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Daily Ncbraskan
Monday, September 10, 1 934
Woman speaks against abortion
By Suzanne Tctcn
Dally NebrtsUn Stiff Writer
Nancy Berger was 27, married
and the mother of two. When she
became pregnant again, she and
her husband decided they could
not afford another child at that
time. After discussing the situa
tion, the couple decided to abort
the baby.
When Berger went to a Califor
nia hospital for the abortion, she
said the counseling she received
"consisted of how much ny hus
band made and how far 1 long (in
the pregnancy) I was." fhe doc
tor explained tlv abortion pro
cedure, she said, saying it was "all
quick, all safe, all easy."
"It wa'. none of those," Nancy
told a meeting of the Lincoln
Right To Life last week, 10 years
after her abortion.
Berger said she had a suction
abortion, during which doctors
use a vacuum 24 times stronger
than a household vacuum cleaner
to remove the baby. She said she
would not have had the abortion
if she had been completely in
formed about what was going to
happen.
During a suction abortion, that
force is so strong that the baby
literally is pulled apart. After
ward, she said, a nurse must put
the pieces back together to make
sure that everything was re
moved. Berger said she left the hospi
tal feeling "relieved, but empty." "
"After an abortion, the baby's
life is over," she said, "but, for the
mother, it is just the beginning.
"I couldn't cope with life be
cause I hurt so bad," Berger said.
Berger said her life "totally slid."
She began looking for something
to cover up her guilt. She said she
started drinking heavily and tak
ing pills. Her relationship with
her husband also suffered.
It took many months to let go
of her guilt, Berger said. But, she
said, "God took a bad situation
and made it something good," by
using her life to speak out against
abortion.
As the newly elected president
of the Omaha chapter of Women
Exploited By Abortion (WEBA),
Berger has spoken to several
groups about her anti-abortion
stand. WEBA is made up of wo
men who have had abortions and
who now regret that decision, she
said.
WEBA's main purpose is to edu
cate women about abortion and
to counsel women who have had
or are thinking of having abor
tions, Berger said. The pro-life,
pro-healing Christian organiza
tion does not approve of abortion
under any circumstances, includ
ing incest and rape, she said.
"Babies should not be punbhed
because of what their fathers
have done," Berger said.
Berger described abortion as a
"silent holocaust." More than 16
million unborn babies have been
killed in the United States since
the Supreme Court legalized abor
tion in 1973.
Berger said the federal govern
ment has used aborted babies to
test bactria it has developed for
use in chemical warfare.
Berger and the other members
of WEBA have taken the respon
sibility for telling women the true
realities of abortion and counsel
ing women who have had abortions.
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WASHINGTON Ths Soviet Union's construction of a new
radar sj'stera violates ths 1 D72 Anti-Ballhtic VJzzZt treaty with
the United States, Secretary of State George Shuitz said Sun
day. The Soviets etc constructing a radar that the White House
believes is a violation, If it is put into being, of the ABM treaty,
Shultz said in an interview on NBCs "Meet the Press." Shultz
said the United States had raised the matter with the Soviet
Union in the appropriate setting, an apparent reference to the
standing consultative committee set up by both countries to
monitor arms control issues. Under the ABM treaty, each
country cannot develop radar to give early war ning of strategic
ballistic missile attack except along the periphery of its
national territory. In light of charges that President Reagan's
strategic defense initiative using lasers and other high
technology in outer space to knock out attacking Soviet
Nuclear missiles may violate the ABM treaty, Shultz was
asked whether the United States may have to scrap or renego
tiate the document. "That remains to be seen whether we will
come to that time," he said. Shultz defended U.S. efforts to seek
new arms control agreements with the Soviet Union. "We can
have better provisions for verification. As far as cheating is
concerned, I think verification is the kind of answer we have to
look to," he said.
. Ortega: Guerrilla war enpanding
MANAGUA, Nicaragua Nicaraguan Junta coordinator
Daniel Ortega was quoted Sunday as saying government troops
fought 122 battles against U.S.-backed, right-wing rebels last
month In an expanding guerilla war. He told the official Bar
ricade newspaper that 143 rebels and 17 troops were killed. On
the government side 72 were wounded, but rebel wounded
could not be counted because the were carried back to bases in
Honduras, he said. Ortega said most of the fighting took place
in the remote mountains and jungles of northern Nicaragua
close to the Honduran border. The Defense Ministry said in a
communique Sunday a rebel camp 190 miles east of Managua
had been overrun and that 18 rebels and five soldiers had been
lolled in other fighting during the last three days. Washington,
which accuses Managua of trying to export revolution to other
countries in Central America, has helped raise a force of about
14,000 rebels to fight the leftist Sandinist government in
Nicaragua.
Pope starts 12-day Canadian tour
QUEBEC CITY, Canada Pope John Paul II arrived in
Canada Sunday on one of his longest-ever journeys to a single
country and said he brought a message of faith and hope to
meet the challenge of modern civilization. The much-traveled
pontiff chose predominantly Roman Catholic and French
speaking Quebec to begin his 12-day visit, in which he will go
from the Atlantic to the Pacific and meet various communitites
including aboriginal Indians and Eskimos. In a speech deli
vered partly in French and partly in English, the pope referred
to some of the themes he would be raising during his visit.
Vatican sources said the pope was likely to reaffirm the Vati
can's traditional teaching against artificial birth control, abor
tion and divorce. Nearly half of Canada's 25 million people are
Catholic but church attendance and religious vocations have
dropped sharply in recent years and abortion and divorce laws
have been eased. The Pontiff, who opposes the ordination of
women, dodged a question on the feminist movement in the
Canadian Catholic Church. He said the Church of Rome "has
always been feminist, because it began with the annuniciation
to Mary."
President Reagan warns Poles
DOYLESTOWN, Penn. President Reagan Sunday warned the
government of Poland, and indirectly the Soviet Union, that the
"oppressor's boot" would never defeat the Polish people. In a
strongly worded speech aimed at the estimated 12 million
Polish American voters, Reagan said: "Those who believe they
have crushed the Polish spirit with guns and brute force are
wrong." Reagan hailed the banned Solidarity union movement
as a force for freedom and said no matter how the government
of Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski tried to suppress it, the spirit of
solidarity would live. He priased the movement's leader, Lech
Walesa, and called Polish-born Pope John Paul II a brave son of
Poland who "inspires all of mankind."
Graliam to preach to Soviets .
MOSCOW Evangelist Billy Graham, arriving in Moscow
Sunday for a preaching tour of the Soviet Union, said he was
aware of the difficulties facir.g Russian Christians. Graham
told reporters that he would preach 23 times during a 12-day
trip taking him to Moscow, Leningrad, the Estonian capital of
Tallinn and Novosibirsk in Siberia. Graham was strongly critic
ized after a visit to Moscow in 1932 when he was quoted as
saying that there was full religious freedom in the Soviet Union.
He said today that he had been "woefully misinterpreted," but
added: "I have more of an understanding now than I did the
last time." Graham, once known for his fierce anti-Communist
rhetoric, said a second reason for his visit was to try to increase
trust between the United States and the Soviet Union and help
pave the way for nuclear disarmament He told reporters he
did not share views expressed by President Reagan that the
Soviet Union was a focus of evil saying "The source of ail evil is
the devil not any particular country
