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Vander Zalm for Pope?
Abortion is not morally acceptable OR - abortion is the choice that any woman expecting has a right to make. These -twostatements constitute the views, basically, of both the Riqht to Life and the Pro-choice groups: Each is aware of circurnstarices where abortion is necessary, and r~hilethe first allows that a life-threatening situation to the mother warrants termination, the second justifyably includes pregnancies resulting from rape, incest and unions that have made a fetus horribly deformed Pro-Choice wants more emancipation for women from having to bear and raise a child that would live its life in grinding poverty or in any situation where it will not receive the care required - the food, the love, the multiple needs of any human alive. These all seem to be valid reasons why the term 'unwanted' is used. But enough of this academic reasoning; this isn't the subject of a boardroom debate or a classroom exercise. The Abortion laws of this country have been struck down as unconstitutional. and now the spectre of anti-
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its ugly head - with mucky morals and narrow-minded pronouncements by those presently in control to impose their philosophy on the people of this province without giving any credence to the rationale of Pro-choice. Vander Zalm and his minions have just given the game to Right to Life by making t k responsibility of the government sufficiently vague to allow anti-abortionists - and I mean ANPI - to cmtinue to decide whether Cont. pg. 1 2