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- <text id=89TT3126>
- <title>
- Nov. 27, 1989: American Notes:Abortion
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Nov. 27, 1989 Art And Money
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 35
- American Notes
- ABORTION
- A Bishop Says No
- </hdr><body>
- <p> "The harm you are doing by espousing the `pro-choice' view
- will require great efforts to repair," San Diego Bishop Leo
- Maher wrote last week to Lucy Killea, 67, a Democrat running in
- a special election for California's state senate. He then
- applied a little used sanction that denies Communion to
- Catholics who "obstinately persist in manifest grave sin."
- Killea says she will abide by the decree but will not change her
- position. She is the first political candidate to receive this
- censure.
- </p>
- <p> Catholics who take pro-choice stands have been particularly
- frustrating to the nation's bishops, who have been asked to
- respond decisively to dissenters. But a spokesman said it is
- highly unlikely that Maher's precedent would become national
- Catholic policy.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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