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...awaits." But he obviously isn't too happy about what poets are writing, and neither is Richard Dey. In the issue Dey has five poems (the best an elegy for Pound that redeems Pound's memory very satisfyingly against the odds of his political faults) and a manifesto for poets. Titled "On the spot" to echo Pound's "Date Line" of the thirties, the manifesto begins like this...
...manifesto, issued last week and signed by 390 French doctors, makes bold demands on a nation that has successfully resisted even moderate abortion reform for half a century; it calls for unrestricted abortion on request -and at the expense of the state. Many of the signers are prominent in medicine and some are practicing Catholics. All, moreover, acknowledge that they have performed or arranged abortions because "we believe it is our duty to help women." The doctors realize that their admission makes them liable to punishment under France's archaic law prohibiting abortion except to save a woman...
...days after the manifesto appeared, 206 well-known French citizens -including four Nobel prizewinners -added their voices to the demand for reform. They issued a "charter" calling for abortion on several grounds, among them poor health, rape, incest and "grave social conditions...
Appearing only four weeks before the sharply contested national elections, the manifesto and charter have provoked bitter controversy across France. For the first time since the present abortion law was passed in 1920, chances for reform seem good...
...declarations, hoping to forestall debate. They feared that inflamed public opinion could force a change in the government's stance, thus alienating Catholic voters. By midweek, however, the newspapers were so full of the controversy that silence became impossible. Public Health Minister Jean Foyer spoke out, calling the manifesto "excessive" and charging the reformers with political maneuvering and provocation...