Christian ethics, the regulation of abortion is an immensely complex problem in which the basic medical factors are obscured by religious, moral and emotional considerations. Great Britain is now learning the lesson of history in a most unfortunate way. A new law permitting abortion under certain circumstances was passed less than a year ago as a humane effort to treat the matter as an essentially medical issue between patient and doctor. Although the new law has proved helpful to British women, it has swamped physicians and produced some socially divisive results...
Great Britain's historical opposition to abortion comes from both common and canon law. In 1803 Lord Ellenborough pushed through a bill to make abortion a crime punishable by death if performed after the fetus had "quickened." In 1837 Parliament revised the law, eliminating the death penalty, but in the process lost the distinction between abortion before and after quickening and consequently outlawed all abortion. A 1929 change made abortion illegal except to save the life of the pregnant woman...
...England to prosecute him. After 40 minutes' deliberation, the jury acquitted Bourne-and the "Bourne rule" stood for 30 years. Its effect was to make abortion available to any Englishwoman who was articulate and well-off enough to persuade doctors to certify, by a liberal interpretation of the law, that continuation of her pregnancy would endanger her life. Inevitably, there were uncounted and uncountable illegal, back-street abortions for the less privileged, with the danger of serious illness or death from infection or plain butchery...
Import Trade. The permissiveness of the law was intended to be its virtue, but it has proved to be a fault. Because the law imposes no residence requirement, the "miscarriage trade" that used to flow from Britain to Poland and Yugoslavia has been reversed. Now wealthy Americans, Canadians and Europeans, as well as women even from countries with such liberal abortion laws as Denmark's, are homing in on London. There, they can get abortions quickly and safely in private hospitals or nursing homes at fees that range from...