Judy Novack, of the New Jersey "Right to Life," and Stephen Foley, an attorney, argued for outlawing abortion. Speaking for women's right to choose were Nadine Taub, a lawyer and professor at Rutgers, and Judith Lambert, a former staff member of the Women's National Abortion Action Coalition.

Novack spoke while a slide projector flashed pictures of what she claimed was an aborted "baby." This was designed to convince the 100 viewers that abortion is the same as infanticide.

Judith Lambert spoke next.

The woman, Lambert [said], "is the one that has to make the decision [about abortion]. Neither the church nor the state is going to step in to save her job, pay her bills, or support that child. It will be her burden. It must be her decision."

Lambert explained that majority public sentiment, along with demonstrations, teach-ins, and rallies organized by the women's movement, won legalization of abortion. Activities like these are needed again, she said because "the anti-abortionists continue to use every means...to chisel away" at legal abortion. As an example, she cited the Hyde amendment, calling its supporters racist because Black, Puerto Rican, and Chicana women would suffer disproportionately if denied Medicaid abortions.  
 
December 10, 1951
Syngman Rhee's regime has opened a new drive to "exterminate" thousands of guerrillas admittedly still operating behind the lines in South Korea. This drive by "our murderous allies"--as a Life correspondent once described the South Korean soldiers and police--is also serving to screen a campaign of terrorism against the South Korean populace, who are bitterly hostile to the Rhee dictatorship and U.S. intervention.

Announcement of the drive on the guerrillas, who can operate only with popular support, was preceded by proclamation of martial law in half of Korea. This military rule is so "extreme," reported Greg McGregor, N.Y. Times correspondent in Pusan, that "residents were forbidden to move from their villages." The United Press reported on Dec. 2 that "house-to-house searches were ordered by the Defense Ministry" and "police were ordered to arrest and jail anyone caught with hidden weapons."

Anyone who offers resistance will be charged with "rendering aid and comfort to the enemy" and will be shot or imprisoned. Anyone caught with arms "will be assumed to be a guerrilla," reports McGregor.

Most guerrillas are not "communists," McGregor says. "About 90 percent are simple 'outlaws,' not necessarily communists. The other 10 percent are Communists." A Dec. 2 UP dispatch from Pusan affirmed that many guerrillas were merely "antigovernment Partisans who had little or no connection with the Reds." A Dec. 2 UP story from Taegu reports that on their way into the mountains the South Korean troops first "searched about 100 villages along the way."  
 
 
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