Rice Attacks Abortion Decision

OD The Inside 10 fail-safe steps ... page 2 Fashion at N D ... page 7 serving the notre dame -st. mary's community Vol. VIII, No. 114 Thursday, April 25, 1974 Asks for support · Rice attacks abortion decision by Pat Hanifin Rice strongly criticized the courts historical analysis process right to the fetus from the moment of con Staff Reporter of the meaning of the 14th amendment guarantee. ception while the Buckley amendment also grants "The court admitted the right to life would be primary these rights but is not explicit about when they begin to if it was dealing with persons, but since it claimed it apply. Appealing to Notre Dame and St. Mary's was not the mother's right to privacy was the deciding students for support in the "grass roots" factor," he said: "It is important that the fetus be protected from the fight for a constitutional amendment to "The court's ruling was a lot wider than many people moment of conception when its unique genetic en outlaw abortion, Dr. Charles Rice of the realize," Rice explained. "For the first three months dowment makes it human, since there are a number of Notre Dame Law School attacked the the only thing the state can do is to require that the new chemical abortificants which work very early in abortion be done by a doctor. Up until viability, the pregnancy," Rice pointed out. He elaborated, "upjohn Supreme Court's abortion decision for point where the fetus can survive outside the womb, has a pill licensed by the FDA called 'Prostogen-F2- making "innocent human beings non the state can make regulations to protect the mother's Aipha which will abort the fetus any time up to six persons without any legal rights." He help, as requiring it to be done in a hospital. After months after conception. Soome birth control pills predicted eventual victory for the amend viability, which occurs between 24 and 28 weeks, the might actually work as abortificants instead of ment rn<Jvement. state can prohibit abortions if they are not needed to ·preventing conception." Rice, along with Notre Dame student Keefe Mon protect the mother's life or he~.l~h." · tgomery and Therese Bush from St. Mary's, spoke at Rice stressed the grass-roots nature of the anti Galvin Auditorium last night. The three argued that " ••. there is no place you abortion campaign which he claimed would insure its the embryo and fetus are human and explained the ultimate success. "This involves a lot of private various types of abortions and what could be done can draw the line once citizens, particularly housewives who are willing to politically. Montgomery pointed out "positive alter spend a lot of effort on something they believe in. It is natives to abortion" and Rice predicted that the next you admit not dire.Ued by the hierachy or restricted to any one battle would be over euthanasia. religious group." He pointed to success in abortion you can take a life ... " referendums in Michigan and North Dakota, and thought the chances of amendment passing Congress Using slJdes, Montgomery talked about the Rice went on to say that health was interpreted so eventually were good "based on the favorable roll call development of the fetus, pointed out that babies as votes on subsidiary issues such as conscience clauses much as 16 weeks premature have been saved while broadly that any woman who can get a doctor to say she would suffer emotional harm from having a child and item in foreign aid bills." fetuses that young are deliberately killed. He Rice appealed to student to support the fight for an described the various types of abortions currently can have an abortion. He concluded, "This boils down to abortion on demand and according to the Population amendment, asking not only for work but also for used. prayers. "The most common is the suction method," Mon Council's statistics it will result in 1.6 to 2.0 million togomery began, "used between seven and twelve legal abortions this year." weeks. In this type the fetus is sucked up a tube placed Montgomery listed several "positive alternatives to abortion, which is basically very negative. The in up the vagina and often torn to pieces in the process." Rice claimed that there are no actual cases any more Another common method is "D and C", dilitation and cluded adoption, special counselling of women who where an abortion in the legal sense of the term is become pregnant outside marriage, and education of curatage, in which the fetus is scraped out of the necessary to save a mother's life. Montgomery cited womb, dismembered, and removed. "Salt poisoning the general public. statistics that abortions were a greater danger to the Rice predicted that a new battle would have to be and an operation similar to a Caeserian are also used," mother than bringing the fetus to term. "In any case Montgomery added. fought soon over euthanasia, causing death in ter the problem is largely academic now that no real minally ill patients. He mentioned a Florida bill which "The Supreme Court in Roe vs. Wade essentially reason is needed." Rice pointed out. would allow a panel of three doctors to "pull the plug" legalized abortion on demand," Rice said, explaining or even use direct means to kill a patient if they the legal status of abortion. He compared the decision "The only way to reverse the courts decision," Rice thought further care would only be useful and painless to the Dred Scott case in 1857 in which the Court ruled ar~ued, "is to get a constitutional amendment adopted if the patient was incompetent and had no relatives to that slaves were things, not people. which would extend the due process and right to life decide for him. "The proponents of euthanasia will Rice said, "The Court in Roe did not even think it guarantees of the Fifth and Fourteen Amendments to start with the most path,etic cases, just as they did with necessary to decide whether the fetus is human or not,. the embryo and fetus." There are two different abortion and then use them as precedents," Rice ex saying that in either case it would not be a person amendment proposals before Congress now Rice plained, "The problem is that there is no place you can unnPr the 14th Amendment." explained. The Hogan Amendment extends the due draw the line once you admit you can ta:ke a life." Dr. Glasser outlines discipline program by Maria Gallagher "This is probably not true," Glasser said. "The Staff Reporter reason most of us are disciplined today is most likely A 10-step "fail-safe" program for realizing the not from fear of punishment, but from the more "impossible dream" of discipline was presented last positive attitude 'it pays for me to obey rules and regulations.' This has to be learned." night by Dr. William Glasser at O'Laughlin Auditorium last night. Glasser bel~eves that discipline cannot be imposed Glasser, a psychologist noted for his study of the on someone; It must be built from inside. nature of behavioral problems, claims his method of "The challenge to schools is to create environment in dealing with "problem" children works 100 per cent of which it can be learned," Glasser said. "We should the time if followed in chronological order .s dev~lop an atmosphere where the child will say 'This is a mce place to be-why should I want to break the "If it worked in a reform school for the 400 most rules?", delinquient girls in California, it can work in public schools," he believes. "A democratic society depends on people doing the "But there is no easy answer to discipline right thing," Glasser said. "If a large group of people problems," emphasized Glasser. "People seem to don't do the right thing, that's the end of democracy think that an easy answer to 'Why doesn't Johnny stop and a totalitarian state is needed to enforce order. it?' exists somewhere, but our 5,000 to 10,000 years of People must be taught the value of doing the right experience show that no simple answer exists." thing, because it's the basis of our country as we know Glasser's theory rest~ on the premise that "Johnny it." must know it would be good for him to "stop it"; in The way in which a school imparts this value is of fact, he ought not to start it. His somewhat prime importance. "revolutionary" theory departs from the traditional in that. no punishment or rewards are used to reinforce "All discipline problems have at their root a child behavior. with bad image of himself, and the problems stem Punishment "doesn't work" from the child's effort to get rid of that pain. For ~xaJ?ple, if a child constantly disrupts a Classroom, it "We should know by now that punishment doesn't IS his way of asking for recognition, for attention," work as a motive for good behavior," Glasser said. "If Glasser said. "A child behaves the way he looks at it did, it would have worked by now." himself. If he lives in a good environment which Glasser cited the prison system as an example: recognizes and responds to his worth, it will teach him "The high rate of recidivism shows that punishment is self-discipline. Obviously punishment does not affirm ineffective. Prisoners don't stop committing crimes a child's worth." because they don't think it's particularly good or Glasser is convinced that if behavioral problems are beneficial to stop.

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