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University Daily Kansan / Monday, September 9. 1991
Tiller calls for third-trimester abortion laws
The Associated Press
WICHITA - The physician whose abortion clinic was the main target of anti-abortion protests this summer says he opposes most third-trimester abortions and has asked lawmakers to restrict them.
In an interview published in yesterday's editions of the Wichita Eagle, Dr. George Tiller, the physician, said he has supported banning third-trimester abortions except when his health is in danger or in cases of fetal abnormalities.
"These are the recommendations that I made to (former) Governor Mike Hayden and to state legislators, 'Tiller said. I've made them to the Kansas Medical Society, I've made them to the Sedgwick County Medical Society ... and I was ignored."
Women's Health Care Services, Tiller's clinic, is one of seven clinics in the nation where third-trimester abortions occur.
The clinic was the main target of the national anti-abortion group Operation Rescue in the group's summer protests.
Tiller told the Eagle that he decided to speak out because he was tired of contentions that he will perform elective abortions up to the point of birth.
"I don't do everybody that comes through the door, and we don't do people who don't want an abortion," he said. "We have to do it."
It is not uncommon for Tiller to turn down women seeking elective late-term abortions, he said.
"We have actually had people come, their bag of water break here, and we have had to send them to the hospital for a 36-week delivery," he said.
Anormal pregnancy lasts 40 weeks.
Claims by anti-abortion activists that Tiller does elective abortions in the eighth and ninth months are absolutely untrue, he said.
Instead, late-term abortions are performed on fetuses that are deformed.
Tiller displayed a notebook with color snapshots of aborted fetuses.
"These are the things we do," he said. "Hydrocephalus, spina bifida, fused legs, open spine, lethal chromosome damage."
He turned a page of the notebook. "This is the brain coming out of the back of the head. This is a baby that's allergic to itself. Look at this. There's all water, no brain whatsoever. The skull's just completely collapsed. This is a foot coming off a hip. You tell me that if you had one of these, you wouldn't be devastated." he said
Tiller said that Terry wanted a male-dominated society.
Tiller also ignores criticism from Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry, who has called Tiller a "human hyena" and "Tiller the killer."
"These people are against birth control, and they are against abortion," he said. "If you can deny women birth control ahead of time, and abortion services afterwards, you they have a male-dominated society forever. That is their unspoken conquest and their unspoken holy crusade: to control women's lives for male domination."
Kansan staff writer
By Melissa Rodgers
Singing hymns and carrying signs, about 35 anti-abortion activists protested Saturday at the clinic and home of a Lawrence doctor.
The protest began at 10:15 a.m. in front of the office of Dr.Dale Clinton, 15 E. Seventh Street, said Lt. Dan Attallaf of the police department.
About four hours later, protesters moved to Clinton's home in the block of nashon Drive. Affalter said
After about 30 minutes at Clinton's home, the protesters left. Affalter said.
Clinton could not be reached for comment Sunday. It is not known what kind of practice he has or whether he performs abortions.
During the protests, no arrests were made and no vandalism occurred, Affalter said. However, one group of people hung an Operation Rescue T-shirt on a lamppost near Clinton's house in the morning, he said.
Operation Rescue is a radical anti-abortion group that has spent much of the summer protesting at two Wichita abor-
Affalter said the protesters were fairly orderly. Most of the protestors came from out-of-town, including a busload of Brother Grim's Farm workers.
Paul Friddman, a neighbor of Clinton's, said a parade of about 30 people singing hymns and carrying signs marched in a circle in the cul-de-sac in front of Clinton's house. Leaders of the protest gave a sermon, and the group recited the Lord's prayer, he said.
Arts and crafts featured at festival
Janet Snyder, Topeka, spins wool yarn Saturday at the Arts and Crafts Festival at South Park in Lawrence
By Heather Anderson
Yesterday was not your average day in the park
Kansanstaffwriter
More than 200 exhibitors and food vendors gathered at South Park, 12th and Massachusetts streets, to sell their merchandise during the 12th Annual Fall Arts and Crafts Festival.
Vendors and exhibitors sold crafts, paintings, sourdough bread. Christmas ornaments, door mats made out of old tires, jewelry and quilts to an estimated 8,000 to 12,000 people.
Lisa Embrey, Lawrence senior, was selling pillows, quilts and dolls at the festival. Embrey said she decided to bring her crafts to the show because she had been to the show as a customer for the past few years.
Embrey said that this was the first craft show in which she had sold her goods. She said she was not sure if she would sell the goods.
Javy Prendes, a vendor who came from Lincolne, Neb. sold jewelry and gag toys such as disappearing ink and
Prendes said he enjoyed the Lawrence show because it had a nice family atmosphere.
"What I don't sell might be Christmas presents," she said.
Prendes said this was the first time he had sold items at the Lawrence festival. He travels to different Midwest craft shows to sell his merchandise.
