Page 12-Tuesday, April 11,1978--The Michigan Daily Protection o abortion rights urged at workshop By PAULINE TOOLE Five women's rights activists thered in East Quad Sunday to con- et a series of workshops on tactics to otect abortion rights. The session, "Woman's Body, oman's Right," sponsored by the oman's Mobilization Collective, atured Lee Kefauver of the Feminist ureau of Investigation and Women's :uity Action League. ALSO SPEAKING were Katherine Tennyson, the Detroit organizer for the 1972 Michigan Abortion Referendum; Pam Creighton, legislative aide to State Senator William Fitzgerald; Debra Lipson, and Patricia Widmayer, direc-. tor of legislation for the Michigan State Board of Education. After a review of the history of recent abortion legislation, the panelists outlined strategies to counter the deluge of anti-abortion legislation on all levels of government. , Tactics proposed included monitoring the state legislature, pressuring individual legislators to take a public stance on abortion, organizing the pro-abortion forces to make them more visible and monitoring the opposition. "THE ANTI-ABORTIOIG forces are powerful and strong. The organized around the issue and now they are an effective lobbying source," Tennyson said. "Women worked so hard on other things after the 1973 Supreme Court decision that they lost sight of the abor- tion issue," she added. The panelists agreed that inattentive- ness proved to be a mistake for pro- abortionists. Last summer, Congress passed a Medicaid Appropriations Bill which ended the use of federal funds for SUBJECTS WANTED: Earn $3 in one hour. Participate in interesting research on human memory. Coll Kim, 763-0044, bet. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. abortions. A Legal Aid Bill, also passed last summer, prohibited legal aid lawyers from defending abortion related cases. THOSE BILLS AND the flurry of other anti-abortion legislation have drawn feminists back to the abortion issue indroves. The panelists all worked for passage of the 1972 Michigan Abortion Referen- dum and have since channeled their energies elsewhere - concentrated on other issues. They unanimously urged the predominantly female audience to use the electoral system to counter anti- abortion forces. Referring to the upcoming fall elec- tions, Creighton said, "One of the most effective ways you have to change things is the ballot box. There are eight openings in the Michigan Senate - start there, this is an important year." KEFAUVER HAS received much criticism from Michigan legislators. She ways she also inspires fear. The Massachusetts native is largely responsible for compiling and distributing a list of the "Ten Most . Wanted Men" - legislators who vote poorly on women's issues. She has also collected the voting records of all Michigan legislators and is distributing the lists to women across the state. "WHEN A women's issue is defined, there is a women's vote," she insisted. "They're scared to death of the black vote - that's twenty per cent of the vote. We're 53 per cent of the vote. We could be a threat." Kefauver and the other panelists stressed the necessity of "knowing the opposition." She divided the anti-abor- tionists into three camps: the right wing radicals, which includes the John Birch Society, the Ku Klux Klan and parts of the Communist Party; the Moderates, and the Liberals. Kefauver called the stand the abor- tion opponents took on Medicaid Abor- tions a "Dumb move." "That legislation works to mobilize poor women who are being denied the right to abortions. Those women are hard to mobilize. Also, liberals are beginning to mobilize around the issue. It was a stupid move." THE PANELISTS urged the women to lobby their legislators and to take the initiative instead of just trying to coun- ter the. anti-abortionists. "Forget defensive tactics - they take too much time and effort," Kefauver said. "If you want to get something done, don't be defensive." The panelists stressed the need for women to become involved in the elec- toral process as more than the traditional campaign staffers. "We can't wait for women to run," Widmayer said. "Pick a man who's a feminist and get to work. Otherwise we lose. Now we lose everydiay." "Michigan is clean," Kefauver remarked in closing. "There is no anti- abortion legislation except the con- science laws of 1973. We've worked hard. We need to keep it clean." From 1957 to 1977 the average weight of guards in the Big Eight Conference jumped 38 pounds from 196 pounds to 234. #.I In the heart of Ann Arbor's theatre district 300 S. 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I A. & 80. Men'i i REG. $8.% s Dept. Gifts & Lamps Dept. LARGE RIB, oft- 7th RIB AREA # 39 Trowbridge to run for Senate seat (Continued from Page 1) the pictures." Council observers have grown ac- customed to Trowbridge's weekly wit- ticisms, his sarcastic humor, and his sweeping historical and literary parallels that are the mark of his other profession -,professor of English literature at Eastern Michigan Univer- sity. He compared former Mayor Albert Wheeler's proposal for a new Model Cities Dental Clinic to the Pharoah of Egypt proposing the Pyramids, Napoleon building the Arc d' Triumph and Ronald McDonald constructing the golden arches. Yesterday, Trowbridge announced his candidacy for the 18th district seat being vacated by retiring State Senator Gilbert Bursley, and became the only announced Republican in the race so far. "IT IS MASOCHISTIC to run for of- fice," Trowbridge said. "I campaign as a masochist. In my first campaign (for Council) I walked 4,700 homes for forty days." What's more, Trowbridge thinks his tenure as Fourth Ward representative has aptly prepared him for a seat in Lansing. "I do have experience now with municipal and state government," he said. "Just by being on Council I have to deal with stae laws every week." Trowbridge is hardly the classic Republican, and looks even less the part of part-time politico. "Now that's strange - a Republican English professor," he said, readily lampooning himself. He explains his own political leanings as "libertarian." "TO ME, REPUBLICAN means one thing," he said. "I am for less govern- ment rather than more. I like to have local people do as much as they can." Trowbridge takes his politics of limited government with him, from his advocacy of more lenent marijuana laws to his stand on unemployment compensation. "I'm a libertarian. What I don't like is a lot of laws saying we're going to protect you from yourselves." ON UNEMPLOYMENT compen- sation, he says, "I object very much to compensation going to people who voluntarily quit their jobs. I don't think it's fair." Trowbridge admits his laissez-faire philosophy does not square with his voting in favor of Ann Arbor's newly' enacted pornography bill. "That's one of the few times I have been absolutely inconsistent," he said, but he justified his vote by explaining that the Ann Ar- bor law protects children from por- nography while not regulating adults. "I don't care about regulating what adults read," he said. "But I do care about children. "That's why I don't like (consumer advocate Ralph) Nader," he said, returning to his familiar plea for government to let us alone. 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