Show MPiKtuim Monday ' November 17 2003 A4 The Herald Journal Sides compete over By told she could £0 to tlC Davis 45 minutes away to have a Bui because of insurance complications ii was tmt late lor her to switch pilalsShc fought with her doctor 'Wrote letters Appealed to advocacy ' groups But the hospital wouldn't Joan Ryan L am I anchcMcr and Joe I lap liave never mcl Shc is a slay- at home nomjvhorca’jillv deliver'd her second hahy lie is tlurX'IiO of - llid hospil:a at which she gave hinlv I hey s'lrired a goal: the healthy dcliv v: erv of Manchester's hahy: Bill they 'represent two siiles in athat pit's a' patient's right to decide her dwn inedical Jiealinenl against a hospital's rcsponsLhlitv to iniHiinic ijsk I aiicliestcr did nol wuiH n cesarean seciion She delivered her first child ‘ l ( section live years ago Iveausc the hahy w as mined in the hos-nujil- ' ' huilge- - ' "It- feels very violating to have unnecessary major surgery'’ Lint-- Chester said by phiine from her hoine: in Lodi: “I had nooptiiins But at the i end I got tired of lighting the insur- mice companies the hospital and Ihe ’ ill-hal- doeldrs" Ianehesler had done her hdine- work She knew about the research oh uterine rupture but because she was so healthy and her first cesarean ' ' had had live years to heal she also knew the risk was extremely low There were she fell at least as many' risks in undergoing major surgery vviimh And she wanted this hahy to hchdrq While lief when it was ready riot when luishand and tor thought it was ready tier first ollieis clus- child had it heart defect that might lered around have been worse had the hahy been Lari the hahy delivered even a little bit premature- in room the chestei rwas recovery can mean a anesthesia:' Hours ly A scheduled fromthe groggy actual full before delivered own saw her hahy baby piisscillvfiireshc !' lerin The healing process from ihe ' 'The bottom line Manchester says ?! By John Hughes hiok longer (Inin from a vaginal ' For The Christian Science Monitor is that surgery should hot have been birilL Anil the surgciy was both cost- on i inlliL'led her her Irer aud she 1’ell iskier (o her health against wjll ' liven the New Bnglaiul Journal of and li'cr hahy he room lights' are low The As a ivsulu Manchester had every v Medieihe which argued in a2001 -TV is flickering with images screen editorial against attempting a vaginal 'iiifenjion of delivering herseebui) shiKitiml between cops' and had a of with birth a after V child vaginally Sltehail ho health - ‘r Wide-eye- d jit front of ihc-' guys in UiiichesterJsorc incision point: problems The sits screen clutching a “These issues (of risk versus bene' : had had live years to heal 1 ler scar: the But control control isn't remote fils) liiuslhe discussed with each was so minimal her cynvnt ohsietri- ' TV a to the editorial said “and : she questionable program or ' eimi had a tough lime finding W patient" video It is toa video game that must make that decision foMierseif" Bui two months hefore her delivT ' Lodi of course isn't the only hos- requires active ervdatc llarringfoivshospital Lodi participation Memorial pita! with this policy Hitting the" announced a poMany Level I hospitals-buttons in a the have don't which ho It licy change resources of larger hospi- - certain 'loiigerwas'i::':''' I :Wonder have stopped per- - sequence the' Whether allowing women can formmgV-BACsTo'''i"- -r lii had diicc tUp analysts them it isn’t about the y: shooiaedp riaye delivered by CV- -' o The screen 'section Ip deliver calculated risk hospital being part of a the-doc-- " : that “violent video games increase ' aggressive behavior in children and young adults" They note that in three recent school shootings the : shooters were “students who hahitii- ally played violent video games" For instance Eric Harris and Dylan the Columbine High School students' who killed J 3 people in Lit- - ' tlelon Colo enjoyed playinga bloody video game “Doom” Erie even created a customized version ' with extra weapons and victims who couldn't fight back Mr Bushman now at the Ujiivcrsl- ty of Michigan conducted a statisti- $al review of 85 