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Friday, April 7, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
Groups plan rallies for legal abortion Students to march in nation's capital Legalized abortion an issue again
by Cynthia L. Smith Kansan staff writer
KU students will march in support of legalized abortion Sunday in Washington, D.C., as part of the national March for Women's Equality. Women's Lives.
Elizabeth Applebaum, president of KC Urban National Organization of Women, said the demonstration could affect the Supreme Court's decision in Webster vs. Reproductive Health Services, Inc., a Missouri case that is before the court.
Justices could decide to overturn Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 court decision that legalized abortion. Then state legislators could set guidelines governing abortions.
"We know that the court pays attention to public opinion, and we will have many hundreds of thousands of women." Applepie says. "We hope the court will sit up and take notice."
The march, sponsored by the National Organization of Women, is one of many prochice demonstrations nationwide. Protests in Tonga and Kagawa City, Mo.
Kathy Spillar, a NOW spokesman, said more than 125,000 women were expected to participate in the Washington, D.C., march. The number would include students from more than 400 colleges and universities nationwide.
Ann Bannister, Leavenworth junior, said about 12 KU students planned to ride to Washington, D.C. in one of the 17 bases. About 75 people will ride in each bus.
They will participate in a rally scheduled for 11 a.m. Saturday at the University of Missouri in St. Louis before continuing to Washington, D.C.
Bannister said she decided to participate in the demonstration and encouraged friends to join.
"We decided we were sitting around doing
by Max Evans Kansan staff writer
The recent upsurge of abortion controversy focuses on two court cases: The Supreme Court's 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision that legalized abortions and a case now before the Supreme Court, Webster vs. Reproductive Health Services.
The landmark Roe vs. Wade decision stated that a woman's right to privacy extended to terminating a pregnancy. That decision could be challenged when the high court decides the Webster case this summer.
Diana Traub, spokesman for the American Civil Liberties Union in New York, said the Webster case concerned a Missouri anti-abortion statute that prohibited public funding or public employees from encouraging, performing or in any way supporting abortion, said any institution that did not comply with the ruling would lose state funding.
Parts of the statute were struck down in
lower courts as unconstitutional on privacy and First Amendment grounds. However, other parts of the statute, which forbid public hospitals from performing abortions in the late second or third trimester are to be decided by the Supreme Court.
The court also will rule on a statement that the life of a human being begins at conception, which the state of Missouri attached as a preamble to the statute.
The court could act on the Webster case without altering Roe vs. Wade, but the Justice Department filed a brief in February urging the court to overturn the Roe vs. Wade decision and leave the question to state legislators.
Traub she thinks this attitude in the environment is one of blanket approval for brewery workers.
"The United States is saying, 'Why don't you overturn Roe vs. Wade.'" Traub said.
Trab said that restricting state funding of abortion, limiting abortion information
and disallowing abortions at public hospitals meant that abortions would be available only to those who could afford an expensive stay at a private hospital.
Pat Goodson, legislative research consultant for Right to Life in Kansas, said even though she hoped that Justices would be able to see why the government would not see a reversal as substantive.
"At this time I don't think they will say that the unborn child has a right to life, which is what we would like to see happen." Goodson said.
Experts predict that Kansas, which legalized abortion in 1969, four years before the Roe vs. Wade decision, is less likely to be arrested by a reversal than many other states.
Fifteen states have anti-abortion laws, although legal experts say it is not clear whether they could take effect if Roe vs. Wade were reversed.
The Associated Press contributed information to this story.
nothing, waiting for someone to take these rights away," she said. "It seemed like a wonderful idea to try to do something tangible.
Carla Dugger, assistant director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas & Western Missouri, will participate in the Washington, D.C. march.
"The pro-choice people don't believe we should go back to the days when abortions took place in back alley and the laws were different in every state," she said.
Dugger said many pro-choice demonstrators marched would stay to lobby their state legislature.
Spillar said the march would provide NOW with an opportunity to recruit supporters of legalized abortion to maintain its legality and elect more feminists to public office.
"These women will become a political
army," she said.
The pro-choice demonstration in Kansas City, Mo., will begin at 2 p.m. at the J.C. Fountain, 47th Street and Nichols Park and the ACLU of Kansas & Western Missouri.
Capt. John Meddle, a spokesman for the Kansas City Police Department in Missouri, said he expected 1,000 to 1,500 pro-choice activists to contact problems from anti-abortion activists.
Pro-choice demonstrators also will assemble at 12:30 a.m. at the Judicial Center in Topeka. They then will march across the street to the Capitol.
The march in Topeka was organized to support legalized abortion and the Equal Rights Amendment, said Connie Gridley, coordinator for Capital City NOW.
"Half of the people who are marching for
what they think is choice are marching to let abortion clinics continue operating without informed consent of the women," said Rachel MacNair, National President of Feminists for Life of America. "Women still die of abortions."
Applebaum said it was ironic that anti-b abortion activists expressed concern about fetuses but were unwilling to help with the real responsibilities related to parenthood.
Leslie Keech, public relations director for Kansas for Life, disagreed. She will join anti-abortion activists for an open house from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday and a diaper drive sponsored by Women Exploited by Abortions at 5323 Troom Ave. in Kansas City, Mo. The diapers will be distributed to 14 area community service organizations.
Bush qualifies his support for Arab elections
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Bush gave qualified support yesterday to Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's idea for elections among Palestinian Arabs on the West Bank and Gaza. The president emphasized that eventually must give up the occupied lands.
Bush said he told Shamir the U.S. administration did not support an independent Palestinian state, nor Israeli sovereignty over or permanent occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, which Israel won in the 1967 Six-Day War.
By mentioning Israeli "sovereignty," Bush went a step beyond his statement Monday that Israel must end the "occupation" of the seized territory.
Bush, standing beside Shamir and reporting on their talks, said he was confident an "acceptable formula" could be produced for holding elections in the West Bank and Gaza.
Shamir's election proposal is the centerpiece of his government's effort to resolve the conflict in the West Bank and Gaza, torn by more than 15 months of Palestinian revolt.
The election would determine the makeup of a Palestinian delegation to negotiate with Israel for an interim period of self-governing administration, Shamir said. That would be followed by negotiations for a permanent agreement, he said.
Later, at a news conference, Shamir ruled out international supervision of the balloting.
The Prime Minister said Israelis and Palestinians would oversee the elections. He indicated that he was also confident Palestinians would support the proposal.
But Shamir said he did not expect support for the idea from the PLO because "they want the immediate establishment of a Palestinian state."
Shamir's proposal is regarded as a potential opening rather than any breakthrough in the current field.
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