University Daily Kansan / Friday, March 24, 1989
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Pro-choice forum to spark debate, build awareness of abortion issues
by Kathy Walsh Kansan staff writer
The debate about abortion rights is a Constitutional issue, not a biblical one, according to a panelist who will present the case this fall.
At the forum, scheduled for 7 p.m. in the Big Eight Room at the Kansas Union, a three-member panel of representatives from the Religious Coalition for Abortion Party and the Choice Coalition will answer questions.
Sybil Perkins, member of the Young Socialist Alliance and one of the forum's coordinators, said she hoped the forum would bring to light the fact that abortion rights were being attacked and could be taken away.
"We think it's important to reach out to students, especially women, on this issue," she said.
Sarah Truelove, chairman of the policy council for the Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights, will sit on the panel.
"We're not debating the Bible," she said. "We're debating the Constitution. We are a pluralistic society, and the First Amendment grants us freedom of religious practice.
"To say abortion is illegal is to impose one particul. $ \pi $ religious point of view."
Arlene Rubenstein, member of the Socialist Workers Party and panel member, said abortion was a fundamental issue that affected everyone, not just women. All working people are affected by it, she said.
"We can never hope to close the wage differential if
women can't exercise this right because sex discrimination is used in the workplace to drive down the value of women's waves," she said.
Rubenstein said it was important to know the arguments used by opponents of abortion.
"I think it is very important to prepare ourselves for a fight, she said. "I think it is clear we have a fight on our side."
Erica Fox, director of public affairs for Planned Parenthood of Kansas City, Mo., and a panel representative for the Choice Coalition, said the rights to get both information and services relating to birth control were jeopardized by attempts to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion.
Fox said her organization had estimated that half the reproductive-age population was unaware of what life in the United States was like before abortion became legal. Every community needs coalitions that support reproduction.
Todd Brown, member of the KU Young Socialist Alliance, said he thought that the main purpose of the forum was to educate.
"I want to get a lot of people there who are possibly undecided about the issue or decided but just want to know."
Vicki Miller, member of the Young Socialist Alliance and a coordinator of the forum, said she was looking forward to today's forum.
"We want to generate a discussion on abortion rights and answer people's questions on why we feel abortion rights are essential to women's liberation," she said.
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