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...YEARS AGO this week that the Supreme Court legalized abortion, yet a woman's right to terminate her pregnancy remains as controversial as ever. The anniversary of Roe v. Wade should serve as a time not for moralistic recriminations, for the past decade has shown them to be of little use swaying opinions in either direction. Rather, it should be a time of reflection--and for foes of abortion in particular, a time to rethink the unfortunate tactics that have been used to sidestep the decision...
More mainstream abortion foes have chosen to assault not people, but coastitutionalism. A handful of bills are pending in Congress that would strip the Supreme Court of jurisdiction over abortion issues, returning such power to state courts and effectively overturning Roe. Billed in the name of federalism, these bills are of dubious constitutionality at best, according to most legal scholars. In their willingness to undermine the Court to achieve victory on this single issue, proponents of these bills are using a curiously radical means towards a conservative end. Other Congressional proposals that would define the constitutional meaning of "life...
...final type of attacks on Roe is more subtle, but equally repugnant in its deceptiveness. In the past year or so, the Reagan Administration and some of its Congressional backers have introduced so-called "tattle tale" legislation. These rules, the most recent of which was proposed by Richard S. Schweiker days before his resignation last week as Health and Human Services Secretary, would require federally funded clinics to notify parents of minors who receive contraceptives. Other proposals would do the same for teenage abortion patients...
...long supported the legality of abortion, based as it is on the rights of privacy and autonomy. But minds do differ, and those that find abortion repugnant have every right to seek to outlaw it--by the accepted methods of constitutional amendment or judicial reversal. The legacy of Roe plainly will not be a harmonious resolution of the abortion controversy. But it need not be violence, deception, or constitutional subversion...
Frank Herbert's Dune books dealt with life, war and death on a desert planet. The White Plague (Putnam; $14.95) is set on earth in the grim present. Molecular Biologist John Roe O'Neill, an Irish American in Dublin, sees his wife and children annihilated by an I.R.A. bomb. Vengeance becomes his spur. In a home laboratory he invents a new disease and releases the plague in three nations: Ireland, because his family died there; England, because of British oppression; and Libya, because it operates training schools for terrorists. The disease spreads so quickly that life itself...