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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand August 4, 1977 The Utah Independent Page 5 AN AMERICANIST VIEWPOINT SOOTT By GRACE HAMILTON Paul Scott EMERGING ABORTION, EUTHANASIA LINK t r h' (: Washington: The close and growing relationship between the euthanasia and abortion mentalities within the Department of Health, Education and Welfare is beginning to surface. This is clearly indicated by a confidential Cost-Induci- i t', $ HEW Secretary Califano A. Robert by Joseph Derzon. Administrator of the Health Care Financing Ad ministration of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Under the cold, technical title, Change Social Values Regarding Activities", the memorandum contends that the Carter administration could save billions of dollars in medicare and welfare costs by changing its policy toward abortion and cutting out medical care for the terminally ill. Titled, Encourage Adoption of Living Wills", section A" of the memorandum urges the Carter ministration to encourage the enactment of living wills laws throughout the country as an integral part of a new program to cut medicare and welfare costs. Known as the Derzon plan, the administration would encourage the states to follow lead of California in adopting the living will concept. The theory is that this would lead to quicker deaths for tens of thousands of the ill and seriously terminally patients thus saving more than SI. 2 billion dollars yearly in medicare costs. Highlights of the plan, as outlined in the Derzon memorandum, are as follows: The living will concept allows patients to legally require the cessation of the employment of extraordinary means to prolong life when there is irrefutable evidence that biological death is imminent. The first such law was prepared T for memorandum Belt. Abzugs Warriors who set up the state meetings, Save yo Confederate money, boys, the South is rising again! A couple of with a goodly amount of your tax money, have been rudely shoved aside by a force they had long ignored in their headlong drive to shove Equal Rights'. (lay Abortion and Rights Rights down the throats of an unwilling majority. I he Libbers had already met defeat in Ohio, Illinois. weeks ago, we discussed the International Women's year Conferences, which are in full bloom all over the country. Bella Ab.ug, who was appointed by President Jimmy to head the 1WY Commission, may now be having seconds thoughts about bringing her radical propaganda to the Bible Nebraska. Utah, Montana and Hawaii. Alabama stood up to be counted on the side of God, Family, and ( o u n t r y , but what happened in sleepy old Mississippi will go down in history as the turning point Country. in information, the "enemy was not at all as she thought. They were from all sections of the state a very One IWY leader said But, even if we lose this time, this meeting will serve as a rallying point. We have identified the between good and evil. Let's take a look at the headlines which tell the story in a nutshell. First, this one before the meeting: Planners hope for 1000 at weekend INVY meet. Next Women gather for day: y two-dameeting. A day Anti-FRlater: group holds majority at national well-organiz- gathering. cooperating with each other. There were Baptists. Met hodists, Presbyterians, Catholics. Mormons. Church of Christ, and many fundamental groups. There m e n 's were Finally, after forces challenge state's women delegation. Between the headlines here is what happened: The Pro-FR- A meeting, like all the others, had been ng planned to elect a set of pre-chos- Liberals en as delegates to the Houston. Texas meeting in November. resolutions all supporting liberal issues Sixteen were prepared in advance for final approval by the 200 Ab.ug p followers. I'm ANDREW TuJO THINGS r HATE .' Congress had appropriated five million taxpayer dollars to pay for this boondoggle, it was forced to open the meetings to the public. All viewpoints were to be heard, but the leaders were not concerned about that little problem, since they VOUAG, AND THERE'S RACISM' Since AND were in charge I) e m o c r a t s . Republicans, and members of the American Party. For the majority, it was the tirst time they had ventured out into the real world, hut it will not be the last. We have always known that sooner or later the majority of good people vould realize the danger and come out to do battle. This happened in Mississippi and it will be happening in the smoke had cleared: Mississippi many different political groups. Just about every religious denomination was there, womens conference. And FRA opponents then: wo ed and represented A dominate For her enemy. war important unhappy ' other sections of the country. The former Silent is not silent anymore. Politicians, take note of the Wave of the Majority Future. -- American Readers HYm- - Tea lures comments and questions are welcome. Please write us at The A merican Way Features, P.O. Box 990, Pigeon Forge, Tennessee 37863. of all proceedings. But something . happened in Jackson, Mississippi, which will be long remembered. THAT WHITE GOVERNMENT AFRICA' 1800 women and a handful of men with completely different ideas, attended the IWY meeting. Needless to say, all of the liberal resolutions were voted IN SOUTH The American Voice - Karen Ann Quinlan case the SAVING BY KILLING memorandum states: The strong Similar large savings in medicare enacted in California in to Karen the Ann and welfare costs would result by in response September. 