Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S1078; The Rhetoric of Abortion
- Episode Number
- S1078
- Episode
- The Rhetoric of Abortion
- 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-c824b2z026
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- Description
- Episode Description
- Ms. Wolf had just provoked a firestorm with her essay in The New Republic in which, as Mr. Buckley summarizes it, she "absolutely defends the right of the mother to abort the fetus, but absolutely classifies the act as evil." (Ms. Wolf, in the course of this often profound discussion, qualifies that second "absolutely": "a necessary evil in many cases.") NW: "I am so glad to have the chance to talk with you and with other representatives of the pro-life movement, who, I have to say, I had been raised all my life to demonize and to see as sort of these fanatical misogynists. I have to reckon with the fact that many of the people I have heard from on that side of the divide are thoughtful, ethical people who respect women and who believe that it is of deep moral concern and even deep religious concern to raise the status of women in society." 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
- 1996-01-24
- Asset type
- Episode
- Genres
- Talk Show
- Topics
- Public Affairs
- Subjects
- United States; 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: Alvare, Helen
Guest: Wolf, Naomi
Host: Buckley, William F., Jr.
Producing Organization: Southern Educational Communications Association
Producing Organization: South Carolina Educational Television Network
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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Stanford University
Identifier: 80040.1347 (Hoover Institution)
Generation: Proxy
Duration: 0:30:00
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S1078; The Rhetoric of Abortion,” 1996-01-24, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed June 23, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-514-c824b2z026.
- MLA: “Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S1078; The Rhetoric of Abortion.” 1996-01-24. Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. June 23, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-514-c824b2z026>.
- APA: Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S1078; The Rhetoric 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-c824b2z026