Page 4 - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, May 12, 1983
State to get 3 new
'test tube baby' clinics
By DAN GRANTHAM
Withwire reports
Three Michigan hospitals will soon of-
fer help to infertile couples through a
new method that allows doctors to fer-
tilize a human egg outside the womb.
Contrary to earlier reports in local
newspapers, The University Women's
Hospital will not be one of the facilities
offering the "in vitro" or "test tube
baby" program, according to William
Borton, associate director of the
Women's Hospital.
"IN VITRO" fertilization involves
removing an egg from a woman's
ovary, fertilizing it in the lahoratory,
and replanting the resulting embryo
back in the womb.
The procedure does not require
surgery, and patienta do not have to
check into a hospital. Patients have a 20
to 25 percent chance of becoming
pregnant.
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The new programs will begin June 1
at Beaumont hospital in Royal Oak, and
at Hutzel Hospital in Detroit. The third
hospital, Blodgett Memorial Hospital in
Grand Rapids, will begin its program
July 1.
BARTON SAID that although the
Women's Hospital has no concrete
plans to begin a test tube baby
program, the University has been con-
sidering such a move.
"It's a valid technique, and one that
we might pursue, but we have not made
the decision to pursue the program,"
Borton said.
But he added that the University may
join the other Michigan hospitals with
in vitro programs in the future. "It's
likely that within the next year we will
he in the arena," he said.
Presently, there are only seven
health care facilities with in vitro
programs in the nation.
gets grant
for Labadie Collection
The University Library has been will be produced and made available to
awarded $88,000 by the National En- researchers throughout the U.S.
dowment for the Humanities (NEH) to The University Bentley Historical
create a computer catalog for its Library will share the NEH award.
Labadie Collection of radical literature.
The collection, acquired in 1911, ,
was labeled by University President
Harold Shapiro as a collection which is
now internationally recognized "as one
of the richest of its kind."
EARLY LABOR movement n
materials are included in the collection,
as well as the publications of numerous Libraryflasher
minority political and social reform y
organizations, and one of the most ex- A man in his late 20s exposed himself to
tensive collections of anarchist a female student in the stacks of the
literature in the United States. Graduate Library last Monday after-
The new computer will help Univer- noon, Ann Arbor Police said. The
sity Library staff organize and catalog woman called police after leaving the
over 8,000 serials and 20,000 pamphlets area, but they were unable to find the
in the collection. A printed catalog also suspect. -Halle Czechowski
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Mansour quits religious order
LANSING, Mich.-Declaring that "in my heart, I'm still a nun," Agnes
Mansour announced yesterday she has quit her religious order so she can
continue "serving the poor" as Michigan's welfare director.
Mansour, as a member of the Sisters of Mercy, had been under fire from
the Roman Catholic church because the Department of Social Services
which she heads pays for poor women's abortions through the Medicaid
program.
The 52-year-old nun was told Monday by a representative of Pope John
Paul II that she would be dismissed from the order unless she resigned.
"To be faithful to the Sisters of Mercy, my vows, my church and even God,
I must first of all be faithful to myself, and further, I must be free to be faith-
ful," Mansour said at a news conference announcing her decision.
"My future is in serving the poor and those who are oppressed," she said,
adding that she felt no bitterness toward the church for forcing her to make
the decision.
Mansour said she would continue to donate her $58,400 annual salary to the
order.
"I'm no longer a nun, she said. 'In my heart I m still a nun.
EPA may clean up superfund
WASHINGTON-The Environment Protection Agency, conceding its $1.6
billion "superfund" program was not effectively managed, recommended
major policy changes yesterday to speed emergency cleanup and end
bureaucratic wrangling.
The agency, in an internal study, found that a section of the superfund law
that provides for emergency cleanup of imminent hazards to human health
had been "drastically underutilized." It also said cleanups were delayed
because of infighting and a lack of trust in regional officials.
The report estimated that as many as half the 419 dumps listed as the wor-
st in the country could qualify for these emergency removals if EPA would
only commit funds.
The internal review, based on interviews with 60 EPA employees, echoed
criticisms of the troubled program which members of Congress and en-
vironmentalists have made for months.
The report supports charges that EPA managers operated the program
with a policy of saving the fund's money rather than acting quickly to clean
waste sites and that bickering among agency officials stymied action on
some dumps.
Catholics protest art exhibit
CHICAGO-People shocked by a "blatantly anti-Catholic" art exhibit at
the University of Illinois say the Virgin Mary and a toilet seat don't belong in
the same painting, especially one displayed in a tax-supported institution.
But University of Illinois officials yesterday defended the artist's right to
free expression under the First Amendment.
Skeleton-faced priests beheading people; Jesus as a pig banging on a
cross; the pope as a devil-these are also among the images in paintings by
Chicago artist Douglas Van Dyke on display at the university's Chicago
Gallery.
One of the pieces shows an image of the Virgin Mary emblazoned on the lid
of a toilet seat.
"Some of it's kind of interesting, but it's the theme that upsets us," Joseph
Scheidler, a Roman Catholic and the director of the Pro-Life Action League,
said yesterday. "It's very blatantly anti-Catholic. Remember this is a tax-
supported institution, so my money is paying for them to malign my chur-
ch."
Officials say Kalamazoo police
won't ignore anti-gay protest
KALAMAZOO-City officials, moving to squelch rumors that police will
ignore an anti-gay protest Saturday, this week issued a warning that any
violence will be met with prompt law enforcement action.
City Manager Robert Bobb said he did not plan to call out additional police
on overtime duty to guard the rally in Bronson Park but vowed that anyone
causing trouble will be arrested.
The rally is planned by the Rev. Edward Varner, a Three Rivers minister,
to protest the presence of books on homosexuality in the Kalamazoo Public
Library. Members of a neo-Nazi group and a self-described Ku Klux Klan
leader, one of Varner's proteges, are expected to participate in the rally.
The City Commission and the local chapter of the NAACP this week also
came out in support of the "Freedom Fair," an alternate rally planned at
Milham Park Saturday for those who do not support Varner or his cause.
White House refuses tax hike
WASHINGTON-The White House ruled out changes in President
Reagan's tax cut program yesterday as "totally the wrong thing to do," and
declared that Reagan would rather have no budget at all than one calling for
major tax increases.
With the Senate moving uncertainly toward a showdown between two rival
budgets-one of which threatens to reduce this year's 10 percent tax
cut-White House spokesman Larry Speakes drew the line.
"Any tampering with the tax cut-with the third year-any tax increase is
just for him totally the wrong thing to do," Speakes said of the president.
Asked directly whether Reagan would rather have no budget or one that
calls for major tax increases, Speakes replied, "No budget resolution."
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