University of South Carolina Libraries
T ijiauiiity. By Ellen Goodman death in The Boston Globe caught todj Boston ? When I was a kid bioethical we used to march into the courts, the school auditorium every few the hospital months to see a film in some This is d; J! # iicvcr-tjnuing series on the the most coi Wonders of Science. all, abortic In those postwar years, there New York was the notion that the ruled that a scientist was the Handmaiden a patient if of Progress. If there was a gap special risl between what we wanted to do abnormal cl ? like go to the moon ? and held liable what we were able to do, we lifetime cos were sure that, given enough The ruUnj time and money, science would example, a: "make it all possible." suit-conscioi But now, ironically, the old me one who gap has widened in a different citv of Lot) J* A uirecnon. f rom tfte people who any woman < brought us Baby Louise to the higher risk machinery that supported drome. The < Karen Ann Quinlan, we are also recomn now able to do all sorts of amniocentes things we're not sure we want in the sec< to do. detect this c Doctors especially, as the Presumab trustees of the issues of life and can learn Turning ri ^ A for mnst Sn I Jy^ not for USC. V_/11 More and i drivers are 1 of the law w It/ L LtJI O the right of v For a place i The Gamecock welcomes letters many pede; from its readers. Letters should be clearlv Drov a maximum of 300 words and must Qhnnlrith^ be signed with the writer's correct . .. ? ? name, telephone, mailing address, m eiiect at class standing and major. W1^ n(^ Pseudonums are unaocpntahl#* hut nedpstri^n i< the writer's name may be withheld cross a road by request if circumstances to class. If th warrant. We reserve the right to be an unnece edit letters for space. Address g necessary ] letters to: Campus opinion, The chnnlH not Gamecock, Drawer A, USC, "?l s c wliKi c qamecock SKS'tS V?/ ???? traffic much Founded 1908 I - ,, , ... followed witr Mark J. Lundgren Editor in Chief law has prOV' Don Fobes Copy Desk Chief Tom Travis Kl r~-"? - I1V.-YV3 cuuor B |j David Baker Entertainment Editor , f ?\ Brett Friedlander Sports Editor Dave Roback Graphics Editor Barbara Mathews Wire Editor J_^ Jim Phillips Editorial Page Editor The Cushm; Leigh Grogan Assistant News Editor Fiendishly ,thl Long, metalic Lehman Stiles. Assistant Entertainment Ed. the vehicle, ( MikeChibbaro Asst. Sports Editor windshields automobiles. Janice Wood Graduate Assistant "Heh, heh, JiH Griffin Advertising Manager parking fliehn Fran George Production Manager monitor from post. "Looks HI Jon Clemmensen General Manager Meanwhile SamMcKee Business Manager parking lot, ) hoisted into th< Mark Ethrldge Jr Adviser Afm ?.Book hi Sole reproduction rights granted to the MllCh later, I Associated Press. All other material con- SltS Crowded talned herein may not be reprinted without Fords in the de the oermlssion of thp Artit^r ? -- - Police Station. Opinions expressed In the Gamecock are the Car beside 1 those, If signed, of the writer and, If un- me heCttUSP of signed, of the senior editorial staff. fines. When wi Pat* A^IW>Q 1 IXJL CXVJl 1\JX11 Idi this society, are unhealthy and decide whetht ly in a variety of or not to have a mid-ten dilemmas in the abortion. legislatures, and But while this was going c rooms. in a courtroom in New Yor ainfully obvious in state, another group of doctoi ntroversial issue of in a California hospital ai >n. Recently, the nounced that they had ai Court of Appeals parently saved the tiny life < doctor must advise Muntaha Ibrahim. Muntah she is facing the had been born a month ag Ic ^ of bearing an weighing only one pound eigl ma, or ne may be ounces ? the size of a for paying the average six-month fetus. ts of special care. These two stories show g means that, for near-collision of our scientifi ay doctor who is knowhow ? between th as (and if you find ability to detect Down's syr isn't I'll save the drome and abort a midterr must now advise fetus and the ability to save over 35 or 40 of the 24-ounce baby. Rather tha of Down's syn- resolving old problems, ou doctor must surely nex skills bring up a host c mend a test called new problems. And once aeaii ?0 is which is given physicians carry the burden o 5nd trimester to solving them. lefect. Since the 1973 Supreme Cour ly then the patient abortion ruling, the two mos if the fetus is famous abortion trials hav ght on red is fine ~Y~~\ * 111 uth Carolina, but more it seems that taking advantage 1 111 ithout considering O /"i /"kO / / t /ay of pedestrians. O/t/U (JjuKAj L such as USC, with strians, the law _ I ides a hazard. T 01 /VIO ft law continue to be ^ I V V C USC, it probably * /m1?