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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1981
Anti-abortion bills examined
United Press International
AUSTIN — Twelve aborted
fetuses were dumped into trash
bins at Odessa, and one fetus was
thrown in a bag along with coffee
grounds and chicken bones, anti
abortion leaders told a House sub
committee.
Bill Price of Odessa said Tues
day that he and minister James
Johnson found the 12 fetuses dur
ing a three-day span last Septem
ber. He said they were dumped in
trash containers by staff members
working for a doctor who per
formed the abortions.
But when the members of an
Odessa anti-abortion group sear
ched the bins, they were breaking
a local ordinance that they said
they were unaware of.
Price produced a gruesome col
or photograph for members of the
House subcommittee studying a
series of anti-abortion bills.
Price said he supported legisla
tion requiring the proper disposal
of remains of an abortion.
“We do have laws on the books
which govern the disposal of sur
gical matter and even the disposal
of dead animals,” he said.
But Jan Friese, executive dire
ctor of the Texas Abortion Rights
League, said the group does not
support any of the bills. Some of
the proposed legislation would
prohibit doctors from performing
abortions in hospitals that receive
state funds.
“Abortion is a very complex is
sue, but abortion is a very private
issue,” said Friese. “All the bills
are designed to prohibit a woman
from having a safe abortion.”
abortion.
Margie McDaniel, a University
of Texas student and an apprentice
midwife, echoed Friese’s senti
ments.
“This morning I helped deliver
a baby,” she said. “It was a very
beautiful thing. Having a baby is a
very beautiful thing, but it’s not if
you don’t want to be pregnant.”
McDaniel said the imposition of
rigid regulations on abortion proc
edures was a move to “national
ize” the free choice of woman.
“Where is the humanity, I ask
that,” McDaniel said.
Kathleen Garza, administrator
for three anti-abortion organiza
tions in Texas, said she objected to
the exemption from the abortion
bills of women who are raped or
involved in incest.
“An act of violence against a
woman is not undone by another
act of violence,” she said. “Rape
and incest are used as a smokes
creen by pro-abortionists.”
Although some of the bills are
not designed to abolish abortions,
the president of the Texas Doctors
for Life said that was the intent of
the organization.
“Our goal is to shut it down (in
Texas),” Dr. Stephen Hotze said.
Clements apologizes
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NORTH LITTLE ROCK. Ark. — Texas Gov. Bill Clements called
and apologized for remarking recently in Washington that he had
talked to Arkansas officials about a water-sharing plan and found no
great opposition, Gov. Frank White told a civic club.
“Gov. Clements called me and said, T shouldn’t have said that,
should I?’ I said, ‘Where’d you get that?’ He said, T don’t know. I was
just popping off at a press conference,”’ White said Tuesday.
Clements was widely quoted in Arkansas as telling reporters at the
National Governors Association that he had talked to White and
former Gov. Bill Clinton about a federal plan to divert excess water
from Arkansas to Texas. Clements reportedly said he found “no great
opposition” to the idea, which would not be carried out for decades.
White said he’d agreed to the plan and had not talked to Clements.
“Someday I might be willing to swap ’em water for oil, barrel foY
barrel,” White said.
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