coverage slanted, study says By David Shaw Los Angeles Times ~1 Y 1b Television, newsmagazine and big-city newspaper coverage of the abortion issue often is biased in favor of abortion rights, according to an 18-month study by the Los Angeles Times. The study, whit:h included inter views with more than 100 journalists and activists on both sides, found that coverage tends to be presented from the abortion rights perspective. For example, when the U.S. Su preme Court last year gave states more latitude regulating abortion, · many stories termed the ruling "a major setback for abortion rights." It could have been called "a major victory for abortion opponents," but most reporters don't identify with abortion opponents. "The culture in newsrooms just assumes that abortion is right," said John Buckley, a former spokesman for .conservative politicians. It's not that there is a conscious bias to slant coverage, Buckley ac knowledged. But he said abortion is the first issue since the Vietnam War in which some journalists' instinc tive allegiance to their own "social class and generational world view is stronger than their professional alle giance to objectivity." Most major newspapers support abortion rights on their editorial pag es, and two major media studies have shown that 80 percent to 90 percent of U.S. journalists personally favor abortion rights. Moreover, some reporters partici·· pated in a 1989 abortion rights march in Washington. The Newspa per Guild union that represents newsroom employees at many major papers, including The Detroit News and Free Press, has endorsed "free dom of choice in abortion decisions." Although responsible journalists try to be fair and many charges of bi as in abortion coverage are not valid, examination of published and broad cast st0171es reveals that: • The media consistently use words and images that implicitly favor abortion rights advocates. • Abortion rights advocates are quoted more often and characterized more favorably than abortion oppo nents. • Events and issues favorable to abortion opponents sometimes are ignored or given minimal attention. Surveys consistently show abor tion is essentially a class issue in the United States. The more money and education a person has and the less religious a person is, the more likely he or she is to favor abortion rights. Since most urban journalists tend to be better-paid, better-educated and less religious than the general public, they also tend to favor abor tion rights by a large margin. Richard Harwood, who critiques the Washington Post as its ombuds man, wrote last March that "any reader of the paper's editorials and home-grown columnists is aware (that it is) institutionally 'pro choice.' ... Close textual analysis probably would reveal that, all things considered, our news coverage has fa vored the 'pro-choice' side." Managing editor Leonard Downie later acknowledged: "I am concerned about whether we are paying enough attention to the other side ofthe ar gument." As in any debate, "the language is everything," said Douglas Gould, for mer vice-president for communica tions at Planned Parenthood of America. And in the abortion debate, the media's language consistently embraces the rights of the woman (the primary focus of abortion rights advocates), not the fetus (the prima ry focus of abortion opponents). When TV networks broadcast an abortion story, the backdrop has of ten been the large word "ABOR TION"- with the first "0" stylized into the biological symbol for female. The networks couldjust as easily stylize the "0" to represent a womb, with a drawing of a fetus inside, but they don't. When Time magazine published a lengthy story on abortion in May 1989, the cover was a drawing of a woman. When Newsweek published its version two months later, its cov er featured a photo of a pregnant woman. Neither depicted a fetus. When theWashington Post wrote Please see Media/58 28/Sunday, July 8, 1990 - Editorials I There are only three seriously c ries in Michigan's 18 U.S. House , In Detroit, the hot race is to 13th District Democratic Rep. Since the primary is effectively th overwhelmingly Democratic dist1 crowded and high-powered. City Barbara-Rose Collins, who came s to ousting Rep. Crockett two year again. State Rep. Juanita Watkim gynecologist Dr. Charles Vincent, candidate Tom Barrow and lawy terson. On balance, however, we County Commissioner Albert Iiams. Ms. Tinsley-Williams best rep repponsible change for the 13tl agenda includes adopting a "home
of economic development, high 1 troubled public schools and new s( replace a bureaucracy more cc traditional social services. She is planned expansion of Detroit Ci realizes her already overburdened not need more taxes. Ms. Tinsley-Williams faces hea• her opponents have union supp( from Mayor Coleman Young's f01 zation. But in 1987, sheer will an · won her a county commission s U,S. Rep. Charles C. Diggs Jr. T take all that - and more. The other contenders had streJ nesses. Dr. Vincent impressed us \1 for the health care needs of the ar( last year's unsuccessful mayora ceived serious consideration for h edge of district needs. Less imp1 Councilwoman Barbara-Rose Co ment with the old political esta ' impair her independence. For The Michigan Court of Appe often noted, is one of the most im] known governmental bodies in tli court of last resort in four out of f1 tried in Michigan. Its judges ha influence in shaping our law and thus our society. Although the rulings of the judges apply on a statewide basis, they are elected from one of three districts. Next ' month, residents of the 2nd District will have a chance to vote for one of four candidates to fill a vacancy on the appellate court. The top two vote-getters will then run in the fall general election. The 2nd District includes Arenac, Bay, Genesee, Gladwin, Huron, Ingham, Lapee1 land, Oakland, Ogemaw, St. Clai wassee and Tuscola counties. Of the four candidates, we
