European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 9, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 a the stars and. Stripes saturday november 9,1991 advocacy groups ask supreme court for abortion ruling by the Washington Post Washington abortion rights advocates asked the supreme court on thursday to state clearly whether abortion remains a protected constitutional right setting the stage for a possible ruling on the incendiary Issue before the 1992 election. The groups filed a petition with the court seeking a review of a Federal appeals court ruling that upheld most of Pennsylvania a restrictive abortion Law. They asked the court to use the Opportunity to say whether Roe is. Wade the 1973 ruling establishing abortion As a fundamental constitutional right remains the Law of the land. A this court must now decide whether women a childbearing choices Are worthy of the highest level of constitutional Protection a attorneys for the american civil liberties Union and planned parenthood told the court. A if the answer is yes the Public and this court must ensure that All women can exercise this Liberty free of governmental interference and individual harassment. If the answer is no american women must look elsewhere for the court docs not have to hear the Case although it has generally granted review to abortion Law challenges in the past. It can also choose to Rule on the constitutionality of the Pennsylvania Law without explicitly providing an answer to the Fate of Roe is. Wade. A three judge panel of the 3rd . Circuit court of appeals in Philadelphia upheld provisions of the Law that required women seeking abortions to hear a description of the developing fetus and wait 24 hours before having the procedure. The court struck Down another provision that had required married women to notify their husbands of their intention to have an abortion. The decision to bypass a request that the full appeals court hear the Case suggested that the groups were anxious to have the matter resolved by the High court this term before next years presidential election. Acle attorney Kathryn Kolbert denied such motivation saying that the appeals court ruling meant that a your clients have no rights and that it was necessary Quot to clarify the issues As quickly As planned parenthood federation president Faye Wattleton said that even if the court does not Rule before next november a we can expect this to be a political Issue whether the court takes it this year or but Pennsylvania attorney general Ernest d. Preate or. Called the timing and the substance of the filing a More of a political strategic decision. Than a strictly Legal decision. The politics of it is presidential politics. They want a decision by 92. They have a sense that they re better off seeking to have a head on Challenge to Roe around this time than Down the Preate has announced that the state will ask the court to overturn the part of the appeals court ruling striking Down the spousal notification. How quickly he acts could determine whether the court will hear Oral arguments on the Case this term. The Vietnam women a memorial shown Here in a design Model will stand 300 feet from the Vietnam veterans memorial in Washington. Female Vietnam vets to get own memorial House panel oks probe into hostage Campaign link Washington a after hours of partisan squabbling the House rules committee has approved a Resolution authorizing an investigation of whether the 1980 Reagan Bush Campaign interfered with release of americans held hostage in Iran. On an 8-4 party line vote the panel on thursday approved a Resolution to provide funding and authority to investigate whether Campaign operatives conspired with Iran to delay any hostage release until after the election helping Seal than president Jimmy Carters defeat. The democratic controlled panel Defeated Republican attempts to include the Carter administrations actions As part of the probe and to limit the investigation to six months. A a comparable Resolution in the Senate faces a Republican filibuster threat if it comes to the floor. Most of the rules committee bickering concerned whether allegations that Reagan Campaign officials were part of a plot Are solid enough to justify going ahead. By the Washington Post Washington a eight years after a former army nurse conceived the idea a memorial honouring the estimated 10,000 women who served in the Vietnam War received final approval thursday. The Bronze sculpture will show two uniformed women tending a wounded Soldier while a third woman kneels in the distance. It will be dedicated pending a $2 million fund raising Effort on veterans Day in 1993. The memorials design by new Mexico sculptor Glenna Goodacre had already been approved by the National capital memorial commission and the commission on Fine arts. On thursday the final go ahead on the design was Given by the National capital planning commission. A at this moment in a really Happy a said Diane Carlson Evans chairperson and founder of the Vietnam women a memorial project. A this is for them my sister veterans. I think the country is finally going to realize that women served in Evans who served As an army nurse in Vietnam in 1968 and 1969, founded the memorial project after attending the dedication of the original Vietnam veterans memorial in 1982. The groups efforts to build a statue near the existing memorial were stalled in 1987, when the commission on Fine arts voted against constructing further memorials in that area. That decision was reversed the next year when Congress passed a joint Resolution supporting the memorial and its proposed location just South of Maya links controversial Black Granite Wall. Although the memorials design concept was approved thursday the planning commission indicated that it would make suggestions for refinements on the actual sculpture within the next month. Porch bomb injures Mother Arabi la. Apr a bomb disguised As an elaborately decorated Model of a Mardi gras float exploded on a woman a front porch throwing out a jagged barrage of 2v2-Inch nails authorities said. Just before it exploded the bomb played a tape recording of someone saying Quot Sweet dreams a investigators said. The bomb threw Patricia Rupp 5 feet from her porch wednesday. Two nails struck nor in the neck and a third hit her in the Mouth. Nails flew As far As 100 Yards and the blast damaged part of Rupp s roof. Rupp hospitalized at Chalmette medical Center said she found the bomb when she came Home from taking one of her sons to school and thought it was a present Fronc of he children. A it was Beautiful a she said. Agent Stewart Allen of the Federal Bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms had a different description. A it was a powerful device with the potential of killing her and anyone who was passing the House a Allen said. In addition to the tape recording a note said a night night Sweet dreams a Rupp said. She said she had decided not to pick up the miniature float and was about to unlock her front door when the Short tape played and the bomb exploded. Quot whoever did this Why i Haven to seen anything and 1 done to know anything she said. She would t comment on a suggestion made by her 12year-o d son Peter that the bomb was set off by people who think his Mother was responsible for a flier distributed last month. The flier criticized the investigation of a juvenile stabbing death oct. 10. Neither Allen nor Peggy Poche a spokeswoman for the St. Bernard Parish sheriffs office would say whether the explosion might have been an attempt to kill rup porn Hether they Nave a suspect. No arrests had been made. Authorities say whether the device was detonated by Remote fakes civics to heart wins school Board election Puyallup Wash. A at age 18, newly elected Puyallup school Board member Cathy Mcdonald feels she has some insight into Public school education. After All she just finished hers. Mcdonald who graduated in june from Rogers High school toppled two term incumbent Anna Hopkins in tuesdays elections. Her goal is to bring students and the school District administration closer in the Community about 35 Miles South of Seattle. A a it a very scary a she acknowledged. A a in a going into this a baby. I done to know anything Hopkins said Mcdonald benefited from Quot a lot of free press before the election. A when you re 18 and cute people think of you kind of different than when you re 52 and have got experience a she said. Rogers High school civics teacher Rod Iverson was pleased by the Campaign. A one of the constant things we preach in civics is for people to get involved in government a Iverson said. A a in a not naive enough to think that All will take it to heart but she put it to
