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childbirth. Her husband, Robert Mauk pastor of the New Life Student Fellowship, named the baby Patrick.
Mauk said he and his wife never had considered the option of abortion because of their marriage.
"We both have freedom free from guilt because of the choice we made," he said. "I know Jan is safe and secure in heaven and Patrick's life is special as a result."
THE PRO-ABORTION philosophy leads to the "culling out of undesirables" said Mauk, including "the advocacy of mercy killing, the promotion of killing the elderly because they're a financial burden on society and forced abortions on the lower, noower class."
Powers said he retested anti-abortionists using the term "pro-life" if he and other opponents were "pro-death." Most anti-abortionists support killing in other forms, he said.
"I asked a few of the pro-life members if they would be willing to go to war for their country, and they said, 'Yes,' " said Powers after the rally. "Is that logical thinking?"
Joe Root, an anti-abortion protester, said,
"I it logical. We strive to protect the unborn
without fear."
MOST ANTI-ABORTION protesters maintained that abortion was not just a moral issue, but a political tug of war, with more members heaving against abortion.
"I think you'll find that the pro-life group is more polarized and a lot more vocal now," she said. "It seems to be a more accepting."
for the anti-abortion movement in Reagan's second term.
"Government's purpose is to protect moral values, therefore it has an obligation to oppose abortion just as it does murder," Rhodes said.
A CORRELATION exists between the pro-abortionists and Hitler's Germany, according to Rhodes.
"We can't stand by and see human life devalued. The less we value the unborn, the less value we have." "Rhodes said. "We're not too far from Hitler's Germany now."
But Powers disagreed.
"Hitter didn't give people a choice," he said, "and neither does pro-life."
The campus march was one of a handful of anti-abortion protests across Kansas.
At the University of Kansas Medical Center and an Overland Park abortion clinic, anti-abortion groups held vigils. In Topeka, abortion friends and foes walked Statehouse halls during their symbols — the rose of abortion force, the bread of a proabortion group.
In the Kansas House, 25 legislators introduced a bill that would mandate reporting of all abortions. The bill also would require the doctor or facility performing the abortion to send a form to each patient after six months to determine whether medical complications occurred because of the operation
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would replace the state's lost highway funds.
Chris Edmonds, executive director of the Tavern League of Kansas, said the tavern owners planned to introduce legislation in today's Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee meeting that would double the cereal malt beverage tax, from 18 cents to 36 cents a gallon.
would replace the state's lost highway funds
THIS WOULD RAISE $25 million dollars a year. Edmonds said, enough to replace the loss of federal funds and provide money for educational programs in elementary and secondary schools.
Kansas must raise its drinking age to 21 by July 1986 or lose a portion of its federal highway aid, according to a law passed by Congress last summer.
The committee's bill would change the legal drinking age for 3.2 beer to 21 for anyone born after July 1, 1967. The drinking age was born on or before that date would remain 18.
This means anyone who turns 18 before July 1, 1985, will be able to buy beer legally. Those who turn 18 after July 1, 1985, however, will be unable to buy their 21st birthdays to buy beer legally.
TALLMAN SAID THAT at least the committee's bill addressed some of ASK's concerns.
But the proposal would not allow 18-year-olds to continue to work in taverns or
"It does have the phase in provisions," he said, "and it does have the employment provision for selling beer."
restaurants where beer is served. Tallman said he was surprised that the restaurant provision, called the Pizza Hut amendment, was not included in the committee's bill.
"If it isn't there we'll have the opportunity to discuss it with the committee tomorrow." Toward him, she turned.
John Allen, campus director of ASk at Fort Hays State University, presented the committee with the results of a survey of tavern owners in Lawrence, Topeka and Hays. The poll indicated that 720 18- to 21-year-olds would lose their jobs if the state prevented that age group from serving beer in taverns.
IN LAWRENCE, THIS WISH would affect 155 people under 21, according to the survey. Sandra Binyon, KU director of ASK, said that the lawrence represented eight of the tavernies in LawRENCE.
Congress required the state to raise its drinking age by Oct. 1, 1986, or lose 5 percent of its federal highway aid. If the state still enforces the law, Oct. 1, 1987, it will lose an additional 10 percent.
For Kansas this would mean the loss of more than $18 million in the next two years. After that, the federal law would not penalize the state with a further loss of funds.
The bill under consideration by the House panel would not meet the federal deadline if the grandfather clause remained. In that case, the governor could give highway aid, but would receive it in 1988
when the drinking age for everyone reached 21.
STATE REP, ROBERT H. Miller, R-Wellington, said this issue would be the focus of discussion in today's scheduled hearings.
"The real debate is do we grandfather everyone," he said.
Michael Birkley, director of the Tavern League of Wisconsin, told the committee that most states that have raised their drinking age are now 21 and 22 or deaths in the 18- to 21-year-old age group.
For Kansas, this would mean four to 10 more deaths every year, Birkley said.
But Miller said, "I don't think anyone on the ground has that not raising the drimple needs saves lives."
Birkley's figures were challenged by the Rev. Richard Taylor Jr., lobbyist for Kansans for Life at Its Best!, the anti-liquor lobby.
He's a professional beer lobbyist," Taylor said. "What do you expect him to say?"
Birkley said that raising the drinking age would mean that 18- to 21-year-olds would continue to drink but in unsupervised water with real risk of an increase in drink-related accidents.
"I don't believe our governor and our Legislature want to trade eight or 10 lives a year just to buy a few more miles of road." (The state's another way to raise the money you need.)
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