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One political issue about which we’ll hear much less for three or four years—or ever again, conceivably—is abortion-on-demand. Such proposals for feticide appeared on the Michigan and North Dakota ballots on November 7. Both were defeated—in Michigan by 61 per cent to 39 per cent, in North Dakota by nearly four to one.

Rather, I should say that the advocacy of abortion-on-demand will shrink: Few politicians will dare to touch it now. But the repeal or modification of present “liberal” abortion statutes, in those states where such measures have been adopted during the past decade, will remain a burning question. New York’s legislature repealed the abortion-on-demand law, in operation for only two years, during its last session, but Governor Rockefeller vetoed the bill.

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One political issue about which we’ll hear much less for three or four years—or ever again, conceivably—is abortion-on-demand. Such proposals for feticide appeared on the Michigan and North Dakota ballots on November 7. Both were defeated—in Michigan by 61 per cent to 39 per cent, in North Dakota by nearly four to one.

Rather, I should say that the advocacy of abortion-on-demand will shrink: Few politicians will dare to touch it now. But the repeal or modification of present “liberal” abortion statutes, in those states where such measures have been adopted during the past decade, will remain a burning question. New York’s legislature repealed the abortion-on-demand law, in operation for only two years, during its last session, but Governor Rockefeller vetoed the bill.