Pro-Choice Victory in House

For the first time in recent history, an ly when there are shifts in trends. For the total federal employee wage pack­ anti-abortion amendment has been de­ years, anti-choice groups have suc­ age and that federal employees pay for feated in a vote on the floor of the U.S. ceeded in getting their legislation at least 40 percent of their health insur­ House of Representatives. By a vote of enacted by using just this technique. (To ance themselves through direct pre­ 192-182, the House rejected an amend­ write to your Members of Congress, miums. The amendment is also far­ ment by Rep. Robert Dornan (R-CA) address your correspondence to: The reaching in that it potentially affects 10 which would have prohibited the District Honorable , U.S. House million individuals (federal employees of Columbia from using local tax money of Representatives, Washington, D.C. and their dependents). The full Senate to fund abortion services within the Dis­ 20515; or The Honorable , has not yet taken up the Treasury Ap­ trict. The Dornan amendment was seen U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C. 20510.) propriations bill. Hopefully, it will not not only as a cruel attempt to stop nec­ Not all the news is good, however. agree to the restrictions and will hold essary health services for low-income The anti-choice Members of Congress firm so that the restrictions do not be­ D.C. women, but also as a violation of have expanded their targets to include come law. the integrity of the District's home rule the Treasury, Postal Service, and Gen­ When the Legal Services Corporation charter. eral Government Appropriations bill reauthorization came to the Senate floor This victory is a clear indication that (see article on page 2). When this bill on June 13, an amendment by Senator IMPACT 80 is working and that Mem­ came to the House floor, an amend­ Jacob Javits (R-NY) was approved bers of Congress are sta• ting to respond ment by Rep. John Ashbrook (R-OH) which prohibits legal aid organizations to the voice of the pro-cht,ice majority. lf was approved (228-192) which prohib­ from being involved with abortion cases you can take time to wr;te a letter or its federal employees' health insurance which deal with funds that have been postcard to your Representative either from covering abortions. The Ashbrook denied by Congress (such as Medicaid thanking for or protesting his/her vote amendment wouldn't even allow abor­ abortions). The Javits amendment help­ on the D.C. bill, we will continue to im­ tion coverage for abortions necessary to ed to prevent a much stricter amend­ press Members of Congress that pro­ save the woman's life. This restriction ment proposed by Senator Gordon choice voters are monitoring their ac­ becomes even more abhorrent when Humphrey (R-NH), which would have tions. They do respond to mail, especial- you note that health insurance is part of prohibited all legal aid activity with re­ spect to abortion from being adopted. Therefore, a vote for the Javits amend­ ment is considered pro-choice. Congress will be holding a ''lame duck" session this year, which means that the 96th Congress will reconvene to finish its work after the November 4 elections. Many important bills pertain­ ing to abortion rights-including those noted above-will be finished during the lame duck session. This means that a number of important votes have still to be taken-including Labor-HHS Ap­ Election Day is fast approaching. Make sure your propriations (Medicaid), Department of Defense Appropriations (health pro­ opinions are recorded on November 4! grams for military personnel and de­ pendents) and so on. 2 Bill Can Affect 10 Million A recent CBS News/New York Times Detroit, to chair a committee for the If your best friend is one of the 3.5 poll showed that changes in the way an American Public Health Association an­ million Americans on the federal payroll, abortion question is asked can dramati­ nual meeting. The 25th will find her in does she know that the U.S. Senate may cally affect the results. The nationwide Philadelphia, giving the keynote address soon act on a House-passed bill that sample of 1, 769 adults was asked at the Pennsylvania NARAL annual would forbid her federal employee whether they were for or against: meeting. health plan to pay for abortion? • an amendment prohibiting abor­ Then, beginning October 29, Karen If your next-door-neighbor is one of tions; will make a quick sweep of Iowa, stop­ the 6.5 million Americans who is depen­ • an amendment protecting the un­ ping in Des Moines and Waterloo, meet­ dent on a wage earner who brings home born; ing with the press and the public. a federal paycheck, does she know that • allowing women to have abortions. abortion services may be stricken from Respondents overwhelmingly opposed her family health plan even though that a constitutional amendment prohibiting wage earner pays nearly half the cost of abortions (62% to 29%) and for allow­ Support for legal abortions has in-­ coverage hlrn/herselfr------ing women to have abortions (62% to creased consistently since the 1973 Su­ Nearly 10 million Americans will have 19%). They also were in favor of an preme Court decision-and the most re­ abortion services eliminated from their amendment protecting the unborn cent Gallup poll (taken July 11-14, hard-won pay packages if the U.S. Sen­ (50% to 39%). 1980) confirms this. The survey of ate retains the anti-abortion amendment While Americans are more supportive 1,548 adults showed that: 25 percent attached to H.R. 7583 by Rep. John of an amendment labeled "pro-life" felt that abortion should be legal under Ashford (R-OH). At this writing, the bill than they are of an amendment labeled all circumstances; 53 percent felt it has passed the Senate Appropriations anti-abortion, contradiction is greatest should be legal only under certain cir­ Committee free of anti-abortion lan­ among those with less education. Pre­ cumstances; and only 18 percent felt it guage. It now goes to the full Senate. sumably, this means that those with less should be illegal under all circum­ The anti-choice amendment passed education are more susceptible to stances. Four percent had no opinion. by 228 to 170, before the Treasury, changes in question wording. This means that 78 percent of American Postal Service, and General Govern­ Of those adults in the sample who did citizens think abortion should be legal at ment Appropriations bill in its entirety not have high school diplomas, the tal­ least under some circumstances as com­ was approved on the House floor. lies were as follows: amendment prohib­ pared with 18 percent who are against it. "It is stunning to realize that the iting abortions, 36% for and 52% The same Gallup poll compares the amendment forbids even administrative against; amendment protecting the un­ opinions of Catholics and Protestants on expenses for any health plan which pro­ born, 65% for and 22% against; allow­ the same questions. The results: vides abortion coverage for federal em­ ing women to have abortions, 51% for c p ployees--even for abortions necessary and 24% against. Legal under all to save women's lives," NARAL Execu­ circumstances 22% 23% tive Director Karen Mulhauser said. Legal under certain "Federal employees may soon join circumstances 55% 55% Medicaid-eligible women, Illegal under all volunteers, and military families as vic­ NARAL Executive Director Karen circumstances 21% 18% tims of a cruel narrowing of access to Mulhauser will be making key stops No opinion 2% 4% abortion when it is medically necessary around the country this fall in some final In this and other public opinion polls, to preserve their health-and even their IMPACT 80 strategy efforts. the message is clear: the majority of lives,'' she said. In October, she will spend two days in Americans are pro-choice-by a margin You can help turn the tide by alerting South Dakota making public appear­ of almost 4: 1. media in your state to this threat to ances and assisting NARAL organizer Remember to stand up and be thousands of citizens in every state, and Libby Shreves. On October 17 and 18, counted in the most critical public opin­ by contacting your Senators. she'll be in Rapid City and Sioux Falls. ion poll of all-Election Day 1980. We H.R. 7583 is of national interest, and Later in the month, Karen will fly to are pro-choice ... and we vote! of stateilocal interest to editors as well. In all but six states, there are tens of thou­ sands of federal employees; in seven highly populous states, there are You can make a difference! hundreds of thousands. You can tell your local radio, televi­ Vote on November 4. sion, and newspaper editors of the (continued on p. 8) 3 Participate in the Most r Crucial Poll: Vote!

