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frlday, may 1, 1981
daily nebraskan
page 5
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Pro-choice logic fogs issue
May 1 take this opportunity to comment on Ellen
Goodman's article that appeared in the 42981 issue of
the Daily Nebraskan? Her arguments concerning the
Human Life Bill will obviously lead readers to inaccurate
conclusions and should be corrected.
Ms. Goodman's observation that what the scientists
agreed upon in the Senate hearings is that human "biolog
ical" life does indeed begin at conception is the very fact
that the pro-life movement has been declaring since 1973.
As she stated, "even the most ardent pro-choice advocates
will willingly confess that he or she was once a zygote."
What Ms. Goodman and other pro-choice people do not
understand is that there is no significant difference be
tween a human zygote, a human infant, a human child, a
human adolescent, and a human adult. The scientific
name, zygote, or the realistic name, unborn child, is the
name of the first stage of human development. Human
beings deserve the protection of their right to life at every
stage of development. Abortion is not a "fierce, unabating
. . . controversy" over who has more claim to protection,
the unborn child or the mother, there is no controversy,
both persons deserve equal claim to protection.
In another statement, Ms. Goodman argues that, "The
Human Life raises a host of sticky constitutional issues
about the relationship between Congress and he courts."
Again this is misleading and false. Precedent was set on
the voting-rights legislation in which Congress went
further than the courts did in outlawing the practices of
certain states. Again and again, pro-choice advocates try
to cloud the central issue of whether or not the unborn
child is a person. Need a person have to meet certain
"complex legal and philosophical terms" in order to be
defined as a human being? Using this logic, what segment
of people will be the next to be crossed off the human
being list? the elderly? the handicapped?
Douglas Novak
UNL Students for L.I.F.E.
President
Statement was not criticism
In an article about the new lounges, in east Lincoln
which appeared in the March 5, Daily Nebraskan, I was
quoted as the manager of the Neighbors Lounge as saying,
"I think people are tired ot tne downtown bar scene, and
the lounges out here provide a welcome change."
I feel that I was misinterpreted and that the statement
was used out of context, therefore many people took this
statement as a criticism of the downtown bars and
lounges.
In the conversation with the reporter, I did comment
that for a variety of reasons such as the hustle and bustle,
the crowds, poor parking facilities, etc., many people have
grown tired of the downtown bar scene and for those
people who are tired of it, the lounges in east Lincoln
have a lot to offer.
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In, bowling, there's a term called overcorrection. It
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