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In concluding, the author of the article I
am responding to and America as a whole
should be appreciative towards Mr. Young
and Rev. Jackson. They compensate for
the lack of imagination and intelligence in
American international policy. Mr. Young
and Rev. Jackson are the last of a great
breed. Others that will follow Mr. Young
and Rev. Jackson will not be so helpful and
obliged to criticism.
Louis McClinton; Jr.
Freshman Graduate, Economics
Abortion discussed
A strange happening in Omaha was
reported by the Omaha World Herald on
Oct. 9, 1979. A Dr. C.J. La Bcnz was
routinely going about the business of
aborting a fetus when, unexpectedly out
came a live infant. How this "live infant"
came to be where it was was not explained,
but perhaps an investigation is in order.
What did the "live infant" do with the
"fetus" which should have been there? Was
this infant part of a conspiracy to
embarrass poor Dr. La Bcnz? Perhaps these
questions will never be answered, since Dr.
La Ben2 courteously did not interfere with
the infant's right to die, which it chose to
exercise hours later, Said the doctor:
" ! feel very badly. That is the last thing I
would ever want to happen to any patient
or the medical personnel involved. " In
deed; how rude of that "live infant" to
show up. When one has bought into the
abortion business, live birth is truly a
disaster.
How is it that our respect for life, our
concern for those who cannot care for
themselves has fallen so low that there is
only remorse for the "patient" and the
"medical personnel", and none for the
children who pay the ultimate price to pro
test our "right" to be economically well
off or free of inconveniences in our life
styles? In the recent past we were fed on the
idea that a Vxual revolution would
somehow solve almost any sort of ill. Now
we see the fruit of that revolution in terms
of rampant veneral disease, yearly unwed
teenage pregnancies in the hundreds of
thousands, skyrocketing divorce figures, no
decrease in rape and other sex crimes, In
creased homosexuality, etc. But question
the merit of the revolution? Never. Un
wanted pregnancies? Well, If contraception
cannot do the Job, then we will no longer
inhibit abortion. And today contraception
in this country fails 1 ,000,000 times each
year. How long will people continue to
Ignore this slaughter in our midst? How
long will people comfort themselves by
playing wor.d games, calling the same
organism a "fetus" if the parents decide to
abort and a "baby" if they decide, to keep
it? Life is life and if one form of humanity
does not deserve protection and respect,
then no form does.
In the last century, the United States
Supreme Court upheld the idea that black
people are chattel property in the Dred
Scott decision. In this century, in the 1973
Rowe v. Wade and Doe v. Boltott decisions,
the unborn were left with nbn-persort
status by the court. But as the former case
reminds us, the court is not an infallible
guide to truth. The. World Herald story
mentioned above only serves to illustrate
how tragic the 1973 decision was.
. The Nebraskan was bombarded with
outraged letters at the thought of two men
allegedly being denied a seat in a poetry
class, and that is well; I'm sure it was a
painful experience. We will never be able to
ask that nameless 'live infant" what it
experienced as it died. But perhaps we will
find the courage to ask ourselves why there
was so little outrage over this greater crime.
Terry J. Christlieb
1633 Q Street
Correction
the Daily Nebraskan ombudsman in
correctly stated Friday in his column that
Catherine Kid well does not Visit the
Women and Poetry class. She .does visit the
class.
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