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Show THE UTAH INDEPENDENT January 22. 1971 Rtge 3 live Abortions (Continued from Ifcge 2) survived, developed normally, and was up for adoption. The disclosures were made by Dr. Jean Pakter, director of maternity and family planning services for the New York Department of Public Health. She said all of the abortions probably were performed within the time limit set by the law which allows abortions up to the 24th week of pregnancy but conceded that some women miscal- culate the time at which they become pregnant. A spokesman for the New York district attorney said it appeared that no element of criminality was involved in the cases. The office of the state attorney general 6aid any legal action was up to the district attorney. The head of the legal department of the American Medical Association said he was horrified at the disclosures and stressed that the AMA is violently opposed to abortion late in pregnancy. Commented Bernard Hirsh: Its just horrible, whether you call it murder or anything else... I would hope that the New York law will be changed. I think it is an evil thing. Anybody in his right mind would say it is horrible. The New York State Public Health Council called for legislative action to reduce the time limit for abortions to 20 weeks of pregnancy. (Even before this, legislation to set the time limit at 12 weeks had been prefiled in the state legislature.) In another development, it was announced that the state attorney general had begun an investigation of the fees charged by abortion referral agencies in the state. Assistant Atty. Gen. Stephen Mindell said the state was concerned that women from outside New York may be paying more than a fair and reasonable rate for abortion referral. New York news media have given relatively little attention to the recent disclosures of prod blems with the law. On January 4, the York Times carried an iXew article by Lawrence Lader, chairman of the executive committee of the National Assoication for Repeal of Abortion Laws, in which he warned darkly of the possible wrecking of the law by attempts to amend it. However, the Chicago Tribune , which first broke the story on the live abortions, said the New York law comes disquiet-ingl- y close to legalizing murder by nearly everyones definition. The Tribune added in an editorial (December 19, 1970): Abortion so late that the aborted fetus is hard to tell from a naturally premature baby are too late to deserve legal sanction. Surely there is a national consensus on that. abortion-on-deman- By Tom Anderson AN IMPORTANT MEETING CANCELLED This has never been printed before, but President Nixon is so worried about George Wallace that he pressured President Thieu of South Vietnam into canceling his appointment with Wallace when Wallace visited South Vietnam in November, 1969. deta'ls of how it all happened: Heres the b Two conservative patriots, interested in Wallace broadening his knowledge of world affairs, conceived, arranged, and paid for his trip to Southeast Asia. One of the patriots visited South Vietnam, South Korea, Nationalist China, Laos, and the United Nations Center in New York to lay the groundwork in order to get Wallace officially invited by the heads of state of the above countries. All of them responded favorInvitations came to the ably, some very enthusiastically. Alabama Governor by telephone and by mail. An official of South Vietnam called one of the trip's sponsors, arranged to meet him and then fly to Montgomery to personally extend the invitation from Pres. Thieu to visit him in Saigon. During the conversation, Governor Wallace asked the Vietnamese official what Mr. Thieu would do if the White House objected to President Thieu visiting with Governor Wallace at the Palace in Saigon. The official replied: President Nixon is the President of the United States and President Thieu is the President of South Vietnam. President Thieu will see Governor Wallace. Shortly after this conversation, Mr. Ziegler, Secretary to President Nixon, was informed of the trip and told President Nixon about it. Shortly after, the group of six, including Governor Wallace, arrived in Saigon. They had a long visit with U. S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, who informed them that everything was all set and Governor Wallace would be escorted to the Presidential Palace for a 6 P.M. visit the following Wednesday with President Thieu. Ambassador Bunker expressed his and President Nixons delight that Governor Wallace and President Thieu would visit; About 30 minutes before the scheduled visit, a South Vietnamese official hesitantly and shamefacedly informed Governor Wallaces sponsor that President Thieu would not ow-by-bl- be able to see Governor Wallace. 