Daily Emerald Editorial Let Supreme Court abortion ruling stand if Cov KocnH'i (Ini'Mi l veto tIn* bill, Louisi .mo mav sunn have the strictest almrtinn law in the country Since the l .'.S Supreme (inert s ruling on the W'rb '•/cr vs Rcprodiu ti\ r Health Servit es case, many states have tried to pass some very restrictive abortion laws This fall. Oregon nun be facing some of its own abor tion law challenges So tar none of these attempts at restricting legal abortions has passed l p until now that is In a last minute attempt to push an anti abortion bill through the Louisiana State 1 egi.slature the Senate reworked a Hag burning measure into an anti-abortion bill Sunday evening previous drat! of the trill which banned all abortions except those to end preg nancies that endanger a woman's life, was vetoed last week in the governor and the Legislature < mild not muster enough votes tor an override. The legislators were obviously desperate to pass some kind of bill restrir ting abortion betore the session ended It seems tli.it many of these stair's are trying to pass anti-abortion bills just to challenge the lU7.t I' S Su premo Court ruling in Roe vs Wade. Perhaps instead of trying to overthrow an already existing decision, these states should work toward ways of preventing pregnancy and creating lietter programs for helping women rear and support children once they are born. The decision to birth an child or to abort it in volves many considerations. Economics play a large part in the decision. When legislators contemplate dif ferent means of outlawing abortion they don’t seem to look at the whole picture. The United vStates has one of the worst support sys tems of any highly industrialized country for low-in come parents. While many European countries allow abortion, they also provide excellent medical, psycho logical and monetary support for women with chil dren. By providing these services they express to their citizens a true value for life. These values have nothing to do with religion but with a deep respect for human life On the other hand the United States offers little as sistance to families in need Medical benefits often will not cover the cost of prenatal care and delivery. Aid to families does not even cover the cost of rent on decent apartment Food stamps might last three weeks out of the month With ser\ i< es like these it is no wonder that many women chose to have an abortion instead of a child. It is time that our politicians got off the anti-abortion bandwagon and tried something new, something as simple as supporting the life that already exists Uov Buddy Roemer made a smart move when lie vetoed the anti abortion bill that i ame at mss his desk last week We hope he will continue this pattern and veto the new version. 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The l'man)Id reserves the right to edit any letter for length or style Letters Affects people Honestlv, don't wo have the right to expet t that efforts to present or defend a controver sud position should amount to something more than merely stating, "tins is true because I s.n it is true 1' Yet. that is es sentially the line of argument advanced In Deborah Frist h in her attempt to show that homo sexuality is not a moral issue She tells us that if a person's behavior does not attei t anoth er person then it is not moral behavior Hut. when confronted with her own counter example of homosexuals holding hands in publit causing another per son to feel sii h she is unable to s.iv il that beli.n ior uitei ts other persons in wav whit h counts as moral She merely re sorts to her unsupported i laim that homosexuaiitv is not a moral issue Yet by using her ovv n del mi lion namely, that a behav ior must have an offer t upon others to be regarded as moral, the only possible t mu lusion is that homosexual behavior is moral, unless, ot i ourse. she is refer ring onh to totally personal