separate studies of Violence He told mein at C phone interview: ‘There’s no ques- - : i: her-uterii- ' lil : u - 1 tipn that expdsure to violent videos -- the trying so hard vMmerjcanCoMSlege of Ohste'trics lista mp out one flashes a ¥ “reward" of so niany points The background music' rises coiigratulatorycresCcndo: ‘Good shot’ oi- impressive" a Voice blares back encouraging him to kill more police officers : This is an accurate illustration of what regularly takes place in some American homes The frequency of sex profanity and violence in movies and on TV is wellknown Less well understood is the degree of violence in video games " : Videomakers dismiss'the thesis that violent videos can generate aggressive behavior in viewers But : j scientific evidence suggests other- wise : Two Iowa Slate University psy- -' chologisLs Craig Andcrson and Birad Bushman conclude in an article in the journal Psychological Science 5W 7 gniiLdincs!irtCf?W6i make' T piw that :' cau-to- 4 about taking away indi- -' v' Itahotif that :? vidual choice providing the safestpos-Ourselves sible care arid taking rear - snaMe ppautions ' nrV-BAGs - J : - : - - !: : : i ' : il ar stu-den- US SENATE-UTA- H Seri Robert Bennett Republican — US Senate Washington DC 20510 Utah office: 4225 Fed-(202) 224-544-4 eral Building 1 25 S State St Salt ' Lake City UT 54138 (801) 524-593- 3 Sen Orriri Hatch Republican — US: Senate Washington DC 20510 Utah office: 8402 Fed(202) 224-525-1 eral Building 125 S State SL Salt :: Lake City UT 84138 (801) 524-438- 0 - : US SENATE-tOAH- O Larry Craig Republican — 520 Hart Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510 (202) 224-27Idaho office: 801 E Sherman Room 1 93 Pocatello ID 83201 (208) 236-681-7 What ciui parents do? ' First become educated about the issue Bushman says that newspapers and magazines have generally not done a lot ofserious repcrting on the prohlem Second monitor what chil-- dreh sire watching and have bandy a: supply of goikl nonviolent tapes DVDs and computer games Limit rations are beginning to ponder their association with yiplent programs ahd images New research suggests that viewers have a harder time ' '' ' - V a former editor ofthe is 1 US LCt‘4 W'RE BtfyBC uuev WC0O JOTN ' in HOUSE-IDAH- miNt- - Herald Journal in The Opnqn pages mended to acquamt readers with a iranety of wewpoms on matters of petohe importance and provide members of the community witti a tomm tor ffwr news Personal columns cartoons and tetters from readers retted the opnons of Iher wnm and creator Edttonals under the headmg Our View r reoresent toe vmws of the Herald Journal edrtonal board Members of the edtenal board BRUCE SMfTWpdjfcsher CHARLES McCOLLUMmanagmg thmgh eng fad of authoritative -- ' Logan84341 7538224 Steve Thompson 37 S 200 West Logan 84321 Tami Pyfer 753-60- 9 1 South PI 52-13- Randy Watts Dr 84321 111 ON-Ced- Heights 753-202-3 r DARRELL EHRUCKatyedrtor CtNDY YUHTHIeetores editor “Right conclusions are more likeh) to be gathered out of a multitude of Ungues than L COUNCIL Thomas Kerr 35 M 1400 EasL ' Logan 84321 '752-3- 1 51 Alan Allred 1 535 1500 North LOGAN-MUMCIPA- 84321753-752- 9 O Mike Simpson Republican — Represents 2nd Congressional DistricL KBouT fUEBMSLP rut (801 ) 625-010-7 The - which includes Franklin Cdunty1449 Lbngworth House Office Building Washington DC 295)6 (202) 225- 553li Idaho office: 304 N' 8th Room ' 325 Boise ID 83702 (208) 334-- 1 953 HOUSE-UTA- H Rob Bishop Republican — Repre- sents 1 st Congressional DistricL which includes Cache County Washington office: 124 Cannon House Office Build? 