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NARAL vs. Iowa Pro-Life Group

(Her Say)-The National Abortion Rights Action League last week filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission against the lowa Pro-Life Action Council, an anti-abortion group which claimed a major role in the recent election. The complaini alleges lobby activities fraught with illegalities, including making election contributions greatly in excess of legal limits; failing to file a required report disclosing expenditures and contributions; and soliciting contributions from the general public-instead of its membership-contrary to legal requirements.

NARAL also charges the Action Council engaged in federal political activities without being legally qualified to do so, and filed reports which were false and misleading.

If the charges stick, the Council could face stiff fines. The Council, in the meantime, denies the allegations and is charging NARAL with harassment.

Bishops Cut Anti-Abortion Funds

The National Conference of Catholic Bishops has adopted a new budget which includes a large cut in funding for anti-abortion activities. The bishops, at their annual meeting, allocated $165,000 for their 1979 anti-abortion program, about $60,000 less than current spending levels.

While the budget cut was explained as part of an overall effort to economize, some Catholic leaders are known to be worried that official church involvement in efforts to influence abortion legislation may jeopardize the church's tax exempt status.

Joanne Little Loses Motion

(Her Say)—A motion seeking a new trial for Joanne Little, who is currently serving time for escape charges, has been dismissed by a Raleigh, North Carolina judge.

Judge James Pou Bailey said Little had been lawfully extradited from New York for trial on escape charges in North Carolina. At first she pleaded not guilty, but then Little changed her plea at the trial and received a sentence of six months to two years.

Little was acquitted of murder charges in 1975 in the stabbing death of a jailor she said had tried to rape her. She was in prison at the time on a breaking and entering conviction.

Police Kill Crown Heights Woman

New York (LNS)-On the eve of a planned march on the UN to call international attention to oppression of black people in the United States, the New York Police Department has provided another dramatic example of what New York's Black United Front is fighting against. Once again the embattled black community of Crown Heights in Brooklyn is mourning the loss of one of its members.

On November 16, 30-year-old Marion Johnson, a mother of two children, was shot five times in the chest by white police officer who claims that she lunged at him with a knife. Members of the community tell a different story.

According to witnesses and friends of the dead woman, her death was "unnecessary." The police officer, they say, could have used some other means of disarming the woman. And while police reports have persistently described Johnson as an "apparent psycho," her friends are saying that she was "depressed." Eye witnesses to the incident have also stated that the lethal weapon which was reported to be the cause of the shooting was a small pen knife.

"I don't need to know the details," New York Assemblyman Al Vann told reporters shortly after he incident. "To subdue one woman the policeman

doesn't need to kill."

Residents of the community also pointed out that although police officers swarmed all over the area immediately after the shooting, none bothered to call for an ambulance.

This latest killing, one of many by police in the Crown Heights area, will be raised by the Black United Front when they present their case against police brutality at the UN later this month. FDA Restricts Use of Oxytocin

(Her Say)-The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is restricting the use of oxytocin, a drug widely administered by obstetricians to induce labor in pregnant women. The FDA reports that doctors often prescribe the drug merely because they don't want to be bothered with a night delivery or have their vacations spoiled.

Women, the agency says, often choose to have labor induced to avoid the inconvenience of having a baby during the holiday seasons. Sometimes, says the FDA, women will also schedule a delivery in time to get an extra income tax break for the year.

The FDA reports that although oxytocin is generally safe, it has proved fatal to premature babies by causing respiratory distress in their underdeveloped lungs.

Nestlé Boycott Having Effect

(Her Say)-The Infant Formula Action Coalition has for five years been attempting to persuade the Nestle Company to stop promotional practices which encourage bottle feeding in Third World countries. Organizers of the Coalition say that their boycott of Nestle products appears to be having an effect; the firm recently flew several representatives from Switzerland to Minnesota to meet with them.

Nestle has also begun sending representatives to various colleges and committees in the U.S. to give the company's side of the controversy.

The critics say that poverty, inadequate medical care, and unsanitary conditions in Third World countries combine to make bottle feeding "poison" for babies in developing countries.

The National Council of Churches; an umbrella group for several hundred churches across the U.S., has voted to join the boycott.

Nestle does not market infant formula in the U.S. Protest organizers are asking consumers to boycott the company's other products instead, some of which include Nestle's Quik, Nescafe, Pero, Berringer Wines in California, Stouffer's food products, and Libby's food products.

Sexual Taboo Continues

(Her Say)-Have taboos about women having sex during menstruation gone the way of the three-dollar bill? According to psychologist Karen Ericksen Paige, the answer is no.

Paige conducted a poll for the Survey Research Center of the University of California at Berkeley on sex practices of women during their periods. She says that the older a woman is, the less likely she is to have menstrual sex. She adds, however, that a hidden iaboo about having sex during a woman's period is still practiced by over a quarter of the women surveyed.

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