1976 and legislators 16 other states sought to delineate Quinlan case demonstrates that the Carter administration adopting rights for the terminally ill during such encouragement would result a more liberal abortion policy and that year. The statutes make in some negative public reaction." stepping up its birth control However, it is the position of programs. provision for a person to declare in This part of the proposed antiadvance what he would wish done Derzon that the huge medicare from these if he should reach a moribund con- savings having persons life program is contained in section B of the Derzon memorandum. dition and be incapable of expres- die quicker than normal would Titled, Reduce Unwanted Births, sing his wishes. It relieves the offset this negative public reaction. the section charges that the cost for physician and'or health facility of As he puts it in his memorandum: The cost savings from a caring for the any liability. unwanted children of welfare Prior to passage in nationwide push toward living is be wills enormous. to It likely staggering". recipients is California, 87 percent of persons one-fift- h of medicare expenproblem" and highlights the polled there thought that an in- Over in suggested solutions as follows: curably ill patient should have the ditures arc for persons their last "In 1973 about 3.6 percent of year of life. Thus, in Fiscal Year right to refuse eligible for medication. Encouraging states to 1978, $4.9 billion will be spent for all women aged 15-if such persons and medicaid received abortions in just pass such a law, or more .strongly, were these of states covering abortions. Add to expenditures withholding federal funds without of avoided this the proportion of unwanted through adoption passage would serve to heighten under the wills.' saving pregnancies w here abortion was republic awareness of the use of such "living resources and would also lower medicare alone would amount-tjected, and it is possible that close health spending when such wills $1.2 billion. Additional federal to half the welfare recipients of g savings would accrue to medicaid age have unwanted are executed. VA and Defense pregnancies in a single year. In and the .. THE QUINLAN ( health I n 976 there were 3.5 million programs. noting the public reaction to the Department so-call- life-prolong- 44 one-quart- er o child-bearin- 1 Over ed We misfortune exaggerate and happiness alike: We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are. Ilonore dc Balzac down and all of the Laziness grows on delegates elected to attend the Houston convention were for God. Family, and people: it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains. Sir Matthew Hale AFDC families, nearly all of whom in preventing unwanted births and have w omen of age. w ould have far greater savings, but The cost of caring for these poten- also far greater ramifications. In tially unwanted births, under both addition to being contrary to the medicaid and welfare, is Presidents current stand, it would child-beari- ng staggering. To reduce unwanted births, the administration can reverse its decision not to cover abortions under medicaid and'or intensively counsel and provide birth control assistance." incur the anger of the Catholic Church, the Right to Life Groups, etc.... With top-lev- el women presidential appointees pressuring President to change his THE POLITICAL abortion stand, the Derzon -PROBLEM - In stressing that the memorandum is expected to add a second alternative, intensifying new dimension to the growing federal birth control efforts, "is debate. consistent with President Carter's preferences," the memorandum reports: Power, like the It would require additional diamond, dazzles the funds to imptment an effective beholder, and also the program, reaching teenagers as wearer, it dignifies well as adults. Nevertheless, the meanness: it magnifies would far resulting savings I i t t leness; t o what is outweigh the costs and the political contemptible, it gives ramifications would not be authority: to what is low. substantial. exaltation ." "Covering abortions under Charles Caleb Colton medicaid would be more effective the |