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A-4-Santa Cruz Sentinel Monday, Aug. 26, 1985 Judy chealleoiges abortion consent Saws LOS ANGELES (AP) A study shows teen-agers who conceal their abortions suffer no more anxiety or depression than girls who tell their parents, a psychologist said Sunday. Trisha A. Stark of the University of Minnesota Medical School contended her findings undermine arguments favoring state laws that require parents to consent to their teen-age daughters' abortions. One legislative rationale for such laws, she said, "is that these are adolescents who are not mature and need guidance in making decisions, and therefore their parents need to be informed in order to keep them (the girls) from suffering adverse psychological effects." Because the study found the girls who didn't seek parental consent were no more likely to suffer emotional trauma than those who did, "it should not be mandated by law that teen-agers necessarily have to inform parents in order to have an abortion," Stark said.

Jacqueline Hatlin, a local coordinator for the anti-abortion Right to Life League, disagreed with Stark's conclusions, which were presented Sunday to the American Psychologi cal Association's annual meeting. "I think the purpose of such a (parental consent) law is that parents are responsible for their minors and they should be told what they're going to do," Hatlin said. "Parents have a right to know their minor daughter wants to get an abortion." The study involved 140 girls, age 13 through 17, who obtained abortions at four Minnesota abortion clinics from February through April 1984. Stark said the clinics perform nearly 80 percent of the abortions in Minnesota, where state law requires the consent of both parents unless the girl gets a court ruling declaring her mature. Of the 140 girls, 64 obtained court certification of maturity and 76 chose to tell their parents.

All the girls were given standardized psychological tests for anxiety and depression, which found no significant difference between the two groups, said the study conducted by Stark, sociologist Michael Resnick and Dr. Robert W. Blum, director of the medical school's Adolescent Health Program. Hatlin said the findings could be interpreted to mean that because the girls who told their parents suffered no more emotional problems than those who didn't, there's no reason parents shouldn't be informed. Stark replied that teen-age girls "lose the right to privacy when its mandated by law that they have to talk to their parents." She said it is possible the girls who avoided getting parental consent for their abortions were no more anxious or depressed than those who did because the abortion clinics provided extensive counseling.

"Minor children may well need some counseling or support about making decisions about abortion," she said. "However, this can be accomplished in a manner so as not to violate their right to privacy." The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 8-1 in 1979 that states may require a pregnant minor to obtain one or both parents' consent to an abortion If state law also provides an alternative procedure, such as letting the minor seek a judge's consent instead. Stark and Hatlin said they didn't know how many state have laws requiring parental consent for abortions, but agreed it was a minority. Gasoline prices continue decline I state digest LOS ANGELES (AP) Retail gasoline prices dropped slightly in August, but dealers may be reluctant to pass onto consumers further savings from crude oil price cuts, an industry analyst said.

"Dealers have still not recovered lost margins that they ran into at wholesale runup" earlier this year, Dan Lundberg, publisher of the Lundberg Letter, said Sunday. On Jan. 1, dealers' profit margin was 13.95 cents a gallon. That has dropped to 11.69 cents per gallon, Lundberg said. Even so, the consumer is enjoying a respite from rising gasoline prices, according to Lundberg's survey last Friday of more than 17,000 service stations nationwide.

"(Retail) gasoline prices have dropped nationally by seven-tenths of a cent over the past two weeks, while wholesale prices have dropped by over 1.3 cents a gallon," he said. California led the way in cut-rate gasoline with a number of self-service stations offering regular leaded fuel at 99.9 cents a gallon or less, Lundberg said. But prices of less than a dollar a gallon also were common in Alaska, Ship collision dumps into water LONG BEACH (AP) Thousands of gallons of a caustic chemical that leaked from a barge after a collision with an Israeli freighter threatens marine life near Long Beach Harbor but probably won't harm beachgoers, officials said. More than 140,000 gallons of sodium hydroxide, also known as caustic soda, spilled outside the harbor. However, it was expected to be too diluted by currents to threaten swimmers, said U.S.

