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DETROIT FREE PPESSMONDAY, APRIL 1, 1085 3E 11 1 1 DOT Ic-frcc promises road construction wi il 081 lass 1-94 and South ield alternates All ramps closed until at least mid-1986 That was the ominous-sounding announcement in early February, heralding the arrival of construction crews at Despite some gleeful media reports to the contrary, the new plan won't eliminate closing sections to traffic, he says. Work would start next spring. Chicago-bound commuters, listen up: Beginning today, 1-94 will have 22 miles of intermittent lane closings in both directions from the west Washtenaw County line to Carpenter Road east of Ann Arbor. This pavement patching project should be completed in May, state officials say. mm l-M Ford Rd.

M-153 tS" I "i -1 Poatad dstoura jj 1-94 I 1 the interchange of the Ford and South-field freeways. Last Tuesday, it looked as if another wrench had been tossed into the trench. State highway engineers diverted eastbound Ford Freeway drivers to the westbound roadway for Bill Laitnei commuting IDalrolt Mlro Airport Interchange reconstruction ALL ramps at Interchange are closed. ONLY through traffic allowed. $48.5 million it's costing to rebuild the antiquated interchange.

Right now, the east and westbound Ford roadways through the area are widely separated. A year from now, they'll be pressed together for about a mile in each direction beyond the intersection which is why vegetation on the median was mowed recently. The construction will correct design flaws three decades old. Worst are the old ramps. New ones will be "right-hand takeoffs," says Gould, eliminating the four, dangerous left-handers from the Southfield to the Ford.

Other construction projects on tap: Beginning April 10, workers will spend two years resurfacing Michigan Avenue over a 1.1-mile stretch in Dearborn from Brady to Nowlin (work on water mains and sewers will drag out the project). Eastbound traffic will keep flowing this summer, but westbound will be detoured onto side streets. Foot-powered commuters can note construction due to start this month on overhead walkways from the Mil-lender Center to the Renaissance Center and City-County Building. Latest plan for the Lodge Freeway, still not finalized, is to rebuild it over three years instead of two. "We're hoping to do the shoulder work and sewer work in one summer and the pavement work in the following seasons," says Tom Shawver, MDOT spokesman in Lansing.

1 The official datour sticks to Ford Road IM-1 63) and Tsltgrsph Road (U.S. 24). 2. Th fattatt alternate Is to lt the Southfleld. northbound or southbound, at Oakwood, go wast a half-mile to 1-94.

3. Airport bound from northwest Detroit and the northern suburb! tske 1-96 to southbound 1-276, take 1-94 hist bayond the airport. a half-mile stretch through the interchange, reducing capacity from three lanes to two in each direction. "That'll continue until sometime in January 1986," said Brenda Peek-Redhead, Detroit area spokeswoman for the state Department of Transportation. DESPITE A VOLUME of about 50,000 vehicles ramming through the interchange daily, Peek-Redhead says there hasn't been serious congestion.

Ford Freeway travelers headed for Metropolitan Airport need not fear major backups, even during rush hours, she insists. Since the ramps are closed, commuters going from one freeway to the then go west a half-mile and feed right back into 1-94, in either direction. Airport-bound travelers from northwest Detroit and northern suburbs can avoid the area altogether by taking the Jeffries Freeway (1-96) to southbound 1-275, getting on 1-94 just beyond the airport. They'll have to double back on eastbound 1-94 three miles, making the journey almost as fast but much longer than the Oak-wood detour. STATE OFFICIALS promise the result will be worth the hassle and the other must keep alternate routes in mind.

Here's a reminder on the best ones: 13 The official posted detour provides for that ubiquitous interstate species trailerus semi, which is generally banned from local surface streets. Thus, the detour sticks to two major, and often busy, surface arteries Ford Road (M-153) and Telegraph Road (U.S. 24). II The fastest alternate route, says Claude Heise, of the Michigan Emergency Patrol, is to exit the northbound or southbound Southfield at Oakwood, I LAST 5 DAYS JV i ki4H SIZE i After VI is rv 133 bs- ltl TO i Mariyn Alcorn Film becomes front line in abortion battle Before 206 in I Lost 1 norco I h- IDS. DRESS 1 I I SIZES I I '41 I Waiajy LOSE 21 LBS.

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"I don't think women need any more emotional or psychological abuse when dealing with this serious and personal issue." People interested in seeing "The Silent Scream" should contact the Educational Center for Life Values in Royal Oak, 545-4044, between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. weekdays. QUICK UJIGHT LOSS C6NT6RS neurological difference between 12 and 20 weeks old," says Goldfine, adding that the film purposely gives the impression that the fetus is larger and older than it actually is. Local right-to-life activists, who have shown the film at local high schools and at anti-abortion meetings, admit the film may not change the minds of those who are strongly pro-choice.

