European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 09, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes wednesday August 9, 1978 George  another summer re run embryo Transfer new step into the unknown Washington biology is taking Man kind into wild country that is full of threats to the increasingly tentative belief that All human life is of value and should be treated  Britain a remarkable obstetrical event has occurred. A woman has delivered a child conceived in a Laboratory dish  womb. The technique of embryo Transfer has been developed to assist women who have blockages in the tubes that normally carry . The technique is humanely intended to prevent frustration of one of life s profoundest and most worthy desires. But is also an other step into Terra incognito. Embryo Transfer is unlike artificial insemination because it involves unknown risks to the baby who is being made and thus must be rigorously considered in terms of comparability with the minimal principle  medical ethics "donoharm."-"---, development of embryo Transfer ques depends upon indeed constr experimentation upon the unborn of whom will in All probability be 1 and born As physical or mental Tome damage to embryos May be Cli scientists May use surplus " pm s As Laboratory specimens in tests to . For example what drugs and by dosages damage embryos. F thai would be ethical would it be Simi y ethical for a woman who has decided Lave an abortion to take a new drug haps something like thalidomide in Ler to allow scientists to study its effect nip die fetus thai is in any Case doomed Klin new York a couple has sued a doctor " a Hospital where a Laboratory connived embryo was destroyed As a matter policy before another doctor could im-0 it  Hospital argued among other things Lai the procedure was undertaken without s regard for guidelines pertaining to sex Ruments on human beings Freedom Hobbes said is the silence of t Law and the Law is soon going to be com i to speak on Many such matters. For of Siple to allow laboratories a margin of error in tearing embryo transfers several eggs it Apt to be taken from a prospective Moth Sand fertilized. When one is implanted of decides what is to be done with the sur a does anyone Nave any responsibility hoarding such life once it is begun 5 two developments will eventually make this an urgent question. Embryo Transfer techniques will not always unite a Hus band s sperm with his wife s egg. And technology May be Able to bring embryos viability in laboratories. The social definition of such babies can a Laboratory be a Parent will require interesting  is a melancholy situation. Danger Ous and ethically dubious baby making technologies Are being developed in Large part for the compassionate purpose of help ing couples with problems to enjoy the in comparable satisfactions of parenthood. And this is nol just because a couple can Only find satisfaction from its own biology adoption makes possible the primary satisfaction of parenthood and some Spe Cial satisfaction. But although there is a severe Scarcity of children deemed adaptable this nation records More than a million abortions year. If there were fewer abortions there would be More adoptions and less pressure push ing baby making technologies beyond the Range of ethical understanding. Perhaps none of the problems posed by new techniques will trouble rather than merely fascinate a society that considers Felus cide a matter of moral indifference. But biology is conferring techniques thai Are strictly speaking awful they Awe solemn wonder tinged with fear. What we May be losing is the precious sense expressed by sir Thomas Browne a 17th Century physician and author of some of the most moving meditative prose in the language there is something in us that can be without us and will be after us. Though indeed it hath no history of what it was before us and cannot Tell How it entered into  couple seeking an embryo Transfer is Al to be expressing reverence for life. But a Noble purpose does not mean that the Neces sary technology will be benign. Some manipulations of life must Over time subvert our sense of mystery and so our reverence for life.  tin opinion Cir Toom on Bill pm  Tole Olim jut Noo and it in now Ylo � Coral Mart  bit vows m to Sun  United . Tom Wicker Ottawa Canadian politicians and journalists confidently expected that prime minister Trudeau would Call elections for last Spring. Then they confidently expected he would Call elections for this summer. This week he stunned them again by saying there was no need for re sort to the polls at this  by Law the prime minister will have to Call for not necessarily hold elections by the end of july 1879. Some political buffs Here have interpreted his delphic pronouncement thrown casually into a Surprise television address on the Economy As precluding an election before next Spring. But Trudeau s associates and the prime minister himself carefully avoided confirming that View. In fact something of a cat and mouse game is being played with Premier Rene Levesque of Quebe who is pledged to a referendum in that province probably in 1979 on the question whether its largely French speaking people want Independence from Canada. Exactly who would get what advantage if Trudeau s parliamentary elections or Levesque s referendum came first is a matter of Lively debate Here particularly since no one can know How either would turn out but there is a wide consensus that both men Are trying to outman Euver each other in electoral Strat egy. A close Trudeau adviser conceded for example that the Leader might Well not win a return to office solely on the basis of a 10-year record regarded Here As disappointing particularly in View of an Economy suffering from inflation and unemployment upon which wage and Price controls have had to be imposed. His Best bet in this View is to run As the Man who can maintain National Unity against the threat of Quebec separatism. If Trudeau won on such a platform he Trudeau and fhe Quebec could then say to the francophone minority about 27 percent of the Popula Tion not All of them in Quebec that he had a mandate to maintain National Unity and to the anglophone majority that he had a mandate for the kind of Constitution Al change necessary to keep Quebec an integral part of the Canadian confederation. An unspoken element of this strategy is that Trudeau is himself a francophone from Quebec both the conservative and column Sand comments new democratic party leaders Are Anglo phones. If Trudeau were to be Defeated therefore Quebec which is expected to support him heavily in National elections would be Likely to View it As another anglophone Triumph hence a further reason for francophone Quebec s Independence. For that reason Trudeau would try to pre sent himself probably without actually making the claim As the Only Man who could hold Canada together. Some observers Here believe that Leves que does not wish to Call a Quebec referendum before the National elections since his cause would be helped by a Trudeau de feat. Keeping Levesque guessing As to when National elections will be held May hinder his ability to Campaign for Independence an important matter since fran co phones May prove to be More partial to the polemics of separatism than to the specifics of Independence that Vesque sooner or later will have to outline. Fan urines8-.? pro Voncial premiers this tall will consider Trudeau s proposals and their counterproposal for Federal j Lions More responsive to t ests including a stronger Centary chamber at least i members would be appointed by i Vinci Al governments. The primer has set a deadline of july 1.1" Cletion of this phase of Refo be accomplished by Federal 1 that could be a str if National elections que is not Likely to satisfy Vesque i separatist parti quebecois. Or other provinces. They Are Tes in stronger representation to l in greater autonomy for province a ments and in Levesque s Case of Deuce. This is what Canadian l the distribution of Powers i which Trudeau and his Cabi much less willing to Compromise. The powerful Canadian federa men1, in certain circumstances the legislation of provincial pall its unlimited Power to raise Ana f lie funds sometimes thwarts taxing needs and invades areas posed provincial jurisdiction. In t paper on constitutional Reform the Trudeau Cabinet described 0 one of the most decentralized federations and denied the massive shift of Powers to inces. Trudeau s ostensible goal is to i a judicious combination 6t Chal the distribution of Powers through to of conferences with provincial off by july 1.1981. In fact he is Clear to provide or Promise enough n win re election and persuade the i Quebec in the forthcoming primary h Jet the parti quebecois s Siren cell dependence.