The Ubyssey
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note: Founded in 1918 Vancouver, Friday, October jft, 1989 Vol 72, No 11 AMS vetoes pro- choice motion by Rick Hiebert The UBC Alma Mater Society defeated a motion to officially support a prochoice stance on the abortion issue at Wednesday's council meeting. The AMS voted 14 to 11 with four abstentions against "endorsing the National Day of Action for Choice (on Saturday) and affirming the position that abortion not be recriminalized." "The AMS is supposed to be a council which represents the entire student body, but yet they had no idea at all where the student body stood on abortion, so they had no right to take a stance for pro-abortion," said Duane Hendricks, a Campus Pro-Life member who made a presentation arguing against the motion. "I stressed that there's a good number of students at UBC who would be against abortion whether or not they would be members of our club. Their point of view wouldn't be represented by an AMS decision in favour of pro-choice, therefore, I stepped forward to try and speak for them," said the second-year engineering student. AMS director of administration Vanessa Geary, who moved the motion with AMS Arts rep Mark Keister, was unhappy with the vote's result. "My position was that this is a student issue because it severely affects the fundamental rights of each and every woman at UBC. The issue is really about choice," Geary said. "I brought forward a choice motion because it allows an individual to decide and does not enforce any (abortion) decision on an individual whereas an anti-choice or pro-choice position takes this freedom away," she said. "I respect the decision by council, yet I disagree because I believe that we were elected by the students and are expected to show leadership and make hard decisions." Mark Keister backed the motion because he thought it important for the AMS to "take a stand." "It always seems hypocritical to me how some AMS people say that it's not our place to make these kind of decisions, yet we weren't trying…
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