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...recent staff editorial (April 13), The Crimson urged University Health Services (UHS) to "terminate its abortion refund option immediately." Citing the objections of various religious denominations, The Crimson claimed that the UHS abortion policy is irresponsible. Unfortunately, this editorial has provoked a wave of misinformation that must be addressed...
...there was ever a time for Congress to take action, it's now. Funding to the IRS must be increased before the organization becomes crippled by its inefficiency and biased auditing. Congress must reinstate funding for corporate audits, reevaluate EITC monitoring standards, and--perhaps most importantly--refund research cut in 1995 aimed at determining which tax sectors most need to be audited. (Because of the cuts, the IRS now conducts its audits based on eleven year old data.) If they cannot find more funding, Congress should reallocate the IRS' budget to fund these projects and spend less time chasing after...
...Abortion Refund is Ethical...
...Crimson's staff editorial, "Eliminate the Abortion Refund" (Editorial, April 13) is a masterpiece of muddled thinking and deceptive rhetoric. The editors claim to recognize the "strong moral objections to abortion," but then proceed to the dubious argument that such objections must take a back seat to the decisions of the nebulous "experts" who allocate UHS funding. These experts are apparently infallible, since we are informed, without evidence, that their decisions cannot be subjected to an "external moral, political, or religious debate." For The Crimson, apparently, ethics have a place in the sweatshop debate, but must never be applied...
...runs counter to the teachings of their church and the voice of their conscience. Under the current system, opponents of abortion are able to make a private peace with the system, knowing that they do not help to maintain abortion. The number of people who take advantage of the refund is so small that eliminating it does nothing to secure the availability of abortion. It is a gratuitous and unconscionable attempt to force a minority to violate their religious and moral beliefs by funding that which they find unconscionable...