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Women find way to beat heat taking part in powder
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Lincoln family has July 4 celebration at Holmes Lake.
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Fireworks display at Holmes Park.
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Crowd watches as hot air balloon is filled west of Holmes Lake, Tuesday.
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Winners of beard growing contest during Cortland
centennial, Sunday. From left: Randy Huls, overall
best; Virgil Remmer, fullest; Harvey Zimmerman,
tried hardest, failed the worst.
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Photo by F.C. Palm
Pro-life mourns failure of anti-abortion legislation
BY JOANNE YOUNG
A recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling and
the failure to get the U.S. Senate to pass any
anti-abortion legislation have caused disap
pointment among campus and community
pro-life supporters.
Jean Foral, the president of the Univer
sity of Nebraska-Lincoln Students for Life,
said some pro-life backers may be losing in
terest in the cause because there have been
no large victories, only small ones.
"But there are still people fighting to pro
tect human rights," the junior nursing stu
dent said.
Students for Life had about 20 members
during the 1982-83 school year, she said, but
weren't "very active." She said she sees the
organization as an information group, be
cause "education of the public is the key
right now" on the abortion issue.
Shelia Cahill, past president of the group,
said she thought the recently defeated con
stitutional amendment had a good chance of
passing in the Senate.
The amendment said: "A right to abor
tion is not secured by this constitution." The
amendment needed a. two-thirds majority in
the Senate to become law, but failed 50-49.
The junior pre-law and business adminis
tration major said she will continue to sup
port a constitutional amendment banning
abortion. .
Ms. Cahill said she doesn't think pro-life
groups are on the decline as Sen. Bob Pack
wood, R-Ore., leader of the opposition, has
claimed.
"The movement has had a couple of
rough spots, unity problems," she said, "but
all that has been taken care of."
Pro-life people weren't sure which type
of amendment to support, and some were
frustrated by a lack of progress by the
movement, Ms. Cahill said. As many as 50
votes have been taken on abortion amend
ments in the Senate, most of those attached
to unrelated bills.
The Supreme Court recently declared
state and local limits on abortion unconstitu
tional, regulations such as a 24-hour waiting
period between the time a woman signs an
abortion consent form and the time the
abortion is performed. Also declared void is
a regulation requiring hospital abortions for
.women more than three months pregnant
rather than in abortion clinics.
Dorothy Brady, public relations director
for Lincoln's Right to Life, declared the 24
hour waiting period ruling a tragedy. She
said some women don't even know they're
pregnant when they walk into the clinic, and
need time to think about alternatives.
The Lincoln group did not support or op
pose the proposed amendment, Ms. Brady
said. Calling it a "nothing amendment," she
said the amendment failed because the
grassroots pro-life movement was not be
hind it.
She said pro-life people were not united
on the amendment.
"We are completely united on every
other issue in the movement," she said. "We
believe in the absolute right to life for the
unborn baby, unless the mother's life is in
danger, which is extremely rare."
Jan Kauffman,the coordinator for the
Nebraska Religious Coaltion for Abortion
Rights, said she believes pro-choice forces
are growing, and somewhat off-setting the
pro-life movement.
Ms. Kauffman said she was pleased with
the Supreme Court ruling because most
regulations were aimed at "harassing the
women and their physicians."
UN-L has a pro-choice group called Stu
dents for Reproductive Freedom, but the
group has been relatively Lnactive during
the past year, according Jan Deeds, past-president.
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