President Bush attended NA1 week in Europe and will host the summit this week in Houston. T at a critical moment for the which is divided on the subjeo provide direct economic aid to tl The Bush administration's posit would be premature at best is cm Substantial amounts of aid al pledged to Poland and Hungary. ! Group of 24 industrial nations w an aid program for Czechoslov1 Bulgaria and East Germany. often has the effect of undercu processes that need bolstering, a can be made for "rewarding" cm held free elections and implement ic reforms. The case for sending taxpayer other assistance to the Soviet l mains a strategic threat, is far VI France and Italy understandably lever for persuading Moscow to from East Germany. If such an 1 reached, a limited number of econ be warranted. ' But the West needs to be very set itself up to be blackmailed on It makes little sense to establisl program in the absence of fun within the Soviet Union itself would only shore up the Commur tchiks who are attempting to st in its cradle. Hard-liners in the Soviet Ur stand that the West won't allo white in pursuit of economic a ' --~------~------.. ;.., ; ·• Media ''The culture in newsrooms just Study criticizes assumes that abortion is right.'' John Buckley media for bias in A former spokesman for conservative politicians abortion coverage From page 1B Virtually all media refer to anti many facts and arguments to read abortion legislation as "restrictive," ers." about proposed anti-abortion legisla in that it restricts a woman's access tion ih Louisiana last month, it Editors insist that's exactly what to an abortion. But abortion oppo their reporters do. spoke of the state House of Repre nents would describe the legislation sentatives making a decision on "a as "protective" of the fetus. "I believe in the good judgment of woman's reproductive rights." the people on the staff," said Robert Wire sth-vices and many newspa The media generally have accept H. Giles, editor and publisher of The pers, including The Detroit News, ed the abortion rights view that there Detroit News. covered the same story by referring is no human life before birth. That is to the proposed legislation as "the why the media use the term fetus, At the Chicago Tribune, editor nation's harshest." That's the view of rather than words preferred by abor Jack Fuller commented: "We've abortion rights advocates; it is tion opponents- baby, unborn child made an awfully big effort to be "harsh" toward women's rights. But or "pre-born child." balanced, and I just don't see a abortion opponents regard the legis pro-choice bias." Editors say fetus is medically cor lation as benevolent - toward the rect, value-free and unemotional. Ac Fuller said he's not "blinded by a fetus. cording to the dictionary, a fetus pro-choice bias" since he personally Newsweek said last summer that does not become a babY until birth. favors some restriction on abortion. under new abortion regulations, But he doubts that abortion oppo "many women will be forced to seek But to the chagrin of abortion nents are satisfied with fairness. out-of-state abortions - incurring opponents, the media sometimes use travel expenses and losing time and "baby" when speaking of a fetus in a "They want support," Fuller said. ·income in the process." But abortion story that doesn't involve abortion. opponents argue that no one is forced Abortion opponents deny that. to have an abortion and that News Nancy Myers, director of commu But they're clearly worried that what week's statement is tantamount to nications for the National Right to they see as media support for the saying that if guns were outlawed, Life Committee, wants reporters to other side could have an enormous "many murderers would be forced to "recognize the validity of both sides impact on individual belief and the use knives." of the debate and . . . convey the political process. l Sony VHS HI-A Stereo VIdea Caaatte Recorder Features double azimuth Hi·Fi stereo recor· 4-head, HQ circuitry, com· · ding/playback, MTS/SAP pact size, ori·screen pro· reception, DA 4·head recor· g~ml 251M''~''" 791' $15 PER MONTH ' $24 PER MONTH '
