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Abortion bill passed
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Inviting another veto from President
Clinton, Congress sent the White
House a bill Wednesday that would
make it a crime for doctors to per
form certain late-term abortions.
Clinton vetoed a similar bill last
year. “The president’s position has
not changed,” a spokesman for him
said Wednesday.
The House passed the bill on
296-132 vote, more than two-thirds
majority needed to override the
anticipated vote. The Senate has
passed the bill twice, but on neither
occasion was there a two-thirds veto
proof majority among its 100 mem
bers.
senate Majority Leader lrent
Lott, R-Miss., said Wednesday he
thought there was a “real opportuni
ty” this year to overturn the veto.
But Rep. Charles Canady, R-Fla.,
the chief sponsor, sounded a less
optimistic note. “We face a battle in
the Senate,” he said after the vote.
House members repeated emo
tional but familiar arguments during
two hours of debate. In the end, 217
Republicans joined 79 Democrats to
approve the Senate-passed bill.
Voting against it were 123
Democrats, eight Republicans and
one independent. Six members did
not vote.
Supporters of the ban said the
procedure is “heinous,” comparable
to infanticide, and that there is no
medically justifiable reason to use it.
Democrats countered that the
Republican majority was hunting for
a campaign issue and was playing
politics with women’s health. Others
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said the focus on one procedure
wouldn’t do anything to reduce abor
tions nationwide.
“Why are we voting on this piece
of legislation again and again and
again?” asked Rep. Diana DeGette,
D-Colo. “The reason is clear. In the
1998 elections, the Republicans
Think they can saddle people with
^his.”
Rep. Henry Hyde, R-IU., noted
the ban wouldn’t outlaw abortion.
“But we’re stopping a loathsome,
grizzly byproduct of the mindset that
treats people as things and as
objects,” he said. “We’re saying halt
this cruelty now, not tomorrow.”
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March, but had to vote again to
approve changes made by the Senate
before Clinton could be presented
with a bill. The vote was the fifth by
the House on the issue in just over
two years.
Republicans revived the bill this
year after learning the procedure
they call “partial-birth abortion” was
more common and used earlier in
pregriancy than previously believed.
It would not permit such an abortion
even when the pregnancy jeopar
dizes a woman’s health.
The House passed the bill 295
136 in March with enough votes for
an override. The Senate amended
and passed the bill 64-36 in May but
fell three votes short of the total
needed for an override.
Clinton and abortion rights
groups have insisted on a provision
allowing the procedure when a
woman’s health is endangered.
Republicans say that would render
the ban meaningless.
The bill bans the procedure —
which involves the partial delivery of
a fetus, legs first, through the birth
canal followed by the drainage of its
skull — except when needed to save
a woman’s life.
Advocates on both sides of the
issue were expecting a veto.
“Once again, American women
are looking to President Clinton to
safeguard our health, by vetoing this
dangerous bill,” said Kathryn
Engustian of the American Civil
Liberties Union in Washington.
The National Right to Life
Committee said it anticipated a veto
because Clinton “is a political cap
tive of the abortion-on-demand
crowd.”
White House spokesman Barry
Toiv said Congress would include a
health exception if it were “serious
about passing legislation.”
Abortion rights groups also were
disappointed by the vote. But they
noted that bans in nine states have
been blocked by the courts because
they were ruled unconstitutional or
likely to be declared illegal.
“We urge President Clinton to
veto the bill and remember that real
women suffer when Congress is
allowed to play politics with their
lives,” said Gloria Feldt, president of
the Planned Parenthood Federation
of America.
Among the Senate amendments
was a provision that would allow
doctors who face fines or imprison
ment under the measure to present
evidence from state medical licens
ing boards at trial.
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,ASUN addresses chalk question
by unanimously passing bill No. 6
ASUN from page 1
in other ASUN news:
■ Senate Bill No. 10 unanimous
ly passed. This bill urges the College
of Arts and Sciences to consider
expanding opportunities for students
to take minority studies classes.
■ Senate Bill No. 11 passed with
opposition from arts and sciences
senator Kara Slaughter. The bill pro
claims the senate’s support for a
parking education class for people to
take instead of paying parking tick
ets received on campus. Slaughter
was opposed to offering the class to a
person once every two years, instead
of once every four, which she advo
cated.
■ Senate Bill No. 12, which rec
--
ognized the Diversity Council as an
official student organization, passed
unanimously.
■ Government Bill No. 15 also
passed unanimously. The bill states
ASUN’s support for the NU Board of
Regent’s bylaw change that would
allow student organizations to
receive programming funding once
every two years instead of every
four. The funding will be discussed
at the next board meeting Oct. 17.
■ Senators approved appoint
ment Nos. 44-56. Speaker of the
Senate Viet Hoang and his appoint
ments committee announced their
ASUN subcommittee appointments
to the senate. They passed unani
mously.
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Each week, the Daily Nebraskan will feature a
member of the Association of Students of the
University of Nebraska.
NaflW: Amy Rager
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Year: Senior
HafOf: Political science
ASINpasldea: First vice president
CMtaerMtlMlM: Call or visit the ASUN office in the Nebraska Union to speak with
Rager about student concerns. The office phone number is 472-2581.
Mnr hWUltfBHMHt. Student Foundation, Chi Omega Sorority, College Republicans and
Mortar Board.
lMy ASSN IS lUIBBItlllt: 'Because ASUN is the student's voice.”
BSSPSRSMMSS Nl ASSN: As first vice president, Rager works with academic issues.
1 work with the Academic Senate and Academic Planning Committee.” she said. Rager said
she was working with post-tenure review. N
ClIITCIIt ASSN srslucts. “My biggest goal is to expand ASUN so that all students feel
represented and welcomed.” Rager plans to extend this welcome through ASUN legislation,
and the new Student Impact Team. Rager also said one of her main concerns was campus
safety. ;• V
Biggest ChUllUBgU fuclug NNL “I believe in all areas students need to vote,” Rager
said. Their vote is their voice. Students are not known to be active voting members in the
U.S. My hope is if we can show them what our own student government can do, they’ll maybe
' have more faith in the government as a whole.”
