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days. After 43 days the brainwaves begin. At seven weeks after conception it has all functions working and by this time the baby has developed its own circulatory system ing” their assent for an abortion. which is separate from its mothers. Dr. Bezner feels that they are misFrom this point until the general using their power in justifying the age of twenty-seven, the only difhigh numbers of abortion by saying ference is in size and development that the woman will have a general of the various systems and muscles feeling,of “well being” if she does _ in the body. not have to carry the child for the About four months after concepfull nine months. The same doctors tion the child begins to develop a however cannot decide exactly sleeping pattern and can or will re- what constitutes a feeling of “well spond to loud noises or sudden being” in their other patients. .Dr. movements by curling into the Bezner maintains that “if a woman foetal position and or sucking his has the baby even though it is unthumb. The child will also begin to wanted and then puts it up for adopThe ‘ ‘goof’ ’ that the urinate and have bowel movements tion afterwards, she may be sadenumerators made last month while in the womb. dened and a bit wiser but she will when collecting names for the upAt this point, Dr. Bezner passed have no guilt feelings (whether she coming municipal voters’ list, by around a jar which contained a is right or not) about not having “missing” 4,000 UW resident stubaby aborted at the age- of ten - given the baby a chance at life. dents was discussed at last Friday’s weeks. The baby looked comThe last example he gave was to Federati-on of Students’ executive pletely normal and all features-and imagine’ a woman undergoing a meeting. appendages were evident. caesarian section and having - her Andy Telegdi, Federation PresiHe also began a small slide show child born three weeks premadent, said it “was the fault of the turely. In this case the doctors will depicting the moment of concepenumerators” that students were tion and the development of the handle the child gently and try to missed, but now the matter seems child until birth. While showing this save it. If-the baby lives it will be to lie in the hands of municipal offihe talked of Canada’s abortion bill considered to be a person. If it was cials and the University. Telegdi is and how he considered it to be very aborted (and legally it could be now working out “various methods fair ideologically and philosophidone right up to the forty week limit with Burt Matthews” to get the cally. The bill came about to proof a normal pregnancy) it could be students’ names on the voters list. tect doctors from malpractice suits left to die. Bezner states that babies The three most likely ways to get and social injustice. that are aborted around the twenty the names on the list will either be The law states that a therapeutic week stage and who cry or kick are students doing the assessing;- ten abortion can be undertaken when it often placed in a bucket of water to enumerators from the Ontario govis felt that the woman will benefit drown or put in a refrigerator to die ernment doing it in two days; or, by from it. Her doctor would then put of exposure. This isstandard prousing the administration files, the his case before a selected commitcedure in some Canadian hospitals. federation would put all the names tee which would have the final say. on the list “en masse”. Max Finally he says that a common Originally it was thought that this reason given for the right of aborMercer, federation external relacommittee would meet only once tions chairman, said the whole tion is that it is the woman’s body or twice every 3-4 months for any and she has the right to-do with it mixup “sounds like a damn calcudifficult cases that came up. At the what she will, To counter the lated goof ‘. His opinion reflected moment however, there are betfelt by the executive statement he says to imagine a the frustration ween forty and fifty thousand aborover the incident. woman who has just had an abortions being handled every year by tion and who is allowed to leave the The last election in Waterloo for 260 hospitals in Canada. In certain the mayorlty was won by approxihospital. She is said to be whole hospitals this amounts to as many mately 5,000 votes, and as Telegdi and complete, therefore the baby as six abortions a day being perpointed out, the “students can left behind is not a part of the body, have a great impact in the elecformed. Looking at the amount of On the contrary, it depends only on regular duties a doctor must do on the mother for nourishment and . tion’ ’ . top of being on a committee, it can Other agenda items dealt with time. It has all of its own bodily be seen that the committee can alfunctions. during the meeting revolved most be said to be “rubber stamparound the elections for executive -laurie gourley
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positions on Oct. 8, and the phasing out of the posts of Critic-at-large and Grievances. The two posts are seen as “two frustrating positions that are redundant” by Max Mercer. The issue was tabled for later discussion since some members wished to have a new position of ombudsman put in it’s place. .
Undergraduates may now borrow library materials on interlib’ rary loan from any Canadian university. It was agreed by the Canadian Association of’ College and University Libraries at its 1974 conference to provide the service on an experimental basis for the year 1974-75. For the past two years, interlibrary loan service was available to undergraduates only for materials in Ontario universities. Certain kinds of materials (reserve books, entire volumes of periodicals, rare or fragile material) will continue to be unavailable on any interlibrary loan service.
On Monday night at St. Jerome’s, Dr. Hart Bezner gave a talk on “Abortion and Social Justice’“. This is a very controversial issue and Dr. Bezner stated at the beginning that he was against abortion. He put forward the idea that the main reason a woman decides to. have her baby aborted is because it is unwanted-it is not in most cases, a decision between bearing a deformed child or for a matter of -extreme -health reasons which could cause her death. In his discussion he said that there was “no scientific fact to dispute that the unborn has life at the moment of dispute lies in, de. conception-the tiding whether the unborn is a person”. He pointed out that a woman was not legally a person in Canada until 1929. Legally, a baby is not a person until it emerges from the womb and is free from the mother. “However,” he stated, “psychologically it is a person” \ and has a separate distinct personality. To corroborate his statement he spoke about some of the distinctive points in the development of the unborn baby while it is in the / womb. Be-zner said that within the first twenty minutes after conception the genetic pattern which will determine the sex and characteristics of the child have begun. After one hour it has been determined. By the time a woman suspects that she is pregnant, the baby is at least two .weeks old and the earliest that ‘a doctor can confirm the pregnancy is at 6-8 weeks after conception. At the latest the unborn child’s heart begins beating at eighteen
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Thousands of dollars are needed ’ to continue the work of the vision care project of the UW School of Optometry. The project is presently funded thr,ough the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) of the Department of External Affairs, living expenses from the country involved, donations from service clubs and a ~ $1000 grant from the federation of students. Teams of fourth year students and practising optometrists are sent to remote and underdeveloped areas such as Northern Ontario, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, as well as the Caribbean, to act as primary health contact. The teams screen and ex- amine as many people as possible for eye disease and institute preventive cure. They also have started a training programme for I teachers, volunteer and community workers, which in turn enables these people to conduct screening tests, and dispense or repair spectacles within their own communities. During last summer’s project in the Caribbean, one team - discovered a blind 13 year old girl named _ Bonnie Lynn Chamber in need of cornea transplant surgery. Edward Fisher, director of the School of Optometry, contacted the Willowdale Rotary Club who flew her to Toronto to undergo surgery in July. She was then released from hospital in September with 20-40 vision and returned to her home in Antigua. The School of Optometry has had requests for a more thorough coverage in the Caribbean as well as instituting new projects in Guatemala and Nigeria. Viktor Huiailes, a project participant, said to the chevron, “We screened over 35,000 people with 11% of those screened were provided with spectacle correction. This is high in comparison to other studies.” However, as Fisher said, “In order to expand the budget, we must find new sources to do so.
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