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BY MARIA DOUGLAS advertising plays in misleading or de--,, Free Press Washington Staff ceiving consumers and how to ' WASHINGTON - When 24-year strengthen federal laws to bar such old Amy Herrick decided to terminate practices. A number of .women who her pregnancy two years ago by having visited such clinics are to testify at a an abortion, she searched her tele committee hearing Friday. phone directory and found what she Richard Doerflinger, associate di thought was an abortion clinic. rector, secretariat for Pro-Life Activi The AAA Women for Choice in. ties for the National Conference qf Manassas, Va., turned out to be a Catholic Bishops, said clinics usinp phony abortion clinic, Herrick said, deceptive advertising or practices are wher:e the "counselors" called her a only a fraction of the clinics that pro murderer, physically restrained her, vide true alternatives to abortions. ' and said she would burn in hell. "No clinic that deliberately lies to "I had nightmares every night for people should be operating," he said, three to four weeks," said Herrick. The director of the Manassas clinic, "These people should be in jail." which advertises under "abortion al Herrick is one of thousands of wom ternatives," denied wrongdoing. en who have been lured to centers that The director, who spoke on con!li advertise in phone books under "abor tion of not being named, said employ tion" or "abortion alternatives." The ees never tell women that the clinic women then were confronted by peo performs abortions and insisted the ple who tried to talk or scare them out clinic's advertising is not deceptive. of having an abortion. Lynn Taliento, a subcommittee staff investigator, had an experience The centers are the focus of a with the clinic that was similar to congressional investigation. Herrick's when she recently posed as a "We think it's fairly widespread," woman seeking an abortion. _ said Steven Jenning, staff director of Taliento said clinic employees the House Small Business subcommit asked how her parents would fe~l tee on regulation and business opportu about her killing their first grandchifd. nities. "These clinics . . . exercise a "I was feeling humiliated, guilty . :. hard sell pro-life argument." angry and confused," said Taliento. Jenning said the House panel will "Magnify those feelings for a woman try to determine the role yellow pages facing an unwanted pregnancy." THE FALLAC .Y :Private schools are better · because families have a stal(e Of the many ideas brought forth by individual schools be to offer parents some very intelligent critics of our arid children a clear alternative? Offer nation's schools, creating a system of ing real choices would require empow choice seems to offer the most expedi- 1 ering public schools with an opportuni tio1,1s overhaul. By making a school ty to develop their own creative system subject to free-market forces,: imaginations. I wonder how patient our the argument 1 nation would be with such an experi goes, the G. GARY ment. sclfools will ei- RIPPLE I would argue that choice already · ther improve or exists in various forms. Aggressive go out of busi parents lobby school administrators to ness. make certain their child is in the best 'But choice is courses, taught by the best teachers. a spperficial ex Families elect to move from one neigh planation for the borhood or school district to another exoellence of in and are frequently subsidized by Jaws de endent that allow for tax deductions on higher schools. Fam mortgage interest payments. Thus, it ilies who choose might appear that the only individuals to send their without choice are those who have not chiidren to my been aware of, interested in, can afford school make a to or are willing to exercise such sizable financial freedom. commitment to do so. This investment It is also important to remember fosters a sense of interest and involve that choice is a two-way street. If a ment on the part of parents, which is choice system is to work, a school will Bill may bring Idaho boycott
-.-vee ao a \JD ,..-.-· ~"" r""uncu-' ATERFORD TOWNSHIP residents are to block the dump. - Gwen Dempsey has Michigan was chosen in 1987 to , tied the abortion issue to accept low-level radioactive waste Idaho potatoes. from seven Midwest states because it Dempsey, a real es generates the most waste among Wtate agent~ said Monday she will go them. to Boise today to warn Idaho Gov. Township Supervisor Robert Cecil Andrus that abortion-rights Knoblauch said if Riga Township is activists around the nation will boy disqualified as a site, the tax will not e6tt Idaho's No. 1 product if he be collected. signs a restrictive abortion bill ap proved by the Legislature last week. ':- The bill would ban abortions except in cases..of rape, incest, severe fetai de{grmity or threat to the moth~r ~ "When I found that out, I imme diately thought1 'i'm·not eating any inore Idaho 'i)61:atoes,' "said Demp sey, a Republican canclidate for the state Senate. r I .:Abortion foes ~ say religion's~ role is inflated They point to other beliefs in movement
BY JACQUELYNN BOYLE Wichita, Kan., abortion clinic have Free Press Lansing Staff created interest in abortion protests Christine Jones gets angry with and protesters. what she calls the news media's "car Several of the people arrested in toon character" portrayal of abortion Kansas were from Michigan. Many protesters as zealots mouthing reli belong to Word of God, a religious gious tenets while storming abortion group with an especially active organi clinics. zation in the Ann Arbor area. Word of A leader of Washtenaw County God is one of a number of fundamen Rescue, a local arm of the national talist religious groups that routinely Operation Rescue organization, Jones participate in antiabortion demonstra acknowledges that a person's anti tions. abortion beliefs often are rooted in But antiabortion leaders in Michi religious teachings. gan