University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, September 18, 1990
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Stephan wants abortion limits
Officials say opinion would have little effect at Med Center
By David Roach Kansan staff writer
An opinion on abortion issued Wednesday by Kansas Attorney General Bob Stephan should have a limited effect on the University of Central Center, said Kary Clawson, executive vice chancellor of the Med Center.
Stephan's opinion states that cities can pass parental notification ordinations and ban third-trimester abortions.
Clawson questioned whether local governments would have jurisdiction over state institutions.
He said the Med Center rarely did third-trimester abortions and only under extreme circumstances.
However, Clawson said that a ban on third-trimester abortions could affect adversely educational and health programs.
He said women would hesitate to go to the Med Center for care if they thought they could not get an abortion. But he also said there are problems with their pregnancy.
"We would lose a lot of what would be normal deliveries," he said.
Stephan's opinion could shift the abortion debate from the capitol to city council chambers across Kansas.
Clawson said a failure by the
Legislature to pass abortion legislation could result in a patchwork of abortion laws across Kansas.
An attorney general's opinion is not binding but has greater weight than other legal opinions because it comes from the state's top attorney.
"Limited and reasonable regulation of abortion may be possible on the local level as long as it does not conflict with state or federal law or decisions of the Supreme Court," Stephan said.
Cities would not be able to prohibit abortions in the first two trimmesters because it would conflict with the ordinance of 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision, he said.
Sandi Wayland, director of Students for Life, said she approved of the opinion.
"We would be in support of any thing that would slow down abortion," she said.
She said her group was hoping that the next Legislature would pass abortion legislation and that Joan Finney would be in the governor's office to represent them.
Finney, the Democratic candidate for governor, has taken a strong anti-abortion stance in her campaign.
"We definitely need to start working on new abortion legislation, anti-
abortion hopefully," Wayland said.
She said Students for Life also would be interested in pressing the Lawrence City Commission for abortion ordinations.
"Our philosophy is to cut down abortion bit by bit, until it's gone, and if we need to do that at the city level, that's what we'll do," she said.
Jean Carter, president of the KU Pro-Choice Coalition, said the opinion would not be advantageous to anti-abortion activists.
"I don't think it will put an end to the situation." she said.
Carter said the coalition was opposed to parental notification legislation of any type.
The people that would feel the consequence of a parental notification bill most directly would be under voting age, Carter said.
"The women who would be affected by this don't really have any voice at all," she said.
Carter said the Legislature rejected a parental notification bill last session
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