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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New Slant In Bayh Hearings

By W. H. MARSHNER

THE WANDERER
March 27, 1975

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Senate hearings on the human life amendments resumed Monday, March 10th, under the gavel of Sen. Birch Bayh (D., Ind.), and under the shadow of the Edelin verdict. Bayh, who has been studiously noncommittal throughout the yearlong inquest, dropped hints for the first time that an amendment protecting fetal life “after viability” would probably enjoy his support. Reference to the Edelin case was made by all five of the morning’s witnesses: Senators Buckley (R., N.Y.), Packwood (R., Ore.), and Helms (R., N.C.), followed by lawyers Robert Byrn and Harriet Pilpel.

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Bicentennial Alert

By WILLIAM H. MARSHNER

THE WANDERER
February 20, 1975

If you, the reader, are in basic agreement with The Wanderer’s understanding of Catholic social doctrine, and if you live within striking distance of one of these five cities: San Antonio, St. Paul, Atlanta, Sacramento, or Newark, then Holy Church needs you badly.

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March For Life A Massive Success

By WILLIAM H. MARSHNER

THE WANDERER
Our Second Century of Lay Apostolate
January 30, 1975

WASHINGTON, D.C. — More of everything — more people, more roses, more eminent speakers — marked the second “March for Life,” Jan. 22nd, 1975, as a massive success. On the western steps of the U.S. Capitol, it was part politics, part revival, and part hootenanny, as an estimated 30,000 to 50,000 people sang, clapped, and shouted this single message: “Give Life a Chance.”

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A Chronicle Of The Abortion Hearings (Part II)

A Chronicle Of The Abortion Hearings

By WILLIAM H. MARSHNER

THE WANDERER
March 28, 1974

(PART II)

WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the hall filled on March 7th, the second day of anti-abortion hearings before Sen. Birch Bayh’s sub- committee, a sprinkling of familiar faces appears in the audience. Russell Shaw, Bill Ryan, Bishop James Rausch, Msgr. James McHugh — a whole row of brass from the U.S. Catholic Conference (USCC). This is their day in the electronic sun, the day on which four U.S. Cardinals will be filmed and photographed telling Congress to outlaw abortion.
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Cardinals Reject Section Two Of Buckley Ammendment

Cardinals Reject Section Two Of Buckley Amendment

W. H. Marshner

THE WANDERER
(Special to The Wanderer)
March 21, 1974

WASHINGTON – Four U.S. Cardinals, testifying before Sen. Birch Bayh’s Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments, rejected the language of section two of Sen. James Buckley’s proposed Human Life Amendment, in open hearings on March 7th.

The section in question reads as follows: “This article shall not apply in an emergency when a reasonable medical certainty exists that continuation of the pregnancy will cause the death of the mother.”

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A Chronicle Of The Abortion Hearings

By WILLIAM H. MARSHNER

THE WANDERER
March 21, 1974

March 6th, 1974, is Day One. Our constitutional lawyers told us it would never come to this. But here we are at 8:30 in the morning, an hour and a half before the Senators are scheduled to appear, standing in what already amounts to quite a line. At 10 a.m. Birch Bayh will start the hearings which some worldly-wise people said would never start, and which all worldly-wise people say will never come to a pro-life conclusion. Nevertheless, here we are — not because hope springs eternal; it doesn’t — but because the truth will neither die nor let us go.

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Right-To-Life Hearings Begin

W. H. Marshner

THE WANDERER
Our Second Century of Lay Apostolate
(Special to The Wanderer)
MARCH 14, 1974

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Sen. James L. Buckley, testifying in behalf of his own human-life amendment (S.J. Res. 119) on the first day of the Bayh Senate subcommittee hearings, removed all doubt that he intended his amending language to protect unborn life from the moment of conception.

Sen. Buckley cited a Sept., 1970, editorial from California Medicine, in which a pro-abortion doctor admitted “the scientific fact, which everyone really knows, that human life begins at conception.”

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