Thursday, February 8, 1973
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No Increase in Abortions Expected
By CAROLYN OLSON
Kansan Staff Writer
Medical experts have estimated that a total of 1.6 million American women will seek abortions this year because of the recent Supreme Court ruling liberalizing abortions. But local health officials don't expect a large increase in the number of abortions.
Charles Dennison, administrator for Lawrence Memorial Hospital, said Kansas abortion laws have been fairly liberal since and in 1872 they were liberalized even more.
The Kansas law originally required three physicians to concur that an abortion was needed to protect the mental or physical health of the mother or child. An abortion could also be obtained if the pregnancy resulted from rape or incest.
In 1972, however, a federal district court ruled that only one doctor need approve the abortion and that the abortion could be performed in any state-licensed hospital.
Deniston said about 20 abortions per month were performed at Lawrence Memorial. He said almost all of the doctors performed abortions, but that each physician had a personal choice whether to perform the abortion.
A bill introduced last week in the Kansas Senate, complies with the recent Supreme Court ruling that no hospital or its officers or administrators will be required to permit abortions and that any refusal will not be grounds for a civil suit. The bill was introduced by members of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The Senate judiciary bill and a resolution calling for a constitutional convention to consider an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would overturn the Supreme Court ruling on abortions, will be discussed at 11 a.m. today at the statehouse.
The two proposals will be discussed in a bearing before the joint Senate and House Judiciary Committee and the Senate and House public health committees.
Members of the Kansas Right to Life organization will attend the hearing to support the proposed constitutional amendment which would define the beginning of life as the moment of conception.
Meanwhile, a few effects of the liberalized abortions ruling are already being felt in the US.
Deniston said prices for abortions at Lawrence Memorial Hospital might be reduced. An abortion now usually costs about $400 at Lawrence Memorial. The hospital is from $150 to $800, doctor's fees are usually also reduced, Deniston said.
Dr. Dale Clinton, Douglas County health officer, said he usually refers women who want abortions to Douglass Hospital in Kansas City, Kan.
"The personnel at Douglass Hospital usually charge about $200 for an abortion, and sometimes the charge is even less." Clinton said. "Each woman's financial situation is evaluated and then a fee is set."
At Lawrence Memorial Hospital, 357 abortions were performed in Fiscal Year
Park Jobs Available
Approximately 125 jobs will be available with the Lawrence parks and recreation department this summer, the department will hire approximately 40 playground aides to swimming instructors with pay between $1.75 and $2.25 an hour. About half the jobs are usually filled by returning summer employees. The jobs include a park officer, assistant director of the department.
Objectivists to Meet
KU Students of Objectivism (the philosophy of Ayn Rand) will meet at 7:30 tonight at 163 Pinecee Drive. For more information call 542-5956.
Car Rally Sunday
The Jayhawk Sports Car Club will have a timed speed and rally day赛. Registration will begin at noon in the southwest corner of O-Zone and the first car will leave at 1 p.m. Participants will be ex-tenue time and distance to and provide their own navigator and a car with an odometer. A keg party will follow the rally.
1972 which ended June 1. In Fiscal Year 1971, only 25 were performed. Of the 837 abortions performed in 1972, 108 were performed on women from out-of-state, while only 54 abortions on out-of-state women were performed in 1971.
Officials from Douglas Hospital and the University of Kansas Medical Center refused to release figures on how many patients died in each hospital during the last two years.
Girl Scouts to Meet
Figures on the number of abortions performed by the individual hospital are required by law to be reported to the Kansas State Board of Health in Topeka. Officials from the State Board of Health said 8,549 abortions were performed in Kansas hospitals in fiscal 1971, while only 8,000 abortions were performed in Kansas and 628 abortions in the abortions in 1971 were performed on women from out of state, while the figure was only 50 per cent in 1972.
There will be an organizational meeting of Campana Girl Scouts at 7 tonight in the library.
Hashingler Hall's production of "Stop the World-I" Want to Get Off!" will be presented again Sunday because of its popularity among students. The musical is scheduled for 8 p.m. in the Hashingler Theatre. Residents will be admitted free and other persons may purchase tickets at the door.
The State Board of Health said, 1,300 Kansas residents went out of state in 1971 to have abortions, and compared to 1,000 in 1972.
Hashinger Musical
Abortion opponents have complained that Kansas was gaining a reputation as an "abortion milk" because of the large number of actions performed for out-of-state residents.
