2—The Daily Collegian Wednesday, bee. 15, 1982
Abortion appeal could go pro-choice or pro-lif • e
By BONNIE MORTER
Collegian Staff Writer
While the state's Abortion Control Act
pends before the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals, both pro-life and pro-choice groups
are optimistic that the court will rule in their
favor.
Deborah Dilliard, president of Penn State
Students for Life, said she expected the court
to refuse Planned Parenthood Affiliates an
injunction the group sought last week, but did
not expect an immediate appeal.
She also said the 24-hour waiting period,
which was the only section of the act re
strained by the judge, should eventually be
reincorporated into the act.
But Beth Miller, secretary of Students for
Reproductive Rights, and Barbara Nissley,
education director for Harrisburg Reproduc
tive Services, said the 24-hour waiting period
is the most "absurd section" of the proposed
act.
Nissley reported that, 95 percent of the
women who come to clinics have made their
decision well in advance of their appointment.
If patients seem unsure during counseling,
Nissley said the clinic discusses alternative
options with them and sometimes suggests
the patient go home and think about it.
"The waiting period just isn't necessary,"
she said. "Women either have to make two
trips to the clinic or stay overnight. Either
way, it means extra costs and a loss of two
days' pay if she must miss work."
Nissley said the waiting period can cause
an unnecessary delay for women, when be
cause of scheduling conflicts with the clinic,
they are unable to get the second appointment
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for more than a week. Time is very crucial
when the woman is trying to make sure she
gets the abortion before the end of the first
trimester, she said.
However, Dilliard disagreed: "The 24-hour
waiting period would make abortion just like
any other form of surgery," she said. "You
have to wait to have your wisdom teeth
pulled. You have to fill out forms and wait for
that type of surgery, so why should abortion
procedures be any different?"
The additional 24 hours would help stop
women from making hasty decisions, Dilliard
said. She cited Women Exploited, a national
group, of women who think they were rushed
into a decision to have an abortion, as proof
that the waiting period is essential.
Other sections of the act, including counsel
ing by the doctor, hospitalization for women
'undergoing abortions who are more than
three months pregnant and attempts to save
the aborted fetus also are crucial if abortions
are to be viewed as surgery, she said. The act
does not prohibit abortions. It works for the
benefit of the mother's health and the health
of the unborn child.
Larry Rice, president of the Newinan Stu
dent Association of the Penn State Catholic
Center, which works closely with Students for
Life, sided with Dilliard.
While Rice's pro-life beliefs are based on
his faith, he said abortion is a moral issue and
is not based on a person's denomination.
"A lot of people think pro-life is run out of
the back door of the church, but that's just not
true." he said. "Students for Life is an exam
ple of a diverse group which opposes abor
tion."
Rice said counseling should be done by the
`doctor and not just any nurse or social worker
because in the past women have not always
understood the complications that can occur.
For example, women in their third trimes
ter are often shocked when their abortions
result in live births, he said.
However, Rice_ said he could not condone
hospitalization for abortions because "there
is no difference between a murder performed
in a clinic and.one performed in a hospital."
Nissley said she opposes counseling by the
physician because it increases the cost of the
procedure and can just as easily be explained
by a trained clinician. She also said she
opposes required hcepithlization because
"clinics have the required equipment and can
reduce patient cost."
Nissley said many changes would have to
be made at clinics if the act goes into 'affect.
Harrisburg Reproductive Healt'. Services
would increase fees from $l9O to $215 to cover
extra costs. Nissley said proof of age would be
required to ensure the proper procedures for
minors. In addition, parents of minors would
be required to provide proper identification.
Dilliard and Rice said minors should be
required to seek parental approval, as pro
posed in the act. Dilliard asked why minors
should be allowed to have "major surgery"
on their own approval when they have to get a
parent's permission to go on a field trip in
high school.
Miller said she objects to judicial consent
(as an alternative to parental consent) for
minors. •
"How can the judge decide she is not
mature enough to have an abortion and then
assume she'll be mature enough to be a
mother?" Miller said.
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Nissley said she would like another option
added for minors where clinic documentation
would allow exceptions so that they could
make their own decisions. She said she does
not oppose parental consent, but thinks the
current act does not offer enough alterna
tives.
Rice said he expected the quick appeal by
pro-choice last week, but thinks the act will
eventually become law.
