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ast week, Gov. Mike Pence signed House Bill 1337 into law behind closed doors and sealed with a prayer. Despite yet another episode of national infamy similar to the RFRA blowback, the law is set to take effect on July 1. It is worth noting 21 of 31 women lawmakers and 13 Republicans joined Democrats against the bill. For context, those in favor of the bill cite religious reasons to protect the unborn from discrimination. But the legislation is so extreme and restrictive it misses the mark entirely. If conservative lawmakers cared about the neurodiverse and disabled community, they wouldn’t have reduced lived experiences to political fodder to create harmful and costly legislation that hands down penalties in place of funding, education, and support for neurodiverse and disabled people and their families. If they cared about discrimination, gender identity and sexual orientation would have been added to the civil rights code
The heart of this bill is...an egregious obstruction of reproductive justice. by now, and racist assumptions about sex-selective abortions in this state would be met with evidence to the contrary. If they cared about healthy Hoosiers raising healthy families in a healthy environment, they would understand abortion access is not a single-issue cause. Few at the Statehouse know the history of the current anti-choice movement is relatively young. Just 50 years ago, evangelical Christians were largely pro-choice or abstained from a position on the issue of abortion altogether. Institutions and faith leaders published work and spoke publicly of abortion as moral and legal, backed by scientific research and interpreted scripture distinguishing a growing fetus from a fully developed human life. Around the same time, severely shortsighted pro-choice organizers began 4 VOICES // 03.30.16 - 04.06.16 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
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purposely detaching abortion access from the larger narrative of reproductive wellness in an effort to make political headway. A Supreme Court victory in Roe v. Wade primarily benefited white, wealthy, straight women and left a wide opening for the kind of anti-choice rhetoric encouraging domestic terrorism against abortion clinic workers and patients and legislation forcing clinic closures nationwide to the direct detriment of marginalized communities. The heart of this bill is not a fight over abortion access or discrimination but an egregious obstruction of reproductive justice, a framework created by women of color with roots in women-centered practices from around the world. Reproductive justice centers queer people, poor people, and women of color. It links abortion access to social issues that affect health and wellness overall, rendering single-issue anti-choice and pro-choice politics obsolete. Choosing when, if, and how to start a family in Indiana is inextricably tied to affordable housing, a healthy environment, accessible education, food security, living wages, quality healthcare, and more. The GOP-controlled Legistlature and Pence continue to ignore or exacerbate the needs of Hoosiers related to these issues. Planned Parenthood is working with ACLU of Indiana to prepare a legal challenge to HB 1337. If the law is found unconstitutional, a way forward is not a Statehouse moratorium on social issues as Pence’s opponent John Gregg proposes, but educating and refocusing lawmakers and the Hoosier electorate on reproductive justice. Ideological differences on abortion are politically out of place apart from reproductive justice, when bi-partisan goals include reducing unwanted and non-viable pregnancies, fully supporting wanted pregnancies and growing families, and creating a better Indiana for all Hoosiers. Perhaps progress birthed of this politically panned legislation is exactly what Indiana needs. n
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ot content with being one of the nation’s most restrictive states to receive an abortion, Indiana’s General Assembly recently passed House Enrolled Act 1337 — a legislative assault on the reproductive rights of Hoosier women. Despite opposition by two-thirds (21-10) of the women in that body, Indiana’s male supermajority passed it anyway. The bill mandates the remains of a terminated pregnancy — whether it was the result of an abortion or a miscarriage — be provided a burial or cremation of what is often no more than a small clump of cell tissue. This unnecessary burden will increase the cost of terminating a pregnancy, and exacerbate the emotional trauma associated with a miscarriage. As if the previous provision isn’t insane enough on its own merits, HEA 1337 also includes TRAP (Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers) laws that make admitting privileges to a nearby hospital even more difficult for abortion providers to maintain. Admitting privileges are extremely difficult to secure in the first place. One common reason is some hospitals require physicians with admitting privileges to admit a certain number of patients each year, but they will never meet the requirement because abortions rarely require hospital admittance. The complication rate is .5 percent — 28 times lower than that of a colonoscopy — another procedure commonly peformed on an outpatient basis, but which no one challenges as a risk to patient safety. TRAP laws create a patient safety issue where none exists by forcing the closure of clinics, and making it more difficult
for women seeking an abortion to get one. More than half of the abortion clinics in Texas have closed since they enacted a similar bill a year ago. There were 9,000 fewer abortions in that state, which I’d guess has more to do with a sudden reduction in supply than demand. If the intent of Roe vs. Wade was to make abortion a safe option for women - a decision furthered by Casey vs. Planned Parenthood, which ruled that states regulating abortion could not
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HEA 1337 also imposes a burden on women seeking an abortion by requiring them to view an ultrasound and listen to the heartbeat of the fetus. Then it forces them to wait 18 hours before having the procedure. Considering only 4 of Indiana’s 92 counties provide abortion services, one can presume many women have to travel a significant distance to get to one. To require them to return 18 hours later is a further That the bill was opposed by a drain on their time and supermajority of the women who resources. That HEA 1337 makes voted on it illustrates how important it it harder to procure an is for women to be better represented abortion is hardly the point to the bill’s proin our governing institutions. ponents, but rather a secondary consequence of the overall strategy: to assign a fertilized zygote “personhood” in the case law, in their impose an “undue burden” on women continued effort to further chip away at seeking one — then it’s difficult to see Roe, which declined to offer legal protechow the Texas law currently being chaltions to a first trimester fetus. lenged at the Supreme Court can be Roe gave women the right to procure allowed to stand on the thinly veiled an abortion for any reason in the first argument that it is protecting women trimester — when 90 percent of aborfrom an already safe procedure. tions occur — because an examination Indiana’s HEA 1337 further punishes of personhood through the history of a provider who knowingly performs an case law, common law, philosophy, and abortion if it was sought due to a fetal even religion persuaded the court that abnormality or disability. This means a a first trimester fetus does not meet the woman could be forced to carry a fetus legal definition of a person. to term with significant developmental Supporters of legislation like HEA 1337 issues that is likely to have a poor think if they can secure civil rights for quality of life.
fetuses in the case law and anti-discrimination protections for categories like race, gender, and disability status, then the Supreme Court can no longer cite the absence of fetal personhood to rule in favor of abortion. Here’s the thing though: an early term fetus is not a person. It cannot think, feel, or remember because it hasn’t developed the systems to do so. HEA 1337 supporters seek to impose on society their belief that a fertilized zygote is a person because it has human DNA, even though a double helix of molecules is no more a person than a tree is a kitchen table. The potential to become a person does not convey greater, or even equal moral standing to a woman with the sentience to ponder difficult questions like reproductive choice. That the bill was opposed by a supermajority of the women who voted on it illustrates how important it is for women to be better represented in our governing institutions. Prognosticators on the Texas version of the admitting privileges bill are speculating Justice Kennedy — the swing vote on the abortion issue — will side with conservatives on the Supreme Court to split the vote and remand the decision back to the 5th Circuit. The purpose would be to allow the state time to prove it can handle abortion demand despite half of its clinics closing. However, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Kennedy vote with liberals to put down a bill that is already having a significant impact on a woman’s right to choose a safe abortion since he was one of the architects of Casey’s undue burden standard. Either way, these provisions will eventually find their way back to the Supreme Court. Don’t underestimate the importance of electing a president who understands the continued attack on women’s reproductive rights, and the need to nominate a justice with the same priorities. n
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HEA 1337’S WIDE-RANGING ABORTION RESTRICTIONS ARE STRICTEST IN NATION S TAT E M E N T O F P U R P O S E On Thursday, March 24, HEA 1337 became law in Indiana. The widesweeping bill has been called the strictest abortion law in the nation. HEA 1337 outlaws abortion entirely for a variety of reasons, adds additional barriers to obtaining an abortion and requires each aborted or miscarried fetus be buried or cremated. Our editorial stance is that HEA 1337 does not protect the interests of prochoice or anti-choice women. It does not, in fact, protect women and children at all. HEA 1337 violates Roe v. Wade
and, in many cases, could endanger the lives of mothers across the state. It is a piece of legislation that was rushed through the Statehouse, and a bill that many self-identified pro-life legislators voted against. Simply put, HEA 1337 makes Indiana the most hostile state for women’s rights in the nation. We examined the impact of HEA 1337 on Hoosier women from a variety of angles. We consulted experts in disability rights, SES, intersectionality and undocumented populations and
consulted Planned Parenthood and the ACLU. We’ve summarized the bill on page 8, and outlined its timeline through the General Assembly on page 10. HEA 1337 leaves many questions unanswered, and we’ve gathered those on page 16. Perhaps most importantly, we collected personal stories from women who chose abortion or experienced miscarriage, and asked them to describe what their experience would have been like if their abortion or miscarriage had taken place in Indiana after HEA 1337 became law. >>>
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WHAT DOES HEA 1337 ACTUALLY DO? House Enrolled Act 1337 was passed this year by the Indiana General Assembly. Known as the abortion bill, there are many aspects to the bill that are at the very least confusing and at the very most extremely damaging to women’s rights in our state. Here is a breakdown of what the legislation does and what it means for women and healthcare providers. • Healthcare facilities having possession of a miscarried fetus must provide for final disposition, which must be cremated or interred. Prior to this bill, women who had abortions could decide if they wanted the fetal remains from their pregnancy for personal burial or cremation. If that option wasn’t taken, then facilities could dispose of the remains as medical waste. This new legislation now requires facilities to have fetal remains interred or cremated if women don’t opt to do it. The burden of responsibility — both financial and regulatory — falls on the provider. However, the financial responsibility could very easily be passed on to patients through an increase in fees for services rendered. • Indiana does not allow a fetus to be aborted solely because of the fetus’s race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, or diagnosis or potential diagnosis of the fetus having Down syndrome or any other disability. This provision was also added under the auspices of civil rights. However, it makes abortion illegal at any stage of pregnancy based on a woman’s intent. The new provision defines “potential diagnosis” as “the presence of some risk factors that indicate that a health problem may occur.” As an example, a woman’s age (over 35) has been medically proven to increase the risk of Down syndrome and several other defects and disabilities in a pregnancy. The new law does make an exception for a “lethal fetal anomaly”, which the law defines as a fetal condition determined before birth that will result in the death of the child no more than three months after the child’s birth.
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• The physician or healthcare provider performing the abortion is the individual at risk for violating the previous statute. The new law prohibiting an abortion for the reasons listed above penalizes the healthcare provider and not the pregnant woman. Violations of the law could result in the healthcare provider’s license being suspended or revoked; the provider could receive a letter of reprimand from the licensing board; or the provider could censured or put on probation for a period of time. The provider could be fined $1,000 for each violation and be subject to civil liability for wrongful death (although the law doesn’t specify who would have the right to file a civil suit). • The identity of a physician or healthcare provider performing or supporting an abortion is made more publicly available. Indiana law previously required providers to have admitting privileges to a hospital in the county where abortions were performed or in a contiguous county; or to have a written agreement with a physician with admitting privileges. The new law requires those written agreements to be renewed annually and submitted to the state health department. The health department then distributes a list of those admitting privileges and written agreements to all of the hospitals in the county where the admitting hospital is located along with all of the hospitals in the counties contiguous to the admitting hospital. (Example, if Eskenazi Health grants admitting privileges to a doctor that performs abortions or has a written agreement with Planned Parenthood — IU Health, St. Francis, St. Vincent and all Community Hospitals would receive that notification along with all hospitals in Hendricks, Boone, Hamilton, Hancock and Johnson counties.) And that notification takes place every year.
