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Lawmakers consider abortion notification bill
AUSTIN (AP) — Of the 84,870
abortions reported to the Texas De
partment of Health, in 1997 5,500
were performed on minors.
Not one of their parents had the
right to know about it.
That could change this Legisla
tive session/and abortion oppo
nents and lawmakers seem confi
dent that it will — starting
Wednesday, when several abortion-
related bills go before the Senate
Human Services Committee.
“We’re not here to argue Roe v.
Wade’’ Sen. Jane Nelson, R-Flower
Mound, said of the 1973 Supreme
Court decision legalizing abortion.
“If this debate was about any
other major surgical procedure but
abortion, it wouldn’t be such a
volatile issue.
I wish we could talk about little
girls talking to their parents when
they’ve got an important decision to
make,” said the mother of four teen
age daughters.
Nelson’s bill would require that
a parent give their consent before
their minor daughter undergoes an
abortion.
It is a stricter version of legisla
tion proposed by Sen. Florence
Shapiro, R-Plano, which would
only require that a parent be noti
fied.
Both include a clause in which a
pregnant minor could bypass her
parents altogether if a judge
deemed her mature enough.
Pro-choice advocates like Kae
McLaughlin say that about 75 per
cent of girls under 17 already in
clude their parents in such deci
sions, and the few who don’t
undoubtedly have good reasons.
Jasper board upholds student’s suspensic
JASPER, Texas (AP) — The
Jasper school board has backed
a middle school principal’s deci
sion to suspend a 14-year-old for
wearing a Confederate belt buck
le.
The school board voted late
Monday to sustain the action tak
en against Josh Letney, who was
suspended from Jasper Middle
School’s alternative education
center for insisting on wearing
the buckle after being told it vio-
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“We’re going to get a lawyer,”
the boy’s mother, Carolyn Let
ney, said after the school board
vote. “Josh has been out of
school since late January, and
they will not let him make up his
classes.”
School district superintendent
Doug Koebernick said the buck
le violates the dress code because
it could be disruptive.
Principal Gwen Gilford asked
Letney not to wear the belt
buckle to school in deference to
the dragging death of black res
ident James Byrd Jr. last June.
White supremacist John William
King has been convicted and
sentenced to death for the crime.
Two other white men await tri
al.
Although the Jasper school
district considers the belt buck
le a dress code violation, Letney
said he believes the buckle is a
symbol of his heritage and
Southern roots. The buckle was
a gift from his uncle, hesa::
“1 don’t feel there’sarj
wrong with wearing it,”l
said last month. “It’s o
itage. It’s my right to wear
not going to let them laid
right away.”
Since Jan. 29, Letney has:
attending classes at these
alternative educatior
where students with discipj
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would not discuss why id
was sent there.
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said Koebernick.
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Republicans challenge Busk
stance on abortion issue To.
BUSH
WASHINGTON
(AP) — Fellow Re
publicans chal
lenged as “am
biguous” Texas
Gov. George W.
Bush’s stance on
abortion.
Bush said
Monday he would
back a constitu
tional amendment to outlaw most
abortions if more voters supported
it. But he said, “America is not
ready to ban abortions.”
Gary Bauer, a conservative Re
publican presidential hopeful, said
Tliesday that Bush’s stance on abor
tion was far too vague.
“I don’t see how a ’compassion
ate conservative’ can be ambiguous
about protecting unborn children,”
said Bauer. “Clearly the governor
hasn’t thought this issue through.”
Bauer also challenged Bush’s
contention that public opinion
would not support a constitutional
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ban on abortions.
“As leaders,” Bauer said
role must be to help shape;
opinion, not simply reaetto
Sen. Bob Smith, R-N.H.,
seeking the Republicanpre<
nomination and has ledfep
abortion effort in the SenaieMhnlh^
the abortion issue will requiefted tl
crete stances from candidal ne , Tex
“I Ih’Ih lichards
said Smith, “and you can ov<
around moral issues.” Krj seni
Brian Kennedy, national j n ]
director for Lamar Alexander;!, J r0 on
idential bid, said Bush's cod ou | ot | or
illustrate his lack of political-jT,-,-, y\ ,
rience on the national level , e>jr q
“The way he fumbled thii® Hie
indicates why he may not be
to play in the big leagues ofn
al politics,” Kennedy said.
1 loward Opinsky, spokes
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz
Bush’s vague positions on
sues like abortion helped male
popular early in the race.
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22-year old sentenced to deat
for murder of TSU dean
HOUSTON (AP) — A 22-year-
old was sentenced Tliesday to
death for the 1997 slaying of Texas
Southern University’s education
dean, Irma Malloy.
Calvin Wilson McGee showed
no emotion as the verdict was
read.
“It’s such a tragedy that my
mother, who would have dedicat
ed all of her life to education and
to the plight of the black male,
would have had her life taken by a
black male,” said Darryl Malloy,
one of the victim’s sons.
Jurors convicted McGee on
March 3. They deliberated eight
hours before sentencing him to
lethal injection.
McGee is the first of three sus
pects to be tried in Malloy’s Oct. 1,
1997 carjacking death. The 61-
year-old woman was shot in the
head as the three tried to steal her
car in the drive-through lane of a
Kentucky Fried Chicken restau
rant.
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ordered her out of the car and ,,,
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