House rejects plan for The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, September 28, 1977-Page 7 federal-funded abortions WASHINGTON (AP)-The House rejected yesterday a proposal to use federal funds for abortions in cases of rape, incest or medical necessity, clearing the way for a compromise with the Senate on abortion and passage of a $60.2 billion social legislation bill. By a vote of 252 to 164, House mem- bers rejected a resolution that would have endorsed the abortion language already agreed to by the Senate. THE LOPSIDED defeat was far short of the two-thirds majority needed for the House to adopt the Senate's more liberal approach to abortion funding. The House position is that federall money should be spent on abortions only when a woman's life is jeopar- dized by a full-termpregnancy. House and Senate conferees are now expected to resume efforts to reach a compromise on the volatile issue. SENATE CONFEREES had deman- ded the vote by the House and walked !out of a, conference after House mem- bers refused to agree to one. The senators maintained that their cham- ber had twice rejected the House position on abortion. House Speaker Thomas O'Neill had, predicted that the House would not ac- cept the Senate's language, but he also said that Senate leaders were confident that even if the language were defeated, the abortion question could be resolved within 48 hours. The dispute by the House and Senate conferees was delaying passsage of an appropriations bill for the departments of Labor and Health, Education and Welfare (HEW). Current funding for those agencies runs out on Friday. THE DEFEATED resolution would have instructed House conferees to abandonstheir proposal and agree with the Senate, paving the way for a regular House vote on the Senate rlanguage. The National Abortion Rights Action League denounced the House vote, saying those who opposed the resolution were endangering all Labor-HEW fun- ds. "The House of Representatives has taken an iresponsible, callous and ut- terly arrogant action today by refusing to concur with the Senate language on Medicaid funding for abortion," said legislative director Carol Werner. THIS VOTE will be used as a measure of House sentiment when the conferees meet again to seek a com- promise. They may hold another session as early as today. One Senate staff person said the conferees were anxious to resume their talks. O'Neill scheduled the vote on the Senate language over the vehement op- position of Rep. Daniel Flood (D-Pa.), chairman of the Labor-HEW ap- propriations subcommittee and a staunch foe of abortion. Rep. Louis Stokes (D-Ohio) said he was offering the resolution after most other House conferees "wouldn't touch it with a 10-foot pole." THE SENATE conferees walked out of the last session with their House counterpartssafter the House mem- bers declined to ask their chamber to vote on the Senate language. The senators refused to meet with the House members again unless there was a vote. The government paid for 300,000 abortions last year at a cost of $50 million. About one-third of the abor- tions were for teenagers. Most were paid for under Medicaid, the health care program for the needy that is ad- ministered by the states but largely funded by the federal government. The government had been paying for elective abortions for poor women. But in June the Supreme Court ruled that public funds need not be used to finance abortions, and on Aug. 4 HEW stopped paying for abortions except when a woman's life was endangered. "I THINK IT is depolorable that the most important piece of social legislation passed by the House has MSA to 'U': Cut S. Africa ties By PAULINE TOOLE The Michigan Student Assembly (MSA) last night called on the University to divest itself of all investments in companies which operate in apartheid South Africa. These investments currently total $40 million. MEMBERS ALSO passed a resolu- tion deploring the death of South African black leader Steve Biko who died while being held in police custody there. A telegram stating the MSA posi- tion will be sent to South African Prime Minister John Vorster. A letter urging the abrogation of fiscal Brinkerhoff promises campus discussion of S. African holdings (Continued from Page 1) regime, discriminate against blacks and deny them the right to vote. ADOPTED AS policy by 12 'American firms in South Africa and reviewed by the United States Department of State, the guidelines for doing business in South Africa specify the following: " nonesegregated eating, rest and work facilities; " equal employment practices for all employes; " equal pay for equal work; * training programs to prepare. blacks and other nonwhites for super- visory, administrative, clerical and technical jobs; * increasing the number of blacks and nonwhites in management and supervisory jobs; " improving the quality of life for workers by upgrading housing, tran- sportation, school