say those sects are not the back But she and others who have cho bone of the movement. And their sen a more militant way of expressing mere presence in the state doesn't their abortion views than lobbying mean Detroit or Ann Arbor will be the legislators say the core of the so-called scene of a Wichita-like event, the rescue movement is simply the belief leaders say, pointing out that it was that life begins long before birth. much easier to target Wichita's two abortion clinics than it would be to · "The average pro-lifer can be a REBECCA COOK/Special to the Free Press ' professor or a doctor or a photogra attack metro Detroit's 39. pher. They come from all walks of life, National Operation Rescue leaders Pro-choice activists wearing white hats escort a woman into the Eastland Women's Clinic, 15921 Eight Mile Road in East Detroit recently ~· from all sociological and economic announced earlier this month that while an antiabortion protester tries to persuade her to not enter the clinic. Sidewalk counseling goes on at many abortion clinics in the Detroit': + stratifications of society. they are eyeing Asheville and Fayette area. . ' ville, N.C.; Little Rock, Ark.; Baton "They are your average human ' " beings out there. But they all have Rouge, La., and Fargo, N.D. walk counseling - talking to women block the doors, was March 29, Good be-chosen location. Not that Mills is knocking Right to , ' come to the conclusion that as soon as Still, Jones and Lynn Mills, spokes before they enter abortion clinics - Friday. "I think that's what the attraction Life, the antiabortion group that shuns · conception takes place, it becomes a woman for Detroit-area Operation goes on virtually every weekend at Mills' group plans an evening rally to activism is- you can see results," civil disobedience to concentrate on life," said Jones of Ann Arbor. Rescue activities, say they dream of clinics in metro Detroit. The last full Sept. 19 at Mercy College, followed said Mills of Livonia. "It takes years to influencing lawmakers. -~ Weeks of television and front bringing nationwide pressure on clin fledged Detroit area rescue, in which by pickets Sept. 21 at the homes of get through the political process. In Michigan's Right to Life organiza page-photo images of adults and chil ics in the Detroit area. dozens of people try to close a clinic or doctors who perform abortions. A that time, millions of babies are tion was the key force behind one law dren forming a human blockade at a Legal picketing and so-calle~ side- doctor's office by using their bodies to rescue is planned Oct. 19 at a still-to- killed." · .See ABORTION, Page 5A ., j •• · SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1991/DETROIT FREE PRESS SA
+Abortion Pro-choice groups set rally at Capitol LANSING - · Pro-choice groups foes decry hope at least 2,000 people will gather today for a rally at the state Capitol to • support congressional efforts to allow federally funded clinics to counsel connection women about abortion. The noon to 2 p.m. rally is spon sored by the National Organization for Women. Kim Gasoway-Ross, Michigan to religion spokeswoman for the group, said it will also protest a bill in the state House that would impose a waiting period on ABORTION, from Page 3A women who want abortions and re banning use of state Medicaid money quire them to be shown pictures of for poor women's abortions and anoth REBECCA COOK/Special to the Free Press developing fetuses and antiabortion er requiring parental consent for teen Patient escort Chris Hopper of Macomb County NOW stands Friday near information. agers seeking abortions. the door of Eastland Women's Clinic as antiabortion demonstrators, who "We hope to empower people. Barbara Listing, president of Right call themselves sidewalk counselors, march near her. When you bring people together for a to Life of Michigan, is used to fending rally like this, they realize they are not · off the notion that antiabortionists are mond contends antiabortionists are the what Smith-Redmond says is the idea alone, that many others share their motivated by religion. She said when ones trying to mislead the public. that one must be antiabortion to be views," she said. she joined many years ago, the presi· "They're saying it's not a religious godly. President George Bush has prom dent of her local group was an atheist. issue but a moral one. To that I say, Margy Long of Planned Parenthood ised to veto federal legislation that "I think the whole movement at where do your morals come from? Affiliates of Michigan sees religious would revoke the ban on abortion times has either been painted as a Your religious upbringing," said Smit)l-' zeal in the protests at her group's counseling at clinics that receive fed Catholic movement or a fundamental· Redmond of the Michigan Religious, facilities. eral support. Rally organizers hope to ist-Moral Majority movement. It may Coalition for Abortion Rights. "With the antiabortion people who convince demonstrators to lobby their be a way that certain segments of the The group, which includes Jews, are blocking clinics and attacking clin representatives and senators to over media wish to paint it," Listing said. Unitarians, Methodists, Presbyterians, ics, their reasoning is that they are ride the veto. But from a religious perspective on Evangelical Lutherans