^ ^ef?re ,a USC, however, represents s killed trying to one situation to which the lav on his or her way should not apply. By the nature us happens, it will 0f ciass schedules, students arc ssary way to learn blindly rushing about campus lesson: some laws jn dr0Ves throughout the apply to some daylight hours. Many times the , . . A1_ A students do not exercise loubt, the turn- ? ...?? . , j ouuugu caunuu WlltJIl crossing law has made streets. Coupled with a "lack ol congested city caution by drivers, this could easier, and when prove to be deadly. i due caution, the Therefore, we ask thai ed to be very safe, university officials, student :ing battalion tak< atire by Tom Travis "Quiet in the lot breaking the headligl an tank rolled down Green St. Far away and out i meter maid pushed the buttons. student scrapes the 1 arms extended from each side of bottom of a Lucks c )asting parking tickets on the campfire, his thought of helpless, meter-struck USC student. "Yeah, 1 I bought a car." He remembers how another $5.00 fine," laughs the up like leaves in the sr, as he watches the scene by back seat and floorbo il?? n uie i-enuieion sireet command" unpaid fines went u ke another profitable semester." declined. across campus, in a faculty He had escaped th a frightened Toyota is being code, or so he though i air by the Immaculate Towing register for anothe m," grins the arresting officer, statement had looked Product, and the mor the little car, weeping Pennzoil, fines was double the < mid ancient, junked Buicks and The poor lad had to q tention cage behind the Campus financial life, a fugitiv "It's so unfair, he whispers to had bought a moped i him. My poor owner can't claim parking detective trai the money he owes in parking barely escaped in C 11 all this madness end?" strafed his van. Now h childrei ;r seen physicians ? Kenn< m Edelin in Boston and Willis Waddill in California ? on tr >n for homicide. "k In Akrnn Ohin lnct voar \ - wy vra?*vj 1MUV J VMi J I *s city council adopted a sev< i- anti-abortion ordinam ;>- Among other things, th )f ordered doctors to lecti a women seeking abortions [o about the stages of fei it development. They requir n that two doctors be present 1 late-term abortions and ta a extraordinary efforts to sa c the "viable unborn child." e Now if you lump all of the i i- aoctor-iaws together t a possibility exists that the sai a doctor could be responsible 1 n (1) telling a woman that s r might have an abnormal birt if (2) informing the woman of t n entire fetal development; ( if overseeing an amniocentesi (4) performing an abortio t (5) saving the abnormal fetu t or (6) for a homicide case, e This scenario is deliberate ;t rt on cud )e illegal >ersity j government and sta j government initia ? procedures which would ma ; right turns on red illegal with ; the boundaries of USC. W * T _ * 1 # " " ~ > we ininK tnis would ma ; life a bit easier for all arou ? campus. First, pedestria ; would know when they cross \ an intersection whether or r 1 an on-comirig car was like to splatter their entrails j over the road or not. Second, drivers would fe 9S cars 'pris !" shouts the turnkey, sleeping it of a sleeping Edsel. scenitiei of state, a poor former "Yeal last cold bean from the car," ht an. As he gazes at the bag on I s return to his days as a His dr i was doing all right until totals a chained the parking tickets piled abreast, fall until they filled his speed, ards. He recalls how the He aw p as his bank account on the s pay, I'll e wrath of the parking late, t, until he attempted to r semester. His fee Means like the Gross National post on ley he owed in parking being ph cost of his tniHrm J-" aiai-uriv uit school and run for his course, ; e from parking fines. He "Seem n Salkahatchie, but the said, sp< ced him down. He had telephon toeraw, when the jets Presiden e was travelling on foot, paid." i unfair eth far-fetched. Only a small am minority of abortions are ial performed after the first trimester or because of birth the defects. It is impossible to save sre a 12-week fetus which weighs :e. half an ounce. At least it is ey impossible right now. ire But I think we can get a hint all of the conflicts. Only the Righttal To-Life believers enjoy the ed luxury of moral absolutism, for The rest of us, whether we kc support the Supreme Court ive decision or back the narrower options of the recent federal ;se compromises, are relativists, he We try to find our way through ne the ethical thicket, issue by for issue, case by case, tracing the he path of lesser evils until we h; make a judgment call, he But it seems to me 3) unreasonable, and unfair, that is; doctors should find themselves n; now on the hot seat in this gap, is; taking the rap for our own uncertainties. ily (c) 1979, The Boston Globe more secure knowing that when they eventually do turn, they will not unwittingly kill someone. The traffic situation at USC has been much maligned over the past several years. Students claim heavy traffic on Green Street endangered their lives and made them late to class. The university and the ite city of Columbia solved this t e problem by closing the street ke during peak traffic times. lin We hope the same concern ke will be demonstrated again. By nd abolishing turn-right on red ns within the confines of campus, at the safety of all who must use lot those streets will be enhanrpH ;ly all We hope that someone does not have to give his or her life jel to prove the point. soner of war' ; in parking garaees anrf hnu/lino nh. s at every parking meter he passed, i, 1 was doing all right until I bought a ? mused, as he lay back in the sleeping the cold ground. earns were filled with, what else, ticket nd tow trucks. He dreamed he was to a wall, with a unit of Cushmans, 10 bearing down upon him at breakneck oke with a shout, and his eyes focused tpproaching death force. "I give! I'll pay!" he screamed. But, it was too vhile, back at the parking command Pendleton Street, a new offensive was mned. Lasers from the newly acquired fen battle cruiser, made by Cushman of zeroed in on the Horseshoe, s we have a problem," the fuehrer ?aking by army surplus intergalactic e to the next victim. "You see, Mr. it, it's about a parking fine you haven't