V/ V The Michigan Dailv-Sunday, March 30, 1980-Page 3 QUESTIONS GOVT ABORTION FUNDING Panel exc By JULIE BROWN "Mrs. Jones," a welfar recipient with four chil- dren, is seeking an abortion. She hadn't used available birth 'control methods, and claims she is ra ble to take care of another child. Does society ave an obligation to pay for elective abortions such as this one? This was one hypothetical situation presented to approximately 140 participants at the fifth Conference on Ethics, Humanism, and Medicine (CEHM), held yesterday at the University's School of:Public Health. According to conference director Marc Basson, a fifthlyear Inteflex (Integrated Premedical-Medical Program) student, CEJiM provides a unique opportunity to examine ethical lues, MEDICAL EDUCATION at the University does include instruction in ethics, but not of the same sort asEHM, Basson said. You, really can't teach bioethics, or any ethics," hesaid. "You can only learn it." s "There was, and still is, a part of the Medical , School program associated with ethics," he said. U.S. budgetp1 amines medical ethics "There is also a segment associated with Inteflex. It was being done, but the case-oriented approach provided a different experience." PARTICIPANTS IN yesterday's conference- students, faculty, and professionals-examined several aspects of 'medical ethics. In addition to government funding of elective abortions, refusal to perform sterilization, cost effectiveness and patient welfare, and suicide were discussed in formal presentations and in small discussion groups. George Sher, professor of philosophy at the University of Vermont, discussed several aspects of government funding of elective abortions. "On strictly utilitarian grounds, there is a good argument for providing government funding for elective abortions," he said. Sher divided his arguments for funding abortions into three categories-an appeal for consistency, an appeal to rights, and an appeal to utilities or societal benefits. Sher also presented several arguments against funding elective abortions, including the moral. status of abortion itself. ANN GOLDBLATT, an attorney and faculty member at the University of Chicago, presented a somewhat different view. According to Goldblatt, the issue revolves around two questions of definition: who is to be covered by government funding of elective abortions, and what is elective, as opposed to therapeutic;abortion. "Government funding would reinforce the tendency to see pregnancy as a disease" with abortion as the cure, Goldblatt said. Abortion cannot be classified as typical medical treatment she said, because pregnancy is preventable and patient- diagnosed, and because abortion is not usually done by the woman's physician. The conference, sponsored by the Committee on Ethics, Humanism, and Medicine, was first held in the spring of 1978, Basson said. Inteflex students were the primary organizers of and participants in the first conference, but participation has since grown to include a wider variety of people, he said. "The typical audience has been changing from conference to conference," he said. "We've got a fairly broad representation now." ans crea WASHINGTON (AP) - The realities 'an election year are intruding on the da drive to balance the 1981 budget, with Pr both Democrats and Republicans a% scrambling to turn spending cuts into sa political gains. da -The outcome of that maneuvering could have a major impact on the wa d general election in November when mi voters will pick a president, 34 senators ce and all 435 congressmen. ts THE DEMOCRATS would like to dr 1lfim they balanced the budget, thus bu. Wceopting a longtime GOP position. C However, cutting too deeply into cer-, un tain programs could lead some groups cut of'voters to retaliate at the polls. list _,... k Apparently recognizing the political nger of one proposed budget cut, esident Carter has already backed way from a House recommendation to ve $736 million by eliminating Satur- ay mail deliveries. That politically explosive suggestion as made by the House Budget Com- ittee while looking