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List events in this calendar
by calling the Chamber of
Commerce, 323-6234,
weekdays.
Canadian Girl Scout Service
Unit. Call Dawn Lay, 323-8959.
Panhandle Transit, rural
transportation service. Call col-
lect, 24 hours in advance of
need, 862-4131.
National Phone line to report
Child Abuse: 1-800-4-A-Child
(or 1-800-422-4453).
Cancer Society, Agnes Adams,
323-6258 or 323-6842. Toll free,
1-800-ACS-2345.
Driver’s License testing, County
Courthouse every Wednesday,
2nd and 5th Tuesdays, 9-12, 1-
4, Officer Bourland.
Alcoholics Anonymous, and Al
Anon Monday nights, Court-
house basement, 8 p.m. Call
323-8033, 323-8221 or 323-
8500.
Suicide Prevention Crisis Inter-
vention WATS line, 1-800-692-
4039.
Planned Parenthood, 419 Main,
12:30-5:30, weekdays except
Thursday. 323-5732.
Hemphill County Ambulance
Service, 323-8666.
Tralee Crisis Center for Women,
call toll-free 1-800-658-2796,
Pampa.
Family Services Center, all
types of counseling, 419 Main,
Thursdays. Call anytime, 323-
5732 or WATS line 1-800-682-
4039.
Sharing is Caring food pantry
and clothes closet. Saturdays 9
a.m.-1 p.m. Behind St. Anne’s
Church at 6th and Kingman.
Donations through local chur-
ches or directly at 323-8744.
River Valley Pioneer Museum,
Open Tuesday-Friday, 10-4:00,
Sunday, 2-4 p.m.
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Week of June 6-12
Thursday, June 6
Men’s Non-denominational
Breakfast, 7 a m., Methodist
Church Fellowship Hall.
Friday, June 7
Lions Club, 12 Noon, Fire Hall.
Professional Women's Lunch-
eon, 12 Noon, Maxey’s II.
Saturday, June 8
Cub Scout Pack 271 Bicycle
Rodeo, 9:30 a.m., Canadian
Elementary School Parking Lot.
Kids Fishing Derby, Lake Mar-
vin, 12 noon-4 p.m., Ages 0-15,
Entry Fee, One Can Of Food.
Sign-up 11 a m., Sponsored by
Canadian Bassmasters.
Sunday, June 9
Sacred Heart Catholic Church,
Vigil Sunday Mass, 10 a.m.
Saturday Mass, 5 p.m.
First Baptist Church Sunday
School 9:45 a.m., Morning Wor-
ship 11 a.m., Training Union, 6
p.m., Evening Worship 7 p.m.
Central Baptist Church Sunday
School 10 a.m., Morning Wor-
ship 11 a.m., Evening Worship 6
p.m.
Believer’s Covenant Sunday
Worship, 10:30 a.m., Evening
Worship 7 p.m., Wednesday
Worship 7 p.m., and Youth Ser-
vices 7 p.m.
St. Anne’s Episcopal Church,
Holy Eucharist 11 a.m.
First United Methodist Church,
Early Worship Service 8:30
a.m., Sunday School 9:30 a.m.,
Morning Worship 10:30 a.m.,
Evening Worship 6:30 p.m.
Assembly of God Christian
Education 10 a.m., Evening
Worship, 6:30 p.m.
Pentecostal Church, Sunday
School, 10 a.m., Morning Wor-
ship 11 a.m., Evening Worship 7
p.m.
First Christian Church, Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Morning Wor-
ship 10:30 a.m.
First Presbyterian Church Sun-
day School 9:45 a.m., Worship
Service 11 a.m.
Church of Christ, Sunday Bible
Class 9:30 a.m., Morning Wor-
ship 10:30 a.m., Evening Wor-
ship 6 p.m. Wednesday Bible
Class, 7 p.m.
Monday, June 10
49’ers Duplicate Bridge, 1:30
p.m., 103 N. 6th.
Alcoholics Anonymous, 8 p.m.,
Courthouse Basement.
Al-Anon, 8 p.m., Courthouse
Basement.
Tuesday, June 11
Kiwanis Club, 6:45 a.m., Fire
Station.
Rotary Club, 12 Noon, WCTU.
Canadian Duplicate Bridge, 7:30
p.m., WCTU.
Woman's Club Pie Party at
Abraham Memorial Home, 2
p.m.
Wednesday, June 12
Sagebrush Painters, 10 a m.,
Fire Station.
"I found out Reggie has a split-
personality .... sometimes he’s
a lot of fun and other times
he's broke."
7ifo RECORD
CANADIAN, HEMPHILL CO., TEXAS
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THURSDAY 6 JUNE 1991
opinions expressed are those of the editors unless noted
opinion
page
Not illegal., just unavailable
J^EDERAL LAW does not make abortion il-
JL legal, but bureaucratic federal regulations
(not quite the same thing) tend to have the effect
of creating law which comes close to infringing
the Constitution, and of by-passing Congress
which is the Constitutional law-making body.
The United States Supreme Court has just
upheld the constitutionality of one of those
bureaucratic regulations which made law
without benefit of Congress and substantially
altered one of the Supreme Court’s own
longstanding landmark decisions (Roe vs. Wade)
which, in 1973, established the legality of abor-
tion as a Constitutional right.
The regulation in question was conceived by
the Reagan Administration three years ago. It
banned "discussion of abortion as a part of coun-
selling offered women in federally-funded health
clinics. Its effect was not to make abortion illegal,
but to make advice concerning abortion unavail-
able in the public health clinics to low-income
women who cannot afford private medical coun-
selling.
In effect the regulation sharply divided the
"haves" from the "have-nots". The public health
clinics do not perform abortions, but have offered
counselling to women concerning this and other
problems of pregnancy. Women who can afford
private medical counselling are not affected, but
women who must rely on the public clinics are
deprived of complete information.
The Supreme Court upheld that dis-
criminatory ruling by a 5-4 vote. The tie-break-
ing vote was cast by the newest Justice, David
Souter.
The issue here is not whether or not abortion
should be legal...under the Constitution it is and
this Court ruling does not change that...but
whether access to legal information should be
impartial. Surely information dispensed by
public health clinics should be accurate and im-
partially available regardless of economic cir-
cumstances or political pressures. Both economic
and political discrimination is upheld in the
Supreme Courts Rust vs. Sullivan
decision...political because the Reagan Ad-
ministration regulation was obviously politically
motivated to assuage the conservatives, and
economic because it abridged freedom of infor-
mation for those dependent on a free government
service.
The 1988 regulation in question requires staff
members at public health clinics to answer all
abortion inquiries with the w-ords "The project
does not consider abortion an appropriate
method of family planning." Period.
Justice Harry Blackmun, who dissented from
the majority opinion, warned that "the govern-
ment will have obliterated the freedom to choose
as surely as if it had banned abortions outright."
But the Court did not ban abortions or the right
to seek information, it only banned the right of
poor women to get information from the public
clinics.
It did not ban abortions...it just upheld dis-
crimination. That, contrary to the 5 to 4 majority
decision, is against all Constitutional principles.
Abortion, of course, is a highly-charged emo-
tional and religious issue, but the law of the land
and the Supreme Court which is charged with
interpreting and upholding it should not deal
with either emotion or religion, but with logic
and law as enacted by the Congress and
prescribed by the Constitution.
If abortion is legal under federal law’, informa-
tion about it should be equally available to all
citizens, regardless of their ability to pay.
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Ezzell, Ben & Ezzell, Nancy. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 101, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 6, 1991, newspaper, June 6, 1991; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth736752/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hemphill County Library.