and Episcopa answering to a higher power. They the pro-choice side, Sarah Smith-Red- lians, was formed in 1975 to counter believe God sent them to do this." By ]acquelynn Boyle Page 6A • Saturday, Sept. 14, 1991 + ws for Thomas FLYING TO BEIRUT Sunnie Mann, ts less wife of the spirited; British hostage Jack Mann, nseermsure passes through Clarence London's ·Thomas Heathrow fairness to all parties concerned." Airport on Sen. Paul Simon, D-111., who said he Friday, on her was still undecided on the nomination, way to Beirut. noted in an interview outside the hear Her husband, a ing room that many committee mem bers thought Thomas' responses were 77 -year-old inconsistent and troubling. Nonethe former pilot, has been held in less, he said, "The probability is that he room. will be approved." Parks, of Detroit, handed out a. Lebanon since Senate staff members said that it statement charging that Thomas, if May 1989. She was possible the vote would be close in confirmed, would accelerate a Su said he looked the committee, eight of whose 14 preme Court trend of "turning its back terrible in a members are Democrats, but that he on the undeniable fact of discrimination photo shown would be approved and probably go on and exclusion, ruling that anti-discrimi recently by his to be confirmed by a wide margin in the nation laws and remedies have gone captors, but Senate itself. too far." rumors are he Black activists, well aware of polls Thomas will return for his final ' might be freed. in which most African-American re questioning Monday, after which his spondents supported Thomas, stepped supporters and opponents will be up pressure on the Judiciarv Commit- ' hS!>.-rt }JJ.(;aUtU HU \..VH\...... _~... .._ slaughter, is serving 18 to 24 months. have ucense~ nave 1engmy recoras, your plate 1s I
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PAULI NE LUBENS/Detroit Free Press Cathy Shollack of the Pregnancy Counseling Center in LIVOIUa SitS m a counsenng room at toe cenier on rri~ay. -;~e cen~e~ ;. vunge~c;.~ Lutheran counselors discourage women from abortion, and pro-choice activists say such centers deceive women seeking abortion counseling. ttf~,y-h Pro-choicers assail 'fake clinics' Pro-choice activists in Michigan Picketed Livo~ia center denies deception · have identified 21 centers in the Detroit area and 44 outstate that are BY FRANK BRUNI women, then subject them to scare run by pro-life concerns but don't Free Press Staff Writer tactics. divulge that in their advertising, said The yellow-pages listing for the The center's counselors say they Renee Chelian, administrator of Pregnancy Counseling Center in Li never tell women the center provides Northland Family Planning Clinics in vonia falls' under the heading "Abor abortions or abortion referrals. If the Detroit area. tion Alternative Organizations," but women emerge scared about abor Chelian, who helped organize Fri some women see only the word abor tion, that's because the truth is day's demonstration, said a few of tion, or don't understand what alter frightening , they say. these'centers bill themselves as abor T .omas native means. "If somebody told you someone tion clinics. They call the center asking for a ·was going to stick a vacuum hose into But most, like the Livonia center, free pregnancy test and abortion in you, wouldn't you be scared?" said advertise under abortion alterna tives, Chelian said. formation and are told, truthfully, counselor Lynn Cherundolo of Livo Demonstrators march on Friday nia. Doreen Barber, 23, a pro-choice they can get both. in front of the center as part of But the information provided by The demonstration coincided with activist, said she went irito the Livo the center's Evangelical Lutheran a U.S. congressional hearing Friday nationwide protests against what nia center Thursday and told them counselors is intended to discourage into allegations of deception by coun pro-choicers call fake clinics. she thought she was pregnant. women from abortion. Some women seling centers that don't disclose While she awaited the result of a are shown a video of "The Silent their antiabortion biases. "At these fake clinics there are no tes{, Cherundolo told her abortion was a sin that would haunt her for the Scream;" which gruesomely depicts Rep. Ron Wyden1 D-Ore., re doctors, nurses or other trained the procedure. leased a report charging that as many health care personnel," he said. "In rest of her life, Barber' said. Pro-choice activists, who demon as 2,000 such centers exist national fact, these so-called medical facilities Cherundolo denied using the word strated outside the center Friday as ly. Wyden said women are misled by are simply fronts for abusive anti "sin," but said she makes clear to part of a string of nationwide protests advertising that makes it difficult to abortion campaigning." women that God's will is against against what they call fake clinics, say distinguish between antiabortion Antiabortion activists, who _were abortions. She said she tries not to the center and 20 others like it in the counseling centers and medical clin excluded from the hearing, de shame women but to help them see Detroit area deceive vulnerable ics providing abortion services. nounced it as a kangaroo court. what's right. room. Parks, of Detroit, -~~ ~---..... ~~------terrible in a ------~ .... ~rJri