One of the hottest issues in this year's US presidential elections could well be Already the anti-abortion lobby has its own candidate, Ellen McCormack, who aims to pull together the opposi tion to a recent Supreme Court ruling which liberalised abortion laws throughout all states. As Barry Coleman reported in Monday's Guardian: Under Ellen McCormack there would be no abortion in America, none whatsoever.' Anit-abortion groups in the US org anise themselves on a state-wide basis, using names like "Life" and Right to Life', and co-ordinating their efforts nationally and internationally on a more intormal ever. however, men micrd tional connections are most obvious when one compares the literature put out by different groups. The same photgraph of a foetus has appeared in Ohio and Amsterdam on brochures that contained similar appeals against so-called *Nazi concentration camp tactics' of killing unborn foetuses.
The posters used in Mrs. McCorm ack's campaign are headlined: "This aborted baby won't keep his mother awake at night.....at least not yet. The abortior. issue in the United States is far from dead, and as the period of election campaigning picks up between now and November, there is likely to be an upsurge of anti-abortion activity using the erecuons as a local Dome Having raised $100,000 in 20 states tribution greater than $50 - Mrs. McCormack now qualifies for a matching grant from the Federal Government. ELLEN McCORMACK The media are creating an image for Mrs McCormack of the conventional grandmother, a devout Roman Catholic, married to a New York policethe plight of humanity in tact, that she will pur decorum aside and go out and campaign for the cause of a group that cannot campaign for itself.....
It would be interesting to question Mrs McCormack on the rest of her platform. In her great concern for the preservanon or numan we were wowd she stand on the question of provision of child care centres, on increasing state spending on unemployment payments, on providing high quality free hospital Care so mat me sck and murcu cal have decent treatment? She doesn't say. but as coleman concruded in tae Guardian - one might reasonably guess. DEFEND DR. MORGENTALE! DROP THE