Coast Guard Phoenix, Portland, Memphis, Kansas City, and St. Louis, Lundberg said. Regular leaded gasoline at self-service stations is usually the lowest-priced fuel. "These lower prices are definitely led by Arco, with hundreds of its stations below a dollar (a gallon), including some in the ranges of 98.9 (cents) all the way down to 95.9 (cents)," Lundberg said. Arco's prices were followed by independent private dealers, with Exxon and Shell Oil within competitive range, he said.

chemicals Beach California, en route to Long Beach from Japan, slammed into Dow Chemical's 250-foot Barge 1-51 at 5:30 a.m. Sunday about two miles outside the harbor, the Coast Guard said. The barge was headed to Long Beach from San Francisco. The collision caused barrels containing 280,000 gallons of the chemical to rupture, and about three-quarters of the contents spilled from the barge, Ms. Milton said.

A gash in the barge's side about three or four feet wide allowed the chemical to spill into the ocean, said John Barksdale, Los Angeles operations manager for the Dow Chemical Co. The substance is heavier than water and sinks and disperses. Tom Lewis, a marine biologist at the Cabrillo Marine Museum in San Pedro, said the most serious damage would be immediate destruction of slow-moving or immobile creatures on the bottom. But he said fish will probably avoid eating the polluted substance. The freighter sustained little damage and entered the harbor.

The barge was towed to an anchorage about a mile outside the breakwater southwest of the entrance to Los Angeles Harbor, adjacent to Long Beach Harbor. A Coast Guard pollution response team pumped the remaining chemicals in the damaged tanks into undamaged containers, Ms. Milton said. The leak was stopped and the barge docked in Los Angeles harbor early Sunday night. The cause of the collision was under investigation.

Long Beach is 25 miles south of downtown Los Angeles. Overall, average gasoline prices dropped to $1,226 per gallon nationwide, compared to $1,233 a gallon two weeks ago. At self-serve pumps, regular leaded fuel averaged $1.11 per gallon, regular unleaded cost $1.18 and premium unleaded was $1.31, Lundberg said. Lundberg called the lower prices a "delayed final reponse to those crude oil prices that were dropping." Pricing by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries has dropped more than $2 a barrel this year. Mexico has also cut the cost of its crude exported to the United States.

Solano County deputy siain By McClatchy News Service A Solano County sheriff's deputy was shot and killed while making a traffic stop near Vacaville late Sunday afternoon and two suspects were caught within a half hour after a high-speed chase that went through Winters into Yolo Couonty. Officers pursuing the suspects, who fled the scene in a gray van, reported shots being fired and there were reports that a California Patrol Car and a Winters Police Department vehicle were disabled during the barage of gunfire. The officer was identified as deputy Jose Cisneros, 42, a 14-year veteran of the department. The deputy was killed when he stopped the van about 5:30 after a citizen reported to the sheriff's department that the occupants were throwing new cassette tapes and papers out of a car window. The shooting scene was at Cherry Glen and Pleasant Valley Road just off of Interstate-80.

A witness who saw the officer gunned down got the license of the van and officers from Solano County, Napa County, CHP, Winters and the Dixon Police Department took up the pursuit. The suspects reportedly hit speeds up to 90 mph during the chase, and finally slowed down east of Winters on State Route 128 when they hit heavy traffic. According to radio reports of the chase, the suspects pulled into the Thomas Dodge ranch on County Road 32a near 93a about three miles northeast of Winters in Yolo County. They surrendered without further resistance. The suspects have not been identified other than being white and in their early 20s.

