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...kicked off last month with a series of nationwide "speak-outs" in forums ranging from a Unitarian church in Georgia to the Massachusetts statehouse in Boston. Women and men alike read accounts of the tragic operations that took place before the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in the 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision. An even greater number, however, read stories about women who had received necessary, beneficial, legal abortions without danger or guilt. A huge speak-out is scheduled for this Tuesday in Washington. From 7 a.m. until midnight, letters and statements will be read in the western plaza...
...Silent No More crusade is coming on the heels of a well-publicized pro- life campaign last winter. In January, 70,000 antiabortion demonstrators took part in a March for Life in Washington, as they have done on each anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, and were addressed by Reagan. His message: "These days, as never before, the momentum is with us." A graphic film that shows ultrasound images of a fetus being aborted, The Silent Scream, has received wide play and inflamed antiabortion passions, even though a number of medical authorities have denounced it as a distortion. "We are responding...
...importance of the issue at Harvard and in Massachusetts has increased since the preliminary passage of a bill which would completely prohibit abortions in the state if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe vs. Wade, the landmark 1973 case legalizing abortion, Thompson said...
...friend if it was true that "the fellow who pitches the ball aims to pitch it in such a way the batter cannot hit it?" Marianne Moore, the doyenne of 20th century American poets, was reduced to doggerel when she contemplated the old Dodgers: "Ralph Branca has Preacher Roe's number: recall?/ and there's Don Bessent, he can really fire the ball...
...House, the message was a high point in their struggle against abortion: an open endorsement from the President. "I feel a great sense of solidarity with all of you," Ronald Reagan said in a telephone call broadcast to the crowd by loudspeakers. "Our response to the twelfth anniversary of Roe vs. Wade . . . must be to rededicate ourselves to ending the terrible national tragedy of abortion . . . I feel these days, as never before, the momentum is with...