• There must be at least 18 hours between when a woman is educated about her options and when an abortion procedure takes place. Indiana law had already dictated that abortion providers give a woman information about services, programs and other assistance available to her if she were to maintain the pregnancy. All written materials had to be received at least 18 hours prior to a procedure and an ultrasound and fetal heart tones had to be provided prior to the procedure. Now, the ultrasound and fetal heart tones must be provided 18 hours prior to the procedure as well. This requires a woman to make an additional trip to her provider. The “18-hour education” rule also applies to women carrying a child diagnosed with a “lethal fetal anomaly” that are considering terminating their pregnancy. In those cases, healthcare providers have to present the woman with information about perinatal hospice, which is defined as comprehensive, supportive care to a pregnant woman and her family beginning with the diagnosis of a lethal fetal anomaly and continuing through the live birth and death of the woman’s child as a result of the lethal fetal anomaly. The law requires a provider to inform the woman of her perinatal hospice options live and in person.
INJUNCTION FROM THE ACLU One of the first questions that comes to mind when considering this new legislation: Is it constitutional? After all, the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade in 1973 legalized a woman’s right to have an abortion. The balance of the decision allows states to determine a point in gestation when a fetus is considered viable outside of the womb to place a time limit on when abortions could be performed as a woman’s legal right. In Indiana, that cut-off is 20 weeks (which has been lowered over time). But that timeline is obliterated in HEA 1337 by the ban on abortions based on a woman’s intent. If a woman wants to terminate her pregnancy because of the race, gender, ancestry, diagnosis or potential diagnosis of a disability in the fetus, an abortion provider is banned from performing the procedure. And according to the ACLU of Indiana, that’s not right. “Obviously one of the first issues that jumps out is that Indiana has now become one of the very, very small minority of states to criminalize abortion no matter when the abortion occurs based on the reasons that a woman wants to have the procedure done,” says Gavin Rose, an attorney with the ACLU of Indiana. “I think there is very little doubt that that is unconstitutional under prevailing authority.” Rose says the ACLU of Indiana is researching all aspects of the bill and is looking at issues that could be problematic. But he says the prohibition of abortion at any gestational age jumps off the page as a violation of a woman’s constitutional right. “When there is a constitutional violation — I hate to say that one is any worse than another — but I think that’s fairly egregious what they have done there,” says Rose. “It’s very easy to imagine the woman that wants to get an abortion because she does not feel that she can handle [it] financially or otherwise raising a child with a serious disability or something like that. This state has no role to play in the first trimester and I think the Supreme Court has been very clear about that.”
PLANNED PARENTHOOD When it comes to abortion providers, one organization instantly comes to mind: Planned Parenthood. The national organization specializes in reproductive care and education for women, men and teens. As a part of its reproductive care for women Planned Parenthood does provide abortion services for women who want the procedure as an option. HEA 1337 creates a long list of new provisions Planned Parenthood is tasked with implementing.
“We’re taking a look at them right now to work through those provisions and begun to take a look at our processes and make sure that we’re modifying the way that we do things to be in compliance with the law,” says Patti Stauffer, vice president of public policy, strategy and compliance for Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky. Stauffer’s job is to make sure that Planned Parenthood branches are in compliance with the law. And HEA 1337 is full of challenges.
“[HEA 1337] prohibits parents of severely disabled fetuses from choosing to terminate a pregnancy; grieving parents who must face a decision that is heartbreaking. Instead of showing compassion in this bill, we are choosing to say that the state of Indiana knows what is best for their family in this tragic situation. And if they don’t agree, they can find compassion and understanding in one of our neighboring states and get the medical care that they deserve.” — REP. CINDY ZIEMKE
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“We’re also waiting [for] additional guidance from the State Department of Health, which is the licensing entity for our abortion facilities,” says Stauffer. “There is a lot of really vague language in the bill that is making it difficult for us to understand what compliance would look like.” Understanding the requirements for final disposition of fetal remains is proving to be one of the biggest challenges Planned Parenthood is facing in meeting that compliance. The legislation requires fetal remains to be treated as human remains and not biomedical waste. In other words, instead of disposing aborted or miscarried remains the same as a uterus removed in a hysterectomy or a damaged kidney removed in a transplant, fetal remains must now be buried or cremated. Law dictates the final disposition of human remains. Funeral directors in the state are licensed to adhere to a strict process dictated by public policy. The journey of a body from its location of death to final disposition is detailed and documented from start to finish. “I have reached out to the funeral home association [and] I’ve reached out to the coroners association asking them if they would take a look at this and try to offer some input or guidance as to
REAL WOMEN’S STORIES Over the last two weeks, we collected stories from women who experienced miscarriage or chose abortion. We asked them to describe their experience, including the emotional, mental, physical and financial burden, then asked them to envision what their experience would have been like if they had suffered a miscarriage or chosen abortion under HEA 1337. We asked them to consider a few questions, including: What would the impact be if they knew their fetus would be buried or cremated? If they had their choice to abort disallowed because their reason was no longer lawful? If they had to explain their reason for making their choice? We threaded their stories of throughout this piece to show the real impact of legislation like HEA 1337 on Hoosier women. These are stories of mothers, daughters, sisters, friends — loved ones whose lives are impacted. All stories with names attached were printed with explicit permission. We want to thank the women who submitted their stories. You can send your own to awakeforwomensrights.tumblr.com or womensrights@nuvo.net.
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had a “late miscarriage” in 1986. I had been trying to have children with infertility treatments, for almost ten years. I was pregnant (so happy!) and then one night I started cramping and bleeding. I called my doctor, who said, “Well, you will either miscarry or not. Wait and see.” The bleeding got worse, and I alternated between the bathtub, which would turn red with blood and the toilet. Eventually I passed big clumps. I scooped some of it out of the toilet to bring when I saw my doctor the following day. I ended up getting a D & C to “clean everything out.” As I had this procedure (I opted to do it awake so I could leave right afterwards), I realized that this is how an abortion works. The entire thing was traumatic, and I was so, so sad. If I had been forced to document or prove that my miscarriage was not intentional, or if I had been forced to bury the clots that came out of my body, my trauma and sadness would have been elevated to an unbearable degree. When you lose a pregnancy, you already feel sad and betrayed by your body. The state of Indiana or laws passed by a religiously aggressive legislature have no place in this highly personal, often traumatic event in a woman’s life. — ANNETTE MAGJUKA
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TIMELINE OF HEA 1337’S PASSING JANUARY 12 HB 1337 Authored by Representative Casey Cox (R-Fort Wayne)
JANUARY 12 1st reading by Committee on Public Policy. Passed.
The original bill solely addressed the final disposition of fetal remains. The goal was to humanize the disposal of fetal remains by requiring cremation or interment instead of allowing remains to be disposed of as medical waste. “I supported the bill the first time around. I assumed that was the bill we were considering this session and we would be done,” says Representative Sean Eberhart (R-Shelbyville), who voted no to HB 1337 in the final vote. Many Republican legislators supported the bill in its initial form, but did not support it when amended.
FEBRUARY 2 Third House reading passed The bill passed the House with 23 out of 29 Democrats voting against it.
FEBRUARY 8 First Senate reading by Committee on Health and Provider Services Language from SB 313 was added to HB 1337 in a Senate committee. The additions dealt with the provision illegalizing abortion if its intent is on based on race, gender or a disability diagnosis of the fetus. SB 313 passed the Senate on a party-line vote but was killed in a House committee.
MARCH 1 Third Senate reading passed The amended bill passed out of the Senate with all 10 Democrats and three Republicans voting against it. Senator Phil Boots (R-Crawfordsville) voted no from the start. “I’ve consistently voted no on pro-life legislation trying to end abortion. HB 1337 is not a truly anti-abortion bill, it just puts a lot of restrictions on women. Simply, I think that abortion is a woman’s choice. I think that if a woman wants to make the decision [to get an abortion], they should. The way I vote, I vote my consciousness as opposed to what my Republican colleagues would like to see,” says Boots. Senator Vaneta Becker (R-Evansville) voted no on HEA 1337. “We as Republicans always talk about ‘less regulation, less regulation, less regulation.’ EXCEPT when it deals with the most personal decisions of somebody’s life. We ought to stay out of it. This bill doesn’t value life, as the authors make you to believe. It values birth. It does nothing to give the mother of the child the promise of support and services to appropriately deal with life,” she says.
MARCH 9 Motion to concur filed Typically when a bill is returned to its originating chamber with major changes to it, the bill is hashed out on a conference committee with any additional changes voted on by both chambers. With the end-ofsession date moved from March 14 to March 10, Rep. Cox filed a motion to concur asking the House to vote on the Senate-changed bill without any discussion or conference. Many Republican legislators who voted no against the bill did so because they felt the bill wasn’t given a proper chance to be vetted. Representative Holli Sullivan (R-Evansville) said, “51 percent of Indiana’s population are women. More specifically for me, I represent 34,226 women. None of these women got a chance to weigh in on this bill. I feel my constituents are worthy of their input on this bill. Females in the House are at 18 percent. These women, they also didn’t get a chance to vet, amend and make this Senate addition to the bill better.” Representative Cindy Kirchhofer (R-Beech Grove) voted no on HEA 1337 because “This Senate bill was not heard in committee for testimony. I wasn’t able to take it to my district to discuss it. I feel this is government overreaching. We haven’t had a process to vet this.” Representative Wendy McNamara (R-Evansville) said that “This bill did not go through the correct process. If the end goal [of this bill] was to end abortion, then let’s do that. I feel this bill singles out individuals and I don’t think the additions to this will end abortion.”
FEBRUARY 1 Second House reading: 1st Amendment prevailed The amendment to the bill simply clarified language of when the bill would be effective if passed, which would render it effective as of July 1, 2016.
FEBRUARY 3 Referred to Senate
FEBRUARY 29 Second Senate reading (for proposed amendments by the full Senate) Amendments 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 failed. Sen. Mark Stoops (D-Bloomington) attempted to amend the bill to remove language from the bill that would protect the identities of women and lessen the intent restrictions. Sen. Jean Breaux (D-Indianapolis) tried to provide funding for disability services, provide a certificate of fetal remains instead of a death certificate, eliminate the intent clause for gestational age of fetuses under 20 weeks, and help lower the cost of burial or cremation for facilities responsible for the final disposition of fetal remains. All of the proposed amendments were defeated.
MARCH 2 Bill returned to House with amendments Representative Cindy Ziemke (R-Batesville) said of HEA 1337, “I supported HB 1337 as it left this chamber, and even as this bill was returned to us from the Senate I agreed with several of its aspects. However, this bill has one provision that I can’t support. It prohibits parents of severely disabled fetuses from choosing to terminate a pregnancy; grieving parents who must face a decision that is heartbreaking. Instead of showing compassion in this bill, we are choosing to say that the state of Indiana knows what is best for their family in this tragic situation.”
MARCH 9 Bill passed in House The final bill passes out of the House 60-40. All 29 Democrats and 11 Republicans voted against the measure. Representative Tom Saunders (R-Lewisville) says of the bill’s initial form, “I voted in favor of the House’s version of the bill, which dealt with the humane disposal of fetal remains. When the bill came back to us from the Senate it had been amended considerably, and I didn’t agree with what the bill would look like in its final form.” Representative Ed Clere (R-New Albany) voted no to HEA 1337 in its final form. “This bill is another example of how the conversation around reducing the number of abortions in Indiana has taken a very divisive and non-productive turn. The best way for us to reduce the number of abortions in Indiana is to empower girls and women. The best way to do that is through education and access to services and support, while also working long-term to empower and improve the status of girls and women in Indiana. That’s where our policy focus should be. If we focused more on that, we’d see a reduction in the number of abortions and it would be so much more constructive. That’s something folks on both sides of the isle can support. I lament that the conversation has, once again, gone in this direction when it’s not the conversation and debate we should be having.”
