Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dirksen conceded that Viet Nam, like any war, had created "stresses-spiritual, moral and emotional." But, he added, "we are up against a decision of some kind. Do we quit? Do we retreat? Do we go ahead to a victory? Do we descalate?" His answer to the last was negative. "If we do, I think that we throw away whatever leverage we have," he said. "I learned long ago that it is the hit dog that yelps. They are being hit. They are being hurt, and they are beginning to yelp...
...states even consider her health or safety. Actually, most hospital abortions are performed for admittedly illegal reasons, notably mental illness and German measles (25% of the 1964 total). Unfortunately, fear of the consequences creates vast inequities. To fend off prosecution, special hospital boards often use quotas and render questionable moral judgments...
Beyond these profound moral questions, however, lies the stubborn reality that women denied legal abortions go on getting illegal ones-and that those unborn babies get even less due process than would a rape-fetus in Colorado. This leads to the argument that the real immorality is the retention or enactment of laws that drive women to illegal abortion. In empirical terms, the debaters are mired in side issues. Vital as fetal rights unquestionably are, the bedrock problem is not whether the fetus is inchoate and hence expendable, as law reformers claim, or whether it is human and inviolable...
...reformers have solid answers: not by public indifference but by more birth control information and family support. Not by moral absolutes toward unwed pregnancy but by moral concern for each concrete situation. Not by punitive laws but by medical freedom to help panicky women make rational choices-and if need be, have safe, early, cheap abortions. For both mother and fetus, the reform movement holds, such is the real due process required. Much of this might come about simply by more liberal interpretation of existing state laws. Court cases going back to 1929 give U.S. doctors almost the exclusive right...
Along with poverty, ignorance and moral strictures against birth control, the unpredictability of human sexual practices makes unwanted pregnancy inevitable. The way to deal with the problem forthrightly is on terms that permit the individual, guided by conscience and intelligence, to make a choice unhampered by archaic and hypocritical concepts and statutes...