Wednesday, March 3, 1982
Daily Nebraskan
page 5
kM Letters
Clinic's role explained
v ,!n-rf?p?nse t0 Chr,s ,vocni8 s letter (Daily Nebraskan,
Hb. 22), I would like to clarify a point in her response on
Planned Parenthood.
Working as a volunteer at Planned Parenthood of
Ijncoln, I have helped with programs for high schools and
newcomers to our clinic. Those programs have included
information about birth control methods. When we go to
a high school, we usually give birth control information
that is available at our clinic; we also tell teen-agers it's all
right to say "no," and we try to promote communication
between parents and teen-age couples.
However, the choice to say "no" is not handed over
our counter in prescription form. This choice is available
inside the person in that situation. This option should be
taught to teen-age couples and supported by the family
and the church.
As the earlier letter mentioned, the course of teen-age
pregnancy is on the rise. It is obvious that this message is
not being taken very seriously from all three parties: The
church, the family and the teen-age couple.
Our philosophy is not "Do it, but don't get caught."
Our philosophy is that every child should be a wanted
child .
It is very sad for us to think about teen-agers who try
to follow the Pope's stance on birth control and do not
have the will power to commit themselves to it. More than
50 percent of the teen-age couples who come to us for
help have been sexually active for a year. What happens to
teen-agers who come in too late for our help: Single
parent families, forced marriages, abortion, or deformed
children because the teen-age mother did not know how
to take care of herself during the pregnancy. At Manned
Parenthood, we would like to sec this lesson taught
through our help.
In the earlier letter, the overtone is that the sex act has
only one purpose: To have children. Planned Parenthood
does not offer the easy way out for people who have sex.
We simply provide information and birth control methods
to couples who believe sex is a natural spontaneous act
and that children do not have to be the outcome.
Chris Ccrny
Freshman
' Undeclared
Statement discriminates
March 2, I read in the Daily Nebraskan that Dr. Paul
Cameron, chairman of the Committee to Oppose Special
Rights for Homosexuals, make the following comment:
"If people choose to discriminate against homosexuals,
it's their right under the Constitution. As a heterosexual,
that doesn't bother me."
It occurred to me that this declaration is a very useful
and general one, having implicit in its form the capacity to
express virtually and discriminatory sentiment. Consider
its range of applications. Now anyone, however inarticul
ate and muddled of thought, can compound his very own
classist, racist or sexist rationalization with a minimum of
effort by the following methods: Just read the passage
again, after replacing the pair of words, "homosexuals,
heterosexual," with any other pair of relevant cultural or
political descriptors. Some examples are: "blacks, white;"
"woman, man;" "the poor, upper-middle-class member;"
and "Jews, Nazi."
A few words of caution are in order for those who in
tend to use this method. First, not that the phrases used
in each pair have different pluralities; hence, some
attention must be given to their constitution. The utterer
of an instance of Cameron's statement will not be able to
preserve the fragile illusion of his intelligence if care is not
taken in respect of the plurality complication.
Second, the phrases in question are ordered; the first
must be chosen from the class of nouns applying to the
oppressed, and the second must be chosen from the class
of nouns applying to the privileged. A user of the method
who produces an instance of Cameron's statement
without regard for the order of the arguments may be
variously regarded as a flaming liberal, a reverse -dis-
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criminator or a very naive individual, depending upon the
character of his audience.
For those readers who would like to use this method to
express themselves but who feel It is entirely too demand
ing, I offer the following restatement of Cameron's com.
mcnt, which covers all cases and expresses the underlying
sentiment even more explicitly than does the original.
"We who are in power here consider it our undeniable
right to behave in whatever way will preserve our power.
Moreover, we arc untouched by the difficulties that pre
vadc the lives of our less powerful contemporaries, and wc
refuse to give any consideration to their problems."
RcbeccaS.de la Motte
Senior
Chemistry
Church must reconsider
This letter is in response to the guest opinion by Jay
Vankat (Daily Nebraskan, Feb. 23) concerning the Catho
lic Church and world overpopulation.
Without going into endless arguments of what is moral
ly correct and the reams of figures available concerning
world overpopulation and food supply trends, I want to
present a few facts:
The earth is of finite size and resources, and can sup
port only a finite population. We are accelerating toward
that finite limit geometrically and will reach it within 10
generations.
The population growth rate of the nations of the world
is roughly proportional to their illiteracy rate. In other
words, when people become educated enough to weigh
the options they choose birth control, regardless of their
religion.
How the Catholic Church and the rest of us should deal
with these facts may deserve some rethinking. It seems
irresponsible to ignore the obvious.
Ray Stark
Senior
Engineering
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