ABORTION ‘CRIME’
Vatican Radio Description
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter —Copyright) ROME, August 20.
The Vatican Radio said today that a “crime" had been committed at the Swedish hospital where the American television hostess. Mrs Sherri Finkbine, underwent a legal abortion yesterday to prevent the birth of a thalidomide baby. “Morally and objectively it is a crime, all the more serious considering that it has been achieved legally,” the radio said.
In Stockholm, her husband, Mr Robert Finkbine, said today: “Sherri and I feel we have committed no crime,” Reuter reported. Commenting on the Vatican Radio statement, he said: “I respect the views of the Vatican. At the same time, I hope they respect mine also
. . . ” (Mr Finkbine is a Unitarian.)
Speaking from his wife’s hospital bedside, he said she was feeling "much better today."
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29906, 21 August 1962, Page 20
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