European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 1, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes july 1977 George the supreme courts abortion decisions the soldering Issue of abortion was 09 abortion advocates jubilantly extinguished by the supreme courts ib7j three related Deci Sions have s hied the the court has that neither the Constitution nor Federal welfare Law re quires slates to pay or medically unnecessary Harry who wrote the tortured 1973 now is tutored by the majority concerning the meaning of what he disc nine in the three latest Blackmun says the court concedes the existence of a constitutional right but denies the realization and enjoyment of that Riith on the ground that existence and realization arc separate and what is remarkable is that such u reason Able distinction strikes Blackmun As re the majority says the 1973 decision pro train a woman Freedom to decide whether to terminate her pregnancy but Hal right implies no limitation on the he Iho Rily of a mate to make a value judgment Civ print childbirth Over and to implement hut judgment by Ine allocation of Public when the mayor of Ixia is directs Public hospitals not to perform elective of paranoid the knows smite of us would if polemical a relink were pro scribed hut hit awful liberties Inker in us name rip Senn the not in you Law i night i opened a Hook about the air Obleni is new Vrh oly heartily endorsed on itchy Murray Mir Vijil 1clcr Mach and enl not a birth is tantamount to an endorsement by in socialist  hut never mind these Are men after Reading six i shut this Iti Itury of paranoia and find Wapl not Over the depredations of new Vork Bankers find so much ill new Yorks the chapter i turned is Nix Nii was he one who was primarily responsible fur  new City Hurt is How the Twu authors Jack new Field and Paul Hull in the Abw of Nixon Early in 1973 now Nixon read Law Al Liun returns As a mandate to repeal Only the Nui Dusi social experiments of the great society years but he profound  of new dual As Liis first Pii Strelec Tion budget Van a blueprint for an enemies list that included the majority the american what is one to make of such inherent twaddle Why would Nimby be mad at the Cople who Soled fur him of this Nixon pro Ramsi would or done in the holy name of inflation and reigning in it runaway Federal the ital boo Boisie is supposed to swing Wilh a sentence like like a girls hearing the first howl from a the inflation rate by Nix ii in Early 73 had climbed la b per cent and the next j ear was 12 per since the Rise in real wages was Hill am inflation was at least As holy a cause As protecting the income of americas working and Why do we present runaway Federal budget As away Federal by dirt Thi quotation Marks suggest that the author mocks the pretension a of the word Ninon was Csc Rutht in when the Federal Bud Tiel was j179 the budget wits i an increase u Klier cent is reasonably termed just Plain skilfully Daivd around the fact dial 54 cents of Ever Dollar in the National Budgell would to for military it still Iliev the current Federal Buskel 22 columns comments per cent of the Cirss National product s per real of the tin fits in the Thill is 25 cents out of Ever Dollar which is less half of it the  ire of the same Lien a deceit timely Hhill hiking Eon Kressman from a jewish Middle class District in ii heart of Wax in the silting before him at the witness his hair so sleekly Brillman lined that it reflected Thi overhead was William erstwhile Wall Street Bond currently the Secre tary the and the barefaced head Start was one of the identifiable sue of the great it confirmed the longheld belief of educators that Chil Drens teaming capacities should been aged at a much earlier whats wrong with that statement is Hal head Start was nol an identifiable in coeds h was abandoned As a documented failure and educators do not As a class encourage earlier intellectual Danol often find work that so conv Bines the vehement with the the Lone of a grand Sermon with so precise and unanswerable a Bill of Murray Kempton on this it has not recently occurred to anyone that the great est abuse of Power in new York is by its he according to the making a constitutional policy Choice that is subject to Public debate and approval or disapproval Allyc when Connecticut refuses to subsidize elective abortions for poor women 11 imposes no restriction on Access to abortion dial was not already the int Mericy that May make it difficult and in some impossible for some women to have abortions is neither created nor in any Way affected by the Connecticut of Pennsylvania refusal to fund elec Tive abortions under its medicaid pro the court says nothing in the Federal statute suggest Hal participating slates Are required to fund every medi Cal procedure Hal Falls within the delineated categories of medical the stale has a valid and important interest in encouraging childbirth we will not presume thai Congress intended to condition a Stales participation in the medical program on its willingness Loun de Cut this important interest by subs dlr ing the Cost of  Justice William de fends lower courts judgment that when a stale refuses to fund elective abortions White funding therapeutic abortions and prenatal and postnatal in weighs the Choice of the pregnant Mother against choosing to exercise her constitutionally protected re Gelto an elective although Brennan does not think Abor Tion kills a he Calls a woman seek ing an abortion a even stranger is tils theory that it is unconstitutional for social policy to encourage the Choice of childbirth rather than the two other dissenters Are comparably Justice Thurgood Marshall denounces the ethical bankruptcy of persons who do not understand that under present social policies it is better to be aborted than to be born poor in America and suffer second rate schools and other Marshall supported the 1973 decision that imposed an enl remely Liberal abortion policy on the now he says Hal Stales which Slop Short of subsidizing elec Tive abortions arc trying to impose their moral choices on the rest of Blackmun asserts that refusal to subsidize unnecessary abortions punitive by impresses upon the poor a Community concepts of the socially Blackmun thinks in is socially desirable and constitutionally necessary to compel taxpayers to fund a form of killing that Many taxpayers consider the dissenters embrace some particularly repellent and revealing language from a 1975 court ruling abortion and when stripped of the sensitive moral arguments surrounding us abortion Are simply two alternative medical methods of dealing with pregnant abortion enthusiasts Are enraged be cause the decisions reject the idea Hal social policies must treat childbirth As merely a medical method in no Way preferable to three recent decisions Slop the pro abortion forces Short of their which is to use courts to coerce society into abandoning its moral sensitivity about unrestricted abortion on regarding policy choices As sensitive the funding of Eli live the court majority says the appropriate forum for their Resolution in a democracy it the Legisla Ture abortion enthusiasts Are depressed because they know what awaits them there Viper Fud in Inri Rott tilt Tiv a 01 Litt in m u until 11 lha m in Sun