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VOL. 8 NO. 22 Thursday, April 18,1974 10 cents per copy
Abortion foe brings film to St. Martin's
"Mrs." Joseph Colleluori (L-Bethpage)
enjoys-the grahtf-pHaeV#"nrtnfc'sitoliB,^'that-'slie won at
the 6th Annual Nassau Heart Fund Fashion Show and
Dinner. Mrs. Norwood Hines (Glenwood Landing),
fashion coordinator, shares in the glory as the show
comes to a successful close. All proceeds from this
event are for the benefit of the Nassau Heart
Association. Doc Luck as donated the mink.
FAIK SUCCESS: Mrs. Marlene Spitiliere, leader of
Junior Troop 331, and some of her girl scouts look over
the goods they later sold at the Neighborhood 6 Girl
Scout Fair, held last month at the Bethpage Fire
House. Over 600 people attended the event, which
pumped $900 into the camping program.
Pick Weal man for youth bimrd
Donald McLean t>f Beth-page
has been appointed
by County Executive
Ralph G. Caso to the
Nassau Youth Board.
The Youth Board, which
has a total of 20 members,
serves as a policy-making
body which oversees
planning, coordination,
evaluation of programs
and funding for the
county's youth services.
The board, which meets
monthly as a body, serves
without salary.
McLean is director of
governmental research for
Oyster Bay Town.
Tuesday, April 9,
Reverend Paul Driscoll
addressed the Christian-
Mothers-Rosary Con­fraternity
of St. Martin of
Tours in Bethpage. Father
Driscoll is the Human Life
Coordinator for the
Diocese appointed by
Bishop Kellenberg. He
deals extensively in the
issues of abortion and
euthanasia.
Father Driscoll opened
his presentation with
slides showing a picture of
Kelly, a baby born at 4%
months, and of Marcus
Richardson born at 5
months, bqth of whom
lived. Then Father showed
a. series of slides
illustrating the baby's
development in the womb.
Some in his audience
expressed surprise at his
statement that heart beats
are recorded at 24 days
after conception and brain
waves at 43 days, (abor­tions
are permitted up to
24 weeks)
He then showed slides of
abortions themselves. The
three methods of abortion
shown were the suction
techniques (where the
unborn baby is literally
torn apart as a suction
mechanism pulls him from
his mother's body).
The second method is
the saline solution (where
a needle is inserted in the
mother's abdomen with­drawing
some of the
amniotic fluid and in­jecting
a saline solution in
its place, which sends the
baby Jnto convulsions,
burns his skin, and causes
the mother to go into labor,
usually within 24 hours,
when she delivers a dead
baby.
The third method ot
abortion* is the
hysterotomy which is a
miniature "cesearean''.
That is, an incision is
made in the abdomen and
the baby is delivered alive
with little hope of sur­viving.
Father then spoke of the
difficulties of the "Right to
Lifer's" in getting across
to the public the reality
and humanity of the un­born.
He contented that
the media is hostile to this
issue.
He cited a case of
alledged censorship on the
part of a leading Long
island newspaper, for
whom he was to write an
article on abortion. He was
not to mention that
abortion was the taking of
a baby's life. He was not to
reveal an actual case
history. However, no
restrictions were placed
on a leading abortion
advocate who also was to
write an article giving the
opposing view, according
to Father Driscoll. He also
cited an example of the*
media's coverage on the
January 22 march on
Washington. The official
police estimate was that
over 20,00 people came to
Washington to demon­strate
their oppostion to
the Supreme Court
decision. Father Driscoll
said that many people
attended this rally as did
other marches on
Washington, which had
been widely pulbicized
weeks in advance by the
media. No prior coverage
was given to this rally. On
the day of the rally the
press reported only 60 to
12,000 in attendence, he
said.
F a t h e r Driscoll's
presentation also covered
abortion in a political
context. For example,
when Congressman
Angelo Roncallo in­troduced
his bill which
would prohibit fetal ex­perimentation
on live,
aborted babies, the House,
in a voice vote, rejected
his bill. Congressman
Roncallo then asked for a
roll call vote wherein each
Congressman's vote would
be" recorded. They
reversed themselves and
overwhelmingly supported
his bill.
Fetal experimentation
in one case included the
severing of an aborted
baby's head from his body.
Father Driscoll closed
the meeting on a note of
love and hope for the
future-where society will
be unwilling to sacrifice its
most helpless and in­nocent
members for the
sake of what he called
"expediency."
LIBRARY SING: Friday. April 26 at 8 PM. the Bethpage Public
Library will present an evening of music with the Dalton Family
Singers. Folk songs, spirituals, ballads, and country scngs will be
sung and played on such early American Instruments as guitar,
fiddle, string bass, dulcimar. limberjack, tambourine, jaw harp and
auto harp. The Dalton Family Singers have appeardd on radio and
television in addition to performing at several Long Island libraries.
Admission is free, and no tickets are required. Seating will be on a
first-come, first-served basis. Children under 14 years of age should
be accompanied by an adult.