A said that it statement charging that be close in confirmed, would accelerate a photo shown of whose 14 preme Court trend of "turning its back recently by his but that he on the undeniable fact of discrimination captors, but probably go on and exclusion, ruling that anti-discrimi rumors are he margin in the nation laws and remedies have gone might be freed. too far." Thomas return for his final aware of polls will merican re questioning Monday, after which his Thomas, stepped supporters and opponents will be Judiciary Commit- hP:m1 4,500 anti-abortion activists form 9-mile chain; pro-choice group comes out, too man chain that began at McNichols - Lifespan and Christian Activist Jackson. Nationwide, organizers :Defend Abortion Rights chanted By Trevor W. Coleman in Detroit and went north to 13 Mile Network, and was among six in claimed more than 665,000 people "Racist, Sexist, Anti-Gay, Born THE DETROIT NEWS in Royal Oak. Michigan on Sunday and 341 nation formed chains in nearly 350 cities. Again Bigots, Go Away!" Diane "This is a peaceful way to let wide, said Diane Trombley, a spokes About 25 pro-choice activists held Stern said they wanted to show that More than 4,500 anti-abortion people know that abortion is not woman for the organization. a counterdemonstration directly activists braved cold autumn winds anti-abortion groups do not repre abol,lt a woman's right (to choose), She said about 40 churches and across the street from the anti-abor sent everyone's views. to line up along a nine-mile route on ·it's about a child's life," said Therese anti-abortion organizations from tion activists in Detroit. They + Woodward on Sunday to draw atten Faletti of Allen Park, as she stood Metro Detroit participated in the claimed the anti-abortion activists "We're here to show we defend tion to the abortion issue. near McNichols with more than two chain. were part of a conservative attempt abortion rights and gay rights and . Holding hands and large blue and dozen· other protesters. Trombley, of TroY', said there to chip away at Americans' civil that basically the right wing doesn't white placards reading, "Abortion The second annual "Life Chain" were "life chains" in Kalamazoo, rights and liberties. represent the majority of people," Kills Childqm," they formed a hu- was sponsored,., by the Right to Life Fenton, Grand Rapids, Bad Axe and . As members of the Coalition to Stern said. ... 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.( f ·- ,.. ·-ACtivists link up~ . ~ against~ .abortion 'Life chains 'form across state, nation BY NANCY ANN JEFFREY AND MICHELE VERNON-CHESLEY Free Press Staff Writers julie Pregitzer was young, unmar ried, uneducated and pregnant. She didn't feel ready to become a mother. She thought about abortion. Her mother even offered to pay for it. But her conscience wouldn't let her do it. She decided to have the baby. On Sunday, joining rows of anti, abortion demonstrators in a "life . chain" along Woodward Avenue, Pregitzer, 18, cradled her 10-month old daughter, Alycia Croteau, in her arms. "I don't feel like my road was easy or right," said Pregitzer, who now lives with her fiance, the baby's fa ther, in Wayne. "But this is a human being. It's not just a bunch of cells." Pregitzer stood near the Detroit Zoo, roughly the halfway point of the chain, which stretched - with many missing links - up Woodward from McNichols in Detroit to 13 Mile Road in Royal Oak. Organizers estimated a turnout of about 5,000, but that couldn't be confirmed. The demonstration was part of a coordinated event that saw about 350 similar chains in 42 states, organizers said. Large chains were planned in cities· such as St. Louis, Houston, Phoenix, Ariz., and Orlando, Fla. Mini-chains were organized in small towns such as Farmer City, lli., and Swainsboro, Ga. See ABORTION, Page 3B George Bush over two top Democrats, U.S: Sen. · L Tom Harkin of Iowa and Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton, according to a statewide poll. The survey, released today by the newsletter "Inside Michigan Politics," said 60 percent would pick Bush over Harkin, while 18 percent favored Harkin; 22 percent were · undecided. Against Clinton, Bush got 58 percent support to Clinton's 18 percent; 24 percent were undecided. The editor of the newsletter, William Ballenger, said the survey shows Bush will be tough to beat in Michigan. "Bush ... is in a stronger position against any of a number of potential Democratic nominees than any sitting Republican president has been in for almost 70 years," said ;Ballenger, a former Republican state lawmaker. The telephone survey of 800 :registered voters was done ISept. 3-12 by Marketing Resource Group Inc. