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Page 6 THE BATTALION THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1981 Local / State Local center offers jobs, clothing, prenatal care Good Samaritan Pregnancy Services aids mothers < By KATHY O’CONNELL Battalion StafF Young women faced with an un expected pregnancy may not know where to go for help locally. One place is Good Samaritan Pre gnancy Services. Three Catholic churches, St. Mary’s, St. Joseph’s and St. Anthony’s organized the pregnan cy service in the community. The GSPS provides 24-hour free and confidential help to women with problem pregnan cies. Mary E. Dresser, a board member of the organization said, “We’re acting as a referral service to help them (unwed mothers) get in touch with various agencies in the community that can either provide money or help them find jobs or job training. ’’ The program began a year ago, she said, and is still being orga nized. COUNTRY & WESTERN DANCE LESSONS AT VALERIE MARTIN’S GALLERY OF DANCE ARTS REGISTER NOW! MON.-THURS. 5-7 P.M. CLASS STARTS TUES. MARCH 24TH 693-0352 “We think there is a need for it (the program) because there’s so much pressure now on women who are pregnant, either single or married, who think they have to have an abortion,” she said. “That seems to be the easy solution. “If we’re going to say we do not believe in abortion, then we should be providing them help in having their baby and in overcom ing the obstacles they are faced with. ” Dresser said GSPS is “not a political organization, we just simply offer these services.” Excluding the nine board mem bers, there are about 15 people who have offered to take calls. “Right now we can provide them with some counseling — helping them to look at the alter natives they have so that they can make some decisions.” Doctors have volunteered their services. If someone can’t pay. Dresser said, the doctors will pro vide pre-natal care and delivery CHECKTHESE PRE-SEASON SKI VALUES! services either for free or at lower costs, depending on the indi vidual. She added that some people have volunteered to house unwed mothers until after they have their baby and can get situated. “Some of these girls get kicked out of where ever they are and told to ‘leave home’ or the boyfriend decides he’s no longer going to live with her, so they need some place to go,” she said. GSPS also provides baby clothes, layettes, and maternity clothes for those who can’t afford to buy them, she said. Dresser said she didn’t how many of the women were students from Texas A&M University or from the community. Unmarried women aren’t the only ones GSPS helps, she said. There are a number of married women who have unexpected pre gnancies, particularly women who have low incomes, she said. As far as training the volun teers, Dresser said, they’ve had a presentation about the purpose of the program and talks from doc tors concerning pregnancy and its side effects. She said a lawyer from the board of directors discussed the legal responsibilities involved. For instance. Dresser said, “The man is legally responsible for helping pay for things.” She said enforcement is difficult and usual ly requires court action. If someone wants to put their baby up for adoption, Dresser said GSPS will send them to local agen cies. “There are also people who want to adopt babies straight out, who don’t want to go through an adoption agency.” She said the lawyer will provide legal advice or “tell us how to get to a legal aide, because there’s a lot of legal work involved, and they (people who want to adopt) need to find out what their rights are and how to protect themselves and how to protect the child.” Dresser said their office is in the Varisco Building in Bryan, but no one is manning it now. She said if someone needs help they should try the “call forwarding” phone number and arrange a meeting. But GSPS doesn’t provide birth control. “You’ve got the problem where the church’s stand is with regards to artificial birth control, and as something that is officially connected with the church, we can’t very well provide birth con trol measures.” Eventually, she said, they would like to have programs that would educate people who want to learn about natural birth control. “I think we’re seeing it as a respon sibility of the individual parishes, but right now, it isn’t part of what we’re able to do.” However, she thinks this ser vice should be provided. “It’sa just Catholics who want to about this,” she said. ‘Therek lot of people who don’t side effects of the pill or lUDsa they need to know anollj method. “We would like to evenhi- make the organization ecu me: al, but we want to get ourseh organized first, Dresser i will probably take over a year 1 ; fore we do.” m V ''v ■m ■ ' 20% OFF ALL SKIIS Fiberglass & Wood oometf C Stt> USED GOLD WANTED! 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The pay u term, and the positior You must call the < orientation to co-op PRIOR TO YOUR INI NOTE: In the past, tt dation only ei dents who wc medical schc student ©mj ; ANSC, BISM, Biology, and Zoolo- month for the first work ice >mpl< proi ! Prc $45-7725, for an your application shlin Foundation. Research Foun- • students. All stu- re accepted into changing their mr to a formal im and hope to G- ^ fhe Lots of Barbecue MAX ^ Ice Cold COORS Beer From 3-C’s of Bkyan He of Some Iran assets released to N.J. fim United Press International NEWARK, N.J. —The government has agreed to release $503,0! in Iranian assets "frozen” during the hostage crisis to a New Jerseyfiit in a decision lauded by a federal judge as a signal to the world Ik Americans “cherish” their rights. “It represents a message to the world community that we cheriii individual rights in this country, above all else,’ wrote U.S. Distal Judge H. Lee Sarokin. The judge’s comment was contained in a five-page memoranfe; accompanying an order Tuesday dismissing the case brought by Bern; International Inc., a Texas-based firm with warehousing facilities! Edison, against former Treasury Secretary G. William Miller, aTrer ton bank and its officers. The parties consented to settle the suit after the government “rew: sidered its position” and agreed the funds should be turned overt Behring for freight-forwarding services rendered to the Islamic I public Iranian Air Force. The funds, deposited in the Broad Street National BankofTrenta to pay Behring, were frozen Nov. 14, 1979, by President Carter days after the American embassy in Tehran was overrun by militant and the occupants were taken hostage. Before the hostages were released, Sarokin issued an opinionstai; the “court could envision no circumstances” under which those be could be returned to Iran without the government compensatingtl’ tun creditor. ■Coi The issue now facing the courts, Sarokin said, is whether therigliUj w hj Iranian assets in this country should be resolved by the arbitrafc an( ] procedure established under the agreement freeing the hostage tion since that agreement “raises numerous legal issues” because it»a £ made under “duress and coercion.” Rsaid The judge criticized the executive branch’s efforts “to convincefi p 0 l; federal courts” that litigating suits involving the Iranian assets “thwir. s tan the purpose of the agreement and adversely affects this country “] reputation.” Ilsaid Sarokin said the concept that international diplomacy could super tJi e cede the judiciary’s duty to safeguard the rights of Americans is “friglt g ening.” , “If favorable world opinion requires the sacrifice of the constitute .Ken al rights of our citizens, then the price is too high,” he said. shot “Whether the government chose to deal with terrorists and honor:: jtoo]* commitment to them is a decision which lies with the executive ,„ m en Whether the agreement is enforceable as it affects the rights and clair; of our citizens is a decision for the judiciary,” he wrote. ’ j Tue |M. 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