10 University Daily Kansan / Monday, February 24, 1992 Pro-choice forces battle Ireland's abortion ban The Associated Press DUBLIN, Ireland — A 14-year-old girl's fight to have an abortion abroad has become a battle between the largely Roman Catholic island's traditions and the wider, free horizons of Europe. The girl's case, which will be heard by the Supreme Court today, has revived calls for a new constitutional referendum on abortion. It also has many people soul-searching in this staunchly religious country. "It itime we had a rethink on Irish society," said Rita Burtenshaw, director of Dublin's Well Women Clinic, which cannot provide information or counseling about abortion under Irish laws banning the procedure. For Dublin liberals, who see themselves as citizens of Europe, the "rethink" would encompass abortion, divorce, contraception, sex education and the acceptance of a Northern Ireland ruled by Britain, where Irish women usually go for abortions. But in the western and rural hinterlands, social change already may be coming too quickly for the people and their church. About 90 percent of Irish are Catholic, and the country is arguably the most religious in Europe. The case of the unidentified 14-year-old girl could hardly be more dramatic. The girl says she was raped by the father of a friend, after two years of sexual abuse. Since Ireland has the most restrictive abortion law in Europe - permitting only a "morning-after" pill that terminates pregnancies in the first 72 hours - her family sought an abortion in Britain. About 4,000 women travel to Britain for abortions every year. Before leaving for Britain, the teenager's family contacted police to ask whether they should preserve fetal tissue for possible prosecution of the alleged rapist. Police passed the information on to legal authorities. While in Britain, a family member called home and was advised by the girl's brother that Attorney General Harry Whelehan had issued an injunction banning the abortion. His decision was affirmed this week by the High Court. "I do not believe that the people of this country want, or deserve, a situation of nods and winks in the application of the time Minister Albert Reynolds has said. Even if the Supreme Court decides next week on the family's appeal, the larger dispute may continue. Opposition politicians called for a new referendum on abortion. The procedure was banned under the constitution in a bitterly fought referendum in 1982. On Saturday, rock star Sinead O'Connor led 5,000 people on a march through the streets of Dublin to protest the government's order. *If we made the law then we can change the law," she said. Conversation about the teenager's case fills Dublin's taxis, coffee houses and pubs, and has been the only topic for a week on radio and television talk shows. The country's santi-abortion lobby has not been silent about the 14-year-old's case. Dr. Mary Lucey, president of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children and a leading force in banning abortion information, said the teenager should put her baby up for adoption if she doesn't want it. The Rev. Brian McKevitt, a Dominican priest in Cork, told the BBC that an abortion would only add to the violent abuse that has already been done to the woman. Christine McFarland/KANSAN Joker's wild AnnFolley, dressed in a joker costume, dances to Sambamusic with Javier Ortiz looking over her shoulder Saturday night at the 14th-annual Carnival at Liberty Hall. Migrant farm workers face health risks The Associated Press WASHINGTON - The country's migrant farm workers have no guaranteed minimum wage, work in fields sprayed with pesticides and may lack access to drinking water, toilet and hand-washing facilities on the job, congressional investigators say. As a result, the country's hired farm workers and their children may face serious health hazards, said the report by the General Accounting Office, the GAO's first look at the plight of migrant workers nationwide since 1973. Rep. Edward Roybal, chairman of the House Select Committee on Aging, said the report showed that the country's migrant and seasonal farm workers lacked basic federal and legal protections guaranteed to other workers. "The GAO report documents a number of alarming conditions affecting the daily lives of the nation's migrant and seasonal farm workers," said Roybal, D-Calif., who was scheduled to release the report yesterday. "It is unconscionable that we allow second-class conditions to exist for such an important sector of our population." 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