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That leaves state legislatures facing the most important question in the debate: Why not repeal all abortion laws? Last month that suggestion came from Jesuit Theologian-Lawyer Robert F. Drinan, dean of Boston College Law School and chairman of the American Bar Association's family-law section. In attacking the limited-abortion plan, Father Drinan argued that repeal has "at least the merit of not involving the law and society in the business of selecting those persons whose lives may be legally terminated...
...doubts about such doctrines as the Trinity and Virgin Birth, but the conversations were rather prosaic. A chat between Pike and his predecessor as Bishop of California, the Rt. Rev. Karl Block, dwelled on the problems of buying church property. An exchange with the late father of British theologian Donald MacKinnon elicited the helpful information that MacKinnon once owned two cats...
...five years old, Esalen's appeal is so broad that a Jesuit moral theologian from Loyola University of Los Angeles and a curriculum expert for the State University of New York are among its 21 resident fellows, who pay $3,000 for nine months of study. Most Esalen students attend short-term workshops and seminars. More than 1,000 people heard a lecture this month by Maslow at the First Unitarian Society Church in San Francisco, where Esalen has just started a branch program. Also intrigued by the institute is the Ford Foundation's Fund for the Advancement...
...central question was whether it should be made easier for women to get legal and safely sterile abortions. Boston College's Jesuit Theologian-Lawyer Robert F. Drinan contended that even a therapeutic abortion under the model code recommended by the American Law Institute and recently adopted, in essence, by three states means taking a life. To ensure that no abortion should have legal sanction, Father Drinan suggested that the states should repeal all abortion laws...
Even this extreme measure may become academic within a few years. Princeton's Methodist Theologian R. Paul Ramsey predicted that "with safe, do-it-yourself abortion medications, abortion will be brought entirely into the arena of private decision." A bit sanguine perhaps, but not beyond possibility. The morning-after and once-a-month pills are still in the early laboratory and testing stages, but medical researchers are hard at work trying to make Dr. Ramsey's prediction come true...