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PHOTO NUMBER:

PC-53430

PRIEST AND 18 OTHERS ARRESTED DURING ABORTION CLINIC SIT-IN

ST. LOUIS--The Rev. James J. Danis, a Roman Catholic priest of St. Louis, wearing a sweat shirt above,

waits in a police patrol wagon after being arrested with 18 others

on trespassing charges, during a sit-in protest recently at

the Regency Park Gynecological Center.

Father Danis was arrested when he attempted to prevent a young girl

from entering the clinic. The priest said he joined the demonstration

"to try to stop someone from killing her baby."

The demonstrators, which included a group from the Presbyterian

Covenant Theological Seminary, were there protesting an International Women's

Day observance being held at the local Grace Methodist Church -- where an

anti-abortion feminist group called Life and Equality had been refused

exhibition space for not supporting the International Women's Year

position on abortion.

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RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO

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