A8&- Sunday News, July 19, 1981 Dear Editor: Th. at actions of the “pro life” majority on the Board of the Surrey Memorial Hospital should alert the North Shore to the very real danger of electing supporters ofa single issue to our own hospital. Dear Editor: . “Who Cares” advertisement by a pro- abortion group in your reads the newspaper. I do! I care about the millions of helpless creatures being killed because of unwanted pregnancies. They cannot speak for themselves so I must speak for them. However, I am not ad- dressing myself here to the women who submit their freedom of choice by choosing contraception as a much preferablé solution to ” Dear Editor: A bylaw brought in by the North Vancouver District planners is threatening to downgrade whole areas in the District. It allows anyone to build a garage or carport (double) nght out within five feet of the road line and nght up to the next neighbor's hne. This bylaw was brought in In Surrey, the therapeutic abortion eommittee has been dissolved once again, also a special education program on human sexuality despite the fact that American statistics show an average 35% reduction im abortions where this type of program is available. the problem. I can understand that as far as they are concerned they are simply getting rid, in a now socially acceptable way, of an unwanted growth - a ‘blob of jelly’ - that has invaded their bedies and threatens their way of life. They do not see the result - the torn human flesh, the bits of tiny arm or leg, hand or foot that is thrown in the garbage. Perhaps it is just as well for them that they do not. - But what of those who apparently to. satisfy the developers and to hell with the rest of the property owners. Their homes for the most part were built 25 to 35 years ago. The streets were jdaid out and the houses aligned to produce a well laid out and “planned — acigh- borhood. Homeowners, wu could happen to you. A look at the comer ol ust se It appears that “pro supporters would deny human . sexuality and withhold information on bir- th control, even as they would deny ALL abortions including those for a victim of rape or incest. in September last year we exercised our democratic life” carry out this gruesome work - the doctors and nurses? They do see these things. Maybe, being niore accustomed to the routine of surgical operations the mere sight of blood and guts is noi disturbing to them. But that routine is normally in the service of relieving pain. curing disease, and saving life. Don't they see that this is different? J find wt horrifying thai apparently they do not. How do they satisfy their con- science? How do they sleep rights and voted by 2-1 to Maintain a_ representative hospital board. Let us do the same this year and keep our hospital a community hospital ready to serve ALL the needs of ALL the people. We must get out and vote at the Annual General at night? It is a terrible thing to have to say but I cannot help thinking of Nazi Germany, Belsen, Buchenwald and the many doctors who performed frightful experiments on pnsoners who. to their lords and masters, were just ‘blobs of jelly’. Will some member of the medical profession answer! Will some member of a hospital board who approves of abortion on demand answer? And please do not say what one member of the Lions Gate board did cause ruin Ridgewood and Bluebonnet Rd. will show you whai might happen lo WURwos tas dylaw is withdrawn -ihe ve vu planner or planners who brought in ‘has developer-onented Oviaw should be fired if ius an abominable disgrac + I sugges’ the mayor and aldermen ‘ake go took ao ihis proyect al the LONE mentioned comer and pel Tidy up West Vancouver Dear Editor: Upon reading our Mayor's surring words regarding the lovely homes and gardens in West Vancouver, I am motivated to write in the hope that we might al! show more concern for those same properties. On the street where I hve. _..in the most exciting years of your life... 30...40...50... there are no curbs or side- walks lo encourage neatness. The roadside in front of most properties is overgrown with weeds and two foot Mmgh grass. 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