for ways to balan- the budget for fiscal'1981, which star- Oct. 1. However, the proposal has awn fire from both voters and sinesses. CARTER WAS scheduled to formally veil his long-awaited list of budget its Monday. However, a copy of the t distributed last week on Capitol Hill te political showed the president recommending only a '250 million cut in the postal ser- vice subsidy, an amount that would permit continued Saturday mail. The House Budget Committee has proposed a $611.8 billion 1981 budget that calls for the first federal surplus in 12 years. The package will be con- sidered on the House floor in mid-April. The partisan side of congressional budget-cutting also emerged last week as the Senate Budget Committee became bogged down in a lengthy bat- tle over the 1980 budget ceiling, which was exceeded last month by higher- than-expected spending. THE SENATE committee was expec- Politics and lights create unusual rall (Continued from Page 1) Coppola-whose other credits include Apocalypse Now, The Black Stallion, and The Godfather-is supporting Brown for president and is said to hve donated his own time. But estimates from some Barown campaign aides said the rally/light show could cost as much as $100 million. That would include the half hour television commerical time on three Wisconsin stations, the dozen of so cameras, the massive floodlights, and the array of Hollywood technicians who invaded; Madison four days before the show. In the speech, delivered as pictures of rocket ships and space scenes flashed on the screen behind him, Brown called for "a strategic plan to industrialize" using the resources of business, labor and government. He blamed the "guns and butter" government policies of the 1960s for causing the current inflation rate. conflicts ted to take up a proposed balanced budget for 1981 next week. Because the 1980 ceiling was breached, Congress is unable to approve any new spending proposals, a predicament that is blocking a wide variety of bills such as refugee aid, food stamps, and black lung disability. Committee chairman Sen. Edmund S. Muskie, (D-Maine), proposed lifting the $547.6 billion ceiling by $20 billion, but Republicans adopted a hard-line stance against any increases. They claimed that by rejecting higher 1980 spending, Congress could prevent the current year deficit from rising to $38 billion and thus help slow inflation. THE RIGID GOP position prompted Democrats on the panel to take an equally uncompromising attitude toward increases and led to a series of votes endorsing the original budget's spending levels. One committee source said the Republican strategy was to force the Democrats into favoring higher spen- ding and then use that as a campaign issue in the fall. Twenty-four of the 34 senators up for re-election this Novem- ber are Democrats. In the House, a different political pic- ture has emerged with the most severe split occurring between liberal and moderate Democrats. The Republican minority is expected to provide the votes needed to pass the budget. To exercise and refresh tired feet when standing for a long time, try rolling, the feet out, with toes straight ahead, and standing on the outer edges. LIKE To TRAVEL BUT DON'T HAVE $$ ? Join the FRIENDS INTERNATIONAL CO-OP to meet foreign students and learn about life in foreign countries. Great international cuisine! See our clasgified ad. -~ SUNDAY 4 FILMS Cinema Guild-Polish Film Series, Without Anesthesia, 7 p.m.; Master ~ of Ceremonies, 9:05 p.m., Old Arch. Aud. Cinema Two-Breathless, 7,9 p.m., Aud. A, Angell. CONFERENCES Residential College/East Quad-"Women, Men, and Sexual Politics," 10 a.m., East Quad. MEETINGS Gay discussiongroub p.m., 802 Monroe. Hiking Club-1:30 p.m., Rackham. 