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Partly with such objections in mind, the board recommended that as in-vitro research proceeds, the public must be informed of any evidence that IVF produces a higher rate of abnormal children than natural reproduction. It also proposed three other significant safeguards...
...Georgetown University moral theologian and the only clergyman on the panel, broke with Catholic tradition on both points. The moral claims of the individual embryo, he believes, are open to doubt before implantation, and Pius' arguments are "no longer decisive." McCormick has strong reservations about the wisdom of public funding, however...
...Secretary Joseph Califano must act on the recommendations before they have the force of law. Bishop Thomas Kelly, general secretary of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, has urged Califano to continue the ban because there is already "public repugnance" over tax funding of abortions. Whatever Califano decides, Father McCormick predicts that his board's report is "going to be controversial, not only in the Catholic community but in every other...
...holy relics. Giles Hermitage, 50, the self-revealing hero of John Wain's new novel, also traffics in illusions. He is a writer whose books, like those of Wain himself, "were civilized and responsible, neither condescending to nor affronting the reader, and commanded a small but not fickle public...
...sites with pinball machines and restricts the hours school children may use the machines, on a 7-1 vote. "If I had my way, I'd ban the damn things altogether--they serve no useful purpose," Cambridge Mayor Thomas W. Danehy told the council, councilors described pinball arcades as "public nuisances" and said that school children were skipping school to play pinball...