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how this could all be interpreted,” says Stauffer. “I haven’t gotten clear direction and we’re hoping that the State Department of Health will be able to help us with some of this because it is all very complicated and pretty confusing.” Stauffer says Planned Parenthood is trying to develop and establish new relationships with funeral homes to partner with for final disposition arrangements but have yet to solidify a partnership. NUVO reached out to some funeral homes in Indianapolis to discuss some of the details, but none were willing to talk about HEA 1337, and all said they would not be partnering with the abortion provider. Another problem created by the final disposition clause is the potential revelation of a woman’s identity. HEA 1337 has language designed to protect identities through redaction, but Stauffer says that isn’t guaranteed because of the numerous amounts of documentation involved. “One is the burial transit permit. And there are several fields on that form — next of kin as an example; also dates, facility,” says Stauffer. “So if you start connecting all of those dots that this next of kin on this date was at Planned Parenthood, that’s very dangerous information and it wouldn’t take much for someone to put two and two together on what that meant.” There is also the requirement of a death certificate that according to state law is required for a burial transit permit to even be issued. And many of the documents involved are generated and distributed to more than one person or entity. Other aspects of the bill present concerns for Planned Parenthood. The requirement of an ultrasound and fetal heart tones 18 hours prior to the abortion procedure requires a woman to present herself at least twice. The ban on abortions for reasons of intent — race, color, ancestry, sex, diagnosis or potential diagnosis of the fetus — is also a point of concern. “We do not traditionally inquire of a woman her motivations and we are extremely concerned about the level of judgment that this kind of language now injects into what is a legal medical procedure,” says Stauffer. “This is a form of governmental intrusion into the privacy of women. It is forcing conversations between physicians and a woman at a time when she should be able to have a very open and honest conversation with her healthcare provider. I think that is very dangerous when you start going down the path of trying to get inside the head of a woman and dictating reasons that may or may not be valid for her to seek what is a legal medical procedure.”
While the new law adds new requirements for a woman seeking an abortion (the 18-hour provision, new forms to fill out, questions to answer, etc.) the weight of responsibility and potential for disciplinary action falls on the doctors and healthcare providers. Stauffer says this is also problematic and puts healthcare providers at risk. “They begin to put information and document information onto a public form that is disconnected from the women herself but is certainly leading back to the physician,” says Stauffer. “It is not only shaming women for decisions they feel they need to make for themselves but it is also professionally marginalizing those physicians who have also chosen to offer abortions.” Indiana law had already required abortion providers to have admitting privileges to a hospital or written agreements with other doctors with admitting privileges. The new law requires written agreements be renewed annually and all lists of providers and
“We as Republicans always talk about ‘less regulation, less regulation, less regulation,’ EXCEPT when it deals with the most personal decisions of somebody’s life. We ought to stay out of it. This bill doesn’t value life, as the authors make you to believe.” — SEN. VANETA BECKER
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doctors with admitting privileges be distributed to all hospitals in the county and contiguous counties. “There is no reason for admitting privileges to begin with let alone distributing those out and around to all of the hospitals in the county and contiguous counties,” says Stauffer. “All that that seeks to do is to let all of the physicians at all of those other hospitals know, ‘Hey your colleague next door, guess what they’re doing?’” The motives behind the bill are more transparent than the bill itself. By requiring fetal remains to be treated as human remains in final disposition and banning abortions ostensibly in the name of civil rights indirectly strengthens the anti-choice argument that life begins at conception rather than at a gestational age of viability as the court determined in Roe v. Wade. Making providers liable for statute violations and the increased sharing of providers pressures them to not perform the procedure at all out of self-preservation.
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had an abortion when I was 21. I got pregnant the very first time I ever had sex, during a one night stand with a friend of a friend of a friend. I was tired of being the only one of my friends who was still a virgin, and I thought I could just get the first time over with and that I would feel less like a freak and more like everybody else. Three weeks after the encounter, I started throwing up uncontrollably and I missed a period. My pregnancy was confirmed at Planned Parenthood. I was asked what I wanted to do, and I never wavered from my decision: I wanted an abortion. I had to wait three weeks, because in Bloomington, abortions were only offered one day of each month. Indianapolis seemed so far away and I wasn’t sure I could drive myself there for the procedure. I didn’t know it then, but I was suffering from hyperemesis, or uncontrollable vomiting, and it was a long three weeks. Three weeks of soldiering on through class, excusing myself to vomit and trying to explain that as a “medication allergy.” Three weeks with a roommate who sobbed as she told me that her childhood religious beliefs convinced her that I was going to hell. Three weeks of tears and fatigue as I became gaunt and silent. I was so sick I couldn’t even stand to wait for the bus to take me to class; I had to sit on the curb. On the day of the abortion, my friend took me and waited with me. I had an ultrasound; I have no idea if I was allowed to refuse it or not. I was allowed to turn my head away from the monitor, which felt like a kind gesture and a shame-filled slap all at once. The procedure was painful and frightening and was over in minutes. I paid $350, which I received from my mom; there would have been no other way for me to pay for it. I was home within a couple of hours. My biggest problem with this bill is that restrictions just don’t work when it comes to abortion prevention. I’ve always thought that what really makes a difference is availability of multiple forms of birth control; education about how to use it; and most important, empowerment for women so we know we have choices … that we matter. I was highly educated; I knew about birth control and we used a condom. What I didn’t know is that I didn’t have to hand over my virginity to someone who didn’t deserve it. I am worth the time to love and value myself before I go looking for someone else to do that. The other thing about this bill is the hypocrisy that surrounds those who support it. The author is a man, as are the majority of the sponsors. Men are affected by abortion, but not one of them will EVER have to be manually dilated with metal rods to end an unwanted pregnancy. One of the co-authors, Peggy Mayfield, comes from Morgan County, which doesn’t even have a Planned Parenthood, only Care Net Pregnancy Centers, which focus only on abortion alternatives. One of her constituents wanting a safe, legal abortion would have to go to Bloomington, Indianapolis or Columbus. Knowing that these are the people attacking the rights of Indiana women is infuriating to me. What’s more, the bill states, “Provides that the performance of an abortion solely because of the race, color, sex, disability, national origin, or ancestry of the fetus or a violation of certain statutes protecting the right of conscience regarding abortion is a discriminatory practice for purposes of the civil rights law.” As a lesbian, I saw my civil rights trampled under RFRA and the proposed marriage amendment; but my fetus would have its civil rights protected? THE SAME PEOPLE WHO WOULD SHIT ALL OVER MY CIVIL RIGHTS AS A WOMAN OR A LESBIAN ARE THE SAME PEOPLE WHO ARE WRITING BILLS PROTECTING THE CIVIL RIGHTS OF A BALL OF FETAL TISSUE?!? I hate this. I hate that I’m afraid to share my name because I work in a conservative community and I could get fired. I hate that I’m so ashamed of this decision, still, even though it was legal and mine to make. I hate the memories of it, feeling like a bad person. I hate that I’ve already talked to my daughter about my abortion, because I don’t want her to be the third generation to carry this burden. — ANONYMOUS
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n the fall of 2013, I was pregnant with a baby I very much wanted to keep. But she was afflicted with a fatal trisomy 13 chromosomal anomaly that prevented her survival. My husband and I learned in the 13th week of my pregnancy that she could not survive, and had this information confirmed, via ultrasound and amniocentesis, a week later. We could have waited for her to die on her own, but the later it came, the more likely it would have been that her inevitable death would have been excruciating, so we chose to abort. The termination procedure was a four-day affair. The first day was state-mandated counseling. The final requirement on the list was that the doctor, whom we’d never met, list the potential side effects of the procedure, one of which was a slim but existent likelihood of my death. He added an aside: “You’re more likely to die if you don’t terminate than if you do.” During the following three days, excruciating physical pain compounded my grief, so that my daughter could die with a lessened possibility of suffering. (We do not know, scientifically, when the capacity for suffering develops in a fetus, but science has established with some certainty that, whenever it happens, it’s well after the 15th week of gestation.) And then she was gone. Three months later, I became pregnant with my son, Finn, who is already extraordinarily gentle, generous and loving. In May, I will give birth to his little brother. But with this law in place, and with the increased statistical likelihood of a repeat anomaly, I will not risk another pregnancy. I will never be mother to a living girl. Last year, when the state Senate Health and Provider Services committee voted on an earlier iteration of this bill, which focused on the sex and disability prohibitions, I testified before the committee, telling my daughter’s story. I told them, too, that if I hadn’t been able to terminate that pregnancy, if I’d been forced to carry my daughter to her spontaneous death, to deliver her destroyed body, I would never have allowed myself to become pregnant again. I would never have had my Finn. That’s still true, and it’s true for his soon-to-be-born brother, as well. I can also say that the provision requiring perinatal hospice counseling would have destroyed us. We sat in a darkened room watching a large screen as an ultrasound technician pointed out our daughter’s essential parts: head, spine, arms, legs. Then again, with a maternal fetal specialist, all the developmental disasters that would kill her: severe hydrocephaly, abdominal malformation, missing heart chamber. Had that process been followed by state-mandated “counseling” of the kind required by HEA 1337, we would have been done for. This year, I submitted written testimony, because I did not feel strong enough to appear in person. Shortly after, the lethal fetal anomaly exception to the disability prohibition was added via amendment. But the reason I won’t risk another pregnancy isn’t that I won’t be able to abort another hopelessly malformed baby. It’s because I can no longer trust that my health care providers will be free to offer me the kind, loving, supportive care I received when I lost my daughter. Their hands will be tied by legislative bindings that make any future pregnancy the business not of me and my family and my doctors, but of strangers in the statehouse who we will never meet, who don’t care at all about our well-being, and who can’t be bothered to consider our life or our needs. — VICTORIA BARRETT
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was in a relationship that was very obviously going down the drain. It was becoming more and more abusive, on both ends. I became pregnant during this time. When I was pregnant, and I let him know, the abuse became worse and worse. It was turning from not just verbal fighting. It was turning into physical fighting. I had to make a decision in that time if I was going to keep the child. I had no money. I was only working at that time as a bookseller part time, and I had absolutely no money. I was really debating on what I should do for a few weeks. Then I decided that I needed to have an abortion, not only for my safety, but because I couldn’t bring a child into a situation where I knew that it wouldn’t be safe, and I couldn’t provide. When I decided to speak, I went to the Senate and I spoke in front of the Senate. I told them that this bill is crazy because you have to pick between burial or cremation. If any woman is having an abortion or being involved with someone who is having an abortion, you realize already the laws and the restrictions on abortion at this point in Indiana are so restrictive that it’s difficult to get through. ... When I was in the Statehouse, watching these senators who make laws for our state, instead of using correct terminology of “fetal remains” and “fetal tissue” they were calling them “little babies.” That same gentleman, instead of using the term “interment,” was using the word “internment.” I was like, actually that’s quite ironic because internment is a little more of what you’re doing to these women. You’re forcing them into a situation that they’re not comfortable with. It’s just like restricting someone into a jail cell. I found it quite ironic. — ABIGAIL MCKINNEY
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The new restrictions may hamper Planned Parenthood’s operations, but they won’t keep the organization from executing its mission of providing reproductive healthcare and information. “Indiana has instances of just barreling ahead. We are one of the top four most hostile states for reproductive rights in the country,” says Stauffer. “With this bill we are laying new groundwork and we don’t need to be doing that right now. What we need to be doing is having a really thoughtful conversation about unintended pregnancies and we need strong comprehensive approaches to making sure that we are reducing our unintended pregnancy number which by default would certainly get us to where we want to be in terms of reducing abortions. ... And we need access to birth control and we need access to comprehensive sex education. If we are really serious about this, then let’s do it the right way.”
