Spotlight on Colorado Possible m -Nj o 04 nor.»hlndron« w lA A NEW OWl CONT^W^^ 33 m ;d O' Move for OF PROVEN safe o«l The Drive for Abortion First birth control, then of Los Angeles county, plead out, now permit therapeutic dations of the American Law abortion, then steriliza­ for a modification of the abortion “ to preserve the life Institutions; c C/3 3: l\3 urch Home tion, and finally mercy laws of the nation dealing of the mother” and nine That doctors be permitted killing. with therapeutic abortion. states and the District of Col­ to terminate a pregnancy if I They back their argument umbia permit abortion “ when )ver- A move to new quarters This seems to be the time it (I) endangers the mother’s by exclaiming “ It is apparent the health of the mother is ould by the Good Shepherd pattern that is fast being put health; ( 2) resulted from rape that morals, religion, and the in danger.” care nuns and their charges into operation by neo-moral­ or incest or occurs in a very common law offer little re­ :ally in the Good Shepherd Home ists as well as some 20th young girl; or (3) may re­ straint when it comes to abor­ AS A GUIDE in proposed sult in the birth of a serious­ m o who for Girls on S. Colorado boule­ century sociologists and wel­ X o tion.” legislation the report in the vard, Denver, may re­ fare workers, who appear to ly deformed child. 33 3 r to Forty-one states, they point journal offers the recommen­ sult from the granting of an believe that if you cannot (Continued From Page 2) s, it option to purchase the present solve a problem, destroy it. site, by the F. R. Orr Con­ Few there are who can d as struction company of Denver. ssed Safe — or Only Half-Safe? think that with the first Sister Charity, superior of phase, the battle of contra­ Good Shepherd community, Literature with at least some oral contraceptives pro­ ceptive birth control has not told the “ Register” this week claims them "of proven reliability and safety." But there been won in the world. that “ an option is not a sale,” is enough disturbing evidence to question just how safe and any further plans must Only the Catholic Church is 1 for await a decision on re-zoning. the "Pill" is — a question that only a thorough, careful, “ holding out,” as the moderns The cornerstone of the ex­ controlled scientific study can answer. say, against the curtailment of the population by any DENVER CATHOLIC shall isting Good Shepherd convent was laid March 12, 1911 by means, just as long as the not •+ ■+• -f- number of persons born are ione Bishop Nicholas Matz, and it 'S was ready for occupancy the in step with the economic and following February. The main Cheating God? agricultural potential of the nat- nation or the world. ery- building was dedicated in REGISTER The Catholic Church, prac­ 1913. It was built at a cost of THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1966 VOL. LX No. 23 the $150,000. Other wings were tically all by itself, still 5wer added and .on Sept. 19, 1958, teaches that it is immoral to Ar ibishop Urban J. Vehr of use contraceptives to curtail lent, Denver offered Pontifical birth. It does admit, as it r to Mass in the nuns’ chapel to T h e ever has, that family planning mark the Sisters' 75 years of is legitimate and even praise­ e in worthy, provided an immoral 'ore- service in Denver. In 1959 the nuns acquired means is not used. and Yet the successful pressure a 61-acre site near E. Yale f p o c r i ^ i y . l i c i not and S. Syracuse streets. lately placed by governmen­ il or tal agencies on family plan­ 'P ill' ning is a definite sign that the ! ob- battlers for birth control are To the editor: Cheating Life? aware that the first step in “You say ‘Catholics are the program has been just like the rest’ (DCR, Dec. “The life you prevent may be your achieved and now they can 30) of people in any com ­ munity in commercializing own.” A growing number of authorities turn to the second phase: ;ons Abortion. Christmas. The rest of what? believe that users of contraceptive pills You infer, but stop with a ould should get such frank warning. At the round dot w’hich I take is a ated TWO POINTS in this drive least, others say, the safety of the “Pill” for abortion as a panacea period. is still in doubt. hold the spotlight in Colorado. “ You ask how many re­ alize A 34-year-old British mother began taking The first concerns the ceived Holy Communion at ides, contraceptive pills. Six months later she was change that has been urged Midnight Mass, and