"It's a good sign that the Supreme court is
also reconsidering the issue. It's not an isolat
ed state debate. Pro-choice is being fought all
over the country," he said.
Miller said she thinks the act's measures
will be softened even if it does go into effect,
but predicts it will eventually be wiped out.
"It will take opposing legislation to get rid'
of it, but I'm optimistic becuase the new
election brought more pro-choice people into
the legislature," she said..
Nissley said the appeal granted Thursday
was a "delightful shock" to her clinic.*
"It's impossible to predict what will happen
now," she said. "We never even expected
Gov. Thornburgh to veto the original act last
November."
She said the biggest hope of pro-choice
advocates now is for the temporary injunction
to last until the Supreme Court decides the
issue again. The Supreme Court will clarify
the issue about when states can and cannot
interfere, she said.. Nissley estimates the
Supreme Court will not reach a decision until
spring at the earliest.
r In the meantime, Nissley said the pro
choice battle will be easier since state Rep.
Gregg L. Cunningham, R-Centre County, was
voted out of office.
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Cunningham represented the 77th District,
which includes State College, in his last term.
After legislative reapportionment, Cunning
ham decided to run in the newly-formed 171st
District. He was defeated by Democrat Ruth
Rudy in November's election.
"There are still some pro-life advocates in
office like Stephen Freind, R-Delaware Coun
ty, but none as demanding as, Cunningham.
He's proof that if you anger enough people,
you can be defeated," Nissley said.
"The whole bill is an invasion of privacy
and religious liberty," she said. "There has
been no conclusion on when personhood, not
only life, begins or when the rights of the
unborn outweigh those of the woman."
Dilliard said the majority opinion of Penn
State Students for Life is that abortion should
not be performed under any circumstances,
including rape or incest.
Rape victims may obtain a drug, which, if
taken within 72 hours of the rape, will prevent
a pregnancy, she said. Therefore, there is no
reason for an abortion.
Rice agreed that abortion should be prohib
ited in all instances and went one step fur
ther:
"I don't think rape victims should be allow
ed to take a pill to prevent pregnancy," Rice
said. "That's abortion too."
He said a big problem with pro-choice
groups is that they turn out to be pro-abortion
and not pro-choice.
Pro-life groups have support from Attordey
General Leßoy Zimmerman, who asked the
appeals court Friday to lift the injunction and
install the act. Zimmerman said he made the
request because the plaintiffs' arguments
would probably not hold up in court.
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Organization brings pets to elderly
By ANTHONY HUGHES
Collegian Staff Writer
Who ever thought that a little dog standing only
inches from the ground could save an elderly
woman's life?
It happened just ask Mary Trostle of State
College.
Trostle got her dog through People and Ani
mals Coming Together, a Centre County organi
zation that brings the elderly and pets together.
"Sometimes I give her credit for saving my
life, " she said of her dog.
Last month Trostle fell in her backyard and
broke her hip. She yelled for help, but said that•it
wasn't until her dog. started baiking that neigh
bors came to see what was wrong.
'Sometimes I give her credit for saving my life.'
To Daniel Lago, assistant professor of human
development at the University, there is a lot of
truth to the adage that dogs are man's best ,
friends. Lago is conducting a four-year study of
PACT to determine how owning pets affects the
elderly.
PACT, which is funded by the Green Island
Foundation, a privately-owned grant organiza
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Dogs really are man's best friend, Lago says
tion, will give people 55 or older an animal at
their request. Pets make the elderly feel useful
and can provide the companionship they may
need, he said.
The placement of a pet is done carefully be
cause PACT is mainly concerned with the
relationship between the animal and its owner.
The animals are either donated by membirs of
the community or animal shelters, and are kept
by their new owners for life.
After a pet' is placed in a home, PACT assigns
volunteers to assist in its grooming, feeding and
transportation to. the veterinarian. The volun
teers try to show the owner that the animal is
special.
Lago has been studying about 65 PACT partici
pants for a year, but said it is too soon to tell if the
Mary Trostie, State College pet owner
overall program has been a success.
At the end of Lago's research, the mental and
physical success rates of PACT recipients will be
compared with those elderly people who never
owned a pet, those who used to own a pet and
those who have pets not placed by PACT.
Lago said the Green Island Foundation has
granted him $190,000 to conduct his research thus
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