Letter To Doris Gordon

W. H. Marshner

May 3, 1990

Dear Miss Gordon:

I have reviewed the material published by Libertarians for Life, including your brochure entitled, “A Wrong. Not a Right: An Atheist Libertarian Looks at Abortion,” and the one entitled “Abortion and the Question of the Person,” by John Walker. In light of these, I have reviewed the correspondence between you and William F. Buckley, Jr.

Before detailing points of contention, let me concur in Mr. Buckley’s overall commendation of the LFL material. It is lucid and deserves to be persuasive. I particularly think that your use of premises drawn from the obligation of parents toward their dependent children, combined with the fact that the existence of such children is a consequence for which the parents are responsible, represents a fresh and important line of justification for the pro-life position. Perhaps you will allow me to illustrate.
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Byrn Upholds HLA Workability At Bayh Hearings

By W. H. MARSHNER

THE WANDERER
April 3, 1975

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Robert M. Byrn, a specialist on criminal law and a professor at the Fordham University Law School, presented to the Bayh Subcommittee March 10th hearings what almost amounted to a small encyclopedia on the question of the legal consequences of a Federal abortion prohibition. With a wealth of argumentation drawn from State and Federal court decisions, Byrn attacked the feasibility of a States’ rights amendment, then zeroed in on the consequences of a mandatory amendment of the type proposed by Buckley, Helms, or the National Right to Life Committee. The fundamental question at issue was this:
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