It seems as if political polls are people believed abortion should be vote in our favor-2,005 to 956--was thrust at voters almost weekly. The legal under all circumstances; while a clear demonstration of our efforts Gallup and Harris organizations, as many as five of every twenty be­ to organize a pro-choice voting bloc. NBC along with Associated Press, lieved it should be illegal under all We know from these "dress re­ and CBS along with the New York circumstances. hearsals" that pro-choice indivi­ Times, present their own polls with In 1980, that has reversed itself. duals can produce a string of victor­ slightly different wording. According to the poll, now as many ies that protect the right to choose. Then they check for trends by re­ as six of every twenty people believe When campaign victories are an­ polling and present the new results. abortion should be legal under all nounced after the November 4 elec­ Widely-read regional newspapers circumstances; while as few as three tions, will this be the year for our like the Des Moines Tribune do the believe it should be illegal. growing pro-choice majority to very same thing, dealing with state­ A recent NBC/ Associated Press claim them? To be seen as an in­ wide races. poll confirms that nearly 16 of every creasingly potent political force? Most of us would just as soon test 20 Americans agree that, "The deci­ Perhaps. But we are up against the fickle mood of the voting public sion to have an abortion should be some strong opposition with big by asking a few neighbors or left between a woman and her phy­ business and the new right wing friends, "Well, what do you think of sician." groups putting big money into efforts _____ (fill in name or issue)T This year's primaries are another to defeat pro-choice incumbents. And most of us know that the only sort of poll. Pro-choice candidates We're moving into the home voter poll that really counts happens have done well, and campaign stretch; and buoyed by primary suc­ on Tuesday, November 4. That day staffs tell us again and again that cesses and the good news of the is fast approaching. many of their key campaign volun­ opinion surveys, we're ready to November 4 is the day on which teers have been generated from plunge ahead into the most impor­ our political views will be recorded IMPACT 80 organizing to turn out tant poll of all-the election day bal­ in a way that will shape our law and workers for pro-choice candidates. lot box contest. Now is the time to the administration of our law for Yet another poll was the recent remind all pro-choice individuals to years to come. Ifs a day when our referendum on abortion funding at remind friends of the real opportu­ IMPACT 80 program will face a cri­ the Democratic National Conven­ nity we all have to be counted on tical test in the voting booth. We will tion. It was clear early on that Carter Election Day. learn, as the ballots are tallied and could not hold his committed dele­ Election Day is just around the election races announced, the re­ gates to vote against the abortion corner. Are you registered to vote? sults of our hard work to bring pro­ funding minority plank. The final choice voters to the polls. Make no mistake: Although poll­ sters have been cautious in their in­ terpretations of surveys to gauge voter views on abortion, polls make it evident that the pro-choice major­ 'Aff Executive Director. Karen Mulhauser; Associate ity has grown. Compare what are­ NAHAL ST.t"\ Director of Administration, Kay Harrold; PAC cent Gallup poll says about voter Coordinator, Harriet Matthews; Field Coordinator, Dianne Piche; Field Coordinator, views on abortion in 1980 with what Jane Pinsky; Legislative Coordinator, Suellen Lowry; Resource Specialist, Mary Kay Gallup showed about voter views on Roma; Coordinator of Field Press. Janet Beals; Coordinator of National Press. abortion in 1975. In both years, one Marguerite Beck-Rex; Membership Development, Shelley Caro; Membership Ana· of every twenty persons had no opin­ lyst, Christine Hastie Whitaker; Membership Analyst, L. Hope O'Keeffe; Business ion at all on whether abortion should Manager, Shirley Carty; Office Manager, Dorothy Clift; Editor, Rebecca Saady be legal; and ten of every twenty Bingham; Conference Coordinator, Joan Eisenstadt; Administrative Assistant, Susan -fully half-believed it should be M. Kuhn. legal in some circumsances. The change occurred among October 1980, Volume 12, Number 10. Published monthly. NARAL Newsletter (ISSN those who believe abortion should 0195-2862) is published at 825 15th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20005. Second class be legal under all circumstances or postage (permit # 432970) paid at Washington, DC. Membership rate in NARAL is illegal under all circumstances. In $15.00 per year, of which $5.00 is for the NARAL Newsletter. 