DEALING WITH INTERSECTIONALITY Points of access and women’s health have always gone hand-in-hand. These are the facts: It’s often hard to afford reproductive health care for those who are systematically oppressed due to race and class. Even those who can afford it are often treated differently: Women of color are often disproportionately encouraged to use contraception from providers and encouraged to limit their family size, and undocumented women often fear legal action from anywhere that might bring their status as a citizen into question. While it’s nearly impossible to separate distinctions like race, class and sexism from one another, the effects of access are felt in variance and often based on skin tone. Abortions are at an all-time low since the passage of Roe v. Wade, but African American women are five times more likely to have an abortion, while Latina women are twice as likely as white women — something that is often a financial decision. In fact, according to the Pew Research Center, the wealth of white families is estimated to be 18 times higher than Hispanic homes and 20 times higher than African American households. According to research by Reina Lewis and Sara Mills as presented in Feminist Postcolonial Theory, if we rewind to 1970s New York, it’s estimated that 80 percent of the deaths caused by illegal abortions killed Black and Puerto Rican women. By the end of the same decade federal funding was slashed for abortions. Those below the poverty line could only gain access to surgical >>>
<<< sterilizations — one of the few services still funded by the Department of Health at the time. Instead of facing the possibility of death from an illegal abortion, many opted to relinquish the chance of having a family. Not only were minority women often forced to take on higher personal burdens, today, they are subjected to a lower quality of health care. According to Dr. Leslie Ashburn-Nardo, an associate professor of psychology at IUPUI — based on her research with Adam Hirsh, a clinical psychologist at IUPUI — the threshold for pain is often ignored when it comes to African Americans. “In general African Americans and other underrepresented groups receive less high quality health care when it comes to pain — their pain is undertreated,” says Ashburn-Nardo. Portions of HEA 1337 targeting providers (forced burial or cremation, for example) could result in a higher financial burden for the institution, which in the end could translate to higher costs on the front end for women. “I think a lot of the legislation that is targeting groups that provide access publicly and at a reduced rate to folks who at a lower SES rate, folks who are less affluent and have less access to health care in general — it’s just creating one more barrier,” says Ashburn-Nardo, who studies stereotypes and presumptions based on things like race and class. “… Not everyone has a private physician that they can turn to for their health care needs. Not everyone has access to insurance that they can go get a wellness check every year.”
IMPACT ON UNDOCUMENTED WOMEN Although issues like racism, ableism and classism cannot be examined separately of one another, the struggles of undocumented women must heed special attention. Sam Centellas, the executive director of La Casa de Amistad, a resource center for the Latino and undocumented communities in South Bend, Ind., explained how socioeconomic status dictates points of access. “The last people who are going to find out and understand that are going to be low income people in undocumented communities,” says Centellas. “So I think some of the community ... don’t know what’s happening with the bill. I know that these bills have existed and they are continuing to restrict women’s rights … That’s how it affects people the most; they won’t know about it until it’s an issue for them personally.” Many of those women will be caught between the fine lines of HEA 1337 while they are seeking medical care. While doctors are required to offer a
translator, a problem that Centellas runs into regularly is a disconnect between provider and patient in terms of language. “I don’t like to say that everyone who is undocumented has a language barrier, but oftentimes it does compound the issue,” says Centellas. “This is another thing that can be translated wrong, or people will get the wrong information when things are translated to them or given to them — if they are even translated. I know medical people are required — there are some requirements that they have in terms of proper translation of things — but oftentimes what we hear in the community is that people say, ‘Do you understand what I am saying in English or do you need a translator?’ and they say no. So they say, ‘Okay good, I’m
“Today is a perfect example of a bunch of middle-aged guys sitting in this room making decisions for what we think is best for women. We just need to quit pretending that we know what’s best for women and their healthcare needs.” — REP. SEAN EBERHART
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going to just do everything in English.’ “But the person really probably doesn’t understand, so when they have some of these things explained to them, they just might be doing the, ‘uh huh, uh huh,’ and agree to things they don’t always know … Sometimes it’s out of embarrassment or ease of getting whatever appointment it is over with — they are going to say no I don’t need an interpreter. An abortion provider is trying to describe some of these things to them, they might unknowingly say the wrong thing, which down the line could get them in trouble.” Currently those who are undocumented are not covered under the Affordable Care Act, but they can purchase from private providers — a price point that is often too high. La Casa de Amistad currently refers those with any kind of health concerns to Sister Maura Brannick clinic in South Bend, who will see patients without insurance. Another burden that will impact women who live in poverty and those who live in rural areas (like much of the undocumented population in northern Indiana) will be the additional trips to their provider for appointments — like the one that will require a woman to hear the fetal heart tone and view the ultrasound image 18 hours before an abortion. When getting to the doctor is a struggle on its own, the extra weight is felt.
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took my college roommate to have an abortion at Planned Parenthood in Indianapolis. I was surprised at how different the women there were. A very young woman that was obviously not mentally able to care for a child, a woman that probably thought she was beyond her childbearing years, then my friend that was studying to be an interior designer. A safe medical outpatient procedure was the best option for all of these women. — ANONYMOUS
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EA 1337 has been called one of the worst anti-abortion bills in the country. It has strict rules regarding the conditions under which a woman may obtain an abortion. It also would impose harsh sanctions to abortion providers if the abortion is performed on a fetus that has a lethal anomaly or a disability. However, there is one part of this bill that really upsets me. This concerns the disposition of fetal remains. Under this bill, a woman who has suffered a miscarriage or had an abortion will be given a form to fill out, designating how they want the fetal remains disposed of. Since most miscarriages occur before 20 weeks, and abortions can only be performed up to 20 weeks, this seems quite insensitive. Very often a mother will have a miscarriage in the very early stages of pregnancy. She will go to the hospital for a D&C (dilation & curettage) to clear away the remaining fetal tissue. Under this law, she will then be given paperwork to decide where and how she wants to bury this fetal tissue. In July of 1977 I was ready to give birth to my first baby. I was past the projected due date, but oftentimes it’s difficult to know exactly what the due date really is. On July 12, my water broke and I want to the hospital. When I got to the labor room, my doctor examined me. After knowing him for over 9 months, I could tell something was wrong from the look on his face. Something was not right. After that, things happened very quickly. I was rushed into the OR and had an emergency C-section. I know a baby was delivered, but I never heard it cry. I was wheeled into the recovery room, and my doctor came in with tears streaming down his face. I said to him, “Don’t worry, I’ll have more children.” I never got to see or hold my baby. My husband and I were both in shock so it never occurred to us to ask to see him (yes, it was a boy). My father made the arrangements for the funeral but I couldn’t attend since I was recovering from the C-section. I was very fortunate — I became pregnant four months later and almost one year after I lost my first son, my second son was born. The first baby is buried in a cemetery in Warwick, Rhode Island. We moved away when my son was 3 months old, so I very seldom get to visit. I think I’ve been there only three times. Fortunately, most women do not know what it’s like to lose and have to bury a baby. To force women to bury fetal remains is harsh and punitive. It seems that the State of Indiana wants to punish women for losing a child. Most of our legislators seem to be anti-choice, so they are trying to pass bills such as this which would make it difficult for women to obtain an abortion, and in the meantime, they would cause additional pain and suffering to women who have miscarriages. My hope is that more women speak up and let the legislature know that we will not tolerate these continued attacks on our freedom. Until that day occurs, we are still shackled and oppressed. — ANNETTE GROSS
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A LIST OF EVERY LEGISLATOR THAT VOTED YES (AND NO) TO RESTRICTING WOMEN’S RIGHTS WITH HEA 1337 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: YEA: (in favor of HEA 1337) Lloyd Arnold, R – District 74 Michael Aylesworth, R – District 11 Ron Bacon, R – District 75 Jim Baird, R – District 44 Robert Behning, R – District 91n Bruce Borders, R – District 45 Brian Bosma, R, Speaker of the House – District 88 Mike Braun, R – District 63 Dr. Tim Brown, R – District 41 Woody Burton, R – District 58 Martin Carbaugh, R – District 81 Bob Cherry, R – District 53 Tony Cook, R – District 32 Casey Cox, Bill’s Author, R – District 85n Wes Culver, R – District 49 Steve Davisson, R – District 73n Tom Dermody, R – District 20• Dale DeVon, R – District 5 Jeff Ellington, R – District 62n Bill Fine, R – District 12 Dave Frizzell, R – District 93 Randy Frye, R – District 67 Douglas Gutwein, R – District 16 Dick Hamm, R – District 56 Tim Harman, R – District 17• Bob Heaton, R – District 46 Todd Huston, R – District 37 Christopher Judy, R – District 83 Mike Karickhoff, R – District 30 Eric A. Koch, R – District 65•
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Ed DeLaney, D – District 86 Ryan Dvorak, D – District 8 Sean Eberhart, R – District 57 Sue Errington, D – District 34 Dan Forestal, D – District 100 Bill Friend, R – District 23 Phil GiaQuinta, D – District 80 Terry Goodin, D – District 66 Christina Hale, D – District 87 Donna J. Harris, D – District 2• Clyde Kersey, D – District 43 Cindy Kirchhofer, R – District 89 Sheila Klinker, D – District 27 Linda Lawson, D – District 1 Karlee Macer, D – District 92 Wendy McNamara, R – District 76 Justin Moed, D – District 97 Chuck Moseley, D – District 10 Sharon Negele, R – District 13 David Niezgodski, D – District 7• Scott Pelath, D – District 9 Matt Pierce, D – District 61 Gregory W. Porter, D – District 96 Cherrish S. Pryor, D – District 94 Gail Riecken, D – District 77• Tom Saunders, R – District 54 Robin Shackleford, D – District 98 Vernon G. Smith, D – District 14 Steven R. Stemler, D – District 71 Holli Sullivan, R – District 78 Vanessa Summers, D – District 99 Randy Truitt, R – District 26• Melanie Wright, D – District 35 Cindy Ziemke, R – District 55
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Brent Steele, R – District 44• Jim Tomes, R – District 49# Greg Walker, R – District 41# Brent Waltz, R – District 36• Carlin Yoder, R – District 12• R. Michael Young, R – District 35 Joe Zakas, R – District 11# NAY: (opposed to HEA 1337) Jim Arnold, D – District 8• Vaneta Becker, R – District 50n Phil Boots, R – District 23# Jean D. Breaux, D – District 34 John Broden, D – District 10• Luke Kenley, R – District 20 Tim Lanane, D – District 25# Frank Mrvan, D – District 1# Lonnie M. Randolph, D – District 2 Earline Rogers, D – District 3• Mark Stoops, D – District 40n Karen Tallian, D – District 4# Greg Taylor, D – District 33
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“I think in general, these are things that are specifically impacting undocumented women, I would say low SES, so people who are low on the socioeconomic spectrum, are going to be challenged,” says Centellas. “It’s trips to the doctor. It’s hard for them just to get to a doctor in general, so to have make extra trips just for something like this is going to be a bigger burden. Even more so, a lot of undocumented people live in rural areas … where additional trips to different things that they need to do (which is a complaint already for people to get medical care now) is a challenge. So making it more restricted doesn’t help.” Recently there have been additional restrictions added to WIC (formally, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children) for undocumented people. “So in general, now, for undocumented women, they are having WIC restricted, they are having more burdens placed on them as a parent, as a potential parent,” says Centellas. “It continues to get harder in this state for people to get services. It impacts the entire community. People who are anti-immigration, it’s easy for them, somehow, to justify taking these benefits away. Especially when we talk about things like WIC or ability for women to access health care in our community — that is a community issue. These are families that live here in our neighborhood, individuals who work in our stores and restaurants and factories. It’s getting harder for them to be healthy, when we know that community health is a major issue. To create additional restrictions on a population we already know is at risk, just doesn’t make sense.”
