The Burlington Free Press from Burlington, Vermont • Page 4

The Burlington Free Press Wednesday, June 2, 2004 4A Ban on late-term procedure struck down I I A.I a ft' i ABORTION: Continued from Page 1A and Nebraska also heard challenges to the law earlier this year from other abortion-rights forces but have yet to rule. Planned Parenthood lawyer Beth Parker welcomed the ruling, saying it sends a "strong message" to the Bush administration "that the government should not be intruding on very sensitive and private medical decisions." In a statement, the Bush reelection campaign said: "Today's tragic ruling upholding partial birth abortion shows why America needs judges who will interpret the law and not legislate from the bench. John Kerry's judicial nominees would similarly frustrate the people's will and allow this grotesque procedure to continue." Kerry spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter said the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee voted to restrict late-term abortions when the measure contained a "clear exception for life or health of women." "However, George Bush pushed through a different piece of legislation that failed to protect the health of women and that is what the court struck down today," she said. "When John Kerry is president he will appoint judges that are committed to upholding the Constitution, not pursuing an ideological agenda." Justice Department spokeswoman Monica Goodling said the government "will continue to devote all resources necessary to defend this act of Congress, which President Bush has said 'will end an ab- i PETER HUOPPI, Free Press Katie Shappy of Burlington and Andrew Way of Jericho walk up College Street in Burlington on Tuesday past a thermometer reading 53 degrees, 20 degrees lower than the average high for June 1. Burlington was recently placed among the five American cities with the worst climates.

WEATHER: Vt. climate is all wet, new book says lenges. They began hearing testimony March 29. Doctors have construed the Supreme Court's decision in Roe. v.

Wade to mean they can perform abortions usually until the 24th to 28th week after conception, or until the "point of viability," when a healthy fetus is thought to be able to survive outside the womb. Generally, abortions after the "point of viability" are performed only to preserve the mother's health. The Nebraska and New York cases are expected to conclude within weeks. The outcomes, which may conflict with one another, will almost certainly be appealed to the Supreme Court. The New York case was brought by the National Abortion Federation, which represents nearly half the nation's abortion providers.

The Nebraska case was brought by a few abortion doctors. The U.S. Supreme Court had overturned a Nebraska partial-birth abortion law because it did not allow the banned procedure even when a doctor believes the method is the best way to preserve the woman's health. Congressional sponsors said the ban would outlaw only 2,200 or so abortions a year. But abortion providers testified the banned method can happen even at times when doctors try to avoid it, such as when they attempt to remove the fetus from the womb in pieces.

They warned that the law could be used to ban almost all second-trimester abortions, which account for about 10 percent of all abortions in the United States. Special vehicle stickers have been distributed to Normandy residents, whom authorities are encouraging to stay home to watch the ceremonies on TV instead of trying to rubberneck at dignitaries. The country has mobilized 9,000 soldiers, equipped with AWACs surveillance aircraft, unmanned drones and naval minesweepers, the Defense Ministry said. About 6,000 gendarmes members of a unique French police force that falls under the Defense Ministry are to check vehicles, smooth traffic and manage crowds if any protests get out of hand. About 20,000 people, including 8,000 veterans, are to attend many of the 16 official ceremonies in Normandy from Saturday to Monday, the Defense Ministry said.

Some 3,500 journalists are accredited to cover the event, and as many as 1 million people are expected for a series of other commemorations around the region, the Interior Ministry said. Associated Press Writers Ingrid Rousseau in Paris and Frederic Veille in Normandy contributed to this inhumane, causes pain to the fetus and is never medically necessary. A government lawyer told the judge that it "blurs the line of abortion and infanticide." Abortion proponents argued, however, that a woman's health during an abortion is more important than how the fetus is terminated, and that the banned method is often safer than a conventional abortion, in which the fetus is dismembered in the womb and then removed in pieces. In her ruling, the judge said it was "grossly misleading and inaccurate" to suggest the banned procedure verges on infanticide. Rep.

Steve Chabot, R-Ohio, the chief sponsor of the House bill, said the banned abortion method "has no place in a civilized society," and predicted the Supreme Court would decide the outcome. "Regardless of this decision from San Francisco, partial-birth abortion remains a horrific practice that snuffs out innocent life seconds before the baby takes its first breath," Chabot said. The measure, which President Clinton had twice vetoed, was seen by abortion rights activists as a fundamental departure from the Supreme Court's 1973 precedent in Roe v. Wade. Abortion advocates said the law was the government's first step toward outlawing abortion.

Violating the law carries a two-year prison term. Late last year, Hamilton, a Clinton appointee, and federal judges in New York and Lincoln, blocked the act from being enforced pending the outcome of the court chal iLl. NS. tacks. Nuclear, biological and chemical weapons experts have also been readied.

Authorities on Tuesday raised France's terror alert status from "orange" to "red" the second-highest on a four-point scale. Police will step up identification and baggage checks on trains, especially those headed to Normandy, and water will be checked and stocked. JASON OOIV, The Recorder U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton on Tuesday permanently blocked the Bush administration from enforcing Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act against Planned Parenthood Federation of America clinics and their doctors. horrent practice and continue to build a culture of life in The law, signed in November, represented the first substantial federal legislation limiting a woman's right to choose an abortion.

Abortion rights activists said it ran counter to three decades of Supreme Court precedent. It banned a procedure that is known to doctors as intact dilation and extraction, but is called "partial-birth abortion" by abortion foes. During the procedure, the living fetus is partially removed from the womb, and its skull is punctured or crushed. Justice Department attorneys argued the procedure is VJ I Hr D-DAY: This time, French guard Normandy coast Continued from Page 1A moved from Burlington to Po-catello, Idaho, two years ago, another city that ranked among the worst cities for climate. The weather's much nicer in Pocatello, Neumann said.