1975, as few as four of every twenty ly Gehshan, who has a background in public relations and rape crisis work. CARAL-South (California) welcomes Lauren Virshup as its new state coordi­ nator. Lauren, a political activist with a With November 4 less than a month The group's board of directors circu­ masters degree in public health, recently away, NARAL Affiliates are swinging in­ lated an open letter to organizations in joined CARAL-North coordinator Shar­ to their final pre-election activities. the North Carolina Coalition for Choice on Simms and CARAL lobbyist Nancy r House meetings, political skills work­ urging them to join NARAL's efforts to Casady at a reception to honor retiring shops, state and county fairs--every­ mobilize pro-choice citizens. state legislator Leona Egeland--a long­ where they go, NAHAL's representa­ Sheryl Green recently joined NARAL time supporter of women's rights and tives make contact with new members of Vermont as its second organizer. freedom of choice. Lauren is now orga­ of the pro-choice majority. And with With organizer Beth Baldwin, Sheryl nizing CARAL activists in San Diego and each contact, more concerned pro­ will work to build on the tremendous Santa Barbara-as well as in the Los choice citizens become involved. gains that NARAL of Vermont has made Angeles area. IMPACT 80 organizer Abortion Rights Council of Minne­ in the past year. Shellie Sheppard has been doing sota had a very successful booth at the IARAL, the Iowa Abortion Rights Ac­ house meetings and political skills work­ Minnesota State Fair August 21- tion League, is moving and growing by shops in the Santa Monica area. She has September 1. A key part of this success leaps and bounds. Judy Ornstei!l, set up postcard tables at the beach, and was the 72 volunteers who made it pos­ IARAL's state coordinator, is organizing even spreads the pro-choice mes­ sible. In Rochester, Minnesota, Mary active chapters in Sioux City, Ames, sage ... on roller skates! IMPACT 80 Bouise is now coordinating house meet­ Mason City, Des Moines, and Council director Jean Weinberg visited Los An­ ings in the 1st Congressional District. Bluffs. The Sioux City chapter already geles in late September and was the fea­ She will work closely with Dottie Spei­ has held 10 house meetings and a tured guest at a wine and cheese party del, who coordinates house meetings speakers training, and is working on a hosted by CARAL. Earlier in Sep­ for the entire state. political skills workshop. In Council tember, Lauren, Shellie, and NARAL's Barbara Ardery, IMPACT 80 orga­ Bluffs, IARAL members tabled at a Karen Mulhauser represented the nizer for Indiana, held an average of shopping mall and are also doing house NARAL-PAC at a fundraiser for can­ three house meetings per week in Sep­ meetings. Across the state, hundreds of didate Cary Peck, who is challenging the tember. With each meeting held, more individuals have been working on the incumbent anti-choice leader Robert pro-choice citizens become involved Democratic Voter Project to get out the Dornan (R-CA) in the 27th district. and our goal of a visible, vocal pro­ vote on Election Day. Also in California, Marianne McMil­ choice majority draws nearer. Iowa City welcomes full-time campus lan, a graduate student in urban studies In early September, CARAL-North organizer Ross Keene, who is setting up at UCLA, has been busy this fall organiz­ (California Abortion Rights Action dorm meetings and voter registration ac­ ing pro-choice students on her campus. League) held a press conference to tivities at four targeted campuses in the highlight its campaign to reach over state: University of Northern Iowa, (continued on p. 5) 150,000 federal employees in Northern Drake University, Grinnell College, and California. CARAL' s aim was to let these the University of Iowa. At the University employees know that the House of Rep­ of Iowa, where is is a student, Ross orga­ resentatives is attempting to cut off abor­ nized the first Student Abortion Rights Voter Quiz tion services covered by federal em­ Action League (SARAL) in the state. 1. Have you registered to vote? If not, ployee health plans. The campaign also This group has been mobilizing pro­ what is the deadline for registering_ to included getting postcards signed and choice students since last spring. Ross vote in the General Election on No­ involving federal employees in IMPACT also has been trained as a NARAL vember 4 in your state? 80. media activist. 2. Do you plan to be out of town on People attending the Arlington Coun­ In September, Jan Scolastico, Election Day? ty Fair in Northern had the op­ IARAL's IMPACT 80 organizer, deliv­ 3. Who is qualified to vote absentee in portunity to meet members of their local ered the keynote speech at the annual your state? NARAL group. VOKAL (Virginia orga­ meeting of TARAL (Texas Abortion 4. What is the procedure for absentee nization to Keep Abortion Legal) spon­ Rights Action League) in Austin. Both voting in your state? sored a booth at the fair, where pro­ NARAL and TARAL honored Peggy 5. Now-if you will be out of town on choice Virginians were able to obtain in­ Freeman Romberg, Texas state coordi­ November 4, what plans have you formation and to send 'T m pro-choice nator since 1976 and an active and made to vote in the crucial1980 elec­ and I vote" postcards to their elected dedicated leader in the abortion rights tionsr representatives. movement since 1973. Peggy has ac­ 6. Have you told your pro-choice NARAL of North Carolina will hold cepted a position as state lobbyist and friends how to vote absentee? If not, its annual meeting on October 11 in director for the Texas Family Planning do so. Chapel Hill. "Vote and Vote Pro­ Association, where she will continue her Choice" will be the theme of the meet­ work for reproductive freedom. In keep­ Remember: We're pro-choice and we ing with the group's expanded political ing. On October 17-29, the group will vote-in person and absentee! staff a booth at the state fair in Raleigh. focus, TARAL has hired organizer Shel- 5 SENATE VOTES

