Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were not for a referendum on the ballot to decide whether physicians could lawfully disseminate birth-control information to protect human life and health, Governor Leverett Saltonstall would win re-election hands down over Democrat Roger Lowell Putnam, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. would ditto over Democrat Joseph E. Casey...
Opponents of the birth control referendum seem to be of the opinion that the Catholic Church is opposed to birth control. Actually, the controversy involves not the principle, but the method permitted. To quote the editors of Fortune. "The means permitted by the Catholic Church are based upon what Pope Pius XI referred to (in his Encyclical on Christian Marriage, December 31, 1931) as the circumstances of time, known as the Safe Period method; and to explain how this works, dignitaries of the Church have written, or put their imprimatur upon pamphlets and books that are freely distributed through...
...wish to defend the position of Catholics on the birth control amendment. Your editorial of yesterday concludes that "Fairness to the less financially privileged and freedom of conscience are the core of this people's referendum." We are being neither unfair to the poor, nor imposing on freedom of conscience...
...November 3 Massachusetts voters will have the opportunity to vote for or against legalizing advice on birth control by doctors within the State. A referendum has at last, come before the people. There is only one strong organization whose leaders have already voted against--the Catholic Church. Unfortunately they have twisted this purely social-medical issue into a religious one. Though their motives may be sincere and devout, at the same time they are doing a great injustice to one economic group within the State, those too poor to afford a private doctor. The, Catholic Church has not meant...
...right to get birth control information is a civil liberty as important as freedom of the press. It is not fair that one Christian sect should be able to deny another a civil liberty that it wants. Yet that is the situation in Massachusetts today. By passing this referendum simple justice will be meted out to every religious creed. Those who want birth control advice could receive it at the many city clinics, and those who think it is immoral can continue to think so. Fairness to the less financially privileged and freedom of conscience are the core of this...