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permit the challenge.

‘“1’d have to say that it shows some concern
about the law as it operates today,’’ she says.

Under the 1969 amendment to the Criminal
Code, abortions are permitted in Canada on
recommendation of a hospital abortion com-
mittee, if a woman’s life or health is
considered threatened by the continuation of
pregnancy. In 1980, the number of legal
abortions performed in Canada stood at 65,751,
an increase of 1.1 per cent over 1979, the
smallest jump since the amendment.

In 1973, the United States Supreme Court
interpreted the words ‘‘right to life’’ in the
14th amendment to the constitution as to

L exclude the unborn. In Canada, the accom-

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interpreted.

With the new wording contained in the
Charter, legislators here will likely have the
last say on any court ruling because of the
override clause. Trudeau himself has assured
the Canadian House of Commons that Parlia-
ment will have the final word on abortion. But
neither side of the debate is taking chances.

WITH AN EYE ON THE FUTURE

‘We’ re certainly not going to give up,’’ says
Formby, who as head of Campaign Life has
spent more than $50,000 on lobbying efforts.
“If the government thinks this is one way of
cooling off the issue - kicking it off to the
Supreme Court - then they’re very naive.’’

Laura McCarthur is the president of Right to
Life, the largest pro-life education group in the
country. Right to Life receives about $200,000

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Think about it...talk about it.

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to excess. It’s almost as if to be somebody you have to get smashed, blitzed

or whatever. You can feel embarrassed or ashamed afterwards.

BE SOMEBODY ... You decide how much. . . control your drinking.

Don’t let your friends or alcohol control you.

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in donations annually from its affiliates and is
widely acknowledged as an important member
of the anti-abortion team.

McCarthur says her group will be stepping
up public education programs precisely be-
cause of the Charter and she is confident that
public opinion is swaying in favour of pro-life.

Karen Hammond disagrees. As president of
the Canadian Abortion Rights Action League,
Hammond stresses that her group is pro-
choice, not pro-abortion.

CARAL is the largest organization of its kind
in Canada and is responsible for both political
lobbying and education. It, too, is gearing up
for challenges to the Charter.

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Forgive Us...

“by Ian Hunter
by Ian Hunter
by Ian Hunter

The Other Press has; in
the’ past been really quite
meen and nasty towards the
Student Society. We don’t
know why this is so, we just
have been, thats all.

The entire Other Press
staff has felt so guilt ridden
over this abuse ofthe
powers of the press that we
have all become born again
christians.

Now we know that some
of you readers out there
may consider this step to be
slightly excessive...even
stupid, but we at the Other
Press consider it to be our
duty to burn in hell for our
sins.

So therefore we would
like to apologize for our
grave errors in judgment in
the past. ©

We will never EVERcall
Douglas Student Society
President ‘‘Big Orange’’
again. Heaven knows why
we did the first time. And
all those negetive articles
about everything from the
conditions of the Johns
after a pub night. How
wrong we were to look at
the negative aspects of
everything. We should have
instead. writen articles
about how clean the Stu-
dent Society keeps thier
office compared to the beer
bottle strewn degradation of
The Other Press.(It makes
me sick)

So what does this mean
to our loyal readers.

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