Alabama Montana Rhode Island Howell Heflin - Adlai E. Stevenson Ill + Max Baucus + Claiborne Pell 0 Donald Stewart 0 Charles H. Percy 0 John Melcher - John H. Chafee +

Alas!( a Indiana Nebraska South Carolina Mike Gravel 0 Birch Bayh + J. J. Exon + Ernest F. Hollings + r 0 - Ted Stevens Richard G. Lugar - Edward Zorinsky Strom Thurmond +

Arizona Iowa Nevada South Dakota Dennis DeConcini 0 John C. Culver + Howard W. Cannon 0 George Me Govern 0 Barry Goldwater - Roger Jepsen 0 Paul Lazalt 0 Larry Pressler 0

Arkansas Kansas New Hampshire Tennessee Dale Bumpers + Robert Dole - John A. Durkin - Howard H. Baker Jr. 0 David Pryor + Nancy Landon Kassebaum + Gordon Humphrey - Jim Sasser -

California Kentucky Texas Alan Cranston + Wendell H. Ford - Bill Bradley - Lloyd Bentsen + S I. Hayakawa + Walter (Dee) Huddleston + Harrison A. Williams Jr. + John G. Tower -

Colorado Louisiana New Mexico Utah Gary Hart + J. Bennett Johnston 0 Pete V. Domenici - Jake Garn - William L. Armstrong 0 Russell B. Long 0 Harrison H. Schmitt 0 Orrin G. Hatch -

Connecticut Maine New York Vermont Abraham Ribicoff + William S. Cohen + Daniel P. Moynihan + Patrick J. Leahy 0 Lowell P. Weicker Jr. 0 Jacob K. Javits + Robert T. Stafford + Delaware Paul S. Sarbanes + North Carolina Virginia Joe Biden - Charles McC. Mathias Jr. + Robert Morgan - Harry F. Byrd Jr. - William V. Roth Jr. - Jesse Helms - John Warner + Massachusetts Florida Edward M. Kennedy 0 North Dakota Washington Lawton Chiles - Paul S. Tsongas 0 Quentin N. Burdick + Henry M. Jackson + Richard (Dick) Stone - Milton R Young - Warren G. Magnuson 0 Michigan Georgia Carl Levin + West Virginia San Nunn - Donald W. Riegle Jr. + + Robert C. Byrd + Herman E. Talmadge 0 Howard M. Metzenbaum + Jennings Randolph - Minnesota Hawaii David Durenburger - Oklahoma Wisconsin Daniel K. Inouye 0 Rudy Boschwitz - David L. Boren - Gaylord Nelson + Spark M. Matsunaga + Henry Bellman 0 William Proxmire - Idaho John C. Stennis - Oregon Wyoming Frank Church 0 + Mark 0. Hatfield + Alan K. Simpson 0 James A McClure - Robert W. Packwood 0 Malcolm Wallop + Missouri Thomas F. Eagleton 0 Pennsylvania John C. Danforth - H. John Heinz lll + Richard S. Schweiker - KEY 1. Javlts (R-NY) amendment to Legal Services Corporation Reauthorization to allow local aid organizations to be involved in cases dealing with abortion when Congress has not prohibited funding for the abortion service. Adopted 38-34, June 13. ( + was a vote for Javits amendment)

