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Abortion. "Catholics should realize that while their position is currently described as 'unliberal,' there was a time, when the anti-abortion laws were written (mostly under Protestant auspices, be it noted), that such protection of the life of the unborn was considered to be a notable and progressive advance for civilization...
...writes with good humor and some gallantry to an illiberal age. His reports of visits with Evelyn Waugh and Bertrand Russell are deft, and so is his mockery of computer-made verse ("Swish green albino dust/ Through avatars unborn"). Of this last, he adds, "Do you think I am poking fun at electronic devices, or the New, Liberated Poesy? Please believe me when I say: I certainly...
Your article "Stacy's Day at the Abortion Clinic" [April 10] demonstrates how sad it is that it is so easy to forget the murder of an unborn child with a shopping spree for new shoes and a raincoat...
...against abortion. This time, however, the sex roles are reversed: Man is the desperate, powerless victim, and woman the smug, powerful perpetrator. To his cry that he has the right to pursue a career he's worked hard to establish, the feminist surgeon ironically answers that the unborn also have rights and that even one transgression of these rights would set an evil precedent. When he says he'd like to kill her, she replies that often "the impregnated wants to kill the impregnator...
This is fitfully atmospheric but basically false. Mamet, 30, who was unborn at the time he writes about, does not realize that resilience, fortitude and fellow feeling were the sustaining forces of the Depression years. It was the teen-agers of the '30s who forged, fought and won the U.S. victory of World War II. For the flabby, self-centered, alienated lot that Mamet has assembled in his radio studio, that formidable deed would have been a manifest impossibility. - T.E.K...