Medicine: Abortion: A Year Later

In Washington, B.C., 7,000 demonstrators marched around the Capitol demanding that abortion be outlawed. At the same time, pro-abortion forces held an interfaith service in a nearby Protestant church to reaffirm their support of women's right to end unwanted pregnancies. In downtown Houston, some 250 people, many of them wearing black armbands in memory of the aborted unborn, gathered to protest the legality of such operations. Outside St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan, a crowd demonstrated against the Roman Catholic Church's position, which holds that abortion is a sin. In a display of bad...

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