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points. STATE !People must register 1today to vote Nov. 5 LANSING- Today is the !deadline to register to cast ballots in city elections across the state on Nov. 5. About 200 Michigan cities will hold elections that day. Citizens who want to register or update their voter registration information may do so at any Secretary of State branch office, or at county, city or township clerk's office. OAKLAND .Inmates may be moved ~ to ease overcrowding PONTIAC - Inmates at the Oakland County Jail could be :moved to cells in Allegan and Iosco Counties under a plan to ease overcrowding. Oakland County Sheriff John Nichols last week warned Abortion + protesters ·form chain ABORTION, from Page 1B In Michigan, life chains were held in ·Fenton, Kalamazoo, Bad Axe, Grand Rapids and Jackson. Sunday's chain was the second in the Detroit area. The first chain was formed in 1987 in the rural California towns of Yuba City and Marysville. Others spread across the country in 1990. Carrying blue-lettered signs read ing "Abortion Kills Children," demon strators stood shoulder-to-shoulder on crowded blocks in Royal Oak, but just a few to a block in much of northern Detroit. The demonstrators were greeted with honks of support and obscene gestures from passing motor ists. Not all the horns were honking for the abortion foes. A group of four counter-demonstrators also drew reac tions from drivers. "We're getting more honks than them," said Cori Benitez of Royal Oak. "Poverty and stupidity kill, not abortion," Benitez shouted as antiabor tion activists chanted slogans her way. Benitez said she heard about the counter-demonstration at a recent Na tional Organization for Women rally in ,Lansing. She said more demonstrators were supposed to hit the streets in Detroit. "I feel like I need·to speak up, use my voice right where I live," said Benitez, 29. Leaders of Metro Detroit Right to Life-Lifespan, which cosponsored Sun day's chain with the Christian Activist Network, stressed their demonstra tion had no connection to Operation Rescue, the militant antiabortion group that led six weeks of protests in Wichita, Kan., and has hinted that Michigan may be next. The Detroit News AND~~!!~
Monday, October 7, 1991
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Another shows babies floating in clouds. through a cloudy sky while a narrator claims more women with "crisis pregnancies" might choose adoption "These ads certainly take the edge off this group and if it were more readily available. The other ad delivers its message," said Thomas Shields, Lansing-based Re the same message while showing a crying baby wrapped publican media consultant. in red tape. "Aft;er that stuff in Kansas and reports about fire Political experts describe the ads as part of a strategic bombing abortion clinics, they may be looking for a shift away from a more aggressive "abortion is murder" softer image." · message. The softer, less confrontational pitch is a bid to Thousands of anti-abortion protesters were arr_ested attract moderates to the anti-abortion cause, analysts say. Please see Anti·abortion, 5C . -••- • .--. nli.lllllli zaniest r Experience the ride of a life never bt time! 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The ~ta~ has ?een a trend-setter in the a.nti - a~ortwn movement, with tac tics tned here often adopted by other states. . Listing denied the ads are an Image-changing attempt. "~e have been trying to promote adoptwn for years," she said. "We've not been able to place the resources there. Because we didn't have to worry about a petition drive or refer en~a, we are able to put money into this." The Michigan chapter is spending more than $350,000 on the two 30- secon? television ads that promote adoptwn. The spots will air during local and national news programs on 16 network affiliates through Jan. 15. · Three stations, including WXYZ-TV tChannel 7) in Detroit, have refused to run the spots, saying they're too controversial. The commercials are the first salvo from Right to Life of Michigan in several months. That hiatus is perhaps surprising because the group has a sympathizer in the governor's office for the first time since the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court abortion decision was handed down 18 years ago. The only abortion-restriction leg islation pushed by Right to Life this year - a measure that would require pregnant women to view pictures of a fetus and then wait 24 hours before having an abortion - was passed by the Senate in May. The group has been almost invisible since. Leaders on both sides of the abor tion issue cite two reasons why there has been no avalanche of anti-abor tion legislation under Engler: • The governor, neck-deep in politi cal woes over state budget cuts, has prevailed on Right to Life to. keep a low profile. Given that abortion Is a divisive, emotional issue, the la~t . thing the governor needs to do now IS trigger more resentment. • Abortion foes are awaiting a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court on the Roe vs. Wade decision before charg ing ahead. Many expect the. h~g~ court soon will overturn or sigmfi cantly limit the scope of the 1973 ruling. . Listing said her group beheves that if Roe vs. Wade were struck down, the state would revert to a law ~ t....,.,s abortions except when a ...... - ;:,aguenay (ar), i2·. 55; Andre o: Gouveia ~ar) , 8:30; Sam Laud, '9:01'i. P.M.- Marita Leonhardttar), 12:15; ~. ·'\.. sucK.eye, 3·.00; ShipbroK.er tel) , 3:55; ... Philip R. ClarK.e, 4:30; Kiis\a, 4:45; H.M. Griffith, 5:20; Sennevil\e, 5:35. ,,. oownbound Friday A.M . - cason J. Callaway, 12:05; Win doc, 3:00; Alexis (cl), 5:50; Wil\owgl- " en , 9:35; Winnipeg, 11:25. P.M. - Presque Isle, 1:00; Nea Tyhi, "' 1 :00; Silver Isle, 3:05; Buffalo, 4:30; Tarantau, 7:25; Canadian Navigator, • ~ 7:30; Arthur N. Anderson, 8:45; Mid-" · dletown, 10:00; Calcite II, 10:30; Joho G. Munson, 11:10. (ar)- arrived; (cl)- cleared. ttr ..
