I,
8J CyD TardliD over, fl she said. .
CtlpiUU News Sevice Barbara Listing. chair of the
Lansi - Advertisements Committee to End Tax-Funded
telling voters they will ave I Abortions, said she does not ac­
money by not paying for tax- cept Steinem's reasoning. .
funded abortions are misleading "I think it is unfortunate that
femini t Gloria Steinem id, anyone would equate life in dol­
but apro-life leader said the ads lars and cents, fl she said.
are correct. Though pro-life supporters
Steinem, who was in Lansing would say that a life· taken with
recently campagning for a an abortion, Steinem argues that
defeat of Proposal A which a woman's life is also a human
would end tax-funded abortions life.
in Michigan, said the Commit- "1 would go to all the same
tee to End Taz-Funded Abor- lengths that I am now doing to
tions is wrong in saying tax- keep woman who did not want
payers will lose money if the to have an abortion from being
Proposal is defeated. pressured to have an abortion,"
I "There are great injustices she said. "That must not happen COIIIlDlileld II"
embedded in Proposal A," she either, what we're talking about available homes in sati factory
id. "But there is also some- is choice," . condition.
thing in the media campaign in Orton ays Detroit HUD is
this state that I find very distress- . 'FREEDOM IS ISSUE' obligated to execute the desig-
ing, and that is a serious mis- Steinem said this is a case nated programs. If properties
representation," where allowing freedom would meet the standards, officers are
• cost less than denying it. expected to work with any inter-
CLASS VIEWS HIT "If we want to vote for those ested organization in processing
"The Yuppie-like group of two great American values of a lease. In turn, that organiza­
people who are represented in freedom and frugality we have to tion sub-leases the property to
the anti-abortion ad, are dis- vote "no' on Proposal A," she homeless individuals.
cussing the funding issue and said. . He says while field offices I
�cussing their tax dollars in a. ' Listing said the 36 states that have not been specifically told .. #
way that implies that to pay for have ended tax funded abor- that they must produce a certain
the choice of abortion for poor tions have not shown large in- amount of one-doUar leases an­
women o�ld cost them creases in welfare payments, nuaUy, they are told that when
money," she said. "In factthe op- Listing said. an organization shows interest
posite is clearly, clearly the "Also in those states there in leasing property(s) they are
case." . . have been no attempts to over- required to 'make these arrange-
While an abortion, ould �t tum the ruling" she said. ments. I
about $300, the cost of birth Listing said allowing tax- Orton says the properties are
and prenatal care could be at _ funded abortions.is like putting rented in an as-is condition and
least 10 times that much, Seinem a stamp of "Free abortion, HUD does not provide the
said. Hundreds times that much, means more abortion," she said. rehabilitation expenses, nor arc
maybe thousands times that "People take advantage of it." 0 anizations representing the
much before the expens was Listing said a survey done by homeless allowed to rehab the
homes since it is soley a rental
, program.
He says the limitation to this
program 'is finding available
homes in fair condition. The
homes leased under this
program are not for sale to the
renters as part of the contract.
Charge abortion ads
I
State extends · yo
road ere
wo
I·
8y Li a ditional eight weeks are going to
Capital News Service make a difference both before
Lansing ..:.. They may not be and after the melts.
be to keep all the roads clean "We need to stay on top of the
aU the time, but thanks to a wor litter problem and keep rolling
extension by the' st te, youth with it" Patrick said "Just im­
crews will keep Detroit area . agine the build-up along the
freeways cleaner· longer this ro ds if we didn't pick anything
year. up from now until March.'
Macomb, Oakland, Wayne The youth aews usually do
and SL Cia' counties are tar- routine daily clean-ups but also
geted ar for six 10-member respond to pecial assignment
litter pick-Up teams �o will calls made by community mem-
r from Oct. 10- Dec.2. In the bers.
past, the ere ' work period was Patrie said that the areas
March-October. that are usually pretty clean,
With October mar ing the such as 1-696 from 1-75 to 1-94,
change of the state fiscal year it are almost entirely cleaned by
seemed logical to end the stale- special �ment calls. .
funded program at the same There are signs posted along
tim, id David Johns, assistant the highways with numbers to
maintenance director for the -call to report litter problems.
