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...welfare feel that a mother who would take drugs or act in other irresponsible ways during pregnancy has shown herself to be an unfit parent. Yet it is evident that prosecuting such women for child abuse would effectually decide the abortion question in favor of the "rights of the unborn," and possibly invade the woman's privacy as well...
Despite the best efforts of Gov. Williams F. Weld' 66, who in his Tuesday night speech positioned himself as a leader of pro-choice Republicans, the platform endorses "legislation to make it clear that the Fourteenth Amendment's protections apply to unborn children...
Formally known as Victim Souls of the Unborn Christ-Child, the Lambs were founded in 1988 by the Rev. Norman Weslin, a Roman Catholic priest who retired from the U.S. Army with the rank of lieutenant colonel. His guiding principle ^ is the "mystical theology of the victim soul," meaning that Christ has often acted through seemingly insignificant persons or groups, like the Lambs. The Lambs' membership, mostly Roman Catholic, is divided into three groups: about 30 full-time activists, who travel around the country from clinic to clinic and jail to jail; 250 part-timers, who go on active duty...
Weslin, whose prison nickname is "Father Baby Doe," insists that his organization be truly pacific. "We're everything a lamb connotes," he says. "Weak, humble, docile, silent, obedient. We pray for those persecuting us." The Lambs' passive-resistance strategy, he adds, has an explicit goal: "We buy time for unborn children. The longer it takes to cut us out of our locks, the longer the killing machines...
Feminist anger at the chipping away of abortion rights is hardly confined to the Democratic Party. In 1988 the G.O.P. adopted a platform plank stating that "the unborn child has a fundamental right to life" and calling for a human-life amendment that would ban abortion outright. When that position began to alienate women, particularly young suburban voters, the late G.O.P. chairman Lee Atwater urged the party to become a "big tent" able to accommodate both sides on the abortion debate. The party has been slow to follow his advice...