Affiliates on the Move (continued from p. 4) A former intern with CARAL, Marianne abortion rights at the University of Penn- with the local AFSCME (American Fed- has been trained to do house meetings sylvania and at Swarthmore, Bryn eration of State, County, and Municipal and now serves on the CARAL-South Mawr, and West Chester State Colleges Employees) on September 11-the day board of directors. in eastern Pennsylvania. Rachel brings the Senate Appropriations Committee NARAL welcomes two more student to NARAL of Pennsylvania previous or- marked up the bill. Right to Choose organizers--Lauren Kaufman in Con­ ganizing experience which has included campus organizer Mary Anderson set necticut and Rachel McLachlin in organizing ERA Action T earns at Boston up a table at the University of Arizona Pennsylvania. Lauren is a recent grad­ area colleges. walk-through registration, where she uate of Trinity College in Hartford, Arizona Right to Choose in Tucson is collected 240 names on pro-choice peti- where she has been involved with organizing to keep abortion included in tions and registered nearly 200 new stu- women's groups and CONN-NAHAL federal employees' health plans. Orga- dent voters. Rachel is a Brandeis student taking a nizer Greer Barclay reported a success­ year off from school to organize for ful press conference held in conjunction (continued on p. 7) 6 HOUSE VOTES

ALABAMA DElAWARE IOWA, cont'd. MINNESOTA, cont'd. 1 J;ock Edwards + + AL Thomas B. Evans Jr + + 4 Neal Smith - + 4 Bruce F. Vento + + 2 William L. Dickinson + + 5 Tom Harkin + + 5 Martin Olav Saba + + 3 Bill Nichols -0 FLORIDA 6 Berkley Bedell - + 6 Richard Nolan + + 4 Tom Bevill -- 1 Earl Hutto -- 7 Arlen Stangeland -- 5 Ronnie G. Flippo + + 2 Don Fuqua -- KANSAS 8 James L. Oberstar -- 6 John Buchanan 0 0 3 Charles E Bennett +- 1 Keith G. Sebelius - 0 7 Richard C. Shelby -- 4 Bill Chappell Jr. -- 2 James Jeffries -- MISSISSIPPI 5 Rich;ord Kelly -- 3 Larry Winn Jr. - - I Jamie L. Whitten - 0 ALASKA 6 C.W. Bill Young - - 4 Dan Glickman + + 2 David R Bowen - + AL Don Young 0 0 7 Sam Gibbons - + 5 Robert Whittaker - + 3 G.V Montgomery -- 8 Andy Ireland -- 4 Jon Hinson - 0 ARIZONA 9 Bill Nelson -- KENTUCKY 5 Trent Lott - 0 1 John J. Rhodes - + 10 LA (Skip) Balalis -- I Carroll Hubbard Jr. -- 2 Morris K. Udall 0 + 11 Don Mica + - 2 William H Natcher -- MISSOURI 3 Bob Stump -- 12 Edward J. Slilck + + 3 Romano L Mazzoli -- I William (Bill) Clay + + -- 4 Eldon Rudd -- 13 William Lehman + + 4 Gene Snyder 2 Robert A. Young -- 14 Claude Pepper + + 5 Tim Lee Carter + + 3 Richard A. Gephardt - 0 -- ARKANSAS 15 Dante B. Fascell + + 6 Larry J. Hopkins 4 Ike Skelton -- 1 Bill Alexander + + 7 Carl D Perkins -- 5 Richard Bolling + + 2 Ed Bethune GEORGIA -- 6 E. Thomas Coleman -- . 3 John P. Hammerschmidt 1 Bo Ginn + + LOUISIANA -- 7 Gene Taylor - - + + -- 4 Beryl Anthony 2 Dawson Mathis -- 1 Robert L livingston 8 Richard H !chord 0 - 0 - 3 Jack Brinkley - - 2 Lindy Boggs 9 Harold L Volkmer -- CALIFORNIA 4 Elliott H Levitas 0 + 3 Billy Tauzin - 0 10 Bill D. Burlison -- 1 Harold T. Johnson + + 5 Wynche Fowler 0 + 4 Claude (Buddy) Leach 0 0 - 0 - + 2 Don H Clausen -- 6 Newt Gingrich 5 Jerry Huckaby MONTANA + + 3 Robert T. Matsui 7 Larry McDonald -- 6 W. Henson Moore -- 1 Pat Williams + + Vic Fazio + + - 4 8 Billy Lee Evans - 7 John B Breaux -- 2 Ron Marlenee + + 5 John L. Burton + + 9 Ed Jenkins - + 8 Gillis W Long -- 6 Philip Burton + + 10 Doug Barnard -- 7 George Miller + + MAIN F. NEBRASKA 8 Ronald V. Dellums + + HAWAII 1 David F Emery - - 1 Douglas K Bereuter -- 9 Fortney H. (Pete) Stark 0 + 1 Cecil ICec) Hettel + + 2 Olympia Snowe 0 + 2 John J Cavanaugh -- 10 Don