again at ved, dead of a lung clot that had originated in in the state’s laws and the a later Mass on Christmas held her pelvis. Leg clots rarely occur spontan­ second com es from a report morning? Either you missed than eously in women, specialists say. published in the journal of Mass yourself at the packed, jamm^ churches Christmas says In 1962 there were reports of vein-clotting the American Medical asso­ Eve and CUiristmas morning De in\172 takers of one firm’s contraceptive pills. ciation. In a 132-page report on a or didn’t watch the Cathedral Pieces of clots reached the lungs and killed plan for the mentally retard­ Midnight Mass on TV. Other­ 30 of these. Eight months later the number ed of Colorado presented in wise you could see the thou­ of cases had risen to 400, with 40 deaths. December to Governor John sands in attendance. Two Johns Hopkins doctors began collect­ pect Love, a proposal to liberalize “ How do you take issue with ing data on 20 young women who were vic­ the state’s law on abortion people for not using this most le of tims of strokes after using birth control pills. was advocated. marvelous of privileges? Did chil- Bishop Joseph S. Minnis An autopsy on one showed clotting in “ prac­ The plan was supported by you count them? How do you ; he tically every artery and vein.” a grant awarded by the U.S. know? The American Heart association last Oc­ Department of Health, Educa­ “Also, what of those who pect tober heard a report of University of Miami tion, and Welfare, and Dr. could not go to Mass again Wesley D. White, chief of the has Knights Set school of medicine experts that “there is a Christmas morning? Doctors, ie to Division of .Mental Retarda­ nurses, police on duty, etc. strong suggestion of an increase in the num­ tion for the State institutions, Can’t you say ‘Hooray for hese Episcopalian ber of young females suffering vascular oc­ acted as project director. air and leave the rest to that any- clusions during the last two years. All the The report recommends the inner elbow where God has cases diagnosed as such were on oral contra­ State Legislature study the placed a permanent faint gold ) be Bishop Talk ceptives except one.” possibility of revising the nerve — Conscience? ings abortion law’ to permit abor­ “ We all bang it against the ility, IT IS TRUE THE causal relationship be­ tions when there is “ the high door but it is our elbow. BMiop Joseph S. Minnis, of probability” a child may be the the Episcopal Diocese of tween the “ Pill” and these tragedies has not “ .Many wonderful Protes­ been proved. None of the studies has yet mentally retarded. tants have told me they stay e of Colorado, will be the guest Under the present state law, :inal speaker at Knights of Colum­ been of the type to establish the Pili’s guilt. up to watch Midnight Mass abortions can be performed with wonder and reverence. bus Council 539 Friday Lunch­ But equally or more true is that none has only to save the life of the eak- Nice Day for a Siroil What can they think if. they eon Club on Friday, Jan. 21, been adequate to declare the pill “of proven mother or to prevent serious in the K. of C. home, 1555 reliability and safety,” as the literature of read your (requote) ‘Just like to and permanent bodily injury. A balmy January day is ideal for a homa City, Okla., relax while discuss­ t Grant street, Denver. one firm describes its product. the rest’? >int- Writing in the AMA Jour­ stroll about the grounds between class­ ing approaching first semester exam­ “ My opinion matters not, “ The Episcopalian Views on In documenting the situation, a journalist nal, Dr. Jerome M. Kummer inations. They also are undoubtedly but I think this is poor jour­ ledi- the Ecumenical Council” will es at St. Thomas’ seminary, Denver. comments that “ . .those who keep speaking of the University of Califor­ thinking about a skiing trip during the nalism. cept be his topic. nia school of medicine at Los Charles Kottas, left, a fourth-year of lack of proof of a causal relation in regard brief break between semesters. “ Why repeat last year’s cli­ our All knights, Catholic men, Angeles, and Zad Leavy, for­ theologian from Milligan. Neb., and to the pills, and many other drugs as well, Jerry Mayfield, a deacon from Okla­ che ‘Whose Feast Is Christ­ and their friends are invited fail to specify just what degree of evidence mer deputy district attorney m as?’ I think it’s gaudy, too, to attend the luncheon and would, i;i their eyes, constitute proof.