University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, February 26, 1992
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Protesters aim ire at wrong doctor
The Associated Press
LEAWOOD, Kan. — An anti-abortion demonstration in front of a doctor's home included shouts of "baby killer" and a picture of an aborted fetus but lacked one thing — the right doctor.
About 15 anti-abortion demonstrators gathered outside the home of Arnold Katz, a rheumatologist who is also with arthritis and similar impairments.
"They obviously have been confusing me with someone else," Katz said. Sunday's demonstration was the second time abortion opponents had picketed at his home.
Katz said he thought he was being confused with another doctor because of the similarity of their names.
The other doctor, an obstetrician-
gynecologist who works at Planned
Parenthood once a week, asked that he
not be identified because of the likelihood
of more protests.
Katz said he was harassed at Planned Parenthood's Kansas City office in November. The protesters threatened at that time to picket at his home, he said.
"The thing is, I don't do abortions," he said. "We've told them so many times, it's unreal."
Still, the protesters showed up at Katz's home in November.
"They asked my wife, 'Did you know that your husband is killing babies?' She told them they were not at the right place," Katz said. "They told her that she just didn't realize what I was doing."
No one was at the Katz home when the protesters arrived Sunday, Leawood police Capt. Ron Anderson said.
When officers arrived about 3:45
p. m., the group was beginning to disperse, Anderson said. No arrests were made
Missionaries to Preborn, a Kansas City anti-abortion group, said that group was responsible for the protest and apologized to Katz.
Office manager Jeanne Solum, referring to the list of doctors who perform abortions in the area, said: "Evidently, whover made up the list got the names mixed up. I'm going to check the list myself. I'm not going out there again not knowing who I'm picketing."
Irish abortion law, hearing prompt protest
The Associated Press
DUBLIN, Ireland — Protesters scuffled with police outside Parliament yesterday while the Supreme Court heard more arguments in the case of a 14-year-old girl barred from leaving Ireland to get an abortion.
Some 300 demonstrators protesting the order struggled with police while trying to remove barriers outside the Parliament buildings.
Five Supreme Court judges heard a second day of arguments, and another session is scheduled for today. The closed hearing had been expected to last two days, with a judgment expected by the end of the week. It was not known if the extra day of arguments
would delay the ruling.
The attorneys have not laid out their arguments publicly, but are likely to focus on whether Ireland can forbid its citizens from going to another country in order to do something that is legal in that country but illegal in their own.
Ireland, a member of the 12-nation European Community, has signed treaties that guarantee freedom of travel.
The girl says she was raped by the father of a friend. Her family is appealing to the High Court that upheld an order by the attorney general, who barred the defendants from taking her to Britain for a legal abortion.
Ireland has the most restrictive abortion law in
Europe, permitting only a "morning-after pill" that terminates pregnancies in the first 72 hours. Some 4,000 Irish women had abortions in Britain in 1990.
The Constitution was amended in a 1983 referendum to affirm the right to life of the fetus, "and as far as practicable by its laws to defend and vindicate that right."
Opposition parties have called for a new referendum. Prime Minister Albert Reynolds sale Monday night.
The government is paying the family's legal costs in the appeal because it wanted the matter to go to the Supreme Court as a test case, Irish media reports said.
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