and health facilities. But audience members questioned whether South Africa's acceptance of the guidelines should influence any University decision to divest its stock portfolio. "IS THE SLIGHT liberation of a regime committed to white supremacy, any worth?" asked Frank Bevacqua, a Literary College senior who attended the luicheon jointly held by the Ecumenical Campus Center and the In- ternational Center. Terming the guidelines a "nice list of wonderful-looking suggestions," Len Suransky called upon the University to obtain the black South African opinion. Instead of relying solely on the opinions of religious, corporate and governmen- tal leaders, the School of Education graduate student said the University needs communication from "the people at the (South African) factory who know damn well what is being done." "AN EXCELLENT suggestion," commented Brinkerhoff, who had opened his presentation by telling the audience, "I'm here essentially to learn, not to teach." In closing, Brinkerhoff noted that comments and questions raised by the audience would receive serious ap- praisal by the Committee on Com- munications. Composed of faculty, students and administrators, the com- mittee will coordinate campus discussion on the South African issue. EARLIER IN THE day the Southern African Liberation Committee (SALC), in a proposed release to the Daily, asked for a three-day forum in October "depicting in ,an educational manner the atrocities being committed in Southern Africa and the relationship of the University to them." With plans for films, lectures and speakers, including Thami Mhlambiso, African National Congress represen- tative to the United Nations, SALC con- tended that a teach-in sponsored by the Regents or administration would relfect the University's vested interest in maintaining investment and resear- ch ties with South Africa. While Brinkerhoff noted in his lun- cheon talk that any discussion on the issue would "synthesize" different religious, corporate and governmental opinions, SALC's proposal would not allow "an apologist for the Southern African regimes" to speak at the event. . . No Nazi would have been tolerated at a meeting on the treatment of Jews in Germany in the '30's and '40's," SALC's statement declared. SALC wants the University to sever all financial ties with South Africa. ties with South Africa will also be sent to University President Robben Fleming. MSA also voted to investigate the possible inclusion of MSA money in the investment portfolio. This refers to monies which are deposited in a University investment a c c o u n t Member John Gibson said: "We can refuse to make money from apar- theid." IN OTHER ACTION, the Assembly voted to recommend that a lawsuit which demanded accounting for the possible misuse of funds in 1972-73 be dismissed. Paul Tykes, legal repre- sentative for MSA, explained that the outstanding claims had been reason- ably explained by the defendants. Originally, MSA demanded an accounting for $41,000 which had been missing from the student gov- ernment treasury. In 1976, all but $9,000 was accounted for. Yester-, day's report included an explanation of the use of that sum. The suit was against two past Student Government Council (SGC) members. SGC has since been dis- banded and replaced by MSA. An ad- ditional $16,000 is still outstanding, and is alleged to have been misused by Lee Gill, a past SGC president. If he is ever located, MSA will demand an accounting of that money. It all adds Birth defects are forever. Unless you help. TO PROTECT THE UNBORN AND THE NEWBORN March of Dimes THIS SPACE CONT RIB(ITE BY THE PUBLISHER been tied up in a conference for three months because of this amendment," Stokes said. He said the dispute had placed the House in an embarrassing position. "The Senate language is not my language. My preference is no language" on abortion in the bill, he said. "But in the sense of compromise, I offer you the Senate language." STOKES SAID that by attempting to restrict federal funding for abortions, both the House and Senate were "playing'doctor, an area in which most of us have no training." Rep. Robert Bauman (R-Md.) urged that the resolution be defeated. "Stand fast," he admonished his colleagues. "This is the most fun- damental issue today facing the coun- try. '"THERE CAN be no compromise on the issue of life and death. The Senate language is so broad that it is, without question, abortion on demand," Bauman said. Rep. Silvio Conto (R-Mass.) who proposed the House language, agreed with Bauman. "Indications are if the medically necessary language is allowed to stand, elective abortions will be performed in the guise of mental health," he said. BUT REPS. Patricia Schroeder (D- Colo.) and Yvonne Burke (D-Calif.) cited high pregnancy rates among teenagers as a reason why the Senate's language on abortion should prevail. 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