by Julia Jones
with Walter Fitzgerald, Valerie White, Margery Mason, Alan Lake
The teaching about artificial birth control in the recent Papal Encyclical on marriage has resulted in a furore not only within the Roman Catholic Church. Tonight's play illustrates this controversy in human terms and also from the woman's point of view. The Kellys have several children, and another is on the way. Edna Kelly, the mother and a convert, has been advised by her doctor that for health reasons she should have an abortion. But as a Catholic, and a woman, such an action seems unthinkable to her.
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