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Show Parenthood deoision correct devices and offer the procedure itself.. .Just don't expect a disapproving disap-proving owner to keep forking out money. It has nothing to do with women being "expendable." It has everything every-thing to do with a family-planning clinic becoming practical. Furthermore, the chatter about harming low-income women is a smokescreen. It's a fact of life that people with little money have fewer options than those who are wealthy. When Jon Huntsman enters that Chevrolet dealership, it's expected that he'll have more choices that a welfare client would have. The Constitution doesn't say that every red-blooded American can purchase a Corvette and neither does it state that every female with two legs must receive the same "menu" of medical services. I suspect that Planned Parenthood Paren-thood will begin a fund-raising drive to make up the loss of government funding. The move would enable the abortion rights folks to put their money on the side of their principles. As an "owner" of Planned Parenthood, I would welcome this "buy-out.". By BRYAN GRAY Clipper Correspondent (NOTE: Carrick Leavitt, our managing editor, passed away last weekend. Carrick iiad a reasonable solution to many problemsbut one of the few he could not solve was cancer. l Cyclops r I t bV Brian , t s . 'tVt A thoughtful and passionate man, Carrick often agonized over his editorial opinions. Especially agonizing, he said, was the controversy con-troversy over abortion. He personally per-sonally found it abhorrent, but he was also reluctant to allow the government to totally ban the procedure. pro-cedure. Several months ago, before he was diagnosed with his illness, he mused about this column. "Sometimes I don't know where I stand," he said. "That's why I like the Cyclops Column. Cyclops takes a stand and makes me think." This week's stand is easy: Carrick, Car-rick, we'll miss you. This column is for you!) The legal profession is often the target of jokes. Yet last week the U.S. Supreme Court did something very unhumorous: It demonstrated wisdom. The wisdom came in a controversial controver-sial 5-4 ruling that federally -funded family-planning clinics cannot discuss abortion with pregnant women. The decision was ecstatically hailed by the pro-life forces and understandably hooted by the abortion rights crowd. Yet neither side should get too emotional. The Supreme Court did not strike down legal abortion. All the court did was verify that an owner has certain rights of decision-making. One overwraught female cried that the ruling says "the young lives of our women, especially low-income low-income women, are expendable." Sorry, but it does nothing of the sort. It simply says that Congress our representativescan stipulate whether or not a certain practice should be subsidized. One-third of Utah's Planned Parenthood money is derived from our taxes. Since we're paying for the program, we should have some input as to what goes on in the joint. A business analogy is useful. If you owned a large interest in a Chevrolet dealership, you would certainly expect to have some power as to how that dealership was operated. If the owners decreed that no Chevrolet salesman could offer comments or answer questions about Ford and Chrysler products, one wouldn't expect a hue and cry about the owners infringing on free speech. And if there was such babbling, bab-bling, you as an owner could say, "If you don't like my policy, then raise the money and buy me out." That's exactly what the court said in its abortion ruling. A family-planning family-planning clinic is free to talk about abortion, publish informational brochures, even purchase suction |
