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letters Insensitive I never realized how insen sitive people can be until I walked past the EMU and a man dressed in a black cape with his face painted white pointed a skewered fetus at me and said, “abortion is murder.” I would like to pose a few questions to this man and other anti abortionists: 1) If you had a daughter who was married and pregnant and her life would be endangered by carrying the fetus to term, would you honestly will death on your own daughter rather than allow her to have an MAKE MONEY Second Hand Oothmg WE BUY, TRADE et CONSIGN quality clothing (new to 2 yrs. old) Remember us when cleaning out your closets. Or just come browse through our unique shop. Call Mornings for Appt. 344-7039 SAVE MONEY 10-6 Mon.-Sat. 360 E. I Ith. between Mill ft High _CLIP ft SAVE__I abortion? 2) Would you prefer to read statistics for the number of deaths due to self-inflicted abor tions where the figures were higher than the number of deaths from abortions done in a sterile environment? 3) Do you want 11 or 12-year old girls to be forced to carry pregnancies to term, thereby risking the proper development of their own bodies and possible death? If your answer to any one of these questions is yes, then I suggest that you continue in your fight to outlaw abortion. However, if you answered no, I !ME Winter Specials Wella Perma Haircut included ^00 Reg. $40.00 Long Hair extra Haircut Reg. $11.00 Solar Nails Fills $12.00 $25®° Offer Expires March 1, 1985 20 W. 25th 342-7661 Coupon Moving Sale Everything' up to 50% OFF LAST DAY Sat., Jan 26th Buttons Cards T-shirts Jewelry Ties Sunglasses and much more. 768 E 11th IBM WORD PROCESSOR RENTAL 860 E. 13th OPEN 7 DAYS 344-7894 suggest that you end your fight against abortion because if abor tion were illegal, it would lead to circumstances in which these situations would arise. Dee Chandle Pro-Choice Disturbed Your editorial (ODE Jan. 16) concerning abortion disturbs me a great deal. The reasoning you used leaves me wondering if the editorial staff would have endorsed slavery as a morally justifiable position because of the economic and social im plications involved. Slavery was wrong, even though public opinion and the Supreme Court supported it. Human beings do not stop being human beings because of a legal declaration. This was true in the Dred Scott decision in the last century, and it is true in the Roe vs. Wade decision in our time. Your statement that the “broader implications” of the abortion issue are social and economic ones completely misses the point that human life is being taken, life that is biologically distinct from the life of the mother. Before an abortion, there is a living, grow ing human. Once it is done, there is a dead human. Whatever you call it, a baby or a fetus, it is still human, and dead. Abortion has, in effect, become a legal means of birth control. Because of a decision by the Supreme Court, defenseless, voiceless humans can now be treated as non human trash and thrown away. I wonder what segment of our population will next be declared worthless and disposable. I wonder where the Emerald editorial staff will stand on that issue. 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News and Editorial Display Advertising and Business Classified Advertising Production Circulation 686*5511 686-3712 666-4343 686-4381 686-5511 Outnumbered I can understand why the fun damentalist anti-choice people want enforced fertility for women within their ranks. What I don’t understand is why the fundamentalists insist that unruly feminists, amoral atheists, godless humanists, and promiscuous teenagers bear a child for every birth control failure they are subject to. I’d like to point out that the fun damentalists would be even more drastically outnumbered in generations to come if their fertility practices were adopted universally. They should stop while they are ahead. Hilary Anthony Eugene To heaven If a women was raped, then told that if she carried the fetus to full term there would be a good possibility of complica tions resulting in death or sickness, would you force this women to have this child? If you would force this women to risk this birth. I see you in the same light as those who would refuse a transfusion. I think most abortion foes would allow this woman an abortion. This is the key point. If you allow it for one in any circumstances, then you must allow it for others. No one knows the inner torture of the human mind. What is pain to one, as in the case of the rape, may be greater or equal to so meone that is pregnant not from rape. Free will is what it implies. The bottom line in the Chris tian argument is that the fetus has a soul at conception. If this is true, what’s the beef? The fetus can’t sin, so if aborted it goes to heaven. Now if T could go to the heaven the Christians talk about, I would gladly give up the 77 odd years on this earth and go straight from the abortion bucket to heaven. So in the long run look how many people are going to heaven without all the day-to-day pain, and without taking the chance of goofing up by sinning. If I had my druthers, I would rather have been aborted. Dan Suire History Retroactive In the past twelve years, millions of women have safely killed their children. Abortion has become easier than childbirth. A woman can make an appointment to have her baby eradicated at her conve nience. If a fetus isn't conve nient, a doctor is. I propose we take this one step further. How many women want a child when it starts cry ing or when' it turns thirteen? We live in a disposable society; we throw away things when we no longer want them. Why not add children to the list? Children are bio-degradable: no need to take them to the hospital for a deposit. If you plant them in your garden, they'll even enrich your soil (no more fish emulsion). And, as lonathon Swift pointed out. children make delicious meals; we could send them to Ethiopia. C.S. Lewis, a renowned Christian, said ‘‘Until you have it, you will not know what you wanted." Likewise, until you have a child, you don't know how you'll not want it. Many women have found out too late that they are not ready for a child. If abortion can correct errors in contraception, it should also correct errors in childbirth. Let's make abortion retroactive! Brian Moore English letters policy The Emerald will attempt to print all letters containing fair comment on topics of interest to the University community. Letters to the editor must be limited to 250 words, typed, signed and the identifica tion of the writer must be verified when the letter is turned in. The Emerald reserves the right to edit any letter for length, style or content. Letters to the editor should be turned into the Emerald office, Suite 300, EMU. L J Time: MIDNIGHT Place: 180P.L.C. $1.50 Week! Thursday, January 24, 1985
