6 - Friday, July 7, 1989 — North Shore News INSIGHTS Lawbreaking Pro Lifers — hearts with no heads! MONDAY‘S BUCK-PASSING ABORTION decision by the U.S. Supreme Court has spurred Pro Life’s pathetic kamikazes to fresh assaults on Everywoman's Health Centre — the Vancouver abortion clinic. They’re pathetic not because of what's in their hearts but because of what's missing in their heads. Even when cut loose from their concrete blocks with blow torches and carted off to a well-deserved jail cell, they seem incapable of grasping realities. The abortion battle involves not only beliefs. It invoives politics — which means that neither hard-core Pro Lifers (who would ban ALL abortions) nor hard-core Pro Choicers (who want tax-funded abortion on demand) can ever win. They can’t win because both are muinorities, as shown by every opi- nion poll in recent years. A major- ity of Canadians oppose so-called ‘lifestyle’ abortions, sought primarily for reasons of conve- nience. But in varying degree they accept the justification for abor- tions in certain other circumstances — including incest, rape, a threat to the mother’s life or health, or a serious defect in the fetus that would Icave the child physically or mentally crippled for life. If the Mulroney government ever gathers the courage to fegislate a national solution (and don’t hold your breath), it will be somewhere in this middle ground, leaving the extremist minorities on both sides still futilely kicking and screaming. Ottawa’s tempting cop-out, however, may be to dump the baby, so to speak, in the lap of the provinces — by allowing THEM to decide whether to fund abortions or even permit the operation in public hospitals. Precisely because of Pro Life’s right to fight for its beliefs by every legal mear:, the self-destroy- ing tactics of its !awbreaking shock growth. inlet bridges. not so obvious. pro; made now. cell. Ses OR GREE, ] ‘ech ff igh-tech payo OVIDING adequate growing room for the Pr Shore’s blossoming high-tech industry should be a high priority for all three of the area’s municipal governments. Figures released from a recent report into the rapid growth of the local high-tech sector show that 70 per cent of companies surveyed anticipate having to move within the next five years to accommodate business Topping the list of new sites are Burnaby, Surrey and Langley, where space is at less of a premium and transportation acecss unimyeded by congested Burrard The benefits of cultivating such vital homegrown industries on the Nerth Shore are obvious — increased -employment, expanded municipal revenues through business and property taxes, higher local prestige, a targer local industrial base that will in turn feed a larger number of support businesses — but the strategies for keeping those industries homegrown are Available iands for large industriai expansion on the North Shore are fast disappearing, and those areas rem:iining largely comprise environznentally sensitive perty. Bat if the North Shore is to remain a vital and cre- ative high-tech force im the future, decisions must be High tech can pay great environmental dividends, as shown by the local development of a non-polluting fuel Careful planning to integrate high-tech businesses anto the North Shore environment will benefit both. troops are just plain dumb. Since abortion will never be TOTALLY banned, they would serve their cause infinitely better by pushing for a restrictive but humane feder- al law and prometing the positive alternatives to abortion — more effective birth control (including self-control) education and in- creased adoptions which thousands of infertile couples desperately seek. In’a democratic society the head can be the heart's best ally. The heart alone can be its own worst enemy. kat POSTSCRIPTS: Keep your weather fingers crossed for sum- mer’s big musical event at Water- front Park: the open-air Van- couver Symphony Concert on August 17 — admission free, but tring your own chair and blanket. David Alsop’s committee has now raised the $30,000 needed to stage the show, most of it from local businesses, and it includes rain in- surance, of course. But alas, the VSO has no other open date this year, so if Environment Canada screws up, you'll have to wait until 1990... Sad to note the passing, June 29, of West Van's Cliff Upham (Wednesday World, May 31}. The 91-year-old World War One veteran of Vimy Ridge — last surviving member of the first B.C. Sea Scout Troop and winner of the Medal of Merit 73 years ago fora Fraser River rescue — was named honorary commodore of the an- nual Sea Scouts Regatta only a month before his death... A North Shore-based prize went overtown this year when King George Sec- ondary grad Ashecf Jamal received the Max Turner Memorial Award from West Van's George Parkes, president of tiie Vancouver Central Lions Club. The late Max Turner, himself a past Lions Club presi- dent, was a New Zealand flyer who settled in North Van after the war, a founder of Seymour Golf Club and very actively involved in local community life... Bet- ter-late-than-never Diamond greet- ings to West Van’s Fred and Emily Walker who tied the knot in Engiand June 21, 1929 — choosing that date because it was also Emi- ly’s 21st birthday!... Congrats to- day, July 7, to the latest members of the ‘‘Golden Club,”’ Mel and Evelyn Bryar, who’ve lived in North Van for all of their 59 mar- tied years. Mel is remembered as a former city alderman and an MLA in the 1950s, and two special guests at their party will be Dan and Babs Newton — their best man and bridesmaid on July 7, 1939... 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