'mgs US House of Representatives Washington DC 20515 (202) 225-0453 Utah office: 324 25th St Ogden 52 IVrtATXUC F'CTiC fOP US edaar selection ’ — Judge Leaned Had v remembering advertising messages built around violent programs After 7 r he discussed this recently on the Jim Lehrer news show Bushman got a' v: call from ah interested GeneraJMills executive Who wanted to pursue the question of corporate association with violent imagesPtoducers of this violent visual material so far unmoved by appeals to tone it down on moral and ethical grounds might yet respond to negative public opinv ion ifit is translated into a reduced profit line ts Michael CrapofRepublicari—1 11 Russell Senate Office BuildingWash-ingto- ri DC 20510 (202) 224-614-2 Idaho office: 801 E Sherman PocateF lo ID 83201 (208) 236-677- 5 - Non Seqditar ' ' '' DVDs ' Lovmakors : n ' Mr Aiidcrson and Bushman found that on average youths between8 and 1 8 spend more than 40 hours week Using electronic media: Whie: TV is most frequently used election- -' ic video games are rapidly growing ' in popularity and they note the “mostheavilymairketedandcon- siimcd games are violent ones" While high School and coriege John Hughes play a lot of video games y' Monitor ' young children are growing up ' 1 ’ ' -- - 1 ’vf ' - against costly lawsiiits' " For Lanchestcr and pthiir womcn who ni) longer getto participate '' in the decision the policies are because of the risk of uterine rupture brutish and arrogant a revocation of T jiuii Memorial adopted the new ' a basic right ti) decidc'what happens guidelines is did many smaller hos: their own bodies to cittihtrv1 afterscveracross'the iiijals if vears ofinternaldehaie 'They set Up a policy in which what l haye to say means nothing’- l)octors and administrators recog- Manchester said “What was my part with risk' hized that ihe of rupture : in this?! had a dream afterward lahor aftcra sjvntahcmis akiut having an alien autopsy where in extremely low — 05 percent' people were jusf working on me and according to a 2tXH study published I couldn’t do anything about it" Mcdim ihe New England jrmrnai of ' ' In the meantime Manchester's 105 which out of means niie every tXXJ patients No one at Lxii dayild baby is healthy for which she and Harrington are grateful: They ' Memorial has suffered a uterine rup- both wantcdthC same outcome But 5 turc in years But the consequences of a uterine they are likely never to agree on the the no how matter priKess by w hich they arrived there unlikely rupture In a cuUurc thatseems increasingly can he severe: The baby to believe that any risk is unaccept- - brass decided caii die So the hospital ' risk must be eliminated ahlethat like ifierisk ataU-se- l Lhospital through law policy guidelines and tiieirNhere (ipcTatingrMmA-to'S'edicts I wt wider how we’ll know are not on site' 24 Iioutn adas was ' ' when we've gone too far I wonder ' 'Tmi grcai ' Wv's'i nev er had w hether the a pr hlem hut analys have calculated the risk of trying so hard to stamp h vi c tiilii u e- justifv say mg to a -- out one small danger that we make rijiiiher who ha a dead baby 'Sony ‘Hirseives vulnerable to greater ones ?" in time' the wc didn'i get hahy out ' look at a "I said can't lijiringion Ryan is a columnist for theSan wiiruah and guarantee that if she had Chronicle Send comments Francisco a uterine rupture we d he successful in of this newspaper or to her ciare i fi saving her hahy send here-maat joanryansfehroni- WlK-of the policy change in September she was lUined against CommCrce Committee hcld hearings on the problem Govemnient funding for additional research was urged but nothing appears to Have been done Bushman says a new pitch isV tti-- K Vulnerable to - - ti - 'Wltiyn()lByemall issued increasingly immersed in electronic media A Kaiser family Foundation study released last month found that 30 percent of US children under 6 have played video games and that many of that age are “actively asking for and helping themselves to what they want” Some 77 percent of them turn on the TV hy themselves and v 71 percent ask for favorite videos or The Herald journal welcomes tetters to toe editor PtXentiafty libelous or offensive totters wi not be pubtahed however and toe edNor reserves toe right to edit al tetters to conform to toe tangto and style requirements Of toe newspaper Letters should be: ' Typewritten and dovtotoepaced w No more than 450 words m length Addressed and metude daytene phone number tor purposes of vertfeahon Sqned by toe author Itstonduals are lenaed to one pubtahed tet-twitoin any 3(Fday penod Addmes tetters to NtetterQhyiewspom Guest are also welcome and are run at toeetftor'sdscrehon Unman juist (172-1X- 1) |