WHAT ABOUT DISABILITY RIGHTS? HEA 1337 and bills like it are framed to protect the disabled community, with language not allowing a fetus to be aborted “solely because of the fetus’s race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, or diagnosis or potential diagnosis of the fetus having Down syndrome or any other disability.” What reads as a protection against discrimination can cdo the exact opposite for the mother. According to Dr. Ashburn-Nardo, “The law, as it’s proposed, seems not to help the people that it’s reported to help. The law has been framed apparently … to protect the disability community.” Ashburn-Nardo’s argument [referring to research done by her colleague and collaborator Dr. Brownsyne Tucker Edmonds] is that high risk pregnancies with genetic abnormalities would be a
high risk to the patient’s health. “So who is it really protecting?” she adds. The same women who are at a higher risk to have a child with birth defects are also at risk for complications during pregnancy. Patricia Rogan, Ph.D., a professor of special education at IUPUI, understands the desire to protect the disabled community, but for her it’s a doubleedged sword.
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“Certainly in the disability community, as with our larger society, there is a division between a pro-life and a prochoice stance,” says Rogan. “Specifically, you can take it right to the community of individuals who experience Down Syndrome and their families. That division is very real. “On one hand as we progress as a society in the United States, certainly we want to promote the value of the lives of people who happen to experience disability — that is very much part of the human existence … We need to continue to realize the skills and abilities and potentials of each and every individual in our society,” says Rogan. “In that regard, of course as a society and as a state we want to promote the abilities of people and to continue to know as a society that’s part of our rich fabric and rich diversity. We have to do a better job of universally designing places and activities and learning so all people benefit.” “All people have access,” says Rogan. “It’s the realization of all of our legislation like the Americans with Disabilities Act, IDEA and more. So that’s one side of the coin. If that is any way shape or form a sidebar effort of this legislation — to help elevate that awareness and realization that of course all lives matter. That is certainly in line with disability rights stance. “On the flip side, our government really cannot legislate morality or especially choice pertaining to women’s health and women’s rights; women’s reproductive rights. Immediately that legislation goes to the heart of Roe v. Wade and infringing on that … You always wonder, ‘What was the driving intent behind this?’” n
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he third miscarriage of my life has brought me to my knees. I never even got the letter from the hospital about the funeral that was supposed to be held sometime last November. It was the most painful and most gruesome of the three, though none of the miscarriages were pleasant nor easy on my mind, body, or soul. Since I am leaving my full name, I will leave out the personal details of the emotionally abusive father that I am no longer with. He was with me when it all happened, and at the time was a rock, a man who wanted me to be ok and safe. The biggest and worst part of the day of the miscarriage is this - I didn’t know that the hospital I was having the beginning of the miscarriage in wouldn’t terminate the pregnancy, EVEN THOUGH ITS HEARTBEAT WAS VISIBLY SLOWING DOWN IN FRONT OF THEIR EYES. They SENT ME HOME. Granted, I don’t like hospitals much, but how the hell could they not see that my second trimester pregnancy was NOT GOING TO LIVE? Hospitals are more often run by religious people who will not terminate possibly harmful pregnancies, because they believe more in miracles than in science. So, instead of being surrounded by doctors and in a safe place, the father and I went back to his house. Within an hour I had a half-formed child in his toilet. He called 911. It was the worst and most unforgettably awful trial that my body has gone through. This bill would have added SO MUCH MORE stress, pain, and monetary strain. This is an abridged version of an event that has damaged me internally, both physically and emotionally. It’s boggling my freaking mind that the government and super religious Americans still think they can tell me and my fellow ladies what to do with their bodies. HEA 1337 is unconstitutional and simply WRONG. My heart goes out to other women with similar or completely different stories of pain, loss, and making difficult decisions. Thank you for collecting these stories. — NAOMI RAE WOLSIEFFER
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have a condition that puts me at a high risk for miscarriage, stillbirth & pregnancy complications. It’s already heartbreaking that if my husband and I are able to conceive, my pregnancy is likely to end badly. But it’s even more punishment and anguish to ask me to add on the physical, financial and emotional costs of burying a miscarriage, or carrying a lifeless baby to full term, or risking my own life to satisfy lawmakers’ “morals.” As long as this is law, I won’t be having a family in Indiana. — ANONYMOUS
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STATS ON PREGNANCY IN INDIANA: All stats below are provided by the Guttmacher Institute. As of 2011:
In Indiana, 110,800 of the 1,287,120 women of reproductive age became pregnant in 2011. 76% of these pregnancies resulted in live births and 9% in induced abortions.
In 2011, 1.1 million American women obtained abortions, producing a rate of 16.9 abortions per 1,000 women of reproductive age. The rate is a decrease from 2008, when the abortion rate was 19.4 abortions per 1,000 women 15-44.
In 2011, 9,430 women
obtained abortions in Indiana, producing a rate of 7.3 abortions per 1,000 women of
In 2011, 93% of Indiana counties had no abortion clinic. 61% of Indiana women lived in these counties.
In 2010, 49% of all pregnancies (55,000) in Indiana were unintended.
reproductive age. Some of these women were from other states, and some Indiana residents had abortions in other states, so this rate may not reflect the abortion rate of state residents. The rate decreased 11% since 2008, when it was 8.2 abortions per 1,000 women 15-44. Abortions in Indiana represent 0.9% of all abortions in the United States.
UNANSWERED QUESTIONS HEA 1337’s vague wording leaves lots of room for legal interpretation. Many of the experts we contacted for clarification didn’t know — or refused to comment — on the implications of the law. Here are some of our unanswered questions. • • • • • • •
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How will this legislation affect women who miscarry at home? After an abortion, would a father’s accusation that an abortion was provided for one of HEA 1337’s restricted reasons implicate a doctor? Will a death certificate be issued? What if a fetus has a genetic/developmental abnormality, but that’s not the reason the women is having an abortion? If she would have had an abortion with or without fetal genetic defects, can she still have the abortion? What if the genetic defect of the fetus significantly risks the mother’s life or a condition during pregnancy is threatening the mother’s life? How does this bill ensure patient-provider/doctor confidentiality? What constitutes “some risk factors” in the definition of “potential diagnosis?” Will a woman be denied an abortion because of her age? (The risk of Down syndrome and other genetic defects increases dramatically for women over the age of 35.)
Unintended pregnancies in Indiana accounted for $375.9 million in public costs in 2010, including $284.6 million in federal costs and $91.4 million in state costs.
FIRST FRIDAY After Before After April 1, 6-10 p.m. After Before After is an exhibition and collaboration between fatherand-son artists Paul Pruitt and Lance Pruitt. The two use found objects, sound, and video, they create installations and sculptures to discuss how perception dictates history as seen through objects.
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Amy Pleasant’s Parts and Pieces April 1, 6-9 p.m. Amy Pleasant’s exhibition Parts and Pieces will open April 1 at the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art CityWay Gallery in the Alexander Hotel. Pleasant uses new works in contemporary, figurative drawings, paintings, and ceramic objects in this show. Pleasant has had her work on the walls of The Knoxville Museum of Art and The National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., and recently the Birmingham Museum of Art, Atlanta Contemporary, and the Biggin Gallery at Auburn University. Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art — CityWay location, 317-457-5445, FREE Exhibits Open at CCIC April 1, 6-9 p.m. Howard Bond, widely known and respected in the world of photography, will be showing his work at Darkroom Revelations, Studio C7. Here are some of the other open studios: Tori Weyers Creative Bento LTD, Studio 2F; Katrina J. Murray Studio; “Concussion Series;” Five Seasons Gallery and ceramist David Shumaker; M10 Studio with Steve Griffey’s photographs of Kenya and Tanzania; Nancy Lee Designs Studio with Gemini Series and “What Water Does;” Satch Lost and Found Art Gallery; Genna Pianki, Studio 2B, “60-Minute Paintings;” BEBITO, Studio 2A; Theoni’s Studio, “Panic Attack;” Leslie Dolin, Studio 2C. Circle City Industrial Complex, 1125 Brookside Avenue, 317-695-2299, FREE
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ver the years, the late Dick the Bruiser has received plenty of awards and honors for being a pro wrestler and football player. That being said, it’s pretty safe to say that he’s never had a mini golf hole made in his likeness. As part of the Indianapolis Museum of Art’s upcoming mini golf exhibition, 18 different local and regional artists have designed playable putt-putt holes inspired by Indiana history, heritage and landmarks. Museum visitors will be able to putt through covered bridges, a Lil Bub hole, a reproduction of Kurt Vonnegut’s office and much more. The course is in line with the museum’s bicentennial exhibition, 19 Stars of Indiana Art, which opens a week after the mini golf course in May and runs through the end of the year. “I want you to think of the museum as being a place where you can have all sorts of different types of experiences,” says Scott Stulen, curator of audience experiences and performance at the IMA. “You can have a traditional gallery experience. You can walk through the beautiful gar-
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sensor triggers the sound of Dick yelling for his beloved wife, Rio. “Dick the Bruiser has always been W H E N : M A Y 10 T O O C T O B E R 30 somebody I’ve been interested in,” says WHERE: INDIANAPOLIS MUSEUM OF ART Walker, referring to the Hoosier icon as TICKETS: FREE WITH MUSEUM ADMISSION “the Babe Ruth” of pro wrestling. “I like these legendary characters, like Elvis and dens. But, you can also have something Hank Williams and stuff like that. like mini golf that happens here.” I think he’s kind of one Jim Walker and Brent Lehker of Big Car of those guys.” are the artists behind the Dick the Bruiser For their hole, Walker and Lehker are using features of the wrestler’s body to act as obstacles. “Sometimes on a mini golf hole, you “Half of the fun is just the have to go right down the goofiness of it, so I was really middle because if you go up on this hill or that hill adamant about trying to find cool it’ll send you away from the hole. So that’s kind ways to incorporate whimsy.” of what we’re going to do — GOFFINSKI with his pectoral muscles,” Walker says. Although their hole will be pretty humongous, Walker admits hole at the course. Measuring 8 by 24 feet, that creating a piece that will simply lie the hole displays a larger-than-life Bruiser flat on the ground has also come with its and invites players to putt right into his benefits as well. teeth. When the ball goes into the hole, a “The nice thing about a mini golf >>>
We’re hiring <<< hole is that it is on the ground,” Walker says. “It gives you a nice opportunity because most of the time a 3D art object is not going to be laying flat on the ground. It offers a lot of creative possibilities since you don’t have to worry about it standing up like a sculpture might usually stand up.” Fellow Big Car artist and Know No Stranger founding member Alan Goffinski is also creating a hole in the likeness of a celebrated Hoosier by the name of Ambrose Burnside — inventor of the Burnside carbine rifle. Burnside also served as a Union Army general in the Civil War. More notably, Burnside is the reason why the mighty sideburns exist. “The whimsical aspect that really drew me to this character is that he plays such a vibrant role in the historical narrative of the United States, but he also plays such a huge role in pop culture and fashion,” says Goffinski. “His last name, Burnside, was eventually flipped over the course of time, and it turned into our modern word for weird facial hair.” With this in mind, Goffinski’s hole will come in the form of a giant Burnside portrait, with golfers navigating the soldier’s face and sideburns to reach the hole inside his monocle. “It involves some indoor/outdoor carpeting, some outdoor Astroturf-style grass, and some shaggier Astroturf grass that is being used for the facial hair, which will create a real challenge to putt around or through,” says Goffinski. “Then when you get to the face, it’s exposed lumber that’s been wood burned to give the facial features.” In choosing the topic for his hole, Goffinski says that he also made sure to pick something or someone that was comical. “Mini golf has gotta be fun, it’s gotta be a little bit goofy, and it’s gotta be something that makes you smile,” Goffinski says. “Half of the fun is just the goofiness of it, so I was really adamant about trying to find cool ways to incorporate whimsy.” In reflection on the exhibition’s whimsical element, Goffinski ultimately sees this artist-designed mini golf as a great way to get more people engaged with the arts. “It’s a really inventive way to show that art has a real serious role in bringing people together and making our lives more enjoyable,” says Goffinski. “I tip my hat to Scott Stulen for having the idea and having the initiative to get this off the ground. I think it’s going to be a really positive thing for the arts community in the city and obviously a really big thing for the IMA.” n