"In Burlington, it's the humidity. It's rarely humid out here," he said. Still, Neumann said he misses Burlington's vibrancy, if not its weather. Fairbanks Museum meteorologist Steve Maleski says he doesn't think of weather in terms of good or bad. Maleski might forecast dry, wet, cold or hot weather, but he avoids terms like "unpleasant," or "gorgeous." "It's a mistake to add value-laden terms to weather, as in this is the best weather, this is the worst weather.

It's a lot more appropriate to simply see this as one of the cloudier areas in the United States, because that's true. For some people who like clouds, this is a great place to live." Stuart Hall, who spent 36 years forecasting Vermont's REMY DE LA MAUVINIERE, The Associated Press French soldiers patrol a Paris train station Tuesday as France tightens security to safeguard celebrations for the 60th anniversary of the D-Day landings that will bring President Bush and other leaders to Normandy on Sunday. Continued from Page 1A "We have to think about it, not take it lightly and do everything to lower the risk to zero," said Patrick Jardin, mayor of the Normandy town of Arromanches, where a ceremony for heads of state is planned. "The advantage of such a ceremony is that there will be a deployment of forces so large that we'll feel secure. But that can give ideas (to ter-.

rorists) and we're aware of that," Jardin said. Cars will be stopped at checkpoints along a 60-mile stretch of Normandy coast, and drivers without special passes will be turned away, said Defense Ministry spokesman Jean-Francois Bureau. Military helicopters, Mirage fighters and Crotale surface-to-air batteries are authorized to escort, and if necessary, shoot down, any unidentified aircraft that enter the area. Among the heads of state expected are President Bush, French President Jacques Chirac and Queen Elizabeth II of Britain. Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and Russian President Vladimir Putin will represent their countries on D-Day for the first time.

Organization gets even trickier because many of the foreign dignitaries are bringing their own security teams. In Paris, police will block off a large swath of the city including the presidential palace, the Champs-Elysees, the U.S. Embassy and Les Inva-lides. A protest against the Iraq war is scheduled for Saturday outside the zone as Bush arrives. Paris police have also asked museums, cinemas and stores to be on high alert and check handbags of incoming patrons.

In Normandy, the military has set up a temporary air MISSING: Police seek link to 3 disappearances "It doesn't get too monotonous because it changes so fast. I don't mind the cold at all." Stuart Hall, WCAX-TV weather forecaster for 36 years snowstorms, cold snaps, drizzles and ice storms for WCAX-TV, said he finds Burlington's climate invigorating. "It doesn't get too monotonous because it changes so fast," Hall said. "I don't mind the cold at all." Which is fortunate, because forecasters said today will bring clouds, showers and cool temperatures. Contact Matt Sutkoski at 660-1846 or msutkoskbfp.burlingtonfree-press.com Haverhill is roughly 100 miles from Montgomery, and Johnson is between the two, about 26 miles from Montgomery.

"I haven't seen any cases like this in Vermont," Marcoux said. Marcoux says Vermont investigators will meet with New Hampshire detectives to see if any additional links can be found. "The state police are in the process of contacting them. There is a meeting being scheduled with investigators from the three cases just to make sure we're not missing anything," he said. Marcoux said it appeared to be coincidence that Whitney's mother, Cheryl Peters, was shot to death in Morris-ville in 1994.

No one was ever charged in that case. 1203 Williston Road South Burlington 863-3099 Wrinkle Cream Success Continued from Page 1A der-length brown hair and brown eyes. Marcoux said he called the Vermont State Police and that investigators started working on the case immediately. "This is a joint investigation with the state police, and if there are a lot of similarities we are going to know it," Marcoux said. "We are pouring resources into it right from the get-go." The Whitney disappearance comes in the aftermath of the February disappearance of Maura Murray, a University of Massachusetts student, who had a minor, single-car traffic accident in Haverhill, N.H.

On March. 19, Brianna Maitland of Sheldon disappeared after leaving her job in Montgomery. Millions of Seniors and "Baby Boomers" are praising the exciting discovery by famous Pharmacist Robert EB5 Facial for the dreaded signs of wrinkles, crow 's feet, crepey throat, "feather lips and dry skin. EB5 is five creams in one jar. Cream.

Cream. 24-hour Moisturizer and Make-up all in one. One jar lasts for months and is sold with ft' JO base near Caen. Regional health officials have stockpiled antidotes in case of chemical attack and airliners will be banned over the area. Hundreds of police were being mobilized in case of a terror attack, and hundreds more were to join convoys that contain the heads of state, though the Defense Ministry says it has no intelligence information indicating a terror attack is likely.

On Monday, police patrols with sniffer dogs and handheld metal detectors fanned out on the ceremony sites near Arromanches and Omaha Beach, while troops armed with automatic weapons patrolled railway stations. Hospitals have asked all their staff to be on hand, and paramedics were instructed to be ready for anything from scraped knees to bomb at Norwalk Home Fashion Gallery Slpm Shorn Route ct Lmm Stowe 253-6900 800-584-2323 EMM GIGANTIC STOREWIDE! MOVING SALE FURTHER REDUCTIONS HAVE BEENTAKEN! 5 OIF1F CUSTOM PICTURE FRAMES or DELETED, DISCONTINUED, OVERSTOCKED MOLDING FINE ART FRAMING 5 Queen Mattress Sets A $269 Sale Ends 6504 Soma rettrictinnt apply. Prepnymftrrt required All othor Ki'm at mqulnr prims. Cinilrrt Orto MOWe HOUSe FURNITURE (FORMERLY YIELD HOUSE OF STOWE) ManhM9-iiSat9-5Sunl1-3 (802) 862- 2788 Corner of Marshall Leroy Aves. Williston, VT.