T. Roosevelt Butler, administrator for
Douglass Hospital said Wednesday that the hospital was permitting all abortions but that only about one-third of the physicians would perform abortions.
Butler said all of the women who had abortions at Douglass Hospital were released the same day. Demismont said he was not involved at the Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
"It just depends on each physician, but it also depends on an eye on the patient or not." Denudation.
Dr. Raymond Schweigler, director of Watkins Hospital, said no abortions had been performed at Watkins in the last 30 years.
"We just don't have enough equipment," Schwegler said. "If a physician wanted to bring in some instruments he could carry it because we are certified." Schwegler said.
Schweiger said none of the staff physicians would perform abortions, even at his clinic.
"Our physicians just refer the patients to our hospital and have better facilities," Bettweiler said.
Schweigler was he again against the recent Supreme Court ruling liberalizability abortion law.
"The Supreme Court shouldn't be a legislative body," Schwegler said. "The
'Big Business' Cited As IFC-Chamber Link
The Interfraternity Council voted last week to join the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce because fraternities are becoming big businesses, IFC President Bruce Frazey, Hill City senior, said Wednesday night.
KU fraternities are about a $4-million operation, Pratt & Taylor, including house music.
Frazey said he thought that an increasing number of college students was eager to be accepted as a part of the Lawrence community.
"To be accepted as members of the adult
group, we have to participate in it
on equal terms."
The Chamber would be a good way to gauge student opinion and listen to student opinions.
The Chamber would be a good way to gauge student opinion and listen to student opinions.
The Chamber will meet Feb. 13 to decide on ITE membership.
Frazey said that the IFC had requested positions on both the Chamber of Commerce KU Affairs Committee and Education Chamber and that the IFC become Chamber members.
To establish a better fraternity scholarship program, Frazey said, a committee has been organized to invest in and evaluate the present program in big faults.
He said that the overall fraternity grade-point average was lower last semester than it has been for quite some time. He said he expected grades for fraternity members to be at a higher level at the end of this semester.
Frazey also said that an All University Rush Weekend was planned for Saturday and Sunday. He said that about 250 to 300 men were expected to participate.
Frazey that one of the reasons for the weekend is that it will give prospective KU students a chance to view the campus while classes are in session.
A film about the University will be shown at 2 p.m. Feb. 10 in Wooldruff Auditorium, he said. Speakers from the dean of men's office are invited to attend the session about KU and the fraternity system.
Fraternity membership has increased per cent from £27,000 said, and he believes the need for more members will increase.
people in each state ought to decide if they want to legalize abortion."
"I think the Greek system is more relevant than ever before," he said. "In comparison to communal living it's actually not that much different."
Medical experts have said that the effects of the abortion ruling would be far-reaching. The abortion laws in the state of Texas require that a Supreme Court ruling for two years, and officials say the number of illegitimate births has declined noticeably. One of the effects of the decline in illegitimate births is the increase in adopting babies. New York officials say
Dr. Norman Ryder, Princeton sociologist and a director of the National Fertility Study of 1965, said the number of teenage mothers in her country should be the number of high school dropouts.
Author Speaks About Society, Communication
Society is a matrix where people who have a statement to make come in contact with people who can comprehend the statements of the University of Iowa said Wednesday.
Thayer, an author and magazine editor who has worked at the University of Amsterdam and in Paris, spoke on "Communications as an Integrate Concept in the Behavioral Sciences" Wednesday night in the Jawhawk Room of the Kansas Union.
Thayer began his address by saying that communication is one of two basic life processes. He defined it as the ingestion of ideas.
He said the other basic life process was the ingestion of food and other physical needs. People must learn everything they need to know to get by in their environment, he said. Man, unlike lower animals such as the bee, comes totally unprepared for his survival and has no degree of communication and environment must be communicated to him. Thaver said.
"Most learning occurs between people, in each other, each other," Thayer said. "You need my way; is what learning is about. 'I understand you in your way' is what education is about."
Thaier said that man institutionalized truth, as in marriage, because a truth was a common trait of the world.
"Society is that matrix in which people who have a statement to make come into contact with people who can comprehend that statement," he said.
Thayer said that much of what people
know about the environment and
environment in which they lived.
"How do I know what I know?" he asked,
because someone told him so, and
he didn't.
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