Dear Bob Hunter:

A short while ago you
wrote a column in which you
chastised yourself for writing
a dumb article condemning
smokers. Well you, have

done it again. Your “Lament -

for July 1” qualifies as
another dumb = article.
Mostly I enjoy your “Strictly
Personal’ but
something else. Why knock
this country? What is there
to apologize for? This is a
gfeat country. Not_ perfect,
perhaps, but any country
that can produce a Terry
Fox and the people who
responded to him can't be all
bad. We have provided
peace-keeping forces in a

af

that is

number of trouble spots
around the world. Given:
help and support to people
less fortunate than our-
selves. Perhaps not as much.
as we might have but we
have no need to feel
ashamed -of our con-
tribution.

During the 40s and 50s you
grew up in the Old Canada

you loved, men of the east
coast went abou their

‘ business fishing and clubbing

baby harp seals, without fear
of being accused of brutal
barbarism. While on the
west coast we had a thriving
whale industry. All of this

went on before the flim-flam .

artists | of | Greenpeace
discovered that making us

- feel guilty. about it was an

excellent fund-raising ploy.

We really don’t need to have’

our noses rubbed in it to
know there is no nice way to
kill anything. Unfortunately
in this world all creatures
great-and small prey on each
other in a quest for survival.
And all foul their own en-
vironment. That is life and
there is little we can do to
change it.

On the political scene,
even then as. now, Oritario
and Quebec, had the heaviest

concentration of population
and in'a democracy numbers

Deserting babies
is far worse

Dear Editor:

‘In a recent edition of the
North Shore News there was
a story with the headline
*Mother Theresa Hits
Abortion.”

We, the women of North
America, are being asked to
follow the example of the
“purity and Faith” of the
women of India, who, rather
than have an abortion, will
leave their newborn infants
in the dustbins, in the hopes
that someone will find and
care for them.

In a country with so much
poverty, over-population
and human despair I wonder
just how many of these
children will get rescued
from the dustbins. I wonder
also which is the worst form
of murder, the abortion of a
fetus or the slow starvation
of a full-term newborn child?

I do not have the right to
say to other women whether
abortion is right or wrong.
abortion is a very emotional

and personal thing:
however, I do not un-
derstand the reasoning
against birth control.
Natural birth control

methods are very unreliable
at the best of times. There

must be some kind of a

compromise and birth ©
control. seems the most ~
logical. ee

We in North America are. -

very lucky, we are not in the
terrible sense of desperation

that we feel we must desert -

our newborns in the dust- _

bins. We are in a situation
where we can, with the aid

of birth control and birth =:

control information, make
each child a wanted one. We
do have the right to choose
without the right to “mur-
der”. Perhaps it is time that
we try to make that choice
available to the women of
the underdeveloped
countries as well.

Sue Cook
North Vancouver

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