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The Augusta News-Review - December 22, 1977 -
the number one suspect. The
police denied that he or
anyone else was a number one
suspect.
Abrams is still critical of the
Sheriff Department’s
investigation of Miss Greggs’
murder. “Once they were
satisfied they could not entrap
me in any kind of way, the
investigation ceased at that
point. And Carol Greggs just
became another Black person
in the community who died
violently.”
As far as his public life is
concerned, Abrams says he
“couldn’t feel comfortable” in
politics again. “To re-enter
politics with the notion that
I’ll try to get something
changed, I can t be a part of
that exercise. It’s an exercise in
futility.
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individually. If I change, I
think I will have contributed
more to the city of Augusta
than my standing on a soap
box or standing on council
trying to argue as a
councilman. If my attitude
becomes one of loving my
neighbor as myself that’s better
than a vote. The only solution
to our problems is a spiritual
solution.” And we can achieve
that solution by our
acceptance of Christ into our
lives,” he said.
“One prayer -- it’s as simple
as saying ‘Lord help us’ -a
simple thing like that can bring
about miracles.”
All of Abrams’ changes have
not been spiritual. He also
changed his environment. He
no longer lives in the ghetto.
He lives in a fashionable
apartment in West Augusta. He
explained the move with an
analogy: “It’s like trying to
help somebody out of the
mud. If it's within your reach
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to help that person out of the
mud without getting in the
mud yourself, it will be much
better. Perhaps you can save
the person better by staying
out of the mud. Sometimes all
you can do by getting in the
mud with the person is get
muddier. Pretty soon you’ll be
in the position where you have
to get somebody else to help
you.
“1 found myself in the mud.
The environment was not
conducive to anything
constructive.”
That seems simple enough.
The rest he can’t explain. “I
couldn’t sit here and tell you
how I planned to be where 1
am now. How I schemed and
got over on my own initiative.
Things just came to me
without any prior knowledge
whatsoever.”
“I AM BLESSED”
“How was I to know that
four years ago without a job
and no idea how to get a job
that today I would be making
5370 a week when I would
have been happy four years ago
accepting a job making 5125 a
week?
“This is where the Lord led
me. I have been blessed. I am
blessed.”
Abrams says he has only one
goal in life. “I want to do what
I wanted to do in the
beginning. I want to help
people. Some people may get
satisfaction from hanging their
degrees on the wall or going
back to school. I get
satisfaction out of just doing
something for somebody.”
“If I can do something for
you today, that’s my goal. If I
can do something for you
tomorrow, that’s my goal.
“Like I said earlier, all of the
things that have come my way
have come not on my own
initiative. So I know that I’m
being taken care of. I know I’m
being led properly.”
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And the report pointed out
that as of 1975, only 23 states
had granted persons under 18
the right to birth control
services without parental
consent. Since confidentiality
of services was regarded as
crucial by the teens URSA
interviewed, it is questionable
how effective clinics can be in
states where minors still need
parental consent for
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contraception education
program called Project Teen
Concern.
Heath criticized
school-based programs because
many young people
especially low-income teens -
are often so turned off to
school that providing
contraceptive information
becomes impossible in the
institutional setting. And
Heath encourages professionals
to get out of their offices and
workshops to where young
people congregate: on
streetcomers and in parks,
parking lots, schoolyards,
pinball parlors, fast-food
outlets, record stores and
boutiques.
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“There is a tendency for
professionals to talk only to
other professionals,” Health
said. “It’s easier to do,
professionals are trained to do
that and you run fewer
personal and psychological
risks.”
Indeed, most sex education
classes use a clinical vocabulary
that is foreign to the
on-the-street experiences of
most teens. “Kids don’t ‘have
intercourse,”’ says one San
Francisco family planner.
“They ‘screw,’ ‘ball,’ ‘do it,’
‘get down.’ Adults who refuse
to use the kids’ language might
as well not open their
mouths.”
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How, then, could federal
money better be used to
reduce the teen birth rate?
First, it is important to look
at why so many teenagers do
not use birth control.
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One reason is that that fear
of pregnancy is no longer the
deterrent it used to be. Fifteen
years ago, pregnant girls would
almost invariably leave school
for a semester. Today, they are
a common sight in many high
schools and even junior highs.
A “good reputation” is simply
considered less important than
it once was.
Another reason is that too
many teenagers, using
contraception implicitly admits
not only to sexual activity, but
to the intention to plan in
advance for sexual activity -
often regarded as less
“romantic.”
“You never see Robert
Redford asking Julie Christie
what method they should use,”
sayd Deborah Mandel of Marin
(Ca.) Planned Parenthood. “He
gives her that special look,
their clothes fall off and no
one has any regrets afterward.”
“Adults can weight their
experience of negotiating
sexual relationships against the
‘swept away’ romanticism of
TV and films,” one sex
educator remarks. “Kids don’t
have the perspective to
distinguish media sex from real
sex. They are very sensitive to
media messages and they
imitate what they see.”
A third and frequently
overlooked reason why teens
ignore birth control is that
many actually want to have
children. (According to a
recent survey, more teen
mothers than ever want to
keep their babies.)
For many the teen years are
frightening ones - the world
looks huge, cruel and
incomprehensible; jobs are
hard to find. Having a child
gives many teens a sense of
personal dignity, a place in the
limelight, someone to love and
hold power over in a world
where they feel powerless.
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