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University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, March 31, 1992
Democrats call clinic guidelines confusing
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The official who wrote the guidelines for what can and can't be said about abortion in federally supported family planning clinics spent hours yesterday trying to explain. The members of Congress weren't satisfied.
“It’s deceitive, it’s a hoax and you’re not playing straight with the women of this country,” said Rep. Ron Wyden, D-Ore.
Dr. William R. Archer III, a deputy assistant health secretary, was peppered with sometimes hostile questions by Democrats who wanted to pin him down on whether people who work in family planning clinics that receive federal money can counsel women on abortion.
At issue was a regulation — dubbed a "gag rule" by opponents — that restricts what people in the clinics can say.
On March 20, the Department of Health and Human Services sent out guidelines that
were supposed to explain how the rules were to be applied. The guidance can be confusing.
In one paragraph, for example, it says a pregnant woman at one of these clinics can be sent elsewhere for medical care that may result in "the termination of her pregnancy." But in the next sentence, it says: "This referral seeks to provide a pregnant woman with the best medical management of her pregnancy and to ensure both her health and the health of her unborn child."
Archer said the administration was not trying to restrict what a doctor could tell a patient, leaving that up to the physician's medical judgment. But whatever was said, it had to be done in person and it had to be done by a doctor.
Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., said that part in the rule alone is enough to choke off discussion of abortion in many of the clinics.
"In most family planning clinics there aren't doctors there, and you know there aren't doctors there," said Waxman, chairman of the Energy and Commerce subcommittee on health that was holding a hearing on the matter.
The administration is trying to walk a fine line between its often stated opposition to abortion and the political storm from groups that see the counseling regulation as censorship and a restriction of a woman's constitutional rights.
"What I hear coming from the administration is, 'Some of my friends are for abortion, and some of my friends are against abortion, and I am with my friends,'" said Rep. Gerry Studds, D-Mass.
After a while of listening to the questioning, Studds said, "It sounds like a medieval scholastic debate. I wish somebody here could answer yes or no to something. I'll be damned if I can figure out what your position is."
Archer replied, "We may be closer together than you realize."
Studds said, "That's really frightening."
Winners announced in book contest
The winners of the 36th annual University of Kansas Snyder Book Collecting Contest were announced yesterday.
Kansan staff report
Elizabeth Snyder of Mission Hills presented a check for $10,000 yesterday to Chancellor Gene Budig to provide money for the next several years' prize money.
Snyder, who is an associate member of the University of Kansas Alumni Association, sponsors the contest with KU libraries and the Mount Oread Book Shop.
"There is no way to calculate the influence she has had on the hundreds of KU students over the years, but each student has an enhanced appreciation for books and book collecting," Budig said about Snyder's contribution to the contest.
The winners of the contest were announced at the Malott Room in the Kansas Union in front of previous winners and other book collectors.
First place winner in the Graduate Division was Boog Highberger for his collection,
"Books from the Anarchist and Marginal Small Press." Second place went to George Hecht for his collection "Books on Geology."
First place winner in the undergraduate division was Bruce Rawitch for his collection "Medieval and Renaissance Music." Second place went to Janet Lorita Hope for "Star Trick Collection."
First-place winners received $200 each and
and second-place winners received $100 each.
The entrants submitted bibliographies of 25 to 50 titles from their collections with a statement of how and why their collection was started.
Five judges rated the collections on the organization and theme of the collection rather than monetary value, age or condition of the collection, said Bill Crowe, dean of KU libraries.
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