{"id":677,"date":"1975-03-13T18:40:27","date_gmt":"1975-03-13T18:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marshner.christendom.edu\/?p=677"},"modified":"2016-07-21T23:54:08","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T04:54:08","slug":"hugh-scott-moves-to-restrict-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marshner.christendom.edu\/?p=677","title":{"rendered":"Hugh Scott Moves To &#8220;Restrict&#8221; Abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><h1 class=\"ocr\"><a id=\"post-677-bookmark0\"><\/a>Hugh Scott Moves To \u201cRestrict\u201d Abortion<\/h1>\n<h6 class=\"ocr\">By W. H. MARSHNER<\/h6>\n<p class=\"info\">\n  THE WANDERER<br>\n(Special to <em>The Wanderer<\/em>)<br>\nMarch 13, 1975\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  WASHINGTON \u2013 Hugh Scott (R., Pa.), Minority Leader of the Senate since 1969 and one of the most powerful allies of Planned Parenthood in Washington, has begun drafting a constitutional amendment to \u201crestrict\u201d abortion.\n<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cThe amendment will be restrictive rather than prohibitive,\u201d said the senator\u2019s press aide, which presumably means it will allow exceptions for rape, deformity, and the mother\u2019s health. No actual draft is as yet available, however; nor is one expected to be released for \u201cat least a month,\u201d according to staff person Tracy Mullen.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Because Scott has never been a friend of right-to-life efforts, his sudden move to offer an amendment has caused consternation in feminist circles. A recent alert from National Organization for Women (NOW) screams of \u201cbetrayal\u201d and darkly warns that if the anti-abortion forces can \u201cget to\u201d Hugh Scott, they can \u201cget to\u201d anybody.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  On the other hand, Scott seems to be under no illusion that his efforts will win friends in the pro-life circles. He has met in recent months with at least one anti- abortion organization, the Pro-Life Coalition of Pennsylvania, which represents over 20,000 people in the Philadelphia area. But this organization plainly told him that it supports the Helms amendment and no other. According to Ms. Mullen, Sen. Scott is aware that the pro-life groups will settle for nothing less than a total abortion prohibition.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  All of which leaves Scott\u2019s political motivation very much in darkness. Often characterized as a consummate practitioner of \u201csuave\u201d but \u201cserpentine\u201d politics, Scott is the sort of man to switch sides adroitly but hardly the sort to introduce a measure calculated to infuriate both sides. To the suggestion that Scott\u2019s move represents an administration trial balloon, his staff responds with round denial. \u201cThis is totally a matter of his own personal belief,\u201d said Ms. Mullen.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Sen. Scott is a member of Birch Bayh\u2019s subcommittee which is considering constitutional amendments.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/marshner.christendom.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/WM-1975-3-13-OCR.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hugh Scott Moves To \u201cRestrict\u201d Abortion By W. H. MARSHNER THE WANDERER (Special to The Wanderer) March 13, 1975 WASHINGTON \u2013 Hugh Scott (R., Pa.), Minority Leader of the Senate since 1969 and one of the most powerful allies of Planned Parenthood in Washington, has begun drafting a constitutional amendment to \u201crestrict\u201d abortion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[267,121,120,268,263,28,265,266,119,118,264],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wanderer","tag-amendment","tag-anti-abortion","tag-birch-bayh","tag-constitution","tag-hugh-scott","tag-human-rights","tag-national-organization-for-women","tag-now","tag-pro-life","tag-senate","tag-tracy-mullen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marshner.christendom.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marshner.christendom.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marshner.christendom.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marshner.christendom.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marshner.christendom.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marshner.christendom.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":699,"href":"https:\/\/marshner.christendom.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions\/699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marshner.christendom.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marshner.christendom.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marshner.christendom.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}