Edwards + + 2 Daniel K. Akaka + + 3 Virginia Smith -- 11 Bill Royer -- MARYlAND -- 12 Paul N. McCloskey + + IDAHO I Robert E Bauman NEVADA ' 13 Norman Y. Mlneta + + I Steven D. Symms - 0 2 Clarence D Long + + AL Jim Santim -- 14 Norman D. Shumway -- 2 George Hansen 0 0 3 Barbara A Mikulski + + 15 Tom Coelho + 0 4 Ma~orie S. Holt - - NEW HAMPSHIRE 16 Leon E Panetta + + ILLINOIS 5 Gladys Noon Spellman + + I Norman E D'Amours - 0 17 Charles Pashayan Jr. -- 1 Bennett Stewart + + 6 Beverly Byron -- 2 James C Cleveland + + 18 William Thomas -+ 2 Morgan F Murphy 0 0 7 Parren J Mitchell 0 + 19 Robert J Lagomarsino -- 3 -- 8 Michael D Barnes + + NEW JERSEY 20 Barry M. Goldwater Jr. - 0 4 Edward J. Derwinski -- I James J. Florio + + 21 James C. Corman + 0 5 John G. Fary -- MASSACHUSETTS 2 William J Hughes + + 22 Carlos J. Moorhead - 0 6 Henry J. Hyde -- 1 Silvio 0. Conte - - 3 James Howard + + 23 Anthony C. Beilenson + 0 7 + + 2 Edward P. Boland -- 4 Frank Thompson Jr. + 0 - - 24 Henry A. Waxman + + 8 - 0 3 Joseph D. Early 5 + + 25 Edward R. Roybal 0 + 9 Sidney R. Yates + + 4 Robert F Drinan + + 6 Edwin B. Forsythe + + 26 John H. Rousselot - 0 10 John Porter - + 5 James M. Shannon + 0 7 Andrew Maguire + + -- 27 Robert K. Doman -- 11 6 Nicholas Mavroules 0- 8 Robert A. Roe - - -- 28 Julian C. Dixon + + 12 Philip M. Crane -- 7 Edward J. Markey 9 Harold C. Hollenbeck + + 29 Augustus F. Hawkins + 0 13 Robert McClory -- 8 Thomas P O'Neill Jr. 0 0 10' Peter W. Rodino 0 0 -- 30 George E. Danielson + + 14 John N. Erlenbom -- 9 Joe Moakley 11 Joseph G. Minish -- 31 Charles H. Wilson 0 + 15 Tom Corcoran -- 10 Margaret M. Heckler -- 12 Matthew J. Rinaldo -- Glenn M. Anderson 0 II Brian J Donnelly -- 32 + 16 John B Anderson 0 0 13 Jim Courter - t - + + + 33 Wayne Grisham 17 George M. O'Brien -- 12 Gerry E. Studds 14 Frank J. Guarini + -- 34 18 Robert H. Michel -- I5 Edward J. Patten -+ 35 Jim Lloyd + + 19 + + MICHIGAN 36 George E. Brown Jr. + + + + 1 John Conyers + + 20 NEW MEXICO 37 Jerry Lewis - 21 Edward R. Madigan -- 2 Carl D. Pursell + + - 1 Manuel LuJan Jr - 0 38 Jerry M. Patterson + + 22 Daniel B. Crane - - 3 Howard Wolpe + + 2 Harold Runnels -- 39 William E. Dannemeyer -- 23 - + 4 Dave Stockman + + 40 Robert E. Badham -- 24 + + 5 Harold S. Sawyer -- 41 Bob Wilson - 0 6 Bob Carr + + NEW YORK 42 Lionel Van Deerlin -- INDIANA 7 Dale E. Kildee -- 1 William Carney -- 43 Clair W. Burgener ++ 1 Adam Benjamin Jr -- 8 Bob Traxler -- 2 Thomas J. Downey + + 2 Floyd Fithian -- 9 Guy Vander Jagt -0 3 Jerome A Ambro -- COLORADO 3 John Brademas + + 10 Don Albosta -- 4 Norman F Lent - - 1 Patricia Schroeder + + 4 Dan Quayle - 0 11 Robert W Davis -- 5 John W. Wydler - 0 2 Timothy E. Wirth + + 5 Elwood Hillis -- 12 David E Bonior - 0 6 Lester L Wolff + + 3 Ray Kogovsek - + 6 David W. Evans -- 13 Charles C. Diggs 7 Joseph P. Addabbo + + 4 James P. Johnson 0 + 7 John T. Myers -- 14 Lucien N. Nedzi 0 + 8 Benjamin S. Rosenthal + + 5 Ken Kramer - + 8 H. Joel Deckard -- 15 William D. Ford + + 9 Geraldine A. Ferraro + + 9 Lee H. Hamilton - + 16 John D. Dlngell + 0 10 Mario Biaggi - + CONNECTICUT 10 Phil Sharp - + 17 William D. Brodhead + + 11 James H. Scheuer + + 1 William R. Cotter -- 11 Andy Jacobs Jr. + + I8 James J. Blanchard + + 12 Shirley Chisholm + + 2 Christopher J. Dodd + 0 19 WilliamS. Broomfield -- 13 Shephen J. Solarz + + 3 Robert N. Giaimo 0 + IOWA 14 Frederick Richmond + + 4 Stewart B. McKinney + + 1 Jim Leach - + MINNESOTA 15 Leo C. Zeferetti -- 5 William Ratchford + + 2 Tom Tauke -- 1 Arlen Erdahl - + 16 Elizabeth Holtzman 0 0 6 Toby Moffett + + 3 Charles E. Grassley -- 2 Tom Hagedorn -- 17 Johr. M. Murphy 0 0 3 Rill Frenzel + + 7 HOUSE VOTES

