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- From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
- Subject: GULF WAR RESISTER STILL NEEDS HELP
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.091510.10989@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 09:15:10 GMT
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- ** Written 11:21 pm Oct 26, 1992 by web:act in cdp:gen.newsletter **
- GULF WAR RESISTER STILL NEEDS HELP
-
- Though Gulf War resister Yolanda Huet-Vaughn has been released
- from prison (see The ACTivist, May 1992), her struggle is not yet over.
-
- Huet-Vaughn, a medical doctor from Kansas, refused to serve in the
- Gulf War and was sentenced to 30 months in prison -- she was released
- after eight months due to a strong international support campaign
- organized by Citizen Soldier in the United States, and led by ACT for
- Disarmament in Canada.
-
- However, the Kansas Board of Healing Arts is now hearing a case that
- has been launched against Dr. Huet-Vaughn in an attempt to take away
- her medical license.
-
- Dr. Donald Bletz, who initiated the case against her, says that because
- she has been convicted of a 'crime' -- specifically, desertion from the
- army -- she should have her license to practise medicine revoked.
-
- Yet Dr. Huet-Vaughn has made it clear, in many public speeches, that
- it was precisely the obligation she felt, as a doctor, to preserve life and
- not to take life, that led her to refuse service in the Gulf.
-
- Huet-Vaughn is currently working in a Kansas City clinic for
- low-income patients, one of the few sources of decent and inexpensive
- medical care in the city.
-
- Support is still needed to let Yolanda Huet-Vaughn keep her license
- and continue to practise medicine. Letters can be sent to: Debra
- Billingsley, Disc. Counsel, Kansas Board of Healing Arts, 235 S. Topeka,
- Topeka, Kansas, 66603, USA.
-
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