'The sponsor, more interested in integrity than in diplomacy, instinctively grabbed the Vietnamese official by both lapels, eycballed him in rage and demanded: Why? The official replied apologetically that perhaps in a year or so he could tell him why. To date, the only why definitely known is that Ambassador Bunkers office got a call from the White House about noon that day saying that the White House felt strongly that President Thieu should not see Governor Wallace. It was suggested that some commitments made by the Nixon Administration to South Vietnam could be cancelled if President Thieu refused to cancel his meeting with Governor Wallace. What commitments? That is not known. But you can be sure of-othing: it was no commitment to .win the war! A bigger man than those previously mentioned did meet with Governor Wallace: Pres:dent Chiang Kai Shek of Nationalist China. And so did many other important leaders in Southeast Asia. And while we're on the subject of pressured cancellations or visits, you may remember that Vice President Ky of South Vietnam cancelled his proposed march with Evangelist Carl McIntyre in Washington recently. Since Vice President Ky was unable to ccm: due to official duties, his wife was delegated to come in his place. And start out she did, but her plane developed engine trouble a short distance out of a French airport and had to turn around and go back. By then it was too late for her to take part in the Washington march, so the papers reported. But it was a lie. The plane was turned around not by engine trouble but by Washington. Let it be noted that the only w'ay America controls the skies is in political intrigue. But in defense of President Nixon let it be noted that his is unity and how can we have unity when a third big hang-u- p party candidate dedicated to winning the war against Communism threatens No-wi- n Party A as well as No-wi- n Party ne un-Ameri- The American Way B? STROM THURMOND REPORTS Washington, D. C. In 1967, Congress passed a law setting up a special Commission on Obscenity and Pornography for the study of this threat to American life. In 1968, President Johnson named William B. Lockhart chairman, and appointed 17 commission members. overwhelmingly Recently, the Senate, by a vote of 60-with so this Commission the by report produced repudiated official the revulsion much fanfare. This report was against created by the Commission's shocking perversion of its own mandate. The Commission's report amounted to nothing more than a license for filth. Its main recommendation was that all laws suppressing pornography for adults, and some of those for children, be abolished. Thus the Commission spent $1.7 million to say that the best way to get rid of the illegal traffic in pornography was to make it legal. The Commission asserted contrary to prevailing ethical, religious, and psychiatric opinion that pornography had no effect upon adults, and was not a matter of social concern. At the very moment when we have reached a crisis of permissiveness and pornography in our civilization, this Commission urged us to rush headlong into the mire which has swallowed up all the decadent and corrupt civilizations of 5, history. The reason that the Commission was established was precisely because the American people were concerned about the dangers of pornography to our national moral character and safety. The people wanted solid proposals for stopping the trade in obscenity, and for coping with the crimes which are incited and inflamed by its spread. This traffic has increased principally because the US Supreme Court, in a scries of decisions over recent years, has forced this filth upon the people. The Court has struck down State law after State law and convictions based upon able local standards. Pornography curbs which had stood for hundreds of years in the English Common Law, upon which most of our State laws are based, were struck down without any regard for the welfare of the community. But instead of offering recommendations to overcome this menace, the Commission chose to encourage Danish solution, after porwhere reported sex crimes allegedly decreased 31 the Danish nography laws were abolished. Unfortunately, example offers no support for the thesis that pornography should be abolished. Fewer crimes were reported because the criminal laws relating to many of these acts were abolished. Moreover, with the general rise of promiscuity and the hardening of attitudes, many crimes of this nature are just no longer reported. Some wonder how a report that is fundamentally evil in its basic assumptions could be produced with public funds. The fact is that President Johnson simply surrendered to the radical liberals who have taken over his Party. He chose as g chairman of this Commission a professor whose agitation for the legalization of pornography was a matter of record. Chairman Lockhart and his handassociates dominated the Commission from the start. picked They were members of the American Civil Liberties Union, which is perhaps the leading lobby for permissiveness in America, crusading against prayer in the schools, but in favor of relaxed laws on Communist subversion. The ACLU has long advocated that filth be completely unleashed, so it is not surprising that the Commission endorsed this view. The most stinging rebuke against the Commission was filed by the only Commissioner appointed by President Nixon, Mr. Charles H. Keating, Jr. Keating reported how the Commission and its staff worked in secret, and would not allow the dissenters to participate in the proceedings. No meetings were held, no staff was assigned to the dissenting view, and no hearings were held until the dissenters held their own. Out of the $1.7 million spent to promote pornography by the Commission, only $500 was allowed for Commissioner Keating's expenses. As a result the Commission produced only vague, unsupported theoretical and academic studies. We still do not know the number of crimes committed in this field, their relation to pornography, or the kinds of State and Federal laws which could help the situation. Court-induce- d it. It held up as an example the so-call- ed left-win- long-establish- ed |