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Perhaps the most crucial problem dealt with in the essays is whether the young fetus is "tissue," as is often argued by those favoring abortion, or "human life," as abortion foes contend. One line of reasoning offered by Princeton Ethicist Paul Ramsey, a Methodist, is pointedly modern. Ramsey contends that science itself now offers evidence of very early "human" characteristics in the fetus, such as discernible brain waves at eight weeks. The findings of genetics, says Ramsey, suggest a much earlier date. Since the individual's unique genetic code, or genotype, is established at the moment of fertilization...
...Council of Churches voted a $200,000 grant to "antiracist" liberation groups in Africa and elsewhere (TIME, Oct. 5), W.C.C. member churches refused to accede to Vorster's demand that they quit the organization. Then came a visit from the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. Arthur Michael Ramsey, who not only refused to counsel the clergy away from politics but urged Christian action to counter apartheid. Vorster warned that the churches were "headed for a showdown...
...that bishops should have the consent of the national church. In the case of England, the historic seat of Anglicanism, the approval would have to come not only from the General Synod of the Church of England but also from the Archbishops of Canterbury and York. And Archbishop Michael Ramsey of Canterbury voted against the resolution in Nairobi. "I have no everlasting objection to the ordination of women," said Ramsey last week in London. He believes "it will come," but he adds that "we must not move too rapidly." Like many other Anglican churchmen, Ramsey is worried that the Council...
...Yale, 2500 people gathered in Woolsey Hall to hear former AttorneyGeneral Ramsey Clark call for immediate withdrawal of U. S. troops from South Vietnam. Other anti-war speakers at the Yale teach-in included Averill Harriman, former U. S. Ambassador to the Paris peace talks...
Speakers at a teach-in scheduled at Yale for the 22nd include Averill Harriman, Ramsey Clark, Allard K. Lowenstein and Ronald V. Dellums, first-term black Congressman from Berkeley, California...