The van was reported to have been stolen from San Pablo earlier in the day. Interior secretary enjoys Yosemite YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK -Interior Secretary Donald Hodel tried mountain and rock climbing for the first time in a break from official duties during a visit to the park. Hodel climbed a rock slope and rappeled down a granite cliff Saturday while in the park to dedicate Mount Ansel Adams in honor of the late nature photographer who helped make Yosemite's natural monuments famous. "Ansel Adams expressed some very strong views about some of my predecessaros," Hodel acknowledged, "But the fact is that I regret his passing greatly. I would have like to have had a dialogue with him." Nobody injured as planes collide GLENDALE Two single-engine airplanes collided over Glendale but were able to land safely at two airports and none of the six people aboard were injured, authorities said.

A Beechcraft 35 Bonanza with two people aboard and a Cessna 172 carrying four people collided at 6:54 p.m. Sunday, said Tony Aina, a Federal Aviation Administration duty officer. Report 22 percent sexually abused LOS ANGELES About 22 percent of adult Americans were victims of child sexual abuse, although fewer than half the victims told anyone within a year of the assault, a Los Angeles Times poll concludes. The telephone survey of 2,627 randomly chosen Americans conducted July 20-25 indicated 27 percent of the women and 16 percent of the men had been molested as children. It found that both victims and non-victims were interested in the problem of child sexual abuse but had many misconceptions about it.

The poll's margin of error either way was put at 3 percent, although the sensitive nature of the topic may mean percentages dealing with victimization are minimums, the Times said. Results of the poll appeared in Sunday editions. Sexual abuse was defined as sexual intercourse, oral copulation, sodomy, fondling, taking nude photographs and exhibitionism. Anti-drilling protesters await Model's arrival near Long Petty Officer Pat Milton. Sodium hydroxide, widely used in chemistry, is processed from sea salts and used to manufacture soap and detergents.

It bums eyes and skin when exposed. "There definitely will be some marine life damage, but we don't know yet just how much," Ms. Milton said. "The Department of Fish and Game said it will kill any fish it comes in contact with." The 600-foot container ship Zim floor off the California coast. In the next several days, Hodel has scheduled a series of statewide meetings to collect public reaction on the proposal.

Willie Brown denounces Falwell SAN FRANCISCO Assembly Speaker Willie Brown denounced the Rev. Jerry Falwell at an anti-apartheid rally, saying the Moral Majority leader is "destined to go to hell." At a rally at Union Square on Sunday, Brown told about 200 people that "from a religious point of view, there is nothing else to be said." Falwell, who returned from South Africa last week and called for increased U.S. investment in that country, was the focus of much wrath during the 2-hour rally. From Sentinel wire services Gays cannot recognize gays LOS ANGELES Most people can't recognize a homosexual when they see one, even if they think they can, according to a study whose authors say people tend to use stereotypes indiscriminately. When 143 people were asked to guess the sexual preferences of 24 homosexual and heterosexual men and women shown on videotaped interviews, 80 percent of them did no better than chance, identifying half correctly and half incorrectly, the University of Missouri study found.

"One woman (shown on videotape) was heavyset and wore' blue jeans, and everyone assumed she was homosexual, but she was heterosexual," psychology doctoral student Gregory Berger said during the American Psychological Association's annual meeting. "There was a gay man who happened to be wearing a college sweatshirt and a baseball cap, and everyone assumed he was heterosexual." More lie-detector use encouraged LOS ANGELES The judge who presided over John De Lorean's trial on cocaine charges believes lie-detector evidence should play a larger role in criminal cases to improve "the quality of justice." U.S. District Judge Robert M. Takasugi also said Saturday he might have admitted into evidence a lie-detector test that showed De Lorean was truthful in denying the drug charges if the automaker's lawyers had elicited more complete testimony rebutting government criticisms of the test. Takasugi joined De Lorean defense attorney Donald Re and psychologist David C.

Raskin, who administered the test, in a panel discussion on the widely publicized case during the American Psychological Association's annual meeting. "There should be more use of polygraphic evidence," said Takasugi, a former lie-detector examiner. evidence presented by a person having the competence of Dr. Raskin could go far in terms of improving the quality of justice. "Right now we feel that with effective cross-examination you can reach truth.

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