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14 Friday, August 2, 1985
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
THE UN-SILENT
SCREAM
The national debate over
abortion has divided individuals
and Jewish denominations,
BY sWAN WELCH
Speckd to l'hR douldi Nola
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A ie•eemi•old Meth
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n 197, the US, supreme Court
ruling in Roe ve, Wade made
abortion a legal choice for any
woman in America, Today, how-
ever, it is virtually impossible for any,
one contemplating abortion to ignore
the intensifying public debate, Anti-
abortion activists, bolstered by
President Reagan's political support,
using new medical technology in
suport of their arguments and
encouraged by increasing public eq.,
port, have once again made abortion a
public issue,
The debate has become Jima ,
ingly fervent and violent, The Wall
street 4/ourno1 recently reported that
2$1 violent anti-abortion incidents,
including bombings and death
threats, have punctuated the argue
ment during the past PI months,
Is abortion a matter for the law,
or for the individual oonseiencil is it
murder, or a simple medical proce-
dure? is it the first step to i4Y9/WW
tory euthanasia and sen9gide, or a
step towards a §9gil3tY
in which
*vary ehibi is wanted, healthy and
cared for?
es
The carefully planned,
and deliberately emotive expeneivg
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ciimPilisn kw moved many Amer).
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abortion, Partieu/arly eifeetive has
been their film The §llent Allengon,
which OW niShn depicts pain daring
abortion,
At the owe time, the Qiinpaign
has inowel others to angrily idepiore
the blatant einutionaJiloro, 'The IMP of
thn expression ""pie life" ilaelfaNiere
pro-aboica aiipportaisp
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asks, "Where is the woman in ell
Where is the concern for her, for
the esnetity and quality of her IWO
"We call ourselves 'prod ifs' be.
cause we swig rejoins Mane
Trembley of Wit.taLiffe In Detroit,
It isa life that cannot speak for it-
self, We use language which is
humanizing, 14410is an ugly word,
it doesn't conjure up the same image
as Using it is a way to re-
move yourself from realit y, And the
woman," eh* adds, is there, but no
more and no Jew Important than the
child she earrlee,"
An *quail), *harp division of
opinion can be found within the
4wish community, and not only
tween religious and secular views,
Balk)* interpretation of the rani
within
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major
nominations,
Awe, /Aglow or polar,
are anew agatl by Oa* imehin#
to, above Ai elee, kw* the sax,
tity of life, Agang with a
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