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Notes to Chapter One
1. Linda Bird Francke, The Ambivalence of Abortion (New York: Random
House, 1978), quoted in Family Circle, January 27, 1978, p.57.
2. "Abortion Under Attack," Newsweek, June 5, 1978, p.42.
3. Lex Vitae 1, no. 4(1978):4; Boston Globe, June 16, 1983, p.1.
4. Cyril J. Barber, "Abortion: A Survey of Attitudes and Research Materials," Journal
of Psychology and Theology 1(1973):67.
5. Ibid., p.68.
6. C. Everett Koop, "The Other Human Rights Issue," Eternity, October,
1978, p.40.
7. The Apostolic Fathers, trans. Kirsopp Lake (Cambridge: Harvard University Press,
1912), 1:312-13.
8. Athenagoras Embassy for the Christians. Cited by John T. Noonan, Jr., ed., The
Morality of Abortion (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970), p.11.
9. Apology 9, 9; cited by George Hunston Williams, "Religious Residues and
Pre-suppositions in the American Debate on Abortion," Theological Studies 31
(1970):25.
10. Cited in Noonan, Morality of Abortion, p.16.
11. Ibid., p.17.
12. Williams, "Religious Residues," p.31.
13. Ibid., p.38. For further discussion, see John R. Connery, Abortion: The Development
of the Catholic Perspective (Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1977).
14. Williams, "Religious Residues," p.34.
15. For an exegetical discussion of this text, I refer you to the discussion in Chapter 4
of this volume.
16. John Calvin, Commentaries on the Last Four Books of Moses, trans. Charles
Bingham (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1950), 3:41,42.
17. Cited in James C. Mohr, Abortion in America (New York: Oxford University Press,
1978), p.192.
18. Ibid., pp. 192-93. Ironically, physicians tended to be more outspoken than the
Protestant clergy in this era.
19. Presbyterian Journal, March 9, 1983, pp. 6,7.
20. Matthew J Bulfin, letter to the editor, New York Times, July 1, 1983, p. A22.
21. Ibid.
22. Gary Bergel, "Abortion: A Biblical Issue That Must Be Resolved," Intercessors
for America, February 1, 1983, p.1.
23. "A Prospective Study of the Effects of Induced Abortion on Subsequent
Reproductive Function," research contract No. N01-HD-6-2802, sponsored by the
National Child Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Department of Health,
Education, and Welfare. These are only preliminary results.
24. These medical complications are discussed in greater detail in Chapter 3 of this
volume.
25. See John Hart Ely, "The Supreme Court Decisions," Human Life Review
1, no. 1 (1975): 44-73; James F. Csank, "Dred Scott and the Abortion Cases," Human
Life Review 3, no. 2 (1977): 79-100; Archibald Cox, "The Supreme Court and
Abortion," Human Life Review 2, no. 4 (1976): 15-19.
26. Francis Canavan, "The Theory of the Danforth Case," Human Life Review
2, no. 4 (1976): 5-14.
27. Legal Defense Fund Newsletter no. 61 (June, 1977): 1-6.
28. For the text of Harris v. McCrae, see the Journal of Church and State
22, no.3 (1980): 575-95.
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