Carter Backs Court's Medicaid Abortion Ruling
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^VOICE VOL. XIX No. 18 PRICE 25c JULY 15, 1977 Two boys enjoy the gifts of nature on a warm summer day, too young to will we remember in time that we are truly stewards of this beautiful be concerned about a world where hay, grass, and trees may be in earth?" This question is asked by Alma Roberts Giordan in this week's danger. "Will man destroy this beautiful earth with his technology? Or Know Your Faith exploration of the theology of ecology. Pages 11-14. INSIDE Carter backs court's ABP. LEFEBVRE'S traditionalist movement still in conflict with Rome, criticized by Cdl. Medeiros. Page 8. Medicaid abortion ruling POLISH LEADER in the American Revolution...the 200th anniversary of his arrival WASHINGTON-(NC)- opportunities exactly equal, prevent unwanted pregnancies in America is celebrated by Polish-Americans of President Jimmy Carter particularly when there is a with education and with the which there are 80,000 in Florida. Page 15. concedes it is "not fair" that moral factor involved." availability of contraceptives rich women can have abortions "I know, as well as anyone and other devices when they while many poor women will be in the country, having faced believe in their use as an denied Medicaid abortions. this issue during a long alternative to abortion." MIAMIAN as envoy to Vatican opposed by But he said he still believes campaign, about the intense The Carter Administration Protestant group. Page 3. the states and the federal feelings on both sides of the also has offered a plan to make government should not be abortion issue," Carter said. adoptions easier and to reduce WORLD CATHOLICS number 717 million, P required to pay for abortions. "But my own personal feeling the unnecessary placement of 10...Russian Catholic on hunger strike, P Carter said, "I don't think is that the Supreme Court's children in foster care. 2...Arnold reviews "A Bridge Too Far," P the government should finance rulings now are adequate and The plan involves adop- 17...Dade school calendar P 16...The Dameans abortions except where the are reasonably fair..." tions subsidies for low- and review pop song, P 14. mother's life is threatened or Carter said the court middle-income families and when the pregnancy was a rulings should be interpreted result of rape or incest." "very strictly." (Continued on Page 20) He made his comment "In my opinion," he said, when asked his opinion of June "the federal government being 20 Supreme Court decisions willing to finance abortions as which said the Constitution it has in recent months is an does not require states to pay encouragement to abortion and for abortions which are not its acceptance as a routine medically necessary. contraceptive means; and I Asked if he thought it was think within that strict fair that poor women would be definition that I've given to you Classified 21 denied abortions when rich that I would like to prevent the Editorial 6 "Un pueblo que camina por el mundo gritando: women could have them, he federal government from It's a Date 16 iVen, SeHor! financing abortions." Know Your un pueblo que busca en esta vida la gran liberacidn." said, "Well, as you know, there Faith 11 are many things in life that are Carter said he and Movies &. TV. 17 "A PEOPLE on the Go" is the theme of the 2nd not fair, that wealthy people Secretary of Health, Education Prayers 14 National Encuentro for Latins set for August in can afford and poor people and Welfare Joseph Califano Youth 18 Washington. Hundreds attended a preparatory can't. But I don't believe that "are trying to make it pos- meeting in Miami. Story, pictures pages 4-5. the federal government should sible for the people of this take action to try to make these nation to understand how to Health in question News briefs of Russian Catholic on hunger strike LONDON—(NC) —The wife and several close A Johannesburg policeman friends of a Ukrainian Catholic on trial in Odessa restrains a student during a have expressed deep concern for the man's health. demonstration to protest Vasily Vladimirovich Barladyanu, an art detention of black student expert dismissed from Odessa University in 1974, leaders. About 100 went on a hunger strike when he was arrested last demonstrators from nearby March 2. Soweto were arrested. One His trial began in Odessa June 28 on a charge student was killed. of "distribution of knowingly false fabrications defaming the Soviet state and social order." The prosecutor is demanding a three-year sentence. Barladyanu's wife Valentina and nine of his close friends appealed to the authorities after his arrest, asking that he be committed to the guar- dianship of his relatives while his case was being investigated, as allowed under Ukrainian law, instead