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The Battalion
Friday, April 7,1989
Pro-choice activists converge,
petition court to let Roe stand
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WASHINGTON (AP) — With the
Bush administration pushing the Su
preme Court to overturn its land
mark abortion decision, abortion
rights advocates are converging on
the nation’s capital this weekend for
what they expect will be their largest
demonstration.
They believe the stakes are higher
than any time since the court’s 1973
decision legalizing abortion and are
determined to pick up the gauntlet
Bush has thrown down.
“We have been silent far too
long,” said Kate Michelman, exec
utive director of the National Abor
tion Rights Action League.
Tens of thousands of students
from 500 college campuses are com
ing, mothers are bringing their
daughters and granddaughters, a
delegation from Capitol Hill will be
there, and dozens of celebrities are
flying in from Hollywood for the
Sunday march, organizers say.
The goal is to make the weekend a
turning point in the national abor
tion debate. Organizers feel that
anti-abortion advocates have so far
carried the day by focusing the ques
tion on when life begins. Instead,
they feel the issue is whether the
government should intervene in
what they believe should be a private
decision.
“Nobody likes abortion,” Michel
man said. “It’s a difficult choice, and
there are a lot of issues that women
have to weigh when faced with a cri
sis pregnancy. Women don’t have
abortions they want, they have abor
tions they need.”
Organizers are reluctant to pre
dict how many will turn out for the
demonstration, but they expect the
number will be far larger than the
90,000 who gathered for a March
1986 pro-choice rally in Washing
ton.
At least one anti-abortion group
plans to mount a counterdemonstra
tion of up to 300 people on the day
of the march.
The engine revving the weekend’s
events is the Supreme Court and its
pending decision on a Missouri case
that could reverse or severely limit
the high court’s 1973 Roe vs. Wade
decision that legalized abortion. Oral
arguments in the case are scheduled
for later this month.
The Reagan administration also
pushed to overturn Roe vs. Wade
and failed. But since the issue last
came before the court, two new jus
tices have been seated and Justice
Lewis Powell, a key defender of the
1973 decision, has retired.
Of the newcomers, Justice Anto
nin Scalia is thought to favor over
turning or curtailing the decision.
Justice Anthony Kennedy’s views on
the ruling are not known, but some
observers think there may now be a
one-vote majority for changing the
law.
“Women have felt abortion alwjj
would be legal, but now that it’s cleat
there’s a clear and present danger,
they’re responding,” said Eleanor
Smeal, president of the Fund for tin
Feminist Majority.
The message of the march isdj.
reeled at the nine justices who wj
decide the case, and who organizer;
say are not immune to public
ion.
“They understand public opin.
ion,” said Molly Yard, president of
the National Organization for
Women.
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Polish government lifts
7-year ban on Solidarity
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A gov
ernment minister said Thursday the
seven-year ban on Solidarity would
be lifted immediately, and Lech Wa
lesa urged supporters to put their
“political victory” into action by or
ganizing nationwide.
“The process of legalization of
Solidarity should be completed be
tween April 15 and April 20,” said
Sports Minister Aleksander
Kwasniewski, a chief negotiator for
the communist government in two
months of talks with the opposition
that concluded Wednesday in a
broad accord.
Kwasniewski said the Sejm, or
parliament, would meet Friday to
enact the agreements on trade union
freedoms, economic reforms and
political changes, including creation
of the first freely elected legislative
body in the East bloc.
Walesa, looking relaxed at a news
conference after a grueling week of
negotiations, outlined the tasks his
independent trade union faces. But
he warned that the agreement could
lead to disaster if Poland failed to
take advantage of the changes.
“The most important task for to
day is to write applications immedi
ately all over the country to provin
cial governors and city mayors so we
get the technical possibility to orga
nize as soon as possible,” Walesa
said.
On the national level, the union
plans to form an organizing commit,
tee as early as this weekend toappl
for formal registration by submitting
a new union charter in court, said
top Solidarity adviser TadeuszMj
zowiecki.
“Today we as Poland haveagreai
victory, but a political victor) -]
theoretical one which may turnout
to be a victory or a disaster if we art
not able to make use of it," Walesa
said.
“If we are not able to workintlte
economic field to have more, pro
duce more and better and in thepo-
litical field to represent ourselves
well . . . nice slogans will only stat
slogans,” Walesa said.
The government daily Kzeczpos
polita called the agreements sealed
by Walesa and Gen. Czeslaw Kiszc
zak, the interior minister, a break
through that created a chance that
must not be wasted by “false solu
lions, sham ambitions or ignorance
of realities.”
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they have achieved
fusion, one of the r
tific breakthroughs.
Stanislaw Ciosek, a Politburo
member and panic ipant in the talks
said the agreement was a step to
ward refor ms undertaken by the
Communist Party, but it would not
solve all of Poland’s problems.
“These reforms have made the
prospect of satisfying the working
class much closer,” Ciosek said,
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