Friday, March 19, 1993
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CANADIE
--day in the 2400 block of West 25th Street, Lawrence police reported. Damage was estimated at $100.
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■ Women's Student Union will meet at 5 p.m. today at Alceva A in the Kansas Union. For more information, call Jennifer Roth at 832-1511.
Triathlon and Swim Club's run practice begins at 10 a.m. Sunday outside Auschutz Sports Pavilion. For more information, call Sean Roland at 865-2731.
KU ENIRONS will sponsor an Meat-Out Day tomorrow. For more information, call Chris at 832-2167.
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ON THE RECORD
--day in the 2400 block of West 25th Street, Lawrence police reported. Damage was estimated at $100.
A student's car stereo and compact discs, valued together at $500, were taken Wednesday or yesterday from a vehicle in the 1300 block of West 24th Street. Lawrence police reported. Damage to the dashboard and a window was estimated at $200.
A student's radar detector, valued at $50, was taken Tuesday or Wednesday from a vehicle in a parking lot near McColm Hall, KU police reported. Damage to a window was estimated at $150.
The passenger window of a student's car was damaged yester-
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Defendant testifies in murder trial
By Mark Klefer
Kansan staff writer
James Ludlow, 24, said during his two hours on the stand that he had no recollection of the events of Nov. 21 and Nov. 22. Douglas County sheriff's officers found Tracy Robbins, 32, dead at his home south of Lawrence at about 1 a.m. on Nov. 22.
A Douglas County man charged with first-degree murder testified yesterday on the last day of testimony in his trial. The 12-member jury will begin consideration of the case this morning.
"I do not remember anything about that night," Ludlow said. "I do not know where I was at."
"I decided on the way there that I was going to get drunk and they might have to take care of me," Ludlow said. Ludlow's girlfriend, Macee Nelson, had gone to Aberdeen, S.D. about one week earlier.
Pool Room, 925 iowa St., with Robbins and Robbins' live-in girlfriend, Valerie Hartley, at 5:45 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 21.
Ludlow said that he went to The
Ludlou said that she had made plans to come back to Lawrence on Monday and that he wanted to "get rid of Sunday."
Nelson testified Wednesday that she did not want to come back to Ludlow.
He said he drank the three shots in 15 seconds and ordered five more, which he drank in less than one minute, and he ordered ten more shots within the hour.
Lladow said that when he arrived at the bar, he ordered three shots of Southern Comfort and a glass of beer.
Ludlow said that the last thing he remembered about the night was picking up the 17th shot. He said the next thing he remembered was a taxi dropping him off at a motel in Aberdeen in the afternoon of Nov. 22.
Donald Goodwin, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Kansas Medical Center, has researched alcohol blackouts, which he defined as alcohol-induced amnesia. Goodwin testified that someone experiencing a blackout was capable of functioning normally.
The amount of alcohol Ludlow
described was more than that used in his research, Goodwin said.
"It's hard to imagine drinking that much." Goodwin said. "If I saw a man drinking that much I would try and stop him because it's like watching a man kill himself."
Ludlow said that he called Nelson when he arrived in Aberdeen. He said that when she asked him about the shooting, he replied, "I don't know what's going on."
Aberdeen police arrested Ludlow in his motel room later that day.
"I cannot recall anything that happened that night," Ludlow said. "I believe that would not be in my nature to do that."
Ludlow described Robbins yesterday as his closest friend.
Changes proposed in abortion regulation
The Associated Press
TOPEKA—A supporter of a bill that would require a 24-hour waiting period before women could have abortions said the provision would give women time to make informed choices.
Sen. Lana Oleen, R-Manhattan, who chairs the committee, said it was possible the committee could work the bill on Friday, but it is not a top priority.
Kent Roth, lobbyist for Kansans for Life, the state's largest anti-abortion group, testified yesterday before the Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee, which completed two days of hearings on a bill making changes to the state's 1992 abortion law.
Roth said if given 24 hours to wait, some women undoubtedly would choose not to have an abortion.
Sen. UL. "Rip" Gooch, D-Wichita,
asked Roth whether women did not
already work for weeks that they
were pregnant and so had plenty of time to think.
Roth said the current eight-hour waiting period, enacted last year as part of a comprehensive abortion regulation law, was not working and that women needed 24 hours to "sleep on" their decisions.
"Hasn't she been sleeping on this for several weeks?" Gooch said.
Susan Wenger, who called herself a victim of abortion, said she never received information about possible side effects and long-term consequences of abortion.
But a woman who had an abortion when she was 15 and a second when she was 24 said she would not have "killed her two children" if she had received more information.
"At the abortuary in Kansas City they were cold and uncaring," she said.
Peggy Jarman, a lobbyist for the ProChoice Action League, said the law that passed last year had specific requirements for counseling women who are under 18 years old.
Jarman, who spoke on behalf of Women's Health Care Services in Wichita, called the bill a travesty.
"It mocks both the efforts of the Legislature last year and the women of this state," she said.
The bill contains numerous flaws including one provision which narrows the definition of medical emergency so that it requires serious risk of impairment of a major bodily function, Jarman said.
"We must put to rest the idea once and for all that Gerber babies are being put to death up until the moment of birth because some woman is having a bad hair day," she said.
The bill's provisions include:
- Redefining the term viable to include the stage of development when the life of the fetus may be continued by artificial life support sys-
Mandating reporting of all abortions, including a statement from the physician about why the abortion was not a crime and whether the spouse was notified
Banning the use of birth control pills, intraruterine devices and Norplant, a surgically implanted birth control device.
George Gardner, a Methodist minister and co-chairperson of Kansas Religious Leaders for Choice testified against the bill. He said he thought it interfered with freedom of religion.
Supporters of the bill say they view it primarily as a right-to-know bill and there is no hidden agenda.
He said behind the bill is "aChristian anti-choice theology disguised in legal language."
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