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Show Page JO-T- HE HERALD. Provo, Utah. Friday. October 13. 197J Copla View Mood on Upbeat At White House - WASHINGTON (UPI) Judging Rosalynn Carter run so hard for all from the euphoria at the White House, those congressional candidates? Those everything is coming up roses for who know their way around the President Carter. After a r political track say that she is picking up IOU's for the president. drought and steady decline in popBefore the Nov. 7 election, Carter ularity, the mood around the White House is upbeat. plans to campaign in Wichita, MinThe staff is smiling, ano there is a neapolis, Connecticut, Maine and other campaign atmosphere in the west points in New England and will cut a wide swath for several days on the wing. Carter has not yet formally announced plans, but" few stump in several states, including the observers doubt that he will run in 1980. West Coast just before the balloting. The first lady has set a pace for Meantime, back at the White House, three-da- y herself, going on two-animage maker Gerald Rafshoon is whipcampaign forays. What makes ping the staff into line, and producing an inhouse weekly, "White House News and Views," to prime the staffers on all FDA the right answers. The first edition was eight pages of flackery on Carter's "major succesTo ses." with an anonymous interviewer questioning Domestic adviser Stuart Eizenstat on Carter achievements. Flattering cartoons also are included. Although aides are reluctant to disWASHINGTON (UPI) The governcuss future plans, there is a possibility ment Thursday ordered doctors and Carter will travel to Egypt in pharmacists to warn women that use of to attend the separate peace progestin in early pregnancy may treaty signing between Egypt and cause deformed limbs or heart defects Israel. He also was expected to host a in their children. summit meeting in the United States to Drugs made with progestin, a female put the finishing touches on a new hormone, are widely used by women arms limitation agreement. with menstrual disorders or abnormal strategic And next year, diplomatic observers bleeding of the uterus. him to make a presidential trek The Food and Drug Administration expect to mainland China. said that, beginning Dec. 11, a brochure Carter's style has changed over the using common language must be given past few months. He has become more to women by the dispensing physician and more secretive in diplomatic conor pharmacist whenever a progestin tacts, and more and more senators and prescription is filled. come and go through the congressmen The pamphlet will point out that back door. The openness of the past is progestins, when taken by women in fading. the first four months of pregnancy, The stage managing has increased to may increase the risk of heart defects a point where there is little that is or deformed arms and legs in their spontaneous any more. He is operating children. with a tighter rein, and he rarely if "This will help women who are or ever gives any more impromptu who may be pregnant avoid a drug that answers to reporters. has the potential to cause birth deThe new presidential reserve is part fects," said FDA Commissioner of the Rafshoon package, and whenever Donald Kennedy. he can Carter tries to find an "Progestins are helpful drugs With "historical first" to boast about, in the beneficial medical uses. But, like all tradition of Nixon and Lyndon Johnson. drugs, they have risks as well as But to widen his influence with the benefits and must be used with care." media, Carter has been having a series The drugs once were used for of dinner parties for newspaper and pregnancy tests, but the patient television executives and stars. Many brochure will note that FDA no longer come away starry eyed. They dine with considers them safe for that purpose. the president and he gives them little The most common brand names of news nuggets on "deep background," prescription drugs containing meaning they can repeat them on their are Delalutin, Duphaston, own without any official attribution. Rrogestins Norlutin and Provera. No president has given more interviews than Carter, especially if a corThe FDA said the need for the patient offers him a brochure is based on medical reports respondent forum on which he can promote a that suggest an association between the cause. He has given at least five interuse of progestins In early pregnancy views to one special interest reporter and congenital heart disease in the ofwhose readers constitute a voting block fspring. Progestins during early for Carter. pregnancy also may be linked to other Although he insists that he will concongenital malformations, the agency tinue to tackle the tough issues, .and let said. the chips fall where they may, Carter The required patient labeling for also is taking a new look to make sure progestins is part of FDA's program he is on the right political track. And that is an approach the Democratic requiring that information about certain prescription drugs be provided pols have been wishing for a