Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S0931; A Mini-debate: the Politics of Abortion
- Episode Number
- S0931
- Producing Organization
- Southern Educational Communications Association
- South Carolina Educational Television Network
- Contributing Organization
- Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University (Stanford, California)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/514-028pc2tv11
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- Description
- Episode Description
- As many times as this subject has been discussed, the participants in this mini-debate-the third installment of this election-year series-find some new angles on it. WFB: "All of these complicated considerations, don't they all apply to old people? I know an old person who can't recognize his own children-very poor family, great hardship keeping that guy alive. He gets no pleasure out of life. He just lies there in bed and stares. Shouldn't we just kill him?" ... FK: "What we have in America on this subject are two overlapping majorities. You've got a majority of Americans who believe that the government should not interfere in the decision of a woman to have an abortion, and that same majority of Americans also is disturbed by the number of abortions ... by the reasons they think women are having abortions, and therefore they do support regulation and restriction of abortion." Currently there is only a digitized transcript available for this episode.
- Series Description
- The television series Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. was a venue for debate and discussion on political, social, and philosophical issues with experts of the day. Firing Line broadcasts from 1966 through March 1971 were produced and syndicated by WOR-TV, a commercial station in New York, but some of them were also broadcast on noncommercial television stations. Starting in April 1971, Firing Line broadcasts were produced by the Southern Educational Communications Association, an arm of South Carolina Educational Television. Hoover Institution Library & Archives' Firing Line collection guide can be found at: https://www.hoover.org/library-archives/collections/firing-line.
- Date
- 1992-05-05
- Asset type
- Episode
- Genres
- Talk Show
- Topics
- Public Affairs
- Subjects
- United States; Law and legislation; Government policy; Abortion
- Rights
- Copyright held by Stanford University. This copy is provided for educational and research purposes only. No publication, further reproduction, or reuse of copies, beyond fair use, may be made without the express written permission of the Hoover Institution Library & Archives on behalf of Stanford University.
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Credits
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Guest: Kissling, Frances
Guest: Buckley, William F., Jr.
Guest: Tucci, Keith
Guest: McGovern, George S. (George Stanley)
Host: Buckley, William F., Jr.
Moderator: Sanders, Alex
Producing Organization: Southern Educational Communications Association
Producing Organization: South Carolina Educational Television Network
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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Stanford University
Identifier: 80040.1186 (Hoover Institution)
Generation: Proxy
Duration: 0:30:00
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S0931; A Mini-debate: the Politics of Abortion,” 1992-05-05, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed June 26, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-514-028pc2tv11.
- MLA: “Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S0931; A Mini-debate: the Politics of Abortion.” 1992-05-05. Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. June 26, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-514-028pc2tv11>.
- APA: Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S0931; A Mini-debate: the Politics of Abortion. Boston, MA: Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-514-028pc2tv11