But they say others are profoundly affected. "The effect ranges from horror to disbelief that this is what abortion is," says Diane Fagelman, a registered nurse and former president of Right to Life, who has shown the film on several occasions. "The reactions depend on the group There are strong feelings on both sides pro-life and pro-choice and then there's a small population that's neutral. They're the ones we want to educate." BUT WHAT Fagelman and other anti-abortion advocates see as educating is viewed as propagandizing by pro-choice advocates. "Instead of responding to what vidual," says Joyce, who, as does his wife, Margaret, belongs to the Education Center for Life, a local anti-abortion organization.

"As far as the issue of pain goes, I've delivered babies since 1960, (done) amniocentesis, and have seen reactions which indicate these (fetuses) feel something. You can deli v-' er a baby at 20 weeks, which is just over a pound, and when you prick the heel to get blood samples, it pulls away it feels it. All of its senses are in the process of developing." Joyce says it has been proven that fetuses can distinguish sweet tastes, and will jump in reaction to loud noises outside the womb. "Those things prove it's life we're dealing with here," he says. "That there's no place for any individual to say, by act of his or her will, that he can destroy another human being." GOLDFINE SAYS that Joyce comparing the 12- to 15-week-old fetus depicted in "Silent Scream" to a 20-week-old newborn that feels pain when his or her heel is pricked isn't valid.

"There's an enormous amount of 'SILENT SCREAM', from Page 1E Experts in fetal development argue that at 12 weeks a fetus cannot move "purposefully," as Nathanson asserts, nor can it perceive danger; the cerebral cortex, which co-ordinates perception and thought, is not yet developed. As for the silent scream, says Johns Hopkins neurobiologist David Bodian, doctors have no evidence that a 12-week-old fetus can feel pain, though "there is a possibility of a reflex movement" in response to stimuli like surgical instruments. Hobbins suggests that the dramatic scream may have been a fetal yawn, because "the fetus spends lots of time with its mouth open." Indeed, he says, the gaping mouth in the blurry film may not have been a mouth at all, but the space between the fetal chin and chest. DR. JOHN JOYCE, a Pontiac obstetrician-gynecologist, says the film's depiction of an abortion and Nathan-son's accompanying narrative are both valid.

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"SCREAM" CRITICS have ques tioned everything from Nathanson's sanity to his humanity. But when critics start using words like "self-aggrandizement" to explain his motives, Nathanson responds that the same critics are using "ad homi nem, petulant attacks on the film or me simply to obscure the film mes' weeks pregnant or less. Nathanson says the women all signed forms consenting to the ultrasound procedure. Nathanson picked one film with "a good image and not because it showed what we wanted it to show." He says he does not know the name of the woman whose abortion was selected for "Silent Scream," nor did she know that her abortion would become the subject of a film viewed worldwide. The film was an overnight success, and so was Nathanson.

Nathanson is now invited to speak at anti-abortion gatherings around the nation and world, and anti-abortion Sen. Gordon J. Humphrey, calls him "the foremost international spokesman on behalf of the unborn." Nathanson's avowed atheism, as far as many anti-abortionists are con sage, which is that a potential person is being torn from a womb. "I have invited the pro-abortion groups to make their own videotape if they like and let us see it, Nathanson told host Ted Koppel on a "Nightline" show aired Feb. 12.

"If they think that they're going td see the fetus happily sliding down the suction tube wav ing and smiling as it goes by, they're in for a truly paralyzing shock. NATHANSON, from Page 1E lyn Murray O'Hair. Nathanson had just left his job as director of a large New York abortion facility, the Center for Reproductive and Sexual Health (CRASH), to the staff. Abortions were legal in New York by then, and Nathanson supervised 60,000 of them and performed about 5,000. The job left him exhausted, and he resigned in 1972 to become chief of obstetrical service at Woman's Hospital of St.

Luke's Hospital Center. It was then, Nathanson recalled, that new technology was opening a window to the once-mysterious goings-on inside the womb. Nathanson's own reaction to the sight might be described as: "Hey, there's a little person in there!" "The technology," he said, "finally persuaded me that I could no longer ignore what I increasingly perceived as 1 the humanity of the unborn child." IN THE LATE 1960s, Nathanson had seemed to jump feet first into the pro-abortion movement. He had seen too many women dead, dying, infected or sterilized because of hack or self-abortions. If abortion became illegal again, he thought, those women still determined to get one would resort to a new array of chemicals to safely abort themselves.

Then, too, there was his admitted "yearning to be radicalized in a cause. Though I was 40, I believe that I secretly longed to be part of the youth movement that was sweeping the country." His initial pass at the anti-abortion movement was more tentative. First came a moving 1974 article in the New England Journal of Medicine that concluded that, although abortion should be legal, the taking of human life is "an inexpressibly serious matter." Nathanson was silent for years after that until he wrote the two anti-abortion books, in which he concluded that no social problem outweighed the killing of an unborn child. Then came a January 1984 speech by President Reagan, who stirred a controversy by declaring that aborted fetuses feel "pain that is long and agonizing." Nathanson decided to see whether an ultrasound film of an actual abortion would back up Reagan. NATHANSON ENLISTED the help of an unidentified doctor, who made ultrasound films of 20 to 25 abortions performed on women who were 12 A SAFE, EFFECTIVE PROGRAM We use no drugs, pills, strenuous exercises or reducing gimmicks.

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