Michig n Department of The state Curded number' 22-
Transportation. The decision to GETEM.
push the endiDg date to Dec. 2 The youth crew members are
came about partly to elp the 18 to 21 years old and earn S4
current anti-litter campaign, per hour. They are responsible
Johns dded for having picked up more that
. A former ere rkef and 52,000 large bags of tr since
current program director, the work period began in late
Karen Patrick, said that the ad- March.
the Department of Social Ser­
vices has shown that women who
have a Medicaid funded abor­
tion may have more that one in a
year and OUlybe using abortion
as a form of birth control.
"In a one year period 10 per­
cent of the women (on
medicaid) will have a second
and third abortion," she said.
HUD:Agency
'must provide
homes
1
h
'LEASE AND 8 OPTION
Orton mentioned another
program called Lease-With­
Option- To-Purchase. This
program falls under HUD's
Transitional Housing category
where an organization receives a
grant to fund housing and even­
tually results in several pur­
chases.
. Orton says a third program,
referred to by Haehl, involves
direct sale to an organization or
local government. Under this
program, after the sale is made
the organization may do
whatever it chooses with the
property.
Orton says 0 field office
participation in any of these
programs is not optional but
mandatory. He says the officers
have been told to make the
programs available to any and
all qualified grohps interested.
He says the concern of van­
dalism is not a valid reason for
denying a targeted HUD area of
anyone of the designated
programs.
hools re
d gpeve\
- i g pr�vent�on or treatment ser-
Capi: I News Service vices., Eaton said. About 25 per-
Lansing - Combating the cent 0 the office's budget goes
drug roblem wiU require ex- towa d local prev ntion
panded prevention programs in progr�, he said.
the 1 callschool systems, the Ea��n said he hopes the
stale cti director of the Of- funds for. prevention will in­
fice 0 Substance Abuse said. . crease adding that he' con-
"I on't know if we can ever cern [I about treatment
do en ugh in prevention," said progr taking priority as the
Ken aton, wbo took office drug buse problem 'spreads
Sept. . into r ral programs taking
M re than half the schools ,priori y as the drug abuse
in Mi higan have implemented probl m spreads into rural
the ichigan Model School 'areas.
Healt Curriculum, a preven­
tion p ogram program at K-12
stude ts.
. Ru h Moxon, a prevention
offic r at the Kent' County
Heal h Department, -said
progr in the local scbool dis­
trict re coordinated through
Gran Rapids, including the
MicN an Model.
Se ral school districts in
Mic . an also run student assis­
tance rograms to belp those. in
troubl with alcohol and drugs.
WORKS
Ea on said prevention
progr focusing on one type
of dr g abust with school
childr n can influence them
agains other substances. Treat
ment ust be coupled with.
preven ion programs, he said.
"On th other hand, we can't af­
ford to e all our energy for that
purpo and not pay attention to
preventi that plight for future
genera' ons."
A,II cating funds i a
·pe�l· job, when trying to
make c oicec between support-
MIa ..... (JtIwe I 3
ine in
ion
ON
{FUND £OMPETITIO
Sti� the pressure rests on the
region I offices to run treatment
and pr vention programs. But
these 0 Ice also most compete
for fed ral and state funds to run
progr , he said.
"Ev !yone ends up a little bit
short," T�ton said. "We're doing
our bes . We are always going to
face so e type of problem. I just
hope don't always face the
severity! of the problems we see
now in e large cities."
J lui Nischan, state chief of
. policy, rograms and evalution
adminis ration, said although
the tat distrubutes funds and
helps I al groups coordinate
progr s, it does not off�r state­
wide se ices. Michigan's sub­
stance a use prQgfams rely on
18 r�gional offices, crea i1"!! a
network of about 400,000 volun­
teers, N' bsao said.
Regi nal offices receive
federal and state funds b on
an all�ion formula th t takes
into accOunt problem severity,
number f people and nds of
progr he said.