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...unwanted pregnancies. While teenagers have recently been getting pregnant more than any other age group--leading concerned groups to call for greater availability of contraceptives and counseling to end to the pitiful phenomena of "children having children"--Phyllis Schlafly and other speakers for the New Right are preaching prayer and sexual abstinence. Obviously this group hasn't noticed that such "birth control methods" haven't been too effective...
...while prayer in the schools hasn't gone over well in the courts, the abortion clinic bombers have been quite effective lately. Boston NOW reports that 10 percent of abortion clinics nationwide have been plagued by such terrorism, causing insurance rates at other clinics to skyrocket. Anti-abortion groups calling themselves "sidewalk counselors" have set themselves up in front of clinics around the country to brand the women entering and leaving with the name "baby killer...
...made a plea for freedom of worship in Eastern Europe. Praying to God on behalf of the Slavs, he declared, "May they follow, in conformity with their own conscience, the voice of your call." John Paul noted, however, that the church posed no threat to any state. Continuing his prayer, the Pope wrote, "May their membership in the kingdom of your Son never be considered by anyone to be contrary to the good of their earthly homeland...
...after the high court struck down by an 8-to-1 vote a Connecticut law that gave workers an absolute right to take their Sabbath day off, and four weeks after the court voted 6 to 3 to invalidate an Alabama law that allowed a moment of silence for prayer in the public schools. The Reagan Administration was on the losing side of all three disputes. Denouncing the court's "fastidious disdain for religion," Secretary of Education William Bennett complained that the latest rulings will make it "vastly more difficult to provide education service to some of America's neediest...
...some by expressing "genuine sympathy" for the captors and equating the hostage taking with Israel's detention of hundreds of Shi'ites. Hill, for one, declared that Conwell had been "sucked in." Said an outraged Hill: "I asked him if he was going to carry the Koran and Islamic prayer beads with him to the White House...