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IU Ballet Theater boldly and tenderly presented Balanchine’s four attributes — foremost as a choreographer and ballet master who honored each dancer under his care. Balanchine showed us what we need to be a people with heart and soul, civility and joyfulness. “Ballet is important and significant…yes, but first of all, it is a pleasure.” IU Ballet Theater used this Balanchine quote in its promotion for the March 25- 26 program. Serenade was Balanchine’s first work set upon his first group of students at the School of American Ballet he initiated with co-founder Lincoln Kirstein in 1934. On March 24, the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts hosted a program centered on the transformation of Serenade over the past eight decades. Raymonda Variations, set to the romantic score by Glazunov, and individuals operated well within the context of the group. The corps work indeed was dazzling. Elégie interprets Stravinsky in the poetry of ancient Greece. A corps of female dancers, barefoot with hair loose is a total change from hair bound in a bun and feet bound in pointe shoes, setting the scene for the demanding Pas de Deux, reflecting the music’s flow and variety through the bodies of two dancers weaving in and out of their connectivity while rooted to one spot. Emotion-packed, it is like one long sigh with a final release of breath. Elegance was at the essence for Elizabeth Yanick and Glenn Kelich, featured at the March 26 program that I attended. (Cara Hansvick and Colin Ellis danced the roles March 25.) Stuart Chafetz conducted the fine orchestra, with excellent solo playing moments. Patrick Mero was lighting designer. Artistic Director Michael Vernon is chair of the IU Ballet Department. Re-staging works as representatives of the George Balanchine Trust were Repetiteurs Victoria Simon, Deborah Wingert and Darla Hoover. Carter Alexander and Melinda Roy were guest coaches. Gouping Wang was Ballet Master and Shawn Stevens was Ballet Mistress. — RITA KOHN May 25-26, Indiana University Ballet Theater, Jacobs School of Music Music Arts Center (Bloomington)
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Female playwrights push through new boundaries
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iva Fest fist started as the the NUVO new play contest where playwrights could submit stories and the winner had a free entry to Indy Fringe. “What came out of it was a number of African-American playwrights, women playwrights an opportunity,” says Pauline Moffat, the executive director of Indy Fringe. “So we decided to start Diva Fest.” Shortly after came Onyx Fest (for African-American playwrights). “It wasn’t enough to just give away one slot,” says Moffat. “We needed to make the opportunity happen for them.” She recalls that there was an overwhelming demand for a space to host female playwrights. “We are all about creating opportunities for performance, says Moffat. “What we have seen is this incredible growth,” says Moffat. “But it’s not just the growth, it’s the artistic integrity of what they are doing. So we have been able to over the years offer the opportunity for playwrights to revise their plays, to do readings, to go to the writers center and work on writing. All of those things have helped build the quality of the plays and educate our playwrights, and give them a focus.” According to Jan White, the writers center has brought a lot of playwrights out of the woodwork and honed the craft of the more established. Moffat elaborated and noted that working shipping plays is what builds the artistic muscles of productions, giving writers the tools to craft their work throughout the year, so when Fringe or another festival rolls around the scripts are developed much further. Jan White is one of Moffat’s favorite playwrights to come through the festival. “She would bring everything but the kitchen sink on stage for props,” laughs Moffat. For White, Diva Fest has been a space that has allowed women a point of access in theater. “There aren’t a lot of female playwrights who get to put their work on stage,” says White. “Diva Fest allows a place for that to grow. I hope it will grow some more so we can get people from
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other parts of the country.” This year White will be showing one of her own plays, one that is very personal. White recently buried her 42-year-old daughter after a long battle with cancer. “How do I write about what it’s like to lose a child and not have everyone walk out going ‘oh my god, why did I have to see that,’” says White. Her story follows several woman who are all trapped in different stages of the grief process. Deborah Asante, founder and artistic director of the Asante Children’s Theatre, also sees Diva Fest as a point of personal and communal growth. “We are a group of people who are concerned about the health of the arts community in Indianapolis,” says Asante. “And we came together over that … Over the years we have worked together.” Asante has worked with Indy Fringe over the years. Typically the Asante Theatre focuses its programing on children.
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“What is good for the community is good for the child,” says Asante. “So we start with the children. I program to community development not just youth development. This year she has written a piece about the life of Zora Hurston, using Hurston’s own research, words and actions as material. “At every turn the more I learned about her she inspired me. Her courageousness, her standing up to what she believed, her love of culture … all her life she spoke her love through that culture, and there was never an apology for — in a time when Black artists were being encouraged to assimilate and to show that they can project your opinion based on influenced art. Where Zora, being from an African-American place, and throughout her life promoted those artistic ideas and seditions. She used dialect — her masterpiece “Their Eyes Were Watching God” is written in dialect. She traveled on her own as a woman to research. She “There aren’t a lot of female wasn’t just a writer, she was a cultural anthropologist. Some of playwrights who get to put their those stories that she collected would have been lost if she didn’t work on stage. Diva Fest allows a have that mindset and high regard for that culture.” place for that to grow.” Diva Fest historically allowed — JAN WHITE artists and organizations to try new things and push themselves to be better and now it might give birth to a new direction However, this year they are 26 years old for Asante. and want to turn their focus to adults as “We have become a place for young well. Diva Fest will be the first time they artists to come and learn skills and have presented something that is by develop their confidence, and a place adults instead of solely young artists. where families look to us for enlightening “To include them in the production entertainment,” says Asante. “I would like helped us push the training to a higher to also be edgy enough that we are asking plateau,” says Asante, discussing the the adults in our community provocative process of having alumni from the proquestions, and the perfect place to do gram come back and work with the kids that is in a darkened theater.” n and even produce their own plays.
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Children’s Story Time with Indy Reads Books Saturdays, 11:30 a.m. It’s books for the babies. Alright, older kids too. Make it a day by picking up some books from The Public Collection lending libraries around downtown. Indy Reads Books, 911 Massachusetts Ave., 317-384-1496, FREE Jim Cangany reading “On the Rebound” April 3, 1-4 p.m. On The Rebound is a sports romance set on the Irving University campus in Irvington, Ind., and it is a story of “second chances and overcoming overwhelming odds” according to Indy Reads.
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Marilyn Hacker April 5, 7:30-9 p.m. If you head to the Clowes Memorial Hall Krannert Room, you will hear the voice of Marilyn Hacker. The poet has been noted by Lambda after receiving their literary award for Going Back to the River and Winter Numbers. She also won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for those works. She has also been the recipient of the Paris Review’s Bernard F. Conners Prize. She is known for mixing high culture and colloquial language. She is known for breaking the mold on form and structure in her sonnets, blank verse and villanelles. In an interview with Frontiers Hacker she said, ”The language that we use was as much created and invented by women as by men.” Butler University, 4600 Sunset Ave., 317-940-9861, FREE
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A night of music, film and visual art in honor of poet Alfonsina Storni
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or the past seven years Hildegard Elisabeth Keller has been a woman obsessed. It was in the early ’90s when she discovered the writing of Alfonsina Storni, an Argentine and Latin-American poet. Like Keller, Storni was from Switzerland with a Latin connection. Storni — one of the most unsung feminist poets of the last century — became a point of intrigue for Keller, a professor of Germanic studies at IU. Keller stared noticing her books when she would travel, always making sure to stop and pick one up. But it was not until eight years ago, and after moving to Bloomington, that Keller knew she needed to tell the story of Storni’s life. Keller will be doing just that when she hosts a night of music, film, and visual SUBMITTED PHOTO art in honor of Storni. The show is a “For me it’s a wonderful work to see what perfect precursor to Keller’s soon to be kind of impulses a person brings into her time.” released biography of Storni’s life, a labor — Hildegard Elisabeth Keller on of love for the last seven years. Keller has the life and writing of Alfonsina Storni. pored over original writings and traced the steps of Storni — a life that seems fairly similar to Keller’s in many ways. Swiss — but also as a Swiss with a Latin “I am straddling the continent so American heart — I wanted to do some to say,” says Keller. “I live between work for her, to make her known. Not Bloomington, Indiana and Zorick, just in this reduced form of the song, Switzerland. I was born Swiss... Alfonbut to make her known, to translate sina was born in 1892 and lived lived her, to write a biography about her so four years in Switzerland before her parents left the country.” The night will have One day when women will be frank, five short films made by the world will be changed. Keller, original music from Francisco Cortés— HILDEGARD ELISABETH KELLER, Álvarez, the IU Latin QUOTING ALFONSINA STORNI American Ensemble, theater performances, and mixed multimedia presentations. The song people can get to know her.” by Álvarez will be sung by the Spanish Storni is probably known best for soprano Patricia Illera who held the title- being the subject of a famous song role in Carmen at the IU Opera. It will about her suicide. It was said that she also be its world premiere. Much of the was very sick with breast cancer, wrote artwork will be in Spanish and English. a final poem to one of the newspapers “At that point [in 2008] I didn't know that regularly housed her byline (she what shape the project would take,” was also a journalist in addition to besays Keller. “But I always had in mind ing a poet and playwright), and walked to do a biography. It was my aim, as a out into the ocean to end her life. Her
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body was found the same day the poem arrived at the paper. The popularized song, by Félix Luna “Alfonsina y el Mar,” shows her life as one of sorrow. “[I wanted to highlight] all of the things that were eclipsed by that myth,” says Keller. ...One on side it kept her memory alive and her name, it still brings it out into the world. On the other hand it’s a song about a suicide. It’s about a suicide and very sad, very heavy, it tosses a very heavy blanket over her life. And people didn't go back to read. They were satisfied with that, they stuck to that … Her brighter moods, her humor, her commitment to beauty, to evolutional transformation through art [were over shadowed by her suicide]. All of those things were eclipsed. Those who know her, or those who know her through that song they think of a tragic, dark, sad female life — a classical kind of thing.” Keller explained that Storni was never married and at a time when that was very uncommon for women. Storni channeled herself into her writing. “I like her intelligence,” says Keller, recalling what made her decide to dedicate this much research to her the author. “She is really a bright person. She is really able to put a lot of things in very few words. I feel her depth. Not just in an intellectual sense also her heart. She was fiercely independent. That’s really special because she didn't choose a time where this was common or welcome. She paid her price for being so frank. The first part of her life and her work were giving voice to female thought, wishes and feelings... But she understood that she was giving voice to something that was being silenced. She says things like “One day when women will be frank, the world will be changed. n
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Embrace of the Serpent r Mar. 31, 7:30 p.m.; April 1, 9:30 p.m. Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, this strange tale follows an Amazonian shaman as he guides two scientists in search of a sacred healing plant. Shot in beautiful black-and-white, the film is a graceful and mysterious portrait of an ancient world. However, it often gets a bit lost in its own haze of mystery. But it’s certainly a unique journey well worth taking at your local art-house theater. Actor Brionne Davis, who plays the American scientist in the film, is scheduled to introduce the April 1 screening. IU Cinema, 1213 E. 7th St. (Bloomington), $6 public, $3 students, cinema.indiana.edu
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A League of Their Own Apr. 1-2, 2 and 7:30 p.m. each day. Partially shot in Indiana, this charming, star-studded comedy tells a fictionalized account of the real-life All-American Girls Professional Baseball League from the ’40s. The Historic Artcraft Theatre, 57 N. Main St. (Franklin) $5 adult, $4 senior/student, $3 kids 12 and under, historicartcrafttheatre.org
