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Ford: "I am opposed to abortion on demand," says the President, although he would condone the practice in the case of a woman who has been raped. Ford is against a proposed constitutional amendment-backed by the Roman Catholic Church and the right-to-lifers -that would outlaw abortion throughout the U.S. However, he favors an amendment to the Constitution that would give each state the right to set up its own standards for abortion. Ford's critics protest that he is dodging the issue, since such an amendment has little chance of passing. It must be approved...
...ethnics are perhaps most dissatisfied with the Democratic Party for its position on abortion. While Ford supports a constitutional amendment to allow the states to outlaw abortion. Carter does not, though he personally is against abortion. Moreover, Carter is a Southern Baptist, and ethnics view that denomination suspiciously because of its anti-Catholicism in years past. Ford is also a devout Protestant (Episcopalian), but many ethnics feel more comfortable with him than with Carter because the President does not appear to make his religion so paramount...
Some of Dyer's advice: Don't look for social approval. "No matter what you do, half the people you know will disagree with it anyway." Try not to deny yourself anything in life. "Outlaw self-denial unless it is absolutely necessary - and it rarely is." Don't fret that you are doing nothing important in life. "Nothing is more important than anything else. The child collecting seashells is not doing something more right or wrong than the president of General Motors making a corporate decision...
Delderfield's answer is hardly original, but coming from a saga writer, it bears a special weight. Looking back at himself 40 years later, old Charlie concludes that young Charlie was more or less right. A man must kick against the System-play the rebel, if not the outlaw-in order to become a man. Listening to Charlie, Delderfield seems staggered himself and hastily pulls back from profundity to close out his novel with a twist as old as one of O. Henry's. Still, it works, just as almost everything by Delderfield works. Who else could write...
This week President Ford will meet with the prelates in Washington. Actually, the Republican position is only marginally more acceptable to the right-to-lifers than Carter's. Ford favors a constitutional amendment that would give the states the right to decide to outlaw abortion if they wish. However, since about half the states have already enacted permissive abortion laws, it is improbable that such an amendment would be ratified by the necessary three-quarters of the states...