4 - Sunday, March 27 , WRITING ABOUT the abortion issue, one risks feedback as well as friend- ships. Here's part of one letter, spell- ing corrected: “*t would like to congratulate you on your courage to air your view, that is inspired by the Truth, on the abortion subject... “While this debate gocs on, thousands of innocent conceptions are being murdered in the name of protecting the rights of choice of Noodthirsty she-ogres like the Hindu god Kali worshippers. ~ “Now only do they kill fetuses, but they buy +r take children from welfare and unwed mothers and sacrifice them to their gods in bloody rituals of immolation here in British Columbia! “The feminist movement is tak- ing power of government agencies and are infiltrating lawyers’ offices and hospitals. I have visited several Human Resources offices and found that the staff are all women... “*The social workers who belong to various cults are planning to breed the children of the poor for parts for the dengenerates of the rich, deceiving the world with their ‘humane’ purposes. ¢.g.: Now that I have no right to protect my children, they can knock them on the head, take them to the hospi- tal, pronounce them dead and rip their organs out to transplant in the children of the rich. “In the hope for a saner world, 1AM...” Another comes in the form of a Help Preserve B.C.’s Valuable Wildlife. : Attend the | Wildlife Awareness Series 1 ROBSON MEDIA CENTRE } MONDAYS 7:00PM-9:30PM jf FEBRUARY 29 - APRIL 25 TICKETS $4 H For more information | please contact: | Northwest Wildlife Preservation Society | P.O. Box 34129, Sin. D Vancouver, B.C. V6J 4N3 (604) 736-8750 1988 - North Shore News typed story which the person who sent it claims is true, that ‘it hap- pened in the City of Vancouver in the 1960s, and the therapist and the man are still alive.” Here's a slightly edited version: “A young man came into the office with a problem of hostility towards his father...Upon sug- gesting that he relax and meditate for a few minutes into his past to try to pick up where and when this hostility began, a most unusual phenomenon occurred. With his eyes closed he said and did the fol- lowing: “Mom is so happy. She has just come from the doctor, who told her that we are on the way. We are in the kitchen waiting for Dad to come in and we can hear him com- ing up the stairs. Now she’s telling him. A look of horror came over (the young man’s) face and (he) started to twitch. He said ‘he doesn’t want us. He wants her to get rid of us.’ (The young man) began to cry. “Interestingly, some months later, the young man's mother came into the office to discuss a problem. During the conversation she was asked how she felt about having chiidren. (She had nine, in- cluding a set of twins, of which the former clicnt was one.) “Her response was, ‘I always loved having babies and wanted all of them.’ When asked if her hus- band felt the same way...she paus- ed for a moment and said, ‘You know... before we had the twins, he was having some financial pro- blems and wasn’t too happy when I told him a baby was on the way...He became very angry and { pounded the kitchen table with a fist, and told me J would have to get rid of it. | didn’t pay any at- tention, and the next morning he was O.k. ‘*Asked if she knew she was having twins, she replied, ‘Not un- til the birth began.’ She said she was five weeks pregnant when she first visited the doctor. “The questions — how were memory and perceptual senses present if there is no life at five weeks? What type of awareness (or consciousness) must exist for this memory to be recalled?"* The most interesting bit of feed- back to me personally was a col- umn by Trevor Lautens in The Sun, He solved an intellectual pro- blem for me by expressing, so clo- quently, the way in which an ecological awareness leads one in- evitably to the conclusion that the flow of life is truly indivisible, and that as onc learns to regard all life — not just one’s own species — as sacred, sooner or later such a view must come to bear on the issuc of abortion. It was an odd experience reading Trevor's column because, even though my mind has been going through exactly the sort of evolu- tion over the years that he was describing, and Iam in the business, for goodness sake, of constantly examining and re-ex- amining ideas, | never quite saw the step-by-step logical connections until Trevor put them down in words. Thanks, old egg. 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