't 'Netherlands America'University League-Kess Snoek, poetry reading, 8 'p.m., International Center. PERFORMANCES Chancel Choir and Chamber Orchestra Society-"Missa Solemis," .4 p.m., First Presbyterian Church, 1432 Washtenaw. Ethnic Theatre Festival-"El Teatro de La Esperanza," 8 p.m., East Quad. Canterbuy Loft-"Homegrown-Women's Music Series," 7:30 p.m., 332 k S. State. Opera Theatre-"The Coronation of Poppea," 3 p.m., Power Center. MISCELLANEOUS School of Art-exhibition of -graduating seniors' work, third floor Rack- bam. Museum of Art-"American Photographs," Museum of Art. Crisler Arena-Michigan Antiques Show and Sale, 11 a.m., Main St. and :Stadium Blvd. Rec. Sports-Family Sunday Funday, "New Games Workshop," NCRB, - 3p.m. Hillel-Israeli dancing, 1 p.m., 1429 Hill. r MONDAY t FILMS AAFC-The Sun Shines Bright, 7 p.m., Cheyenne Autumn, 8:40, Aud. A, SAngell. Cinema Guild-Polish Film Series, Nightmare, 7 p.m., In the Still of the }'Night, 9:05 p.m., Old Arch. Aud. Arbor Alliance-The War Game, 2235 Angell, 7:30 p.m. Nat. Resources-Environmental Film Series, Mzima: Portrait of. a Spring, The Other Way, 7 p.m., Aud. B, Angell. LECTURES Ctr. for Near Eastern and N. African Stud.-Margaret Poot, "Archaeological Musings in Absentia: On Persian Kings, Persepolis, and Other Ancient Things," 12 p.m., Lane Hall Commons Rm.. Applied Mechanics-Alan Wineman, "On the Interaction of a Nonlinear Elastic Solid and an Ideal Fluid," 4 p.m., 219 W. Eng. Marcrmolecular Res. Ctr.-Y. Okamoto, "Aymmetric Polymerization " of Methacrylate," 4 p.m., 3005 Chem. St. Mary's Student Chapel-panel discussion by ex-offenders from state and federal prisons, "The Ex-Offender: Hopes and Struggles," 7 p.m., Gabriel Richard Ctr. Lounge. LSA Distinguished Senior Faculty Lecture-Gerald Else, "The }Iumanities That Were,"8 p.m., Rackham Amphitheatre. Biology-Dorothy Tombaughn-Science for Students with Visual and -Orthopedic Handicaps, 10 a.m.-noon or 2-4 p.m., 1139 Nat. Sci. Bldg. CONFERENCES PIRGIM-"Looking Back," a discussion of various views of war, 7:30 p.m., Conf. Rm. 5, Union. MEETINGS U-M Bike Club-7:30 p.m., 1084 E. Eng. CARD-Planning meeting, 7:30 p.m., First Unitarian Church, 1917 b Washtenaw. Comm. for the Citizens Party-7 p.m., Conf. Rm. 6, Union. Michigan Journal of Economics-4 p.m., Rm. 301, Econ Bldg. Consumer Action Ctr.-consumer education and information workshop, s 7v% All1 ni h. Tickets for President Shapiro' s inauguration and Concert A Monday, April 14, 1980 A limited number of general admission tickets to President Shapiro's Inaugural Ceremony and Inaugural Concert are available for students, faculty and staff who would like to attend. The Inauguration, will be held at 10:30 a.m. and the concert at 2:00 p.m. Both events will be held in Hill Audi- torium on Monday, April 14. Tickets will be available on a first-come, first-served basis upon presentation of an individual's identification card. Tic- kets will be limited to two per person and will be distributed from the Office of the Registrar, Room 1518, LSA Building, from 8:00 a.m. until 12:00 noon and from 1:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday beginning Monday, March 31. YUJ{JVETi SITY 5MUSICAL G8OCIET April Calendar Fezitivaal Chorum Wedn dAp12S30 ----udio um The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra performed superbly in their 1978 UMS appearance under the baton of their conductor, Serg iu Comissiona. Harold Schonberg has written in The New York Times that this is "a first class orchestra" and described Musical Director Comissiona as "one of the more impressive talents on the American orchestral scene. mu Adu um Just ten years ago Sherrill Milnes made his Metropolitan Opera debut, and since that time his fame has spread rapidly to every corner of the globe. Now recognized internationally as "The All-AmeriCan Superstar," Mr. Milnes has behind him a notable record of leading roles in the world's great opera houses. Amadeus Quartet, SundayAipri20,830 Rackh~am Un uiornn Due to the illness of one of its members the Quartetto Italiano, scheduled for April17 in Ann Arbor, has cancelled its entire spring tour. Replacing them on April 20 will be the Amadeus Quartet. T __!. i . t A A T! .: / A r LA The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Third Distinguished Senior Faculty Lecture Series Professor Emeritus Gerald Else in a threepart series, will discuss The Humanities, Past, Present, and Future I 1 r t_ nt tnnn m7_ - rt_____ TL