NEW YORK, cont'd. OHIO, cont'd. PENNSYLVANIA, cont'd. TEXAS. cont'd. 18 S. William Green + + 12 Samuel L. Devine 0 - 24 Marc L. Marks + + 22 Ron Paul -- 19 Charles B. Rangel + + 13 Don J. Pease + + 25 Eugene V. Atkinson -- 23 Abraham Kazen Jr. -- 20 Ted Weiss + + 14 John F. Seiberling + + 24 Martin Frost ++ 21 Robert Garcia + + 15 Chalmers P. Wylie -- RHODE ISLAND 22 Jonathan B. Bingham + + 16 Ralph S. Regula -- 1 Femand J. St Germain -- UTAH 23 Peter A. Peyser + + 17 John M. Ashbrook -- 2 Edward P. Beard -- 1 Gunn McKay 0- 24 Richard L Ottinger + + 18 -- 2 Dan Marriott -- 25 Hamilton Fish Jr. 0 + 19 Lyle Williams -- SOUTH CAROLINA 26 Benjamin A. Gilman 0 + 20 -- 1 Mendel J. Davis + 0 VERMONT 27 Matthew F. McHugh - + 21 + + 2 Floyd Spence -- AL James M. Jeffords + + 28 Samuel S. Stratton + - 22 Charles A Vanik - + 3 Butler Derrick + + 29 Gerald B. Solomon -- 23 Ronald M. Mottl -- 4 Carroll Campbell -- VIRGINIA 30 Robert C. McEwen -- 5 Ken Holland + + 1 Paul S. Trible Jr. -- 31 Donald J. Mitchell -- OKLAHOMA 6 John W. Jenrette Jr. + 0 2 G. William Whitehurst -- 32 James M. Hanley - 0 I James R Jones -- 3 David E. Satterfield -- 33 Gary A Lee -- 2 Mike Synar + + SOUTH DAKOTA 4 Robert W Daniel -- 34 Frank Horton + + 3 Wes Watkins - 0 1 Thomas A. Daschle + + 5 Dan Daniel -- 35 Barber B Conable Jr + + 4 Tom Steed + 0 2 James Abdnor -- 6 M. Caldwell Butler + 0 36 John J LaFalce + + 5 Mickey Edwards -- 7 J. Kenneth Robinson -- 37 Henry J. ));owak -- 6 Glenn English -- TENNESSEE 8 Herbert E. Hams II + + 3R Jack F Kemp -- 1 James H. Quillen - - 9 William C. Wampler -- 39 Stanley N. Lundine + + OREGON 2 John J. Duncan -- 10 Joseph L Fisher + + I Les AuCom + 0 3 Marilyn Lloyd Bouquard -- NORTH CAROLINA 2 AI Ullman • + 4 Albert Gore Jr -- WASHINGTON 1 Walter B. Jones + + 3 Robert Duncan + + 5 Bill Boner -- 1 Joel Pritchard + 0 2 LH. Fountain - + 4 James Weaver + + 6 Robin L Beard Jr. 0- 2 AI Swift + + 3 Charles Whidey - + 7 Ed Jones -- 3 Don Bonker + + 4 Ike F. Andrews + + PENNSYLVANIA 8 Harold E. Ford 0 + 4 Mike McCormack + 0 5 Stephen L Neal + + 1 Michael (Ozziel Myers 0 0 5 Thomas S. Foley ++ 6 Richardson Preyer + + 2 William H Gray + 0 TEXAS 6 Norman D. Dicks + + 7 Charlie Rose + + 3 Raymond F. Lederer - 0 I Sam B. Hall Jr -- 7 Mike Lowry + + 8 WG. (Bill) Hefner + + 4 Charles F Dougherty -- 2 Charles Wilson + + + 9 James G. Martin + 5 Richard T Schulze - - 3 James M. Collins - - WEST VIRGINIA 10 James T. Broyhill + + 6 Gus Yatron - - 4 Ray Roberts 0 + 1 Robert H. Mollohan + + 11 Lamar Guo;lger + + 7 Robert W Edgar + 0 5 Jim Mattox + + 2 Harley 0. Staggers +- 8 Peter H Kostmayer + + 6 Phil Gramm -- 3 John Hutchinson + + NORTH DAKOTA 9 Bud Shuster - - 7 Bill Archer -- 4 Nick J. Rahall -- AL Mark Andrews -- 10 Joseph M. McDade - - 8 Bob Eckhardt + + II Raphael Musto -- 9 Jack Brooks + + WISCONSIN OHIO 12 John P. Murtha -- 10 J.J. Pickle 0 + I - + -- I Willis Gradison 13 Lawrence Coughlin + + 11 J. Marvin Leath -- 2 Robert W. Kastenmeier + + 2 Thomas L Luken 0 - 14 William S Moorhead 0 + 12 Jim Wright 0 0 3 Alvin Baldus +- 3 Tony P. Hall + + 15 Donald L Ritter - + 13 Jack Hightower -- 4 Clement J. Zablocki -- 4 -- 16 Robert S Walker -- 14 Joe Wyatt -- 5 Henry S. Reuss + + 5 Deibert L. Latta -- 17 Allen E. Ertel + - 15 E. de Ia Garza -- 6 Thomas Petri -- 6 William H Harsha -- 18 Doug Walgren + + 16 Richard C. White -- 7 David RObey + + 7 Clarence J. Brown -0 19 Bill Goodling - + 17 Charles Stenholm -- 8 Tobias A Roth -- 8 Thomas N. Kindness - + 20 Joseph M. Gaydos - - 18 Mickey Leland + + 9 F. J. Sensenbrenner Jr. -- 9 Thomas L. Ashley + + 21 Don Bailey - - 19 Kent Hance + + 10 Clarence E. Miller - - 22 Austin J. Murphy - 0 20 Henry B. Gon>alez + + WYOMING - - II J. William Stanton 23 William F. Clinger Jr - + 21 Tom Leoffler -- AL Richard Cheney --

