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...spark was a move in the Albany legislature to repeal the state's two-year-old liberalized abortion law. One of the broadest in the U.S., it permits legal abortions by doctors on women in the first 24 weeks of pregnancy; there have been 350,000 legal abortions in New York City alone under the law. For more than a year, opponents-including Catholic-dominated Right to Life groups, some Protestants and Orthodox Jews-have been buttonholing legislators, conducting letter-writing campaigns and otherwise mustering support for the repeal bill. With the backing of Terence Cardinal Cooke, Archbishop...
...debate as an opportunity for the President to put his anti-abortion views on record once more to political advantage, suggested that he do so in a letter to Cardinal Cooke. Nixon agreed, intervening boldly in the kind of state-legislative uproar he usually avoids. The letter, endorsing the repeal movement and calling it a "noble endeavor," was released by the Cardinal's office-with tacit, if not explicit, White House approval...
...corridors, the women began a chant: "Repeal! Repeal! Repeal...
...Hicks had brought her followers with her, red-faced housewives from Hyde Park and Jamaica Plain. Some had signs pinned to their dresses: REPEAL THE RACIAL-IMBALANCE...
...Repeal seems highly unlikely, however, and despite President Nixon's speech, pro-integration officials emphasize that HEW never asked for new busing. It asks a new plan, which could include new schools, new district boundaries, or new routes for present buses. As one official observes: "HEW can't legally not proceed against Boston." Among blacks, too, feelings are running high. Says Ruth Batson, a civil rights worker at Boston University: "Black people have got sick of this whole foolishness. We absolutely cannot continue to live...