United States,

CONSTITUTIONAL

AMENDMENTS RELATING
TO ABORTION

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE CONSTITUTION

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY

UNITED STATES SENATE

NINETY-SEVENTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

S.J. Res. 17, S.J. Res. 18, S.J. Res. 19,
and S.J. Res. 110

BILLS PROPOSING A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT WITH
RESPECT TO ABORTION

OCTOBER 5, 14, 19, NOVEMBER 4, 5, 12, 16, DECEMBER 7, AND 16, 1981

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Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1983

STEPHEN J. MARKMAN, Chief Counsel and Staff Director
RANDALL RADER, General Counsel
ROBERT FEIDLER, Minority Counsel

CONTENTS

APPENDIX

PART 1.-ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS

President Ronald Reagan, President of the United States--

Hon. Jake Garn, a U.S. Senator from the State of Utah----

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Hon. Cardiss Collins, a U.S. Representative from the State of Illinois_-_.

Ann Ruth_Turkel, M.D., chairperson, Committee on Women, New York

County District Branch, American Psychiatric Association___

Betty Benjamin, UUWF Advocate for Responsible Abortion Laws..

Cynthia Kirkman, chairperson, Committee on Women's Concerns, Presby-

terian Church in the United States___

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Anne P. Scheibner, convenor, Economic Justice Task Group, National

Episcopal Urban Caucus Board.

Gene F. O'Brien, general agent, Knights of Columbus_

Helen R. Parolla, director, Public Policy Center, National Board, YWCA

of the U.S.A_.

B'nai B'rith Women_

Hermine Herta Meyer, attorney at law.

Constance Street, United Church of Christ, Office for Church in Society---

Paul D. Simmons, Christian Ethics, The Southern Baptist Theological

Seminary

National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association, Inc‒‒‒‒

Indiana Right to Life, Inc__

Pioneer Women, The Women's Labor Zionist Organization of Amer-
ica, Inc.

Judith Senderowitz, executive director, Center for Population Options____
Vicki L. McMillan, director, Women Exploited, Tidewater, Virginia
Chapter

Richard D. Lamm, governor, State of Colorado__.

American Ethical Union__

Clyde R. Shallenberger on behalf of the Church of the Brethren General

Board

American Medical Association, Amendments to the Constitution to Restrict

or Prohibit Abortions__.

Beverly Roberson Jackson, director, Department of Human Welfare,

Board of Church and Society, The United Methodist Church_

National Alliance for Optional Parenthood_-

Organizations opposed to S.J. Res. 110_.

Earl and Meriel Monical, River Falls, Wisconsin___.

PART 2.-MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES AND ANALYSIS

Induced Abortion, A World Review, 1981, by Christopher Tietze_-_

Excerpt from Abortion, the Myths, the Realities and the Arguments, by

Germain G. Grisez, associate professor of philosophy, Georgetown Uni-

versity

Law, Morality, and the Hatch Amendment, by W. H. Marshner__

Constitutional Protection of Unborn Children: An Examination of the

"Hatch Amendment," statement of Joseph P. Witherspoon, S.J.D., pro-

fessor of law, University of Texas at Austin School of Law.

National Conference of Catholic Bishops; Memorandums from Wilfred

R. Caron, general counsel to:

Most Rev. Thomas C. Kelly, general secretary, Dec. 8, 1981-

Rev. Daniel F. Hoye, general secretary, March 10, 1982.

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