Abortion
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she began her work as an abortion
provider after years of medical
school and soul searching.
“I had to process the abortion is
sue over and over again and decide
whether or not I would participate
[as a provider],” Newhall said. “I
felt guilty that I wouldn’t provide
that service, and yet I felt afraid to
provide it.”
Newhall said she sees providing
abortions as a community service.
“People have the impression that
I’m pro-abortion,” Newhall said,
“but I just believe in women having
a choice.”
She is currently the director of
the Downtown Women’s Center in
Portland, a private clinic that pro
vides abortions to women in their
first 20 weeks of pregnancy.
“I love working at the clinic,”
Newhall said. “I love the women
there and I love the medicine.”
The clinic became a strong target
for picketing and protests in 1995,
Newhall said, after a group known
as the American Coalition of Life
Activists made a list of the 12 most
“honorous” abortion providers.
Newhall said she and her ex-hus
band, Jim Newhall, to whom she
was married at the time, were list
ed as one person.
(i People have the
impression that I'm
pro-abortion, but I just
believe in women having
a choice.
Elizabeth Newhall
director,
Downtown Women’s Center
“I had no idea I would be on the
list,” Newhall said.
Planned Parenthood filed a law
suit against the group, saying it had
violated Congress’s Freedom of Ac
cess to Clinical Entrances Act,
which Newhall said states that
groups cannot intimidate patients
or providers of abortions at their
clinics.
Four doctors on the list, includ
ing Newhall and her ex-husband,
participated with Planned Parent
hood in the suit, which was found
in favor of the plaintiffs but has
been recently appealed.
“The issue was whether the list
was threatening lives or if it was an
expression of free speech,”
Newhall said. “[The coalition] said
it was about exposing providers,
but I’m very open about my profes
sion.”
Newhall said she declined the
government’s offer to have federal
marshals placed at her house, but
did wear disguises and a bullet
proof vest to the clinic for a while
after the list came out.
When Newhall was given per
mission by the Food and Drug Ad
ministration to conduct clinical tri
als of Mifepristone, the FBI
installed bullet proof glass and
steel doors in the clinic, she said.
“Amazingly, it didn’t scare
women away from the clinic,”
Newhall said. “They were willing
to gamble and take a risk to have an
abortion.”
Concert
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Harbor, classmates always looked
at him like he was partially respon
sible — something that never made
sense to him.
“I never went up to my white
friends on Martin Luther King Day
and said, ‘Hey, nice, going, ass
holes,’” he said.
Following Kataoka, two mem
bers of B4 Ten — a band compris
ing three women from the Bay area
— sang a set of four songs.
Despite the absence of their third
I
member, the remaining two
women of B4 Ten soon had people
in the crowd dancing in the aisles
with their original pop songs and
Christina Aguilera-like dance
moves.
But while the opening acts were
well-received, the highlight of the
night for many in the audience
seemed to be the entrance of the
featured act, Kai.
Kai — a group that has been
compared to Boyz II Men and other
popular “boy bands” — includes
five men from the Bay Area. Three
of the band’s five members per
formed Saturday.
At one point during their 45
minute set, which included both
dance songs and ballads, band
members asked for a “beautiful
lady” from the crowd to come on
stage.
From the outstretched hands of
those clamoring for to be chosen,
they pulled freshman Uyen Tranh
out of the crowd, seating her on a
stool in the middle of the stage to
“serenade” her.
After the show, Tranh was still
amazed at her good luck.
“Oh my gosh,” she said. “I felt
like my heart was going to jump
out of my body.”
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