Harriet Pilpel
'Freedom to birth control will check population'
"Give people a chance to ed to control population,
have access to contraception, New York attorney Harriet
abortion and sterilization" and Fleischl Pilpel's speech, "Sex
coercive laws will not be need- versus the law" given Thurs-
Pilpel . . . "freedom of choice, not coercion." is
needed in family planning.
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day in the union, outlined the
progress of legislation dealing
with birth control, sterilization
and abortion. She stated her
position as favoring "volun
tarism" in family planning and
sex relations.
"Freedom of choice" is
needed, according to Pilpel.
"not coercion."
Pilpel said most state's laws
concerning sex are Invasions of
privacy which prohibit almost
everything but "face to face"
relations. As an example she
mentioned New York statues
which, until recently, put oral
sex in the same category as
relations with dead birds.
Illinois approved a new con
cept that considers behavior
between consenting adults in
private to be nobody's business
but that of the consenting
adults. Pilpel hopes this will be
the trend and will include such
areas as a movie audience
being allowed to watch
anything it wishes. She added
that homosexual relations
should also be legal.
In response to a question
about Terry Carpenter's pro
mise to introduce legislation
outlawing studies of homosex
uality Pilpel said such a law
would probably be unconstitu
tional. However, she continued,
s o m e qualifications or
method" could be imposed,
such as to the dignity of the
course.
She said laws prohibiting
birth control were originally
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written because of the dangers
of the operation. Medical
science was crude and many
women died during abortions.
New, Pilpel explained, abo
rtion is safer than childbirth
and no more, risky than a
tonsillectomy, but the laws re
main. Progress during the last
three years, starting in Col
orado, has greatly improved
the situation but Pilpel noted
that changing the laws does not
necessarily cause immediate
reform. In states with
liberalized abortion laws, like
Colorado and New York, doc
tors and nurses are often
reluctant to provide abortions
on religious or other grounds.
She related reports that the
rich can find abortion service
In Colorado fairly easily but the
poor still have difficulty. One
account she had heard thai
made her "blood chill" was
that of a Colorado hospital that
gave abortions but put the pa
tients in a room opposite the
nursery where they had to
watch proud parents and new
born babies. Another had plac
ed its abortion clients next to a
cancer ward.
Pilpel reasoned that set
backs in abortion and voluntary
sterilization were to be ex
pected after a change in the
laws just as passing civil rights
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FATS
DAY
November 19-20
8 p.m. Harvest Room 75c
Student Union
Sometimes billed as one mind, two voices and 21 fingers. Fats
Johnson and Dave Mcintosh make up tbe duo of Fats and Dave.
Dave was formerly member of The 6reenwood County Sinners
and his clever wit also won him a writing stint an The Smetkers
Brother Skew, lotk were formerly together In tke Kirby Stone
Four. Fats has been witb The Back Forck Majority and lead singer
for The New Christy Minstrels. Both exceptional individual per
formers, tke.twe combine tbeir music and comedy for a truly out
standing college concert attraction.
Come listen. Thursday and Friday nights.
Union Coffee House Concerts Committee.
Listen to
Ardlem JFcnufliiefl
folk roek all week
also
Granny's Triickstop
upstairs
and
Hill Peterson
in tlir rathskcllnr
I HU)AY AM) SATURDAY MCIIT
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1970
THE NEBRASKAN
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