Feminist lawyer favors
no reproduction laws
by H. J. Cummins
A Columbia Law School
graduate speaking at the
ASUN Time-Out Conference
said she represented in court a
woman who suffered a
spontaneous abortion but was
refused care by her long-time
doctor because he said he was
afraid others would think he'd
given her a therapeutic
abortion.
This concept of a wwoman's
physical rights was discussed
by Diane Schulder as she
covered the gamut of women's
legal rights in her Thursday
afternoon talk entitled
Abortion: Women's Liberation
and the Law.
SCHULDER SAID she sees
the national priorities in
women's legal rights as being
repeal of all "reproductive"
laws (prohibiting abortions and
contraceptives); passage of the
Equal Rights Amendment,
unamended; awarding tax
deductions to women who
must hire babysitters when
they work; and continuing
the fight against job
discrimination.
She said on the campus
level, specifically the Law
College, she would like to see
more women students,
recruitment of women
professors and the introduction
of a course "Women in the
Law." She spoke at UNL's Law
College later in the day.
Outlining what she sees as
the legal situation for women,
Schulder said "equal pay for
equal work" does not exist,
partially due to the so-called
"protective laws" which
actually work against women
in many cases.
SHE SAID MARRIAGE
now "prohibits women from
having an identity and we just
can't put up with it."
"The marriage and divorce
laws require a total overhaul
and re-analysis," Schulder said,
feeling" 'til death do us part'
may just not apply any more."
And of course "all types of
reproductive laws should be
wiped off the books," she said.
IN ONE OF the most
heated question and answer
periods of the conference,
Schulder said she "questions
the sincerity of people who
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talk about the 'sanctity of
life'" in opposition to legalized
abortions.
She asked if they're so
concerned about the fetus,
why suddenly, when the infant
is born, do they stop their
concern and send young men
to war to kill women and
children and possibly be killed
themselves?
Sarrel: counseling program
helps Yale students
The founders of a Yale
University Sex Counseling
Program said Thursday
"honesty really does pay off
as proved by records at their
college, which show 18 times
fewer pregnancies on their
campus than other college
campuses without such a
service.
Phillip and Lorna Sarrel
said in an address during the
ASUN Time-Out Conference
they try to provide "medical
services plus someone to talk
to " for Yale students.
Sarrel, a gynecologist, said
that in the first year of the
program 600 of the 800
women students came to their
clinic, all voluntarily.
He said everything is done
in the strictest confidence and
pointed to contraception as the
main issue they deal with.
Mrs. Sarrel a social worker,
said they've discovered that
there's very few "routine"
requests for contraceptives so
they approach students
basically in two steps: first,
"we must learn to know the
couple," and secondly, "they
must know each other."
The first is important, she
said, because a person's
sexuality "cannot be separated
from everything else he or she
does."
Sarrel said he sees their role
also as providing information
so students can put their own
sexuality "into perspective. He
said students often feel
something is sexually wrong
with them when there really is
not.
The couple have done
studies on college campuses
across the nation to provide
the kind of information
students need to compare
themselves with others their
age, Mrs. Sarrel said.
Contraceptives, abortions,
and counseling services are
made available through the
clinic, although any kind of
medical treatment is
administered only after
extensive examinations and
with the understanding the
student is obliged to return for
follow-up check-ups.
Time-Out faces third challenge
Lancaster County
Commissioners will consider a
petition seeking a halt to the
Time-Out Conference at their
Tuesday meeting despite the
fact that the conference will
have concluded four days prior
to their meeting.
The petition, filed
Wednesday afternoon under
provisions of the states's
so-called "rock festival" law (LB
63 of the I 7 1 Legislature),
asks the commissioners to seek
an injunction halting the
conference.
Seventy five county
residents, signers of the
petition, "protest the proposed
public exhibition and gathering
commonly described as the
Time-Out Conference on
Sexuality."
They contend the
conference will "adversely
affect the public health and
welfare of those in
attendance," in violation of the
new law.
Specifically the petition
noted that "minor children"
wouid he present al the
conference which is scheduled
"to be (for) the promulgation,
explanation and advocacy
of unnatural relationships and
acts between two members of
the same sex."
The hearing is scheduled for
10 a.m. Tuesday at the
commissioners regular meeting
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Under provisions of the law,
the commissioners will
determine whether a public
hearing should be held.
Following a hearing they can
then seek an injunction in
Lancaster District Court
halting the completed
conference.
District Court Judge
Herbert A. Ronin ruled
Tuesday against a restraining
order sought by two UL
students. Ronin said the
question of First Amendment
freedom of speech liberties was
directly in question.
This is just the second
attempt to use the new law.
UNL student Bev Fddy
attempted to halt the Nebraska
State Fair this past summer.
Her petition request was
turned down by the
Commissioners.
The County Clerk's office
reported the petition was
delivered by an unidentified
"young man."
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Schulder pointed to a recent
survey in Nebraska that said 60
per cent of the women in
Nebraska want the state's
anti-abortion law abolished.
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