Dear Editor: Why is it that many people who are pro-abortion (like Victoria Thompson, whose letter you printed Apyil 1) pin their argu- ments to the teenage rape victim? Whatever position one takes about that tragic situation, it is wildly atypical. Most abortions in British Columbia are performed on women between 18 and 28, and about 30% of them are performed on married women. Studies have consistently shown that few abortions are related to rape; typically a woman seeking abortion feels anxiety about rais- ing a child in an unmarried state or, if she happens to be married, doesn’t want the child for a varie- ty of socio-economic reasons. In either case there are thou- sands of prospective parents in this province who want to adopt babies and cannot find any to adopt. Which brings me to J.F. Laurence’s letter on the subject (April 3). Laurence argues that the NDP’s extraordinarity expanded new financing of abortion is related to the government’s fin- ding it cheaper to abort these in- fants than to pay for their upkeep. Apart from the callous, though admittedly frightening, implication that any government would aci on the principle of killing as an eco- nomic policy, it has been demon- strated in the United States and Rape-abortion argument just does’t wash other countries that the incidence of abortion, and particularly of repeat abortions, goes up when the procedure is made available on a widespread basis. In other words, tix: easier we make it to get an 9-.:ortion, the more of them will te jone. How about the escalatir.g cost of these ‘*procedures”” in an already over- burdened health care system? One in four abortions in B.C. is now a repeat abortion. So what does the NDP do? Through a draconian order-in- council designed to avoid debate in the legislature, it overrules local community hospital boards in order to force access to abortion in the part of Canada with the highest abortion rate. Laurence calls this a ‘‘rational’’ policy. It isn’t. Nor of course is it just to the thousands of preborn infants in this province whose lives are being so summarily destroyed at the taxpayers’ expense. Of note last year, incidentally, was a provincial referendum in Saskatchewan which rejected tax- Ppayer-supported elective abor- tions. The NDP government there has recently acknowledged that it will honor the referendum and consider suspending the funding of elective abortions. How about such a referendum for B.C.? Ross Labrie North Shore Pro Life Society Homeowners gouged Dear Editor: Once again, the homeowners of North Vancouver have reason to rejoice, for once again they will be paying some of the highest school taxes in British Columbia. Thanks to Finance Minister Glen Clark, who in one fell swoop has removed the Supplementary Homeowner Grant, the average North Vancouver homeowner will face an increase of $150 in his or her school taxes this year. The in- crease will be far more if there is a jump in the school board budget and the mill rate. Even senior citizens such as myself can expect to pay an extra $20 or $30 due to this change. The government has _ looked after its friend by giving the teachers the exhorbitant wage in- creases gouged from the school boards, but the homeowner is be- ing left to foot the bill. 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