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ity of Gold prompted me to reconsider Los Angeles. Not that I’d given it much thought before. Mostly I’d dismissed the city as an ugly, massive obstacle course that consumes your gas, time, and spirit; a barrage of run-down buildings between the airport and your destination. Jonathan Gold, the first and only food critic to win the Pulitzer Prize, knows better. Pico Boulevard is 15 and a half miles long, running from the Pacific Ocean in Santa Monica to Central Avenue in downtown L.A. In the early ’80s Gold set out on a mission “to eat at every restaurant on Pico Boulevard and create a map of the senses that would get me from one end to the other.” He ate from one strip mall to the next, stopping at every food truck along the way, exploring the tastes of Mexico and Central America while getting to know the people along the way. Laura Gabbert’s documentary is about Gold, which means it’s also about immigrants from everywhere starting from scratch in their new American homes and working their way up. Gold writes for the Los Angeles Times and, while he covers all the new upscale dining spots, his heart remains with the families that have moved from a food
those parts of the film. Suffice it to say (I hope), he seems pleased at being the square peg near the round hole. He addresses his writer’s block – yes, you OPENING: FRIDAY AT KEYSTONE ART can crank out an amazing number of RATED: R, e words and still have writer’s block – and his trouble meeting deadlines. Only once in the film does Gold make stand to a storefront. Many of them have reference to a negative review. I wonder no idea what his kind of endorsement where negativity fits into Gold’s boostercan mean, until the review appears and ism of differing cultures? He typically their tables fill with new faces. visits a place 4 - 5 times before writing Gold is a pleasantly dumpy looking a review (oh the luxury!), so I suppose guy with long hair and a big belly. He he may mention a few dud dishes in comes from an arts-centered family, passing while focusing on the good stuff. But I wonder what he does when he’s sampled a tiny, struggling City of Gold meanders a bit, restaurant several times and but Laura Gabbert does a fine it just isn’t very good? I suspect that my question job celebrating Gold as Gold will be answered later today when I read a few of his celebrates the diversity that he columns, but a question like contends makes L.A. unique. that is basic enough that it should have been addressed in the film. City of Gold meanders a bit, but Laura Gabbert does a fine job played cello with the UCLA Symphony celebrating Gold as Gold celebrates the and performed with a punk band in diversity that he contends makes L.A. 1979. His wife, Laurie Ochoa, is the unique. If you opt to see the film, and entertainment editor for the Times. you should, I suggest you grab a bite The couple has two kids. before, or make plans to grab one right It appears that there is a bit of tension after, because this is certainly going to between Gold and some of his birth make you hungry. n family. My attention wandered during REVIEW
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I Saw the Light u I’ve been a Hank Williams fan since I was a teenager, and was looking forward to an in-depth look at his life. Alas, there’s nothing deep happening here. The cast is impressive, God knows the subject is intriguing, but the film plays like a generic music biopic with Williams’ name and songs spliced in. Tom Hiddleston is solid as Williams and Elizabeth Olsen is sharp as his first wife, Audrey, but the movie has a half-hearted feel, barely brushing the legendary performer’s life. Hank has back problems, Hank drinks, Hank plays around, Hank makes music, Hank proves to be unreliable. After an odd, pretentious beginning, it all goes down the obvious path for the next couple of hours. My thoughts drifted to the John C. Reilly comedy, “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story,” which is not a good sign when you’re watching a tragic tale of an American icon. What a disappointment. — ED JOHNSON-OTT
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If you could choose a style of beer to make its way to the forefront of popularity what would it be, and why? “Kolsch. Kolsch is a very light bier and to brew it well and consistently is a challenging task. Consumers would find out quickly who is good at brewing and who is not.” — SARAH BUSCHMANN
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hat’s your hoppiest beer?” It’s a question that was rarely uttered over a decade ago and yet, ask nearly any person working in a brewpub or taproom, and it might be the most common question they have heard over the past five years. I’m not knocking it. When I turned 21, the craft beer craze was just beginning and I — having grown quickly tired of the metallic piss-water served at Butler’s Thirsty Thursdays and Fratty Fridays — was looking for something with flavor and that I didn’t have to drink a six-pack of to feel a buzz. But, after a few years of hop-chasing, killing my palate with IPAs, Double IPAs, Triple IPAs, hop-your-face-off brews, I was ready for something easier. To clarify: I wasn’t going to go back to the swill that has long passed as American beer. I wanted something with more nuance, a more subtle balance. Then, as if by magic, I started seeing this trend taking hold. Sarah Buschmann of Bier Brewery says she has heard it too, “Hoppy biers are selling better
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age is due to a highly saturated market of craft breweries and in a bigger sense the “hop craze” that is driving hoppier and hoppier beers. A major issue with this, outside of the sheer fact that breweries are unable to get the hops they need, is that I think it is our responsibility as many lower quality IPAs are being brewed and the strong beer drinkers to try these styles hop flavor covers the fact that and to find and support breweries the beer isn’t high quality. To give you an idea of IPAs’ that have passionate and truly impact on the beer market, the Brewers Association talented brewers. found that just two years ago, in 2014, “The IPA is up 47 percent by volume and 49 percent by dollar sales, accounting for try other styles.” As Sarah astutely points 21 percent volume share of craft and out, people are still ordering IPAs — they 23 percent dollar share of off-premise always will. Hell, I always will. But, as beer sales. Additionally, the style was palates change, maybe we’re moving the number one entered category at the toward beers with something more Great American Beer Festival®.” But, unique than overtly bitter hoppy flavors we are slowly starting to see this trend (which is often mistaken for the only changing — emphasis on slowly. flavor of hops). From nearly all of the industry insiders While chatting with the team at Bier I spoke with, I found that it is a huge tesBrewery, they tell me that there is a tament to the abilities of a beer-maker shortage of hops, especially popular styles like Citra and Amarillo. This shorton-premise. However, at our taproom, we have noticed that more people are saying that they have moved on from their ‘hop obsession’ and are willing to
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be intrigued by the hundreds of styles that are available. Broad Ripple Brewpub has a beer made entirely without hops right now. It is an unhopped herbal ale called gruit whose origins can be traced to sometime around the 11th Century. They’ve dubbed theirs Drumpf (“you don’t have to be a megalomaniac to enjoy it”). The Brewpub also has one of the most classic of classic beers on cask, the E.S.B (Extra Special Bitter). “Our E.S.B. won the gold medal at The Great American Beer Festival,” points out Billy Hannon, the general manager “It has this incredible pedigree, but because it’s not an overly hopped beer,
when they can create a well-balanced and consistently great light beer such as a kölsch, lager, or pilsner. With this in mind, I think it is our responsibility as beer drinkers to try these styles and to find and support breweries that have passionate and truly talented brewers. I believe this awakening in consumers is already starting. David Waldman of Triton Brewing explains, “Now consumers are looking for balance in their hops. This likely has a lot to do with people developing their beer palates and becoming familiar with the variety of hops and the value that those hops can bring to the beverage. Now we have “I think that hops will always be craft beer enthusiasts that ask for particular hops, Cascades, part of craft beer … But, I do Citra, Amarillo, Mosaic, etc… and seek out beers that believe that the days of trying to highlight the nuances of those find the hoppiest beers are past.” particular hops.” Ray Kamstra, of Indiana City — DAVID WALDMAN, TRITON BREWING CO. Brewing Co., heightens the appreciation and necessity of hops in beer, “Simply put, hops are beautiful. What lead a lot of people don’t even think about to the popularity of chocolate? What lead ordering it … They go straight for the to the popularity of vinyl? People who IPA, and miss out on what I think is our have a taste for the finer things, take nobest beer.” tice of and seek out the best.” I, as well as Not only are these age-old styles most any beer advocate, will wholeheartavailable, but there is also a barrage of edly agree with Ray. But, the goal should new beers being brewed all the time. be to use the hops for delicate changes, “Consumers also love innovation,” says and to showcase their intricate flavors, Waldman. “Beers like our French Toast instead of simply killing the palate. Saison, Grimace Purple IPA and Ale PacI chatted candidly with Tori Luksha, ino Mocacino, or the hard sodas that are assistant brewer at Metazoa Brewing Co., popping up everywhere, are examples of and she mentioned the use of different beverages that tickle this itch.” strains of hops from different regions In the end, David answers with the such as New Zealand, Australia and delicious and bitter truth, “I think that England to bring out varying flavors that hops will always be part of craft beer. form in the assorted climates. Much like They are essential to creating balance grapes, hops are from a vine, so different and producing a product that consumers soils bring out different notes, from tea, will return to again and again. Will IPAs, to lemongrass, and even spicy peppery Session IPAs and hoppy pales continue tinges. Many brewers are learning to use to be the best-selling and fastest-growing hops for these added touches by doing brands? I think for the time being. But, I late addition hopping. do believe that the days of trying to find Due to the increasing level of the hoppiest beers are past.” knowledge amongst brewers, when So, maybe the title lies a little, maybe you’re out at local breweries you are able hops aren’t dead, and they never will be. to find more and more intriguing styles. As long as good, local craft beer is being Kamstra points out, “we brew many made that’s what really matters. But, barely hopped beer styles that are often I think the insurgence of other styles, lesser well-known styles but delicious including light, easy beers, like pilsners in their own unique ways — oftentimes and kölsches, and heavier, malty stouts with a history that spans hundreds of and porters, to the disparagingly sweet years. Prime examples would be our rise of sours and everything in between, Sister City Kölsch, Forefathers Rye has definitely put the hop in its place. Roggenbier and Shine Dampfbier.” Who knows, maybe one of them will “… [A] history that spans hundreds overtake the throne someday? Until of years …” For this reason and this then, I’ll be drinking them all. n reason alone, avid beer drinkers should
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n April 2, Bier Brewery’s “Sixty Five: Scottish Style Reddish Ale” debuts in cans at the iconic neighborhood gathering place, to celebrate the 1951 ownership by Russ Settle and Fran Gasper of Red Key Tavern. Following Gasper’s death in 1970, Russ Settle became sole owner and since Russ’s death on April 4, 2010 Russ’s son and daughter-in-law, Jim and Dollie, have carried on, along with their children. “Jim only found it right to have Darren brew him an anniversary bier,” explained Bier spokesperson Sarah Buschmann, when I asked about the Red Key and Bier connection. “Darren Connor, Bier Brewery’s brewmaster, owns rental property a few houses down from the Red Key. Darren and his wife lived there about 10 years ago and were avid patrons when
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KOZ: Before I go on tour, I have to get my hair dyed. That’s one very important thing. I’m 100 percent grey and not man enough to admit it yet. See? I’m telling you that, so that means I’m getting more comfortable with the fact that I’m grey. I’ve been grey since I was thirty, so that’s over 20 years of hair dye. Oh my god. I’m a horrible packer. I spend my life on the road and travel for a living, and I never mastered the skill of how to pack a suitcase, or how to pack just enough. I always invariably pack twice as much as I need or more. Literally speaking, I’ve been doing this for so long that I kind of have one bag not “packed” per se, but that’s kind of out in my closet. It’s never “put the suitcases away and don’t take them out for six months.” That never happens. In fact, I can’t remember being home for more than a month before doing some sort of trip. When I’m away, I always long to be home, and when I’m home about two weeks in I’m like, “I gotta get out of here.” It’s just what happens with me. I guess I’m a rolling stone, if you will. — PAIGE WATSON See show info in Soundcheck, pg.33
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KOZ: Well, this goes way back. I’ve been coming there since the very beginning of my career, well actually before that because I would come to Indianapolis with people I’d worked with before, before I became a soloist, specifically Jeff Lorber and Richard Marx. I’ve always loved that city. A place that we played for many years is this place called the Indiana Roof Ballroom. Kind of a legendary place. … We played there for so many years, and a lot of different venues as well. But for the last three or four years, we’ve been doing our Christmas show in Carmel at that beautiful Palladium. That is one of the most beautiful places we’ve ever played at in the world. It’s an incredible thing to have in anybody’s city. You walk in there, and it’s state of the art. It rivals any concert house that I’ve been to in the world.