I'll accept it, really. It matters.
"I'm a pretty mellow show." Prendess said. "I don't have
He said he would like to come back to the show if it was financially profitable for him.
Ice said he thought the show had increased in popularity because the vendors had talked about it with their friends.
The festival, which is always held on the second Sunday in September, has grown in the last five years, said Lee Ice, organizer of the event for the Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department.
He said the festival was publicized nationally to attract vendors from across the country. However, about 80 per cent of visitors were local.
The Michael Beers Live Karaoke Sing-Along Show entertained the crowd for an hour in the park. The show gave the audience a chance to sing along with a laser disk machine.
Beers said "karakoe" was a Japanese word meaning silent orchestra. The laser disc only plays the instrumental part of the songs while the words to the song flash on a television screen set up near a microphone.
About 15 people sang their favorite songs during the hour-long show.
Police monitoring traffic to gauge use of seat belts
Hawrywalt said he was nervous singing in front of a large audience. He previously had sung only at school perfor-
One of the people who sang at the festival was 9-year-old Todd Hayworth. He sang "Take Me Out To The Ball Game."
Under Kansas law, all front-seat occupants and children 4 to 14-years old are required to wear a
Survey shows 58% of residents comply with safety law
By Kerrie Gottschalk
Kansan staff writer
"It was pretty easy because the words are written for you," Hayworth said.
Police in Lawrence and at the University of Kansas continue to increase bed-waiting and community contact.
They are doing so by conducting traffic surveys and by providing educational materials about safety.
Miller said Lawrence police were trying to increase the compliance rate by combining
Frank Aust, Med Center police representative, said police at the Med Center recently conducted a survey of how many students and staff were wearing masks as they drove into the Med Center parking lots.
On the day of the survey, 65 percent of the drivers and passengers were wearing seat belts, he
As part of national campaign conducted by the National Traffic Safety Administration, the Med Center is trying to achieve a 70 percent seat belt law compliance rate. Aust said.
In addition to the surveys, the Med Center frequently offers seat belt information programs.
A traffic survey conducted in August found that 58 percent of people surveyed were wearing seat belts, Miller said. Usage is up 12 percent from May
Lawrence police also are trying to achieve a 70-percent compliance rate, said Officer J. W Miller
seat belt. Children under 4 must be strapped into a children's car seat.
police cannot pull someone over simply because they are not wearing a seat belt, but people can be fined $10 if they are pulled over for another offense and are not wearing seat belts.
*Wearing a seat belt does greatly decrease the risk of injury and death,* Miller said.
It does so by keeping occupants in the car, spreading the force of impact across the strong parts of the body, and helping prevent a "human collision." Aust said.
A human collision occurs when occupants not wearing seatbelt hits the interior of the car.
Aust just takes one-tenth of one second for the car to stop, but it an occupant's body stops one-fifth of one second after the car does. "This means in motion and collides with the car," Aust said.
Miller said that several years ago he saw a two-wheeled collision in which neither car was going more than 25 mph. The cars collided, one of them overturned and the driver fell on his head on a curb and died.
In a 5 mph accident in which occupants are not wearing seat belts, occupants will crash with the force of seven times their body weight, Aust said.
The driver probably would have survived if he had worn his seat belt, Miller said.
"It is important to realize that accidents don't occur just on highways," he said. "People can be killed no matter where they are driving. Seat belts are needed for any type of driving."
Something to think about:
- Using your arms to stop yourself in a 30 mph crash is equivalent to using your arms to catch yourself in a fall from a three story building.
- In 1989, 46,900 people died in traffic accidents. This figure is equal to one passenger-jet crash every day of the year.
- For people age 1 to 34, traffic accidents are the leading cause of death.
- elevated blood-pressure readings after they left the machine. It takes one-tenth of a second for a car to stop in a crash, but
- Everyone who tried a crash simulation machine at the University of Kansas Medical Center information had
- It takes one-tenth of a second for a car to stop in a crash, but the driver stops one-fifth of a second after the car does. This means that without a seat belt, the body is in motion when the car stops, causing the body to collide with the car. This is called a human collision.
- Eighty percent of deaths in traffic accidents occur under 40 mph
- Three out of four traffic accidents occur within 25 miles of home.
- Less than one-tenth of 1 percent of all traffic accidents involve being underwater or on fire.
- It is a myth that you are better off not wearing a seat belt in case you be trapped. Without a seat belt, it is likely that you will be unconscious and won't be able to get out. If you have a seat belt on the chances are good that you will remain conscious and will be able to get yourself out of the vehicle.
- Top excuses for not wearing a seat belt in a Med Center survey:
· It would mess up my clothes.
- I was never taught to wear it.
I never taught to wear it.
• I think I would be trapped if the car started on fire.
Sources: Med Center services, National Safety Council, Lawrence police department, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
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