NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, October 11, 1984
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Nuns urge choice, not abortion
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The National Coalition of American Nuns urged resistance yesterday to the Roman Catholic hierarchy's campaign to make abortion illegal, rejecting "the claim that to be pro-choice is to be pro-abortion."
The statement by the group, based in Chicago, comes in the midst of a major debate within the Catholic community over abortion and the role the hierarchy's opposition to it play in the presidential campaign.
"We reject any solution which would reimpose the criminalization of abortion, in as much as such a situation in no way does away with abortion but results in making safe abortions," he said. "leaving poor women at the mercy of amateurs," the group of activist nurses said in a statement.
"WE REJECT THE claim that to be pro-choice is to be pro-abortion," the statement said.
Rep. Geraldine Ferraro, the Democratic vice presidential nominee and a Catholic, has clashed with members of the church hierarchy over her position on abortion. Ferraro has said that she personally opposes abortion, but would not deny other women the choice.
While several bishops in the church hierarchy are unified in their opposition to abortion, a number of prominent and influential prelates, including Cardinal John Krol of Philadelphia and Archbishop John J. O'Connor of New York, have suggested that the question is of paramount importance in the campaign - a stance that implicitly adds President Reagan's re-election effort.
The National Conference of Catholic Bishops, however, has issued a statement on religion and politics
that raises 14 significant moral issues for Catholic voters. On most of them, the church's position is closer than to the other Monday than to that of Reagan.
THE STATEMENT BY the nun group accused the Catholic bishops of "sexism" for believing "they alone have the right and wisdom to make decisions about the morality of a woman's existential choice about pregnancy when that choice differs from their theoretical one."
The statement followed by just days one issued by the Catholic Committee on Pluralism and Abortion — signed by more than 100 nuns, priests, theologians and church members — that argued the bishops' stance was not the only "legitimate Catholic position" on abortion.
In addition, the National Federation of Priests Councils has called for a lessening of the emphasis or abortion as the key "Catholic issue" in the campaign.
Judge denies Bikini suit dismissal
By United Press International
WASHINGTON - A U.S. Claims Court judge yesterday denied a government motion to dismiss a lawsuit by the people of Bikini Atoll seeking compensation for the destruction of their islands.
Bikini, located in the Marshall Islands 2.500 miles southwest of
Hawaii, is part of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, or Micronesia. The atoll, a ring of 26 tiny islands, was the site of 23 atomic and hydrogen bomb tests in the 1940s and 1950s.
1988 Bikinians are seeking $450 million from the U.S. government as just compensation under the Fifth Amendment for the destruction of their islands caused by the nuclear
testing program.
JUDGE KENNETH HARRIS said the bomb tests resulted in "annihilation of some islands and vaporization of portions of others; permanent resettlement with substantial relocation hardships of some inhabitants" and "widespread contamination from radioactivity that renders some islands unusable by man for indeterminate future periods."
Judge wants EPA ruling on acid rain
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — A federal judge has ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to quicken the timetable for making a final decision on whether several Midwestern states must cut sulfur dioxide emissions believed to cause acid rain.
A ruling by Judge Norma Hallinson of the U.S. District Court date Oct. 5, said she issued a final ruling in the matter.
On Aug. 29, the agency issued a preliminary decision that refused to order the sulfur dioxide cuts in seven Western states. At the time, the EPA gave no firm timetable for a final decision, except to say it would come in several months.
Nine Northeastern states, saying that the Midwest air pollution was the main component of acid rain in their region, had asked the EPA to order the sulfur dioxide reductions.
The Northeastern states involved in the suit are New York, Maine, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and New Jersey.
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