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• Actors: John Thomas Noonan, Roy Lucas
• Region: All Regions
• Studio: Southern Educational Communications Association (SECA)
• DVD Release Date: August 11, 2008
• Run Time: 60 minutes
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• ASIN: B001E52U8A
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #99,309 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Taped on July 25, 1972The most visible abortion battleground was New York State, where the legislature had voted to repeal the extremely permissive law it had passed two years before and where Governor Nelson Rockefeller had vetoed the repeal. But the case challenging that veto would probably never make it to the Supreme Court, Lucas explains, for there were others ahead of it in line; in retrospect, we know that one of those, Roe v. Wade, was decided in January 1973. This show covers familiar ground but often from angles that are still fresh thirty years later. Lucas: "Would you favor legislation requiring a woman to submit to strong medical treatment to stop spontaneous abortion and penalizing her accordingly if she didn't?" Noonan: "No, I think you're again committing what I would say was a fault in moral reasoning. Because you're bound to avoid doing some injury to a person does not mean that you're bound to do everything possible in the world to help him." Summary by Firing Line staff.

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