long time that he would take. directly to consumers. o two-yea- W , d Tells Doctors Warn of Progestin Effects - I IKW4 riinii 1 - hi one-subje- ct William F. Buckley ACLU and Abortion Every time you think you have seen everything, you run into the American Civil Liberties Union. There is a lawsuit in Brooklyn. The lady's case is being handled by the ACLU (with an assist from Planned Parenthood). What she wants is to declare the Hyde The Amendment unconstitutional. Hyde Amendment to the welfare bills states that abortions shall not be performed at government expense. The ACLU has come up with the following: Since some women believe religiously in the right to abort, then the Hyde Amendment is in fact depriving the lady in Brooklyn of the "free exercise of religion," which is a violation of the First Amendment. The writer, M.J. Sobran, has exactly necessity of abortion reform, or 20 letters that say that last Sunday Father O'Brien said everybody ought to write to their congressmen asking for abortion reform: "Does this suggest an "excessive" involvement by religious groups?" Suppose that it had been ascertained of the mail received by that 95 Congress opposing the extension of sla bill had avery in the been stimulated by the churches? Are we to understand that the churches are not supposed to try to move their congregations in the matter of clearly moral issues? Is it the position of the ACLU, that Pius XII should not have urged' the Catholic community to protect the genocidal policies of the labeled the argumentation as Nazis? Congressman Hyde is a Catholic. "desperate." Let us assume that a "religious belief Does that invalidate the law that bears in abortion" is an exact, rather than a his name? Emmanuel Celler was A metaphorical use of the word Jew. Does that invalidate the numerous "religious." After all, the word is used laws passed by his sponsorship? The loosely, as in "I believe religiously in freedom of religion is the freedom of the Democratic Party"; or, "His purreligious leaders to enjoin their consuit of lechery was positively gregations. To do what? To obey the religious." The word is frequently used word of the Lord is the Christian, and as an intensifier. But let us take an indeed the Jewish, answer. What is the hypothesis. Suppose an Evangelist word of the Lord in the matter of aborwere to proclaim himself as having tion? received an afflatus, on which rock he Well, it is, by many theologians, proposes to found a New Church. The presumed to be a matter that requires reigning dogma of that New Church is exegesis. Some theologians arrive at that it is the will of God that population one conclusion, others are a different should decrease to the point of conclusion. Almost all theologians believe it proper to consult scientific eliminating the human species as a corporate act of mortification for the evidence on such matters as when it is abuse of man on earth. And, under the compelling to rule that an object is circumstances, all communicants in animate in the human, rather than the New Church are bound by their merely in the biological, sense. When faith to abort all conceptions. Here we that moment arrives is the key to when have an indisputably religious committhat object, become now a person, is ment to abortion. Would then the Hyde entitled to ,the protections the United Amendment be unconstitutional? States so grudgingly, and only after a No. It would, if anything and by the civil war, extended to people born witn ACLU's own logic in analogous matters black skins. be exactly the opposite. It would be But is it possible to argue with an extension of the wall of separation of ACLU? Their obsession on the subject extends to a dark suspicion of people church and state. One would hope that this was enough, who refer to unborn ... bodies ... as but no. The plaintiff asked to see the "babies." rather than "fetuses." No mail of Congressmanb Hyde. Th3 wonder. The Nazis would much rather have been accused of killing "things" gentleman is more obliging than prudent. (Letters addressed by A to B are than human beings. There is a ternot routinely intended to be shared with minological cizoness to be derived from extinguishing the life of a mere C.) By all means, said the Congressmen: Help yourself. What is the "fetus." One day before he was born, ACLU's motive? Well, they want to Shakespeare was a fetus, as was Johann Sebastian Bach, and Martin find out whether there are any signs of "excessive involvement by religious Luther King. If it is tendentious to refer that mean? to an fetus as a baby, groups." What exactly does from 25 how are you going to handle the Well, suppose you' have mail that last problem of calling the ACLU an people, and the mail wya the organization concerned with liberties? Saturday . Rabbi Gold preached v Kansas-Nebrask- Knou &a Satlsfsetlons of Owning r ji - at Savings on UCJC:mm and Fine Area Rugs - 15.88 ( 17.88 Installed Installed Karastan 'Adorneau' Karastan Toujours' Reg. 18.95 sq. yd. beautifully thick Reg. 21.95 sq. yd. 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