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Show Page 4 The Utah Independent August 18, 1977 PRO-LIF- E SCHOOL DEAF The Paper ABORTION In response to Assistant Attorney General Thomas C. Andersons charge that the first sentence of our deaf school abortion press release of July 11, 1977 creates a totally inaccurate" impression we adamantly stand by that statement which reads, A student at the Utah School for the Deaf was recently counseled and aided in the procurement of an abortion by employees of the School and of Vocational While Mr. Rehabilitation." Anderson claims that this is inaccurate, he goes on to explain how and why state employees did just that and still acted within the law. her emotional Also immaturity, citing some tests performed on her, he admits to her half-denyi- ng being less than normal in her com- munication skills and her interpersonal relationships", the latter being the most important in this stressful situation. (The age of the young woman is actually immaterial, since whether she was 1 or 21, she could legally have an 1 without abortion parental consent.) Mr. Anderson has only too clearly told us that there is no reason to be concerned over state school employees aiding and counseling students concerning abortions. Are we to surmise since no mention was made of it, that there is no reason to be alarmed when state employees entrusted with teaching our young people lie to their parents to cover for abortions which they have helped to arrange or when they intimidate the students by having them sign papers promising not to reveal such incidents? Again we express our opinion that they acted outside the purvue of their responsibility to the detriment of a student and her preborn child, using fabrication deception and threats." If the attorney general's office disagrees, then legislation is needed to assure that in the future employees in the department of education are enjoined from counseling problem without parental pregnancies consent, providing transportation to abortion clinics, lying to parents and threatening students. -- WHAT YOU CAN DO IF YOUR STATES salesmen start When anti-lif- e their pitch for abortion and euthanasia, they try to sway public opinion by talking about the suffering of the handicapped child or the incapacitated grandparent, of the rape victim involuntarily impregnated or the dying patient involuntarily hooked to machines. Once they get a foot in the door with this they change their approach; they no longer argue for the good of the individual but for the good of society. And, as with every sales spiel, they inevitably get to a discussion of cost: if its more expensive to care fora person than to kill him, society has a right, even an .to obligation.. .say the anti-liferpseudo-compassio- . n, s.. kill. to legislate death warranties euphemistically called living wills. Derzon decries the fact that over 20 of Medicare costs are for people in their last year of life and says if just 14 of these expenditures were avoided through adoption of living wills, the saving under Medicare alone would amount to SI. 2 billion. Like Derzon, unwanted birth prevented saves about SI 000 an- that every nually in welfare payments." But the economical Derzon is not content to save money by eliminating just preborn children; g he also suggests ' initiatives" that deal with the elderly, including withholding federal funds from states which fail cost-savin- anti-lif- far-fetch- whom belong your state's money-matters-more-than-- philosophy, do something now to stop it...for your own sake! General Singlaub lost his command in Korea for telling the truth. Heres more truth from a General who Carter cant fire. Hes retired. And General Lewis Walt, retired Marine Corps General, says the Soviet Union is ready to go to war and this country is too weak militarily to defend itself. The immediate objective is the conquest of lib and 618,-Alto- post-Worl- From EAGLE FORUM, Box ' 'Hi: 62002. i seventy specialists from the federal Energy Research and Development Administration were commissioned to study our nations natural gas potential. The group made its report in April, just prior to the Presidents planned forecast of impending energy catastrophe. The ERDA task force said that, by simply allowing prices to rise, the nation could be flooded with natural gas. What did ERDAs brass do with its report? They recalled it. Next, they disbanded the team that wrote it and appointed a second team to do a rewrite job. Five days later, ERDA had a new report which coincided perfectly with President Carters grim forecast. expensive production equipment, he turns his attention elsewhere. While governments meddling with elementary economic law resulted in closed factories, idle workers, and real suffering last January, gas remained plentiful in states (such as Louisiana and Texas) because there are no price controls on Freedom at Stake The entire energy situation in the United States is chock full gas-produci- ng intrastate sales. of deceit. Everywhere, government is holding back production while working to gain total control of everyone and everything. The natural gas story, only partially told here, is a good example of what is happening. If we allow this treachery to continue, we will soon be left cold and dark, and at the mercy of predators from within and without. For