of being held in detention. Later six of the 10 appealed to the In- ternational Red Cross in a lettter which was probably written shortly after April 21, according to the Center for the Study of Religion and Communism at Keston College near London. Mexican raid In the letter they said that Barladyanu, MEXICO CITY-Mexican sailing around the Pacific basin in considering himself not guilty, had not only police raided the Catholic Center for Southeast Asia. declared a hunger strike but also refused to give Social Communications (CENCOS) evidence. He was being kept in strict isolation, the and took away most of its files, in- letter said, and those close to him did not even cluding an elaborate documentation Defend rights know where he was. library.In addition, to the raid July 8, ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada — Before his arrest Barladyanu had appealed to at least eight members of the staff Despite evidence of widespread Anglican Father Michael Bourdeaux, founder and were detained and taken to police torture in many Latin American director of the study center, in a letter dated headquarters for interrogation. countries, the seventh general September, 1976, and made public last March. Earlier they had reported a bomb assembly of the Organization of At that time Barladyanu claimed that he had threat, which prompted them to call American States (OAS) has declared spent only five months working in his own field for help. Police searched the that its member states must defend after he was expelled from the Communist party in downtown facilities of the com- human rights against both terrorism 1974 and dismissed a few months later from his munications center. Apparently the and government repression. posts as head of the Odessa University art officers had orders to confiscate some department and lecturer in aesthetics at Odessa of the contents. The raid at noon Naval Engineering Institute. came a few hours after the occupation Anti-Lefebvre The Keston center said it has also received two by security forces of the Mexico City more issues, numbers 25 and 26, of the un- campus of the country's largest MEXICO CITY-Suspended derground Chronicle of the Catholic Church in university, the National Autonomous Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre was Lithuania. University (UNAM). The govern- denied a visa to enter Mexico and In the first of these is an account of a visit by ment sought to stop a strike by immediately Church sources said one his wife to Petras Plumpa in the Perm strict regime administrative employes and left- reason was fear of possible disorders. labor camp last September. Plumpa is serving an wing professors who wanted to form "The government has enough eight-year sentence there for editing the illegal a single labor union. One report said problems on its hands," the sources chronicle. that the strike leaders sought to said, "There were reports of anti- Before she was allowed to see her husband, the arrange a press conference through Lefebvre demonstrations being account says, Mrs. Plumpa was stripped naked CENCOS, and that this call triggered organized." and searched. She was not allowed to give him any the raid. paper or writing material. Authorities objected to her being accompanied by a priest, Father G. Pope on C/.AI. Zdebskis. She said a religious picture she had sent 'Boat cases' VATICAN CITY-Pope Paul her husband at Easter had not been given to him, WASHINGTON-Heads of VI told visiting United Nations and when she complained of this and he asked for eight voluntary agencies—including secretary general Kurt Waldheim the picture, he was given a spell in solitary con- the U.S. Catholic Conference—who that the UN should be spokesman for finement. resettled most of the Indochinese and protector of the human rights of The chronicle quoted part of a letter from refugees in the United States the poor and oppressed. "We hope prison by Plumpa: "The anguish of the soul can be following the Vietnam war say "we especially that the UN will become unseen (but) can be plucked and offered, like a are ready to do our part" for 15,000 spokesman par excellence for human flower to the Savior. This is the most beautiful new refugees likely to enter the rights and the protector of those decoration for the altar of Jesus. Without such country soon, including some 6,000 rights which she so solemnly decorations, even the finest churches are sad "boat cases," refugees who left proclaimed 30 years ago," said Pope places." Vietnam in small boats and are Paul in a speech to Waldheim. Archbishop Coleman F. Carroll President, The Voice Publishing Co. Inc. The Archdiocese of Miami Weekly Publication VOICE embracing Florida's eight southern counties: Father David Russell Msgr. James J. Walsh Father Jose Nickse Broward.