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Jewish, Other Activist Groups
Ready Abortion-Issue Briefs

JAMES D. BESSER

Washington Correspondent

D

espite the August
political lull, a num-
ber of Jewish activists
have been working overtime
to prepare for three upcoming
Supreme Court cases that are
expected to have a major im-
pact on the debate over
abortion.
Jewish groups are par-
ticipating in three briefs to
the Court. The Anti-
Defamation League of B'nai
B'rith has filed its own brief,
based on the argument that
new restrictions on abortion
would violate the "establish-
ment clause" of the constitu-
tion. The brief has also been
signed by B'nai B'rith Women
and Women's American ORT.
A second brief, written by
the American Psychological
Association and supported by
the American Jewish Com-
mittee, zeros in on the ques-

tion of parental notification
for teen-agers seeking abor-
tions, the subject of two of the
current cases. The American
Jewish Congress and the Na-
tional Council of Jewish
Women, along with the
Center for Population Op-
tions, are supporting a docu-
ment focusing on parental
notification and on the stag-
gering costs to society of teen-
age births.

The Union of American
Hebrew Congregations is
evaluating which option to
support. And another major
brief that takes a broad ap-
proach to supporting the 1973
Roe v. Wade decision is in the
works from Planned Parent-
hood; most mainstream
Jewish organizations are ex-
pected to sign on.

At the same time, Jewish
groups are quietly weighing
in on a controversy about
possible federal legislation on
abortion.

Groups like Planned Paren-
thood are lobbying for a
highly focused bill designed
to reverse the effects of last
month's controversial Court
decision. But the National
Organization for Women
wants more sweeping legisla-
tion designed to prop up a
wide range of abortion rights
— including, possibly, federal
funding of abortions for poor
women.
Most pro-choice Jewish
organizations are leaning
toward the Planned Paren-
thood strategy.
"The truly remarkable
thing is the way the Jewish
community at almost every
level has responded to the
new situation created by the
court decision in the Webster
case," said one prominent
Jewish pro-choice activist. "A
whole range of Jewish groups
are really out in front on this
issue; it's an issue that our
people really feel strongly
about?'

New Census Could
Cut Jewish Power

To most people, the decen-
nial census is a matter of
supreme indifference. But in
politics, the national head
count is critical — an event
that will reshape Congress,
change the way federal
money is distributed and shift
political power from some
groups to others.
One current debate centers
around legislative efforts to
ban the Census Bureau from
counting undocumented
aliens — efforts the American
Jewish Committee is
strenuously opposing. The
Senate has already passed
such legislation; several
house members may in-
troduce similar amendments
this month.
"We oppose such amend-
ments on both constitutional
and practical grounds," said
Judy Golub, the AJCommit-
tee's assistant Washington
representative. "Litigation
would be inevitable that
could delay the census count.
And the Census Bureau has
argued that they can't
possibly distinguish illegal
aliens on the basis of census
questionnaires!'
Complicating matters is the
fact that nobody is sure exact-
ly which groups would be
helped and which hurt by a
census count that includes
undocumented aliens.

According
to
some
estimates, the inclusion of il-
legal aliens could cause pro-
blems for Jews in states like
Florida, where inflated
counts for other minorities —
Hispanics in particular —
could cut into Jewish political

power.
"What is clear is that it is
a very obvious social justice
issue," Golub said. "We sup-
port the idea of a fair and ac-
curate census; politics should
be kept as far out of it as
possible?'

Jews Supported, Didn't
Attend Silent March

It was an event that many.
Jewish groups supported, but
only a few could attend;
because it was scheduled on a
Saturday, only the American
Jewish Committee and the
National Council of Jewish
Women joined the NAACP's
silent trek around the
Supreme Court to protest re-
cent decisions trimming civil
rights protections.
"We did point out to the
organizations that planned
the march that scheduling it
on a Saturday was unfor-
tunate, from the point of view
of the Jewish groups that sup-
port the march's goals," said
Hyman Bookbinder, former
Washington representative of
the AJCommittee and a civil
rights veteran. "We are par-
ticipating because we feel
strongly that this has been a
very unfortunate period for
the civil rights cause. So like
we have always done, the

Hyman Bookbinder:
Limited participation.

Jewish community is
manifesting its concern in a
visible way."
Bookbinder participated in
the reading of a "litany" that
included a call to heal the

