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-Tuesday, November 29, 1977-The Michigan Daily
CLASHES WITH CARTER STAND:
Panel urges abortion as option
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WASHINGTON (AP) - A special
task force on teen-age pregnancy,
says the federal government should
spend more money caring for preg-
nant adolescents and their babies
thanain trying to prevent the pregnan-
cies.
The panel set up by the secretary of
health, education and welfare also
said pregnant teen-agers should be
free to choose abortions as an alter-
native to childbirth. Both President
Carter and HEW Secretary Joseph
Califano are personally opposed to
abortion.
A COPY OF the task force report
was obtained by the Associated Press
from sources who asked not to be
identified.
The recommendation that more
emphasis be put on cure than on pre-
vention comes despite the fact that
the best available statistics, pub-
lished by the Alan Guttmacher
Institute in New York, show that
two-thirds of the one million teen-age
girls who become pregnant each year
don't intend to become pregnant.
Those figures also indicate that
300,000 of these girls terminate their
pregnancies by abortion.
The HEW task force, which was
headed by Deputy Assistant Secre-
tary Peter Schuck, recommended
that the Carter administration spend
an additional $147 million to $251
$1.9
million next year to deal with the
problems of the nation's 11 million
sexually active teen-agers.
A TOTAL OF $62 million would be
spent to expand family and contra-
ceptive services for adolescents un-
der the proposals the task force
included in its $147 million option,
and an additional $15 million would
be spent if a more expensive option
were adopted.
The rest of the money would go to
expand Medicaid eligibility to low-
income pregnant women, to extend
welfare benefits to unborn children in
states that don't already offer them,
and for educational programs to keep
pregnant adolescents and teen-age
parents in school and a variety of
research projects.,
If Califano should decide to spend
up to the quarter-billion dollar figure,
the task force said, he should add ex-
panded day care services or a new
youth and family services program
that would have the flexibility to deal
with a wide range of human needs.
"While the options do not address
the provision,- of abortion per se,"
Schuck's report continued, "the task
force considers abortion information,
counseling, services and research
essential to reduce the number of
high-risk adolescent births, particu-
larly for younger adolescents."
At present, HEW is prohibited by
law from financing Medicaid abor-
tions for poor women unless their
lives are threatened by continued
pregnancy. The House and Senate
have been deadlocked for months in a
disput over whether to extend the
restrictions another year or to ease
them.
"Even if federal funding is not
available for pregnancy termina-
tion," the task force said, "we
recommend that health and service
providers make available abortion
information and counseling and,
where appropriate, referrals to and
from abortion services, to permit the
adolescent a full range of choice and
to assist those who do choose to
terminate their pregnancy to receive
adequate and safe abortion serv-
ices."
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deficit
worst
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WASHINGTON (AP) - A dock
strike made October the nation's
wdrst trade month on record, as the
nation bought $3.1 billion more in
goods than it sold abroad, the
Commerce Department said yester-
day.
The trade deficit surpassed the old
record of $2.8 billion set last June. At
the current rate, the deficit for the
year would be $27 billion, nearly
three times the $9.2 billion defieitlast
year.
A TRADE DEFICIT can interfere
with production and employment at
home, but the administration says
most of this year's imbalance is
caused by imports of Middle East oil.
Government economists said the
October deficit and the September
deficit of $1.7 billion were distorted"
by the East Coast and Gulf Coast
dock strike, which began Oct. 1.
"Exports rose sharply in Septem-
ber as shipments were moved for-
ward in anticipation of the strike,"
said Courtenay Slater, Commerce
Department economist.
LONGSHOREMEN are scheduled
to vote today on a contract to end the
two-month containerized shipping
strike.
Slater said this year's deficit
reflects heavy U.S. dependence on
imported oil and relatively weak
foreign demand for U.S. exports.
The administration says other
countries are unable to buy U.S.
products because they are recover-
ing more slowly from the worldwide
recession.
"THE IMBALANCES in the world
economy continue to be a cause of
concern," Slater said, "but the
unusually, large trade deficit in
October stems from temporary fac-
tors rather than a worsening of the
underlying situation."
Exports for the month were $9.2
billion, a 15.8 per cent decline from
September, and the smallest amount
since the $9 billion in March 1976.
Imports were down 2.7 per cent, to
$12.3 billion.
Every category of exports declined
except soybeans and aircraft and
spacecraft. Wheat, beverages and
tobacco showed the biggest declines.
The largest declines in imports
were in iron and steel and beverages
and tobacco. Oil imports declined
from $3.7 billion in September, to $3.6
billion.
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