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a ~~~~bWISH TO PLACE ranee tor a Ia d 0M"6k/~":ts~ contact Jis ~ Information ~~d~ls~ts'\~!'!~e ~ ------Anti-abortion: Ad aims for better image after turmoil From page 1C in August when they blockaded a clinic in Wichita, Kan., in violation of a federal court order. The protest was organized by the militant Opera tion Rescue group, not Right to Life, but brought widespread criticism to all anti-abortion org~mizations. National anti-abortion groups have no current plans to pick up the 11ds, said Barbara Listing, president of Right to Life of Michigan. The state has been a trend-setter in the anti-abortion movement, with tac tics tried here often adopted by other states. Listing denied the ads are an image-changing attempt. "We have been trying to promote adoption for years," she said. "We've not been able to place the resources there. ·Because we didn't have to worry about a petition drive or refer enda, we are able to put money into this." The Michigan chapter is spending more than $350,000 on the two 30- second television ads that promote adoption. The spots will air during local and national news programs on 16 network affiliates through Jan. 15 . . Three stations, including WXYZ-TV ~Ghannel 7) in Detroit, have refused to run the spots, saying they're too controversial. The commercials are the first salvo from Right to Life of Michigan in several months. That hiatus is perhaps surprising because the group has a sympathizer in the governor's 0ffice for the first time since the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court abortion decision was handed down 18 years ago. The only abortion-restriction leg islation pushed by Right to Life this year - a measure that would require pregnant women to view pictures of a fetus and then wait 24 hours before having an abortion - was passed by the Senate in May. The group has been almost invisible since. Leaders on both sides of the abor tion issue cite two reasons why there has been no avalanche of anti-abor tion legislation under Engler: • The governor, neck-deep in politi cal woes over state budget cuts, has prevailed on Right to Life to keep a low profile. Given that abortion is a divisive, emotional issue, the last thing the governor needs to do now is trigger more resentment. • Abortion foes are awaiting a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court on the Roe vs. Wade decision before charg ing ahead. Many expect the high court soon will overturn or signifi cantly limit the ·scope of the 1973 ruling. Listing said her group believes that if Roe vs. Wade were struck down, the state would revert to a law that bans abortions except when a mother's life is in danger. "We do feel a reversal of Roe vs. Wade is imminent, so we don't want to do anything that might jeopardize the old state statute," Listing said. Listing also noted that Right to Life will spend more than $100,000 in legal fees this year defending two other laws it championed ~ the Medicaid-funded abortion ban and the statute requiring that teen-agers get the signed consent of a parent or a iudge before obtaining an abortion. - .::>ayut:lrray (CIIJ, r.:::oo; Allurt:l ue )Uveia (ar), 8:30; Sam Laud, '<1:00. - Marita Leonhardt (ar), 12:15; Jckeye, 3:00; Shipbroker (cl), 3:55; " iilip R. Clarke, 4:30; Kii sla, 4:45; M. Griffith, 5:20; Senneville, 5:35. , )Wnbound Friday -Cason J. Callaway, 12:05 ; Win >C, 3:00; Alexis (cl), 5:50; Willowgl- ' 9:35; Winnipeg, 11 :25. " - Presque Isle, 1 :00; Nea Tyhi, .... DO; Silver Isle, 3:05; Buffalo, 4:30; ~ rantau, 7:25; Canadian Navigator, 30; Arthur N. Anderson, 8:45; Mid-" atown, 10:00; Calcite II, 10:30; Joho Munson, 11:10. -arrived; (cl)- cleared. ------., .. ,. .; ) ~---- rr ------~• WIEDELMAN
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ICffiTA, Kan.- A ·; wstate district judge ruled Tues~y that life begins at conception and overturned the sentence .of an abortion protester convicted of criminal trespassing at a clinic. Sedgwick County District Judge Paul Clark said that Ann Tilson's "wrongful act is forgiven in the eyes of the law under the doctrine of justification by necessity." She had appealed her conviction, saying the harm she. sought to prevent was of greater community concern than the -I crime she committed.