KEY 1. Ashbrook (R-OH) amendment to Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations to prohibit all federal employees' health insurance from covering all abortions. Adopted 228-170, August 20. (+was a vote against the Ashbrook amendment! G. Uornan (R-CA) amendment to District of Columbia Appropriations to prohibit the District of Columbia from using locally raised tax revenue to fund abortion services. Defeated 182-192. September 3. ( + was a vote against the Dornan amendment)

Affiliates on the Move (continued from p. 5) Right to Choose also had a real show throughout the state and has formed a workers to the candidates and voters to of strength on the alleged ''Clinic Inva­ well-received state Political Action Com­ the polls. It is in the next very few weeks sion Day'' scheduled by anti-abortion mittee. NYS-NARAL's PAC volunteers before November 4 that we must all ex­ groups for August 9. In Tucson, the op­ have been polling the winners of the pend as much energy, time, and money position was unable to organize their September 9 primary and will make en­ as possible to make certain that we have demonstration against a clinic, while dorsements and provide volunteers for pro-choice victories on Election Day. If over 100 pro-choice activists turned out key pro-choice campaigns in the state. you have time to do nothing else before for a day-long display of support. The New York is the only state with an Election Day-VOTE, and take four Arizona Right to Choose held its first official ''Right to Life'' Party on the pro-choice friends with you. Maintaining political skills workshop in early Sep­ ballot! the right to choose a safe and legal abor­ tember. NARAL' s many Affiliates and pro­ tion is the responsibility of all of us. Your New York State NARAL is continuing choice activists all over the country will vote on Election Day will make a differ­ its successful IMPACT 80 program be moving in the next month to get ence. ~f 8 Treasury Bill

(continued from p. 2) many people in your state (there are Coming Up! twice as many dependents as there are federal employees) who will have their health coverage slashed by this amend­ NAHAL Annual Meeting ment. You can tell your editors that national February 14-15, 1981 unions representing those state resi­ dents are working hard to block this in­ Plan now to attend! terference with pay packages won by tough collective bargaining. You can tell your editors to check with national NAHAL to see how your Mem­ bers of Congress voted. (Check the vote charts on pages 5-7). And you and your friends and.neifili: __ bars can start a letterwriting campaign in your state-writing to your Senators urging them to remove the anti-abortion amendment from HR. 7583. Remind them that you are pro-choice and that you vote. Then on November 4--prove it, by remembering to vote and encouraging your friends and neighbors to join you.

Inside Congress P. 1 Opinion P. 2 Treasury $$ P. 2 Pre-Election Focus P. 3 Affiliates P. 4 Vote Charts P. 5

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