Halton Hills Newspapers

Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), March 7, 1990, p. 8

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mikFyMmwmftovnm3ti Georgetown doctor argues for tough restrictions on abortion Halton may appeal land severance Thomson Newsservice OTTAWA A Georgetown doctor was one of seven prolife pbysi dans who argued for tough restric tions on access to abortion before a House of Commons committee Tuesday Dr Deborah and her cot leagues in Canadian Physicians for Life called for jail terms of up to two years for anyone who per forms an abortion unless the pro cedure is the only way to counter serious risks to a pregnant woman s health is a general practitioner in Georgetown and active in local mental health and parentchild groups The doctors were testifying before the legislative committee reviewing Bill C43 the federal governments proposed new tionlaw The law would require women seeking an abortion to first gain the permission of a doctor Tempers flared at the committee Town cracks down Continued from Page 1 shortage of apartments in town but the town want housing that 15 unsafe The owners of Ready Mix in Ac ton were fined for failing to obey a stopwork order and building without a permit The town asked for a minimum fine of per offence because the owners were very cooperative The owners stopped construction on the illegal addition as soon as the town laid the charges said Mr Holmes The owners of Academy Road received higher fines than the owners of Ready Mix because an legal basement apartment poses a greater danger to people lives than an addition to a cement ing building said Mr Holmes SAME DAY TAX RETURNS Guelph St Georgetown I- meeting when two prochoice MPs Quebec Tory Lise and Nova Scotia Liberal Mary Clancy questioned the doctors on the sub ject of the mental health of a woman with an unwanted pregnan Paul Ranalli a neurologist at the University of Toronto said even In the case of a teenage girl pregnant through incest the girls desire for an abortion would hot be enough to make him approve the procedure Another of the doctors called an abortion in that case a second violation that would not help the incest victim Who are you Ms shot back angrily You have real ly gone too far You re doctors after all Although the proposed amendment would include mental health in its definition of health risks an abortion could not be per formed unless a doctor deemed it to be the only treatment available When asked if they could suggest an instance when this would be true however none of the doctors did so A BULK FOOD STORE SO MUCH MORE We carry many varieties of DRIED PEAS BEANS AND SOUP MIXES SPECIAL THIS WEEK ONION SOUP mix NoMSG mm lb THE CORPORATION OF THE Town of Hills H Ms Box HALTON HILLS Georgetown Ontario L7G PUBLIC NOTICE OF INTENTION NAMING OF STREETS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Council tor the Town Halton Hills intends to pass a By law to name the following streets shown by shaded areas in the diagrams below J LMEHOUSE I The Council or a Committee of Council will hear any person or their Counsel Solicitor or Agent who claims that they will be adversely affected by the by law Applications to be heard at a meeting to be held in the Council Chambers Civic Centre Hills Drive on the of April will be received by the undersigned until noon Thursday Aprils This notice was published on the 7th day of March Don Cos tea Administrator Clerk Town of Halton Hills Hills Drive Box 128 Halton Hills Georgetown Ontario 5G2 a family doctor in Georgetown cited the case of a pregnant woman she treated her Georgetown practice The woman was diagnosed as psychotic The treatment of choice was treatment of the psychosis not an abortion she said Later Dr said medical studies have shown an abortion will generally make a psychologically vulnerable or unstable woman condition worse Zeni and the other six doc tors dodged questions on whether they would refer a woman patient coming to them to approve an abortion request to another doc tor Instead of answering the ques tion directly each doctor replying said they would fully explore other options If you ask me whether I counsel abortions obviously you can see from the fact I am here that no I can Dr Zeni said in an inter view Because I don see it as a medically appropriate treatment for an unwanted pregnancy report points out among other things that the land in question is prime agricultural land Halton staff said Wednesday it arrived at this decision after an of ficial with the provincial ministry of environment visited the site and deemed it prime agricultural land Mr argued the house would be located along a wooded area of the property and therefore wouldnt destroy any viable farm land Acton Regional Councillor Rick Bonnette represented a minority of committee members and voted to uphold the LDCs decision He argued that council formed the to make decisions about these types of land severances and by S LDCs decision the cent Halton Regional council will decide today Wednesday if the Region should continue its at tempts to prevent a Halton Hills man from severing a part of his land to build his daughter a home The Region planning and public works committee decided Feb to appeal to the Ontario Municipal Board a Land Division Committee decision that would allow Barry to build a house on his property located on the north side of Sideroad east of the Ninth Halton Hills council rejected its staff recommendation earlier this year that the s decision be ap pealed to the Mr beef farm at this location and he wants to use an acre to build a house for his daughter committee members were told at last Wednes day meeting The had approved the severance because it didn t involve prime agricultural land and is for a family transaction according report But the Region s staff in its mittee was undermining the role of the But Burlington Regional Rob Forbes countered saying that the committee Is in an adver sanal rote with the The Region staff also disagreed with the reason ing that because the severance was for Mr Whitworth daughter it should be permitted FINAL CLEARANCE W WITH TO 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