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Vol. 8 No. 2 Thursday, November 29, 1973 10 cents per copy
PHOTOS-IN-THE-NEUifS R O i l C a l lO •—— Urges Revision
Of Human Research Guidelines
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Congressman Angelo D.
Roncallo (R-N.Y.) today
urged that the National
Institutes of Health
significantly revise their
draft guidelines on the
protection of Human
Subject of Research. NIH
plans to recommend its
policies and procedures
for proposed rulemaking
to the Department of
H^atttTT"^ltrcattoTr"ami~
Welfare shortly after the
first of the year. The
guidelines will include
special treatment for
children, prisoners, the
mentally infirm, and
special categories suchas
the fetus and test tube
babies.
While praising NIH for
its good faith in publishing
the draft in advance of the
formal rulemaking
procedure, Roncallo found
three major shortcomings
in the proposal. First of
all, they would permit a
mother, who had already
consented to the death of
the child in her womb
through abortion, to allow
invasive surgery for
purely research purposes,
if the child happens to be
born alive but without a
chance of long-term
survivability. Secondly,
the guidelines spelled out
in the NIH statement
which seem to forbid the
use in research of children
and the ansitutionalized
mentally infirm where the
risk to the subject out­weigh
the potential benefit
are not reflected in.the
actual text of the proposed
regulations. Thirdly, no
special protection is
provided to the non-institutionalized
mentally
infirm or to military
subjects of research.
The freshman legislator,
who has led the
Congressional fight to
prohibit the use of living
human fetus as subjects of
-experimentation, —noted,
that "there are many good
aspects to the NIH
proposal, but to allow
researchers to perform
vivisection short of death
on these unfortunates is to
accept a utilitarian view of
human l i f e which this
country rejected during
the Second W,orld War."
The guidelines would only
prohibit experimenters
from surgically removing
tissues and organs from a
live fetus if the procedure,
in the words of NIH, "Will
of itself tenninate heart
beat and respiration."
"This is not sufficient
protection," Congressman
Roncallo continued. "The
House should act promptly
to agree to a Conference
with the Senate and bring
H.R. 7724, the Biomedical
Research Bill, to a final
vote." Both the House and
the Senate over­whelmingly
accepted an
outright ban on live fetus
research in their
respective versions of the
bill, which deals only with
HEW. Roncallo has also
introduced legislation co-sponsored
by 36 other
Congressmen to forbid
such research on a
government-wide basis.
He indicated that he would
address the House On the
subject shortly after the
current Thanksgiving
recess.
E d i t o r ' s N o t e:
Congressman Roncallo is
the only legislator from
Long Island to work
toward tms refoTmTTIenr"
to be commended for his
humanitarianism and his
respect for human life.
Today there is too much
utilitarianism, callous­ness,
and the means-justifies-
the- end thinking.
We hope our Long Island
S e n a * t. o -.»,.&,-,,'-., ,,»au. ».. *i .•-
Congressmen will assist
the Honorable Angelo
Roncallo in protecting the
sanctity of human life and
the rights of the individual
(regardless of whether he
is rich or poor, infirm or
healthy, genuis or men­tally
unbalanced). How
barbaric can we become -
have we lost all per­spective
- how much
longer will the strong feed
upon the weak. - All in the
name of scientific
research; We cannot,
praise Congressman
Angelo Rocallo enough for
his courage in bringing
this matter to the public's
attention. We urge every
Christian, every Jew and
all humanists who have a
shred of respect for the
"right to live in dignity" to
raise their voices and
support Congressman on
this issue.
Caso Makes New Appointments
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Emphasizing fiscal stability as
the keynote of his second term,
Nassau County Executive Ralph
G. Caso today announced a
realignment of his top cabinet
posts in which Thomas G. DeVivo
has been appointed to the new
position-of chief deputy county
executive and fiscal ad­ministrator..
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At the same time, Caso an­nounced
the appointment of Dr.
James Shuart, currently^social
services commissioner, as a
deputy county executive and the
expansion of the role of Deputy
County Executive Joseph
Driscoll as intergovernmental
coordinator.
The changes take effect Jan. 1,
1974. m t .
"Throughout my first term,
each of these men has proved
his executive ability and
managerial expertise. Under this
reorganization, they will be
working closely with me as a new
management team to achieve my
goal of maintaining, fiscal
stability in Nassau County," Caso
DeVivo served as deputy
county executive-fiscal ad­ministrator
during the first Caso
term. In overseeing the
development of the county
budget, DeVivo was instrumental
in helping Caso to reduce the rate
of county spending and to lower
the general fund tax rate three-years
in a row. His new position
will add top-level administrative
responsibilities to his continuing
role as the county's chief fiscal
officer. During the second Caso
administration, he will be
making a major effort to win
additional state and federal
funding for county projects under
state and federal revenue sharing
programs.
prior to his appointment as
deputy county executive, DeVivo
was one of the chief fiscal
executives for Kraftco Cor-
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