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Tuesday, February 16, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Fruit of the loom
Heather Salerino, Miami sophomore, works on a tapstery sample for her weave structures class. The students are working on small projects now but will do larger ones later in the semester.
Youth abortion bill draws foes
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — Anti-abortion spokesmen urged a legislative committee yesterday to endorse a bill requiring consent of one parent or a judge before girls under 18 could get abortions in Kansas.
Opponents said the measure was misguided and caused a similar law in Canada.
Those supporting the bill said they were baffled that anyone would oppose it, but foes said it would only create another hurdle for girls from poor family situations to get a legal abortion. Judges overwhelmingly would approve consent, they said.
The debate before the House Federal and State Affairs Committee was over a bill the House passed last session, but the Senate amended to permit judges to give the consent. The House rejected the Senate amendment, and the measure back to the House committee where it rested until this session.
Bill Gillifan of Topeka, vice president of Kansans for Life, called the bill a genius of parental involvement which struck a good balance between a young woman's right to have an abortion and her parents' right to know about it.
"Only the most radical of pro-life and feminist groups will tell you that those rights should not be balanced
this way," Gilfillan said.
However, Belva Otch, a former state representative from Wichita who appeared for Planned Parenthood of Kansas, cited the experience of the Minnesota law and the conclusion of a federal judge that such a law is of no benefit to anyone. She said that girls from poor family situations still would not tell their parents and that judges in Minnesota granted about 99 percent of the applications for consent.
"It is not conducive to building good family relations and it just adds pressure to the young girl," she said. "The bottom line is the law would substitute the state's judgment to that of the young woman whose life is involved."
Dr. George Tiller, a Wichita family physician since 1970, said the issue wasn't just communication between parents and children in stable families.
He cited examples of girls who had come to his clinic in which twisted family relationships made it impossible for the girls to tell anyone in the family about a pregnancy.
"Girls are beaten and kicked out of the house for telling alcoholic parents about their pregnancies," Tiller said. "This is played out again and again and again in our sick families."
Solbach says tort bill would deny rights
Bv lill less
Kansan staff writer
a tort-reform bill in the Kansas House of Representatives Judiciary Committee is not institutional, but some version of it probably will pass, a committee member said this weekend.
The bill would allow collateral source benefits, including medical insurance, workers' compensation and welfare program benefits, to be admissible as evidence in tort cases.
A tort case involves wrongdoing over which a civil lawsuit can be brought, excluding breach of contract cases. Many tort cases involve personal injuries.
Under the bill, if collateral source information is admitted as evidence, the court may then decide to apply the amount of the benefit to any
monetary judgment a plaintiff could be granted.
For example, if a plaintiff were awarded a $1 million judgment in a tort case and had $100,000 in medical insurance coverage, the plaintiff could receive only $900,000 from the defendant after the collateral source benefits had been deducted from the total judgment.
However, State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, a member of the judiciary committee, said that the collateral source bill would deny Kansans of some of their rights.
"Any collateral-source-rule change is going to reduce the rights of Kansas citizens against someone out there who might injure them," Solbach said.
After lawyer's fees and collateral source benefits had been deducted
from a plaintiff's award, the plaintiff would come up short on actual needs, Solbach said.
A Kansas law concerning collateral sources that was declared unconstitutional by a district appeals court is under appeal to the Kansas Supreme Court. That law was limited to malpractice suits against doctors. The current bill for collateral sources includes any party that might be sued in a tort case.
Don Hatton, president of the Kansas Medical Society, said that the medical society had sponsored tort reform because of high malpractice insurance premiums. He said that under tort reform, malpractice cases would not be as frequent.
But Solbach said that the high premiums were not caused by the lack of tort reform. He said that the
Health Care Stabilization Fund, a state-run organization that offers insurance to doctors, was charging doctors more for insurance to make up for a four-year period in which charges were very little.
Now the fund must be replenished, so charges to the fund are higher, Solbach said.
Sobhan also said that although insurance was high for the healthcare industry, it consumed less than 2 percent of the industry's $4.3 billion projected intake for 1988.
However, some form of the bill probably will pass because of the strong lobbying efforts from the medical society, he said.
"My prediction is the collateral source bill will be pushed very hard and very well may pass in some form," Solbach said.
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