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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;
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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)
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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
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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