European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 12, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday March 12, 1987 the stars and stripes. Page 3 women s advancements in military hailed by general by Janet Howells Tierney Shaft writer Heidelberg Brig Gen. Evelyn p. Pal foot c s advice to women soldiers hoping to make he serv ice a career is to go for ii but be witling to pastor expect As much to be asked of you As any alter Soldier said Foote who after 11 years or service is one of oar army women wearing stars women in the service must a willing to accept criticism and to be a team member. They must also come in physically fit and stay that Way. Women sol Diers who have career aspirations should go Tor it but be willing o pay for it she said. It s a great time to be a Soldier because men arc More accepting of our leadership/1 the Durham no native said Foote one of two deputies to the army s inspector general was guest speaker for a women s history and Federal women s week luncheon wednesday in the Heidelberg officers club. Foole told the group she was part of the committee to disband the women s army corps in 1978 and realized that As Long As you keep women separate from men they will never be allowed to Advance. It was an idea whose Lime had Foote attributed women s advancements to an enlightened male leadership thai saw Fil to open the gales to Job women could t have done in alone she said Twenty years ago a career like mine would have been impossible but things changed and it happened she said she strongly supports a Senate Bill thai would open to women All army direct combat support units. Air Force reconnaissance aircraft and Ali ships in the Navy s combat logistics Force. The Bill is sponsored by Sens. William pro mire d-wis., and William Cohen a Maine. Any Battlefield or the future will be so fluid she said there will be no Safe place anywhere which will Force a moment of truth for All the services on the Issue of women in combat Foote s european hours of duty include command ing the 42nd military police croup customs and being a special assistant to the 32nd army air defense come commander. A pm by Gui san Ueler Brig. Gen. Evelyn p. Pal Foole drugs called american women s biggest problem by Connie Dickey staff writer Hanau Germany drug abuse Isth most important Issue facing Ameri can women today a top Federal manage ment official said wednesday. Not Only is there a growing Tyror abuse problem with the country s youth Man women Are hidden drug abusers said Stephanie Lee Miller assistant Secretary for Public affairs for the department or health and human services. She cited cocaine As the substance most often abused because it is considered to be glamorous and in t easily selected. The family is the department s Pri Mary concern she told about 160 people at a women s history and Federal women s week luncheon. The department of health and human services spends More than 132 million an hour on services such As so Cial Security medicare and the centers Tor disease control. Lee Miller said. I also is responsible for other social pro Grams we Are looking at where the Ameri can family is now and to do that behave to Wolc at the youth in which a major concern is teen age pregnancy she said. We Are talking 13-year-Olds who drop out of school and get on welfare Many times they do this out of loneliness an because they Are from welfare families to encourage the Young teen agers to stay in school so they Donal have to play catch up the rest of their lives the department refuses to Issue welfare checks to a teen age Mother who docs not attend school the Only Way to Progress is through education she said. Although Lee Miller said women have progressed steadily since the,1920s, the still have a Long Way logo. We have seen women stepping into the executive level with Elizabeth Dole and the lop judicial level with Sandra Day o Connor. Women Are even stepping into top military positions with big. Gen Evelyn p. Pat Foote but we can t Stop Here. We have to keep blowing Dole is Secretary of transportation Oconnor is a supreme court Justice and Foote is one of two deputies to the army inspector general. Other issues facing women Lee Miller said Are spouse and child abuse child support and acquired immune deficiency syndrome. We have brought spouse and child abuse out of the close in America Ardour Legal system is much More sensitive to those issues too so we Are facing those issues Bill Oiher women around the world still live in fear of pain and violence if they try to escape those situations. And although it is not a big political Issue it is a personal Issue we All need to be concerned Wilh she said. The people who will Benefit most from government enforced child support Are single parents she said. In the military there arc numerous single parents single mothers and single fathers and we can provide technical assistance and a Parent locator system to help these single she said aids is a woman s Issue be cause it is a rapidly growing and unknown disease we Don t know what we Are facing or How Many people have the virus but Wedo know that drug use is How in is spread ing into the heterosexual Vatican warns against interference in procreation Rome not the Vatican condemned test lube fertilization tuesday and