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Pollitt, Katha | September 19, 1994 issue

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The accusation of bigotry is, of course, the now-standard rhetorical move of the religious right when their political agenda is attacked. In the first place, the Vatican's presence at the Cairo conference derives from its U.N. membership as a hankie-sized temporal state, not as a spiritual kingdom of putatively boundless dimensions. The health, education, equality within marriage and ability to survive without it are all on the table, so is the staggering toll taken on women worldwide by constant childbearing and the illegal abortions that are, in much of the world, the only alternative.

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TOLERATION; EDUCATION; HEALTH promotion; BIRTH control; PREVENTIVE health services; ABORTION
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