years, the gas industry has pleaded for an end to the Congress has refused to budge, customarily citing wild tales about potential huge profiteering. Just a few weeks ago, the House Commerce Committee again voted against ending the controls. And President Carter has called for an extension of 977 The John Birch Society Features THE AMERICAN WAY JCDCX WARNING TO BUSINESSMEN: - Sc? 18-2- discov- ered to be a clean and efficient d source of energy in the War II years. But in 1954, just after its worth had been thoroughly established, the Federal Power Commission slapped price controls on all gas sold interstate. This led immediately to a downward trend in exploration and development, and to an increase in consumption because of the artificially low price. The American Gas Association has stressed the amazing fact that there has never in our nations history been an effective incentive to explore for natural gas. Price controls 'are the major reason why. When a producer cannot charge enough to finance costly exploration and 'daEL ly tions to government authorities. In a report sent to Presidential energy advisor James Schles-inge- r early this year, the AGA gave its projections of gas availability if price controls were merely relaxed. AGAs estimate is that there is enough natural gas within U.S. territory to last for over 2,000 years. But it is obtainable only if government will get out of the way. Even the governments own researchers have arrived at a similar conclusion. Last January by-produ- ct THE STATESMAN v-T- 1 IP YOUR PRICES ARE TOO GUILTY OP . ' t , i ? v ,.-r- RB . ADMINISTERING PRICES ! IP YOUR PRICES ARB TOO "LOW -YOUfcB GUILTY OP UNFAIR Senator Helms of North Carolina one of our few statesmen, reports that Duke University now spends $451 per year .per student to implement social programs demanded by the federal government (ten years ago it was S58 per student). Helms says Duke spent $3,618,070 in 1975 trying to comply with all of the federal regulations and red tape. Georgetown University spent $3,603,244 the same year. For all colleges and universities, the total was more than two billion dollars. Helms reports, and he has introduced a bill. The Academic Freedom Act of 1977, to get Big Brother off the backs of our colleges. , HK3H-YOUl- H.'-v-y.- ; ii " lesbian pro-fami- tion has consistently provided sensible energy recommenda- d Target: Natural Gas The oil field called natural gas was IWY resolutions, here is what you can do. 1. Write your own resolutions. BE brief; no need to write a wordy 40 pages. 2. Circulate them as petitions among your friends, clubs, churches, communities. 3. Gather them together and send one of your group to the IWY national conference in 0 in order Houston on Nov. to show the press & the world that the IWY resolutions do NOT represent the views of the women of your state. . . . AssociaThe American Gas Europe. Military experts are convinced he says, that Soviet forces could take Western Europe in 14 days. conference passed all those radical to medical paramedical professions) will now, for a fee, secretly terminate the life process" of a client or his ward and arrange for And the subjects" cremation. industries several major are, according to euthanasians, ready to a wide and make available colorful range of medicines and methods to meet the needs of those who have lived their lives and are about ready for a good death." If you don't go along with this RESOLUTIONS: If ed REAL WAR HEROES IWY Dares To Take A Stand If Controls Were Removed regulation of its prices. But Western . price controls to intrastate sales of natural gas. Clearly governments policy is: Share the shortage, not the natural gas. by John F. McManus It Belmont, Massachusetts Auin might be a bit difficult gust to remember the extreme cold of last winter, but we ought to try. There was a lesson to be learned when natural gas shortages forced 4,000 plants to close, put 400,000 out of work, shut down schools, and even posed a threat to homes and hospitals. The lesson is that price controls stifle production. Far from consumers, helping worse. make matters they always hard-presse- se LIBLESBIAN PASSED e physicians are also concerned about the financial aspect of euthanasia. ..but for a different reason. They know euthanasia-on-deman- d would be every bit as lucrative as abortion-on-deman- d and are probably already planning ways to convert their abortion mills into death clinics. (After all, if theyll take money from a mother to kill an unwanted child, theyd surely take money from a child to kill an unwanted mother.) None of this is as as it might seem. A group called Reguiem Associates (most of dual-purpo- What is most frightening is that such thinking is being expressed by those in high places who have the power to implement it. A June 4th memo from Robert Derzon, Administrator of Health Care Financing for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, says covering abortion under Medicaid would be in preventing more effective unwanted births and would have far greater savings" than would counseling and providing birth control assistance. Derzon adds ! Why Natural Gas Is Scarce By Connie M. Pratt Janet P. Carroll 1 COMPETITION! 3 IP YOUR PRICES MATCH THOSE Ol YOUR COMPETITOR- S- YOURS GUILTY OP PRICE FIXING! HOW DO WU PLEAD? L I a:'. v'rsrUV- - No Place Left to Go i |