% 14 - Sunday, February 7, 1988 - Nosth Shore News THE ONLY thing good to be found in all this interminable, brawling, high-decibel argument about the pros and cons of the Supreme Court's agreement with the views and actions of that creepy little man, Morgentaler, is that we may now have some relief from pictures and news of share the flame marches, AIDS victims, children having liver transplants and Indian land claims. We will be assailed about abortion for a long time to come. The op- ponents of abortion have a strong case to argue because they have a good grasp of history and the abil- ity to recognize evil when they see “it. The pro-abortionists, who revel in the excitement of the present, think this is history and cannot recognize, let alone spell, evil and make a strong case of what they deem liberty and justice for all. This will take a long time to shake out. dL does not seem to enter the pro-abortionist minds that they are taking part in anything evil.” 1 have had a rare, personal ex- perience with abortion; and am one of rare few who survived to tell the tale. When I was a grown man, about 32, full of the robust confidence that only truly wanted children ex- hibit, my old Ma invited me to sit down as she had something she wished to tell me. My old Ma, let me tell you, was. a character. A five-foot English coal miner’s daughter, she had no use for self pity or pretentiousness. She wanted to tell me that she had once tried to abort me, but the effort had failed. I do not know whether she was trying to confess a sin, bring me down to size or just - have an interesting conversation. “Tell all, you wicked woman,’’ said I. “Well,’’ she said, ‘‘my girlfriend Laele and I were both pregnant. Your father and Laele’s husband were both temporarily out of work and both of them went on and on about how we couldn't afford to have any more kids.”’ “The more they kept after us, the angrier we became. We both wanted you babies. One day, we decided to teach them both a lesson they wouldn't forget ina hurry. We persuaded a man to take us for a ride in his old McLaughlin-Buick touring car with 0 shock absorbers and stiff springs for a wild ride over the plowed fields of Lulu Island, hop- ing this would shake both of you kids loose. “It didn't work. All Laele and I got out of it was bruised behinds and sore heads from hitting the solid ash ribs on the roof. Well, what do you think of that?"’ “Hmmmm. This could be very useful. Now I can clicit tons of sympathy from the simple and the kindly unwary by tclling them I was an unwanted child. On the other hand, { admire your effort. There is no mule on earth as stub- born and obdurate as my old Man and yours was the only way to br- ing him to his senses." (I can’t help speculating, though, from time to time, what might have happened if my magnificent little fetus, with its splendid genes, had happened to fall upon and fertilize a champion strawberry plant in Lulu Island. We might have taken Grand Champion strawberry at interna- tional fairs and changed the whole world.) But let us be serious, now. Trevor Lautens of the wimpish Vancouver Sun has taken an honest stand about abortion. ! agree with him. Lautens wrote: “The Supreme Court of Canada is wrong. Abortion remains an evil. This was a court that donned not robes but skateboards. “No casuistry, no counting out of how many Morgentalers can dance or ihe head of a pin — nothing can change an evil that elects death over life, chooses fear over hope, sacrifices the best hope for the future for a tawdry pres- ent’s toys ... and is a caricature of living. ‘Never use the word bestial to describe human behavior. It is a libel on the beast. No creature above tlie level of amoebic life eats ULTDAATE PACKAGE KING or QUEEN for a day Six hours of total pamper: § ing trom our unique Health & Beauty Centre. " DELUXE PACKAGE Body Massage & Reflexology its own future, tears its offspring out of itself, and smiles and goes shopping the next day.”* There is no doubt that all this abortion on demand is evil. None of the wild huzzahs and cries of victory and liberation will wash out or paint over that stern fact. It does not seem to enter the pro-abortionist minds that they are taking part in anything evil. Why should it, when they cannot recognize the reality of it? Few parents, teachers and preachers have been talking about the reality of good and bad, good and evil, anymore. There is little concensus now among their stunted victims about what is ac- ceptable behavior and what is not. A few generations ago — before the academics, the intelligentsia and the rabid progressives manag- ed to scorn to death the former concensus of views of decent, civi- lized behavior, every community knew the meaning of an uplifted, reproachful eyebrow and the phrase: ‘‘This is simply not donc.”’ In previous, relatively vencreal disease-free generations, a girl who made herself widely available was correctly termed a slut, who should be avoided. (They used blunt honest speech in the bad old days; we shudder at that and deal in euphemisms in these new, enlightened progressive days). Previously, a young woman who became pregnant out of wedlock was in a state of disgrace, the young man who caused her pregnancy was ordered to do the manly and gentlemanly thing by marrying her, with or without a shotgun at his back. Those now celebrating their Supreme Court victory, because they hear no evil, speak no evil and see no evil in what they are now prepared to do, can almost be forgiven their effrontery in demanding that all abortion on demand must be paid for out of the public purse. This is but one more sign of their self-centred views. Do not make us laugh, with phoney cries of discrimination against poor women. Surely the boyfriend or the husband or the numerous groups who urged her to do this thing, could ante up the one or two hundred bucks for a few minutes exposure to Dr. Morgentaler’s marvellous suction machines. Unless, of course, any sense of personal responsibility is lacking. 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