Word: petitioner
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The provisions of this ordinance shall be severable in all respects. The City Council shall, in the form of a home rule petition if required, request the state legislature to enact all measures necessary or convenient for implementing these provisions.
Lodi said that perhaps the prochoice group did not realize that the petition "was not being presented as a completed work...We want input."
The petition, endorsed by the Harvard-Radcliffe Progessive Alliance for Life, claimed to focus on goals jointly held by pro-choice as well as anti-abortion forces. The document advocated several "positive measures" to reduce the number of unintended pregnancies and "the anguish suffered by many women in the event...
"That's not what [the petition] was about," Shaffner said. "We didn't agree with the tone of the petition and felt that it was basically an antichoice document cloaked in neutral language," Shaffner said.
Petition co-author Patricia J. Lodi denied charges that the document was biased against abortion rights. "That's absolutely untrue," said Lodi, who said she considered herself prochoice.