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he internationally renowned Indy born and raised jazz legend David Baker passed away this weekend at the age of 84. This week's edition of Cultural Manifesto is not a biography of Baker's life. It's also not a blow-by-blow account of his discography, or a treatise on Baker's academic resume. Instead I'd like to offer some personal commentary on my own appreciation for the late maestro's work. A quick glance at most of the David Baker obituaries that have appeared over the last few days might give the impression that Baker was a strict traditionalist tied to the formalism of the academic world he devoted the majority of his life's work to. Baker founded Indiana University's jazz studies program in 1966 and maintained his role as a professor at IU until his death this weekend on March 27. I'm not suggesting there's anything wrong with these conservative remembrances of Baker's life, however they do vary greatly from my own view of Baker as a genre-pushing music revolutionary who took Naptown jazz from Indiana Avenue to outer space. Baker possessed a profound musical vocabulary. His playing and theorizing challenged jazz orthodoxy from numerous angles. He composed complex pieces in the Western classical idiom that redefined perceptions regarding the artistic value of jazz. But you could also find Baker playing on wildly improvised free jazz sessions that spit in the face of constricting traditionalist definitions of jazz. And all the while, Baker articulated his at-times controversial theory that jazz was essentially a Black art form.
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David Baker grew up in the rich musical environment of Indiana Avenue. After graduating from Crispus Attucks High School in 1949 Baker made a name for himself as a gifted trombonist on the Naptown scene. Baker gigged locally with Indianapolis jazz greats including Wes Montgomery before picking up gigs with national acts like the Stan Kenton orchestra. But Baker's work really took off when he began working with the Cincinnati-born pianist, composer and music theorist George Russell in 1959. Russell's avantgarde harmonic theories, best outlined
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in his 1953 book Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization, helped propel modal experimentation in jazz and influenced the creation of Miles Davis' landmark 1959 LP Kind of Blue. Baker would record six important albums with Russell from 1960 to 1962. His first LP with Russell is my personal favorite of the lot, the fantastic 1960 Decca Records' release Jazz in the Space Age which features a series of experimental tone poems imagining the sounds of the cosmos. Russell recorded several Baker compositions during this '60-'62 period
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when Baker enrolled at IU in 1950 he couldn't live on campus and was refused basic services around downtown Bloomington. For me, Baker's views on race and jazz are best encapsulated in this quote from Ebony magazine's May 1970 profile of Baker. (It's interesting to note that the essence of Baker's statement here could still be applied to contemporary conversations on white appropriation of hip-hop culture.) "Jazz is a Black music," Baker remarked. "Its content mirrors the Black experience. Many whites like the music and make money from it but they don't want to share or acknowledge the experience from which it emanates. This is exploitation. We make the music. They imitate it and make the money. Baker was a genre-pushing music Because we are so regularly imitated revolutionary who took Naptown jazz and exploited, we are forced to invent new from Indiana Avenue to outer space. vocabularies in order to keep our language of music vital, authentic and safe within the vault of Black culture." change. "What I lost in the trombone, In addition to his work as a music I've found manifold in teaching and musician and theorist, I think it's also playing jazz on the cello" Baker said in worth taking a moment here to note a May, 1970 Ebony magazine profile. Baker's academic appearance. Photos Baker's first recording as a cellist from the 1970s show Professor Baker marks what is perhaps my favorite alon campus sporting stylish dashikis bum in his discography, Charles Tyler's and a massive afro. While Baker's Eastern Man Alone. The 1967 free jazz LP was recorded in Indianapolis for the choice of attire was certainly a reflection of period Black fashion trends, it legendary experimental music label also reflected Baker's desire to chalESP-Disk. Tyler was a supremely tallenge the dominance of white Euroented Indianapolis saxophonist who'd pean standards. spent time in the band of the controWhile I do appreciate all the obituarversial jazz giant Albert Ayler. Tyler ies celebrating Baker as a grandfatherly and Baker would record again in 1980 academic, I want to offer a contrastfor the equally hard-hitting LP Folk ing perspective on his legacy: While and Mystery Stories. Both albums are Baker's classic early recordings with highly recommended for a sampling of Baker's work as a jazz cellist. musicians like George Russell may not Baker insisted that jazz be recogsound revolutionary to contemporary nized as a distinctly Black art form. young audiences, in their time these While that might not sound controverdiscs hit with the same artistic urgency sial today, this assertion challenged the and freshness one would associate dominant established narrative when with the latest Flying Lotus release Baker entered the academic world. today. And it's my opinion that Baker's Racial bias from white authors elevated work is best appreciated when viewed the contributions of musicians like from this perspective. Paul Whiteman and Benny Goodman Rest in peace David Baker, one of Indiabove those of their pioneering Black ana's greatest music revolutionaries. n counterparts. And racism was an obstacle throughout Baker's life. According to David KYLE LONG Williams' 2014 book Indianapolis Jazz, Baker was kicked out of Indy's Jordan Conservatory of Music in 1949 for >> Kyle Long broadcasts weekly on dancing with a white girl at a ChristWFYI 90.1 FM Wednesdays at 9 p.m. mas party. Williams also notes that and I think it's safe to say that Baker's work with Russell represents his most significant exposure as a jazz instrumentalist and composer. Around this point Baker's life was interrupted by a potentially careerending setback. A jaw injury sustained during a car accident forced Baker to give up performing on the trombone. Instead of abandoning music altogether, Baker shifted his focus to teaching and began learning to express himself through a new instrument, cello. For me, this is one of the most astounding accomplishments of Baker's life: his ability to successfully reinvent himself as a musician in mid-career. In fact, Baker seemed to welcome the
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he blues is a universal form of music. Yes, the genre has roots in the United States, but songs about joy and sorrow can be understood in all parts of the world. Such is the case with Australian Michael Charles, who will bring his sounds to the Slippery Noodle Inn on March 31. Over 30 years on the global road, the music of Michael Charles has the heart and history of those who influenced him as a lad (Buddy Guy, John Lee Hooker, he says) with the grit and power that will satisfy those on a night out at your local live music watering hole. Charles discovered the blues and its influences, like others, on the radio. “I was listening to all of the same artists as kids in America. There was the Rolling Stones, [Eric] Clapton, early Beatles. So I encountered the blues from all these blues-based artists without even knowing it,” Charles says. Later Charles experienced on the radio the artists that influenced the Rolling Stones and Eric Clapton, like John Lee Hooker and his musical hero Buddy Guy. (More on the Guy-Charles connection later.) Artists like B.B. King, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Eric Clapton all toured Australia and Charles was able to see them in concert. Charles said the Australian music industry is very heavily influenced by the American music scene. Other examples of Australia’s contribution to the blues include guitarist Dave Hole whose slide work would make J.B. Hutto approve. Then there’s harmonica and didgeridoo player Harper – now living in Michigan – who reads the gospel according to Bill Withers and performs socially-conscious songs about the States and his native homeland. In late 1989, Charles was already an established musician in Australia when he received an invitation from one of his influences to sit in with him on a gig. Getting to the gig, however… “My manager connected with Buddy Guy’s manager. I still don’t know how he did it. It was nerve-racking. I got off the plane after a 35-hour flight, was whisked to the club (Buddy Guy’s Legends in Chicago), shook hands with Buddy Guy and was invited to get on stage. On stage I looked over at Mr. Guy and I got wobbly at the knees. Standing next to him on
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stage was unbelievable. That was my introduction to the Chicago music scenes. My actual concert (as a bandleader) was two days later,” he said. Charles would share the stage (and learn on-and-off-stage lessons from) some of Chicago’s finest, including Eddy “The Chief” Clearwater, James Cotton, Junior Wells and Jimmy Dawkins. “What I learned from them was to stay diplomatic with your guys because you need them behind you, literally and figuratively. When this happens, it is evident on stage and the audience responds to the camaraderie,” he says. Charles has lived in Chicago for over a quarter-century, but makes a point to tour Canada every year and Australia every other year. He recently released a single “Coming Back Home,” and has put out 32 albums in his career. Number 33, with all new material, will be released later this year. He is a blues
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shark who must keep swimming when it comes to creativity. “I keep the flow by putting my songs I wrote behind me, and even the last album I recorded behind me. This allows me to have a fresh approach for a fresh project. I do perform a song for many years before recording it,” he says. Charles recently released a live album from a 1989 concert called Concerts at The Nest, which was one of his last concerts in Australia. His previous albums are a mixture of studio songs with some live cuts. At The Nest is his first full live album. “It doesn’t compare to what I am doing today. I never look back. We simply wanted to release one of my last live concerts of Australia,” he said. A certain radio show talks about music that is something old, something new, something borrowed and definitely something blues. Charles will bring this and more when he arrives in Indianapolis. “Because I have a lot of music in my repertoire, I try to choose and perform music that I believe audiences have enjoyed in my past performances. They will hear originals, covers, high energy blues and blues-based rock and ballads,” he said. n
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Punk Rock Night Wrastlemania II 9 p.m. Okay, so this one sounds totally crazy. Organizers promise: punk rock on the stage, pro-wrestling style antics on and off the stage.” Holy shit. Maybe wear a helmet and knee pads, and come out to see Fastidio, The Dockers, The Jereactors, and Good Guy Bad Guy.
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): To begin your oracle, I’ll borrow the words of author Ray Bradbury: “May you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days, and out of that love, remake a world.” I have reason to believe that this optimistic projection has a good chance of coming true for you. Imagine it, Sagittarius: daily swoons of delight and rapture from now until the year 2071. APRIL FOOL! I lied, sort of. It would be foolish to predict that you’ll be giddy with amorous feelings nonstop for the next 54 years and 10 months. On the other hand, I don’t think it’s unrealistic for you to expect a lot of that sweet stuff over the course of the next three weeks. Sagittarius
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In 1991, hikers in the Italian Alps discovered the well-preserved corpse of a Bronze Age hunter. Buried in the frigid terrain, the man who came to be known as Otzi the Iceman had been there for 5,000 years. Soon the museum that claimed his body began receiving inquiries from women who wanted to be impregnated with Otzi’s sperm. I think this is an apt metaphor for you, Aquarius. Consider the possibility that you might benefit from being fertilized by an influence from long ago. APRIL FOOL! I was just messing with you. It’s true you can generate good mojo by engaging with inspirational influences from the past. But I’d never urge you to be guided by a vulgar metaphor related to Otzi’s sperm. Aquarius
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Your advice for the near future comes from poet Stephen Dunn. “If the Devil sits down,” he says, “offer companionship, tell her you’ve always admired her magnificent, false moves.” I think that’s an excellent plan, Libra! Maybe you’ll even be lucky enough to make the acquaintance of many different devils with a wide variety of magnificent, false moves. APRIL FOOL! I lied. In fact, I think you should avoid contact with all devils, no matter how enticing they might be. Now is a key time to surround yourself with positive influences.
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