called on All governments to put strict limits on medical interference in human pro Church called for Laws prohibiting common practice such As the use of surrogate mothers and experimentation on living a major doctrinal statement the roman Catholic Church declared ils moral opposition to virtually All forms of artificial fertilisation and embryo Transfer approving medical interference in human procreation Only when it assists a married couple that has engaged in a Normal sexual act. Recent technological advances in biology the vat ican wanted require the intervention of the political authorities and of the legislator since an uncontrolled application of such techniques could Lead to unforeseeable and damaging consequences for civil the chief Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro Valls said tuesday that in this document the Church was addressing a much broader audience than usual because it asks government leaders be they Catholic or not to firmly impose moral norms on certain medi Cal and scientific the document expresses moral opposition to the following practices prenatal diagnosis including the use of amnio Cen Lesis and ultrasonic techniques for the purpose of eliminating fetuses that Are affected by malformations or thai Are carriers of hereditary illnesses. Therapeutic interventions and methods of Obser vation of on embryo that involve disproportionate risk to its health. All experimentation on living embryos not directly therapeutic. The keeping alive of human pm boys for experimental or commercial purposes. Utilization of dead i causes for commercial Pur poses and unnecessary mutilation of dead human embryos and fetuses. The voluntary destruction of human embryos obtained in Vitro either for purposes of research or of procreation. Biological or genetic manipulation of embryos through practices life fertilization Between human and animal gametes and gestation in the uterus of animals or an artificial womb. Efforts to obtain a human being without any connection with sexuality through methods like twin Fis Sion cloning or parthenogenesis. The freezing of an embryo even when carried outdo preserve its lift. Efforts to influence Chrom Somic or genetic inheritance that Are not therapeutic but which Sim a producing human beings selected according to sex or other predetermined qualities. Any artificial fertilization involving persons who Are not married. Test lube fertilization and embryo Transfer involving a married couple. The artificial insemination of Art unmarried woman or of a widow even if the sperm was donated by her husband. Surrogate motherhood. The collection of sperm through masturbation. The document expresses moral approval of the Fol lowing practices prenatal diagnosis including the use of ultrasonic techniques and amniocentesis that Aims Al safeguard ing or Healing the embryo. Prenatal therapeutic efforts designed to heal an embryo of maladies including chromosomal defects. Prenatal research limited to the simple Obser vation of an embryo. The use of experimental therapy on an embryo As a final Effort to save its life. Artificial insemination within marriage when the technical Means is not a substitute for the conjugal act but serves to help in achieve procreation. Fertility drugs. Medical interventions that facilitate the performance of the conjugal act. Medical intervention to remedy the causes of Fertility. The 40-Page document denounces As evil such practices As the freezing of embryos efforts to create human beings entirely through Laboratory methods including cloning and the use of genetic manipulation to predetermine the qualities of a child such As its sex. By not commenting on All current practices Vatican officials at the news conference said the document in tended to leave open the possibility that researchers May find acceptable ways to use techniques like gamete inter fallopian Transfer or gift which do not involve con caption in the Laboratory bul which in effect assist the sperm and ova in achieving fertilization. Discussing the medical treatment of human embryos the document allows for techniques of prenatal diagnosis so Long As the cab pro is not damaged an the purpose is not to then eliminate fetuses that arc malformed or arc found to have illnesses. Also therapeutic procedures Are pc milled on embryos so Long As they Are aimed at Healing and experimental forms of therapy Are permitted Only As a final Effort to save a embryo s life. Titled instruction on re specs for human life in its origins and on the dignity of procreation re plies o certain questions of the Day the document also articulates a moral framework by which to judge current and future scientific developments in the Fieldon procreation. As an expression of Catholic doctrine the document applies existing moral norms based on divinely revealed truth and the traditional teachings of the Church to new situations 11 does not make direct reference to sin in ruling out certain , it repeatedly emphasizes that fundamental moral teachings Are involved so that 4 knowing and wilful violation of its prohibitions by a Catholic would be a grave sin. For example the destruction of a by Gole the single cell formed when the nuclei of the sperm and ovum have fused is considered Llic equivalent of murdering a Realure adult
