“TERRACE — The city kicked
off the B.C. Heart Foundation’s
annual fund raising drive last
Monday by proclaiming Febru-
ary as ‘Heart Month” and rais-
ing the Heart Foundation flag at
city hall.

in making a request for this

- official recognition, Karen Enri-

quez, President of the Terrace

unit of the B.C.-Yukon Heart

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necessarily bad. She explained
that the law ‘‘wasn’t workable’
and neither side was happy with
it.

According to Brophy, the law
stated that an abortion was an
acceptable form of medical
treatment if the life or the
‘thealth”’ of the mother was en-
dangered. ‘‘And health means
everything from psychological
peace, to emotional peace, to
high blood pressure,” she said.
‘*There were very few vetos on
therapet:..c abortions”.

“Now I’m hoping we can
create some new legislation that
will give better protection to the
unborn,” said Brophy. ‘You
can’t totally eliminate a whole
group of the population like the
unborn from any kind of legal
protection.’’ ; .

Brophy said she agrees with
Premier Vander Zalm’s stand on
the issue. No provision of
medical coverage for abortions
done without committee ap-
- proval and outside the hospital
system is ‘‘the safe thing to do’’,
Brophy said, and expressed a
belief that the status quo will

continue in B.C. — at least for
the'time being.

~ But, she said, like it or not,

the federal government is going
to have to address the issue even-
tually.

“Politically it’s really a dif-
ficult issue and politicians are
not going to be allowed to sit on
the fence,’’? Brophy said.
“They're going to have to come
down on one side or the other on
where they stand, and their
political hides are going to ride
along with it.”

“T think that there’s going to
be lots more lively debate and
there’s going to be lots of peo-
ple, I hope, really taking a better
look at where they have stood in

-the past, or where they haven’t
even given it any thought.

_ Perhaps they will begin to search
their minds and their hearts for
what is the truth for them in this
issue.”

‘However, with regards to
‘lively debate’, Brophy said she
doesn’t believe the Supreme
Court decision and the possibili-
ty of freestanding abortion
clinics throughout the country
wili Jead to increased or violent
confrontations between Pro-
Life and Pro-Choice groups.

She did point out however, that —

abortion is an emotional issue
on both sides of the fence and
because both groups were very
large and contain a broad spec-
trum of the population, the
possibility of violence has
always existed.

‘We are radically opposed to
using violence in any way what-
soever to stop the violence on
the unborn. It would be totally
hypocritical.’’ But she added,
“You have extremists in every
inovement. Neither side can say
they're free of anger and hostili-
ty. It’s very complex.”’

In the event a clinic opened
locally, Brophy said, ‘‘We
would do the same thing that we
have always done. Try to
educate people as to what the
reality of abortion is... ty to

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Activities announc

Foundation, wrote to city coun-
cil recently and said, ‘‘This
longstanding tradition linking

the month of February and the

work of the Heart Foundation
should, we feel, be reinforced in

the minds of our citizens since

this is the time of our most con-
centrated fund raising efforts.”

Terrace Heart Foundation
Coordinator Betty Campbell

reach out to women who are
burdened with an’ unwanted
child to help them to bear their
child with the support of the
community.”’

“We would hope that we
would be able to offer them
whatever they needed to
brighten the term of their
pregnancy. Money, financial

assistance, homes, offices, help- .

ing to raise the child — whatever
we have to do to save the life of
the child. It’s what we’ve always
done.”

Pro-Choice bouyant

“It’s wonderful. It’s just ex-
cellent. It’s a victory for
women.’”

This was the reaction of Ter-
race Pro-Choice spokesperson
Maureen Bostock when she was
asked for her view on the recent
Supreme Court decision.

“It’s going to very much be
something that will evolve 1
think over the next 12 months,”’
she said, but predicted ,‘Certain-
ly there will be a clinic in Van-

_ said several events, including a .

door-to-door canvas, an
awareness display at Skeena

Mall and a ‘“‘Hearts, Flowers

and Fashions”’ dinner have been
planned forthe month.

The most: exciting of these,
she said, will be the ‘‘Hearts,
Flowers and Fashions’’ dinner
scheduled for tomorrow night at
the Bavarian Inn at 7 p.m.

ampbell said that for $22, :
the evening includes: dinner, -

door prizes, a Leisure Fashion

Show by Lady.Footlocker and a. -

demonstration of fresh and silk
flower arranging by Central
Flowers, Grace Fell Florists and
Flowers a la Carte. She said the
floral arrangements will be auc-
tioned off during the evening.
All proceeds from the event go

couver almost immediately.
There’s already an organization
that has been active for the last
year working on fundraising to
be able to set up, so I think we
will see that right away.”’

But as far as a local clinic was
concerned, she said the future
was more uncertain; nothing is
expected to change right away.

If there is a lack of services,
the B.C. government will have
to accept the blame, stated
Bostock, and called the govern-
ment’s reaction ‘appalling’.

“The method of delivery of
services was a piece of the issue
with the Supreme Court deci-
sion,” she explained, ‘‘and the
Supreme Court has said that the .
therapeutic abortion committees
are no longer legal in this coun-
try as a method of restriction. I
think that in society in general,
the recognition is that the abor-
tion clinic is the most effective
way of delivering the service and
hospitalization is an unnecessary
aspect of it.”’

Bostock said she expects the

B.C. Medical Association ‘‘to
risé up in arms against the
government because doctors
-know what is a medical service
and what is not.”

‘‘And I expect a good fight
from them,’ she added, ‘and
certainly of course we will be
fighting as well. There is going
to have to be direct work in that
area for the next few months.’’

As far as legalized abortion is
concerned, Bostock believes the
battle is.over — unless the
federal government attempts to
re-introduce abortion law.

She added that, based on the
U.S. -expérience following
legalized abortion, Pro-Life
forces could also remain in the
picture. a

‘There are many levels at
which these kinds of fights take
place and I don’t expect that the
next few years will be easy ones,
but I think that we’re at least
working within a_ legal
framework,” she said.

_cigarette smoking.

chased at Central “Flowers,

Grace Fell Florists, Flowers a la

Carte, the Bavarian Inn and

Lady Footlocker, or from Karen
Enriquez by phoning 638-0487 -
or Betty Campbell at 638-8464:

An educational display. at.
Skeena Mall from Feb. 11:to 13 -

will include balloons for the.

children, educational pamphlets
on heart-related problems such |
as smoking and nutrition, a
video, and free blood pressure
tests, Campbell said they hope’
to have a nutritionalist at the
display and something new, a
ticker tape test, which ‘she.
described as a “‘very interesting
test” to discover your level of
fitness, general health and life
expectancy. ‘Some of the ques-
tions are quite interesting,”’ said -
Campbell, ‘‘They really make .
you think.” _

Enriquez said recent data
from B.C. research projects in-
dicate, ‘“We are winning the bat-
tle against heart disease and.
stroke, especially in the area of —
combating major risk factors
such as dietary fats, stress and -

“Tt is critical that the funds.be °-
available to continue these’
studies because, despite the —
gains already made, heart
disease still causes 47 percent of
all-deaths in Canada.’

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