Catholic group says poor
hurt by federal cutbacks
Lunch time
staff photo by David Fisher
Lunch time at the cafeteria in the
MSC draws quite a few people, mostly
the hamburgers they serve. Carlos
Taboada, a senior from Venezula
studying biology, fixes up his hamburger
from the variety of dressings available.
United Press International
The Campaign for Human
Development, the U.S. Catholic
church’s major anti-poverty
effort, announced allocations of
$6.4 million to 195 self-help pro
jects around the country.
But campaign officials, gear
ing up for this year’s fund
raising effort, say federal cut
backs are hurting the groups on
the front line in the battle
against poverty.
The Campaign for Human
Development was established by
the nation’s Roman Catholic
bishops 12 years ago and is sup
ported by an annual collection in
Catholic churches during the
Thanksgiving season. Roughly
75 percent of the funds collected
are sent to the national office for
distribution and the remainder
is retained by individual dio
ceses for local use.
This year’s grants brings to
$67 million the amount allo
cated from the national cam
paign in its dozen years of fund
ing. More than 1,800 projects
have received funds.
The campaign, the program’s
executive director Rev. Marvin
A. Mottet said, “works to forge
partnerships between the poor
and non-poor, to help people
help themselves. Poor people in
our country have the deck stack
ed against them. These projects
— and the many others sup
ported by CHD — are about
helping people unstack the
deck.
“Since the beginning of the
Campaign for Human Develop
ment, the need has never been
so urgent.
“More than 32 million Amer
icans live in poverty while 11
million are unemployed. Given
the obvious need, we have high
hopes for a very successful cam
paign this year.”
But a number of the groups
receiving campaign funds are
being adversely affected by the
Reagan administration social
program cutbacks — espeically
in the VISTA and CETA jobs
programs.
Over 80 percent of the CHD-
funded self-help organizations
surveyed by the Catholic agency
reported they had been hurt by
the cuts, with 50 percent report
ing staff cutbacks and one out of
four reporting they lost more
than half of their staff in the past
year.
“Fifty percent of the respon
dents had participated in the
VISTA program; by May, 1982,
virtually all of their contracts for
VISTA volunteers had been ter
minated,” officials said. “Simi
larly, 55 percent of the respond
ing organizations had em
ployees who participated in
CETA. CETA public service
employment jobs were termin
ated with the adoption of the fis
cal 1982 budget.”
A major adverse impact, cam
paign officials said, is that the
already strapped self-help
groups have to spend more time
on fund-raising than on provid
ing services.
Mottet called the situation dis
tressing and said, “Self-help
efforts by people in their own
neighborhoods to meet their
own needs, such as those pro
jects funded by CHD, are solidly
within the best of the American
democratic tradition.”
“Working for justice is an
essential part of preaching the
Gospel,” Mottet said. “If we are
not working for justice and de
nouncing the injustices of our
day, we are not living and proc
laiming the full Gospel.”
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J> Parenthood clinics attacked
United Press International
1; Attacks against Planned Pa-
' renthood Clinics over the last
eight months have included inci
dents of vandalism, arson, a
ibomb threat and an incident of
criminal trespassing.
1L TALi The violence is part of the
r ... continuing battle that pits prop-
SKiLLu onents against opponents in the
i ; national debate over abortion.. A
j like tO M,memo circulated at Planned Pa-
;; renthood Federation of Amel
ia’s headquarters in New York
lease fllfOl’igives details of the attacks,
at rOOID W “Over the past eight months,
piolent attacks against Planned
maid.
Parenthood clinics have in
creased significantly as com
pared with two previous years,”
staffer Beryl Hawkins said in the
memo.
I An Akron, Ohio, ordinance
Jm\ abortion statutes in Virginia
and Missouri are to be heard by
source of rate
ity says, ita!
/ . I j ijraiivi iviiisawuti i cii v_. uw iiv,o.i m u y
ve socia ] > |j ie Supreme Court this year in
(what the American Medical
[Association News describes as “.
.a significant test of govern-
iient authority in imposing re-
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quirements in abortion cases.”
A “friend of the court” brief
was filed by three medical asso
ciations in support of the Akron
Center for Reproductive Health
which is challenging the city
ordinance that requires a physi
cian to recite seven paragraphs
to a woman before she under
goes an abortion.
Among other things the
Akron ordinance requires that
the physician inform the patient
that the fetus may be viable at a
gestational age of 22 weeks
“even though there is no scien
tific or medical evidence to sup
port that statement,” says an edi
torial in the AMA News.
“The physician also is re
quired to tell the patient that
abortion is a ‘major surgical pro
cedure,’ despite the fact that
most physicians regard abor
tion, particularly during the first
18 weeks of pregnancy, as a rela
tively minor surgical proce
dure.”
The Supreme Court is ex
pected to hear arguments on the
case this fall
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