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personnel cannot be dismissed or harassed for refusing to take part.
He said no abortions were performed without medical reason at the Med Center after the 22nd week of pregnancy.
Those reasons were defined as severe risk to the mother because of disease, incest, rape or significant evidence that the fetus has a genetic defect, infectious disease or significantly developmental problem, Pernoll said.
Marlin Rein, associate director of business affairs for the Med Center, said a typical inpatient abortion cost between $800 and $1,000 a day.
He said that tests were performed to determine gestational age and that third trimester abortions were peri-operative an inpatient basis under supervision.
In 1989, nine inpatient abortions and 114 same-day admission abortions were performed at the Med Center, Pernoll said. That is a 6 percent decrease from 1988. He said seven inpatient abortions, and 125 same-day abortions were performed in 1988.
"Since coming to KUMC, it has been my personal policy to review each of the inpatient abortions so that I could assure myself of the nature of our practice and how our policy was implemented," he said.
Pernoll said if the proposal were enacted it would conflict with current statutes requiring patients to be informed of all medical options.
"To provide a woman with information about all of the medical options available to her is not bias; it is good medical practice and a legal requirement of the doctrine of informed consent," Pernoll said. "Thus, each public health care provider for women would be unable to meet the community standard for care."
Prohibiting abortions would damage the quality of education and care at the Med Center, he said, and obstetric care would be reduced by 50 percent because high-risk patients would so to other hospitals.
Pernoll said 1,053 high-risk patients would go elsewhere, causing a loss of $4.23 million. He said the bill could cause high-risk obstetrics to be
eliminated.
"A major grant currently in preparation to bring non-state funding to make KUMC one of the very best centers in the country for maternal, fetal, and neonatal care would be abandoned," he said.
Anti-abortion groups called the Med Center a training center for the
"We can understand the significance of this role when we understand that there is becoming a nationwide scarcity of doctors willing to be involved in this grisly business," said Pat Goodson, representing Right to Life of Kansas Inc.
"This bill would restore to Kansas taxpayers the right of choice, the right to choose not to be involved in abortion," she said. "It would take the state of Kansas out of the abortion business."
Gordon Risk, regional representative of the American Civil Liberties Union, opposed the bill.
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regulations would help.
"It's our theory that if it will err, it should err on the side of caution," Rowland said.
Last month, Slattery co-sponsored a bill that would elevate the EPA to a cabinet-level department. The bill would rename the EPA the Department of Environmental Protection,
create an Office of International Environmental Affairs and authorize the president to appoint a commission on Environmental Administration.
"I strongly believe that if we're going to be competitive in a global economy in the years ahead, we're going to have to do a better job of educating our children in this country and training our workers," Slattery said. "This problem cannot be solved by money only, but it will not be solved without some additional resources.
Concerning another matter, Slattery said Bush's proposed 2.7 percent increase for education was inadequate.
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