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| More Debate on the Abortion Issue by Emily Rockenfelder, Vice-President of UC Students for Life |
To the editor:
Yeah, I'm one of the pro-lifers that pounded the 1,100 crosses into the ground on Sept. 29.
I'm the one who some would point their ignorant fingers to calling me a doctor killer, a terrorist, a bomb dropper or whatever you think I am. Let me open your eyes for a minute--I am everything but that.
Just because a very small percentage of the pro-life movement decides to contradict themselves by killing to prevent murder does not by any means include the entire movement.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but those crosses didn't terrorize or kill anyone last Monday.
Their purpose was to mourn those 4,400 innocent Americans that are terrorized and put to death every day by having their skulls crushed with forceps and their remains ripped and sucked out of their mothers' wombs.
Oh, and thank you Miss Collier for informing me in your article on Sept. 30 that this barbaric slaughtering called abortion is legal.
If you pay close attention to present day laws and politics, you will find that even though some things are legal, they're not necessarily right. Abortion falls into that category.
Now abortion is called freedom of "choice." Well, I'm going to go ahead and take the rose-colored glasses off the work "choice" and give it its proper meaning--death.
Believe it or not, I am all for women's rights. I am the feminist that sees the entire picture, not just the fifteen minute procedure.
Most people are not aware that 90 percent of women that have had abortions will suffer from post abortion syndrome later in life.
If you resaerch this mental disease, you will find that a life time of regret and depression by far overweighs the "pain" of carrying a child to term.
Local abortion clinics such as Planned Parenthood hide this fact very cleverly. Why wouldn't they? They're making $300-$500 every fifteen minutes. If you add up a day's work in this sick business, that's a lot of your money going into their pockets.
If you didn't get a chance to read Amberdawn Collier's article on Tuesday, you just missed a bunch of whining and false accusations about the whole adoption system and the expenses she believes are involved that give her reason to be pro-death.
According to Lutheran social services (a local adoption agency), if a woman has medical insurance (which most women do), all expenses are paid for until the baby is born.
Then the adopting parents take over expenses. If a woman is on welfare, all expenses are also paid through the nine months.
If a woman does not have medical insurance and is not on welfare than she only has to pay 2% of her annuanl income.
If we add up the cost of an abortion and the cost of possible therapy down the road, we are looking at a much bigger figure coming out of the woman's pocket if she decides to termniate her child rather than giving it up for adoption.
Collier asks who will adopt these children. Again, according to Lutheran, the waiting list is now over two years.
So please, Collier, get your facts first before making your assumptions. It is hard to respond to all the questions and reactions that come with the issue of abortion in one small article.
I just wanted to get a few things clear on where UCSFL (UC Students For Life) stands and to inform you of why we stand against abortion in all circumstances. We'll save the rape and incest issue for another rainy day.
Until then, understand we are trying to help women, not take away their rights. We are trying to reserve those rights from the very beginning.
This article taken from the University of Cincinnati Student Newspaper, The News Record Weekend Edition, October 9-12, 1997.
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