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University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Wednesday, Oct. 2, 1985
Kansas leaders defeated in bid to alter farm policy
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Kansas congressmen met with defeat yesterday as they argued for a change of direction in America's farm policy to direct more assistance to smaller producers and help farmers compete in world markets.
Rep. Dan Glickman, D-Wichita, led the initial charge during floor debate on the 1985 farm bill as he spoke in favor of an amendment to target farm income guarantees to small- and medium-sized producers and establish a marketing loan program.
Reps, Pat Roberts and Jim Slattery also spoke in favor of the amendment, which failed on a vote of 290-228.
targeting of direct income guarantees, said Glickman, is needed to better direct subsidies to smaller farmers.
Slattery, D-Topeka, noted that 5
percent of U.S. farmers received 19 percent of the money spent on federal commodity programs under current law. For wheat, 15 percent of the benefits go to 1 percent of the growers.
He called the proposal a "modest effort" to attack the problem of "too few getting too much."
Roberts, R-Dodge City, said the targeting and marketing loan provisions were the only alternatives to Reagan administration farm policies that would lead producers through a "valley of death."
The targeting proposal would have offered higher supports or "target prices" for producers on the first part of their crop. On wheat, for instance, farmers could get a $4.59 a bushel target price on the first 15,000 bushels of production and $4 on the rest of their production. The current target price is $4.38 a bushel for wheat.
TOPEKA — Attorney General Robert T. Stephan outlined steps yesterday that the Kansas Legislature might take to prohibit abortions of developed fetuses which could otherwise live outside their mothers' wombs.
Stephan, in a legal opinion for State Sen. Eric Yost, cited federal court cases upholding laws in other states that ban the abortion of unborn infants that are considered "viable."
The Associated Press
Vost, a Wichita Republican, said he needed the answers on what states legally could do to limit abortions before he introduced legislation in the 1986 Legislature that would outlaw abortion of the viable fetuses.
Stephan issues opinion on limiting abortions
However, Yost said he thought such a proposal would face opposition from both anti-abortion and prochoice forces.
"But if people are serious about doing something about abortion, this is the way to go." Yost said. "If a child could live outside the mother's womb, then it's unconsonable, to me at least, for it to be aborted."
Abortions currently are allowed in Kansas until nearly the time of birth, Yost said. A spokeswoman for the state Revisor of Statutes office said the only Kansas law governing abortion had not been enforced since the landmark 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that many state abortion laws violated the constitutional right of privacy.
"We have some physicians in the state who, up to the last minute, are delighted to perform an abortion on a
baby that could very easily live," Yost said.
A spokesman for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment said that of 9,754 abortions reported to the state health agency last year, 40 were performed during the 24th week of pregnancy and none were reported later than that.
However, only hospitals are required to report abortions to KDHE, according to the spokesman, Bob Moody. Clinics and doctors are not
Stephan said in his opinion that under the 1973 Supreme Court decision, states generally were permitted to prohibit abortions "after the fetus has reached the stage of viability."
required to report abortions they perform, although some do voluntarily, he said.
Stephan said federal courts had upheld laws in Kentucky and Missouri that used general terms to prohibit abortion of viable fetuses.
Kansas to receive $5,000 from FarmAid
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Some of the proceeds from the recent FarmAid concert will go to buy food for financially troubled Kansas farmers.
Mary Ellen Lloyd, director of Domestic Hunger and Poverty for the National Council of Churches, announced earlier this week that a $5,000 check was mailed Monday to the Kansas State Interfaith Rural Life Community, an organization
formed by 36 religious leaders earlier this year.
The Rev. Frank Dorsey, a spokesman for the group, said the money would go to "families who are simply destitute." Dorsey, who is executive director of the Council of Ministries for the Kansas East Conference of the United Methodist Churches, said it had not yet been determined how the money would be distributed.
Lloyd said Kansas was selected as
agricultural states sharing $100,000 in the first round of disbursements
a recipient state for some of the concert money because of the worsening farm crisis here. It is among 17
The largest single allocations, $10,000 each, went to Nebraska and Minnesota. Missouri did not get a specific allocation, but will receive a portion of the $10,000 earmarked for Iowa, Lloyd said.
UNIVERSITY INFORMATION CENTER
THE UNIVERSITY INFORMATION Wants You to Know... Arkady Shevchenko, former Soviet Diplomat, will speak Tuesday, Oct. 8 at 7 p.m. Woodruff Auditorium A.J.A.Vickers Lecture
A U.S. Victim's Lecture
For more information on Campus Lectures, call 864-3506.
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