I would like to commend you on the editorial on the pro-life presentation by Wells Hall.

As a person generally against abortion, I typically sympathize with the sentiments of pro-life advocates. Yet it seems that I can never support the actions of these same people.

The display was not to generate a heightened awareness of the issue, but propaganda that left me extremely disappointed. In all of their pamphlets with graphic photos and emotional literature, I found not one single piece of paper that actually presented facts without blurring it with opinion, nor were all of the sources given for the multitude of statistics. I believe the presentation was counterproductive.

Perhaps opinions can’t be avoided, but if these pro-life advocates really wanted to solve the problem, then they should present a viable solution that isn’t militant; perhaps then those supporting pro-choice (which is exactly that, not “pro-abortion”) could find a common ground. I did not see ONE pamphlet supporting counseling centers; nor a single pamphlet encouraging the use of birth control; nor a fund that may help provide the financial means to ease the burden of hospital bills; not even a request that day care be more available and less expensive.

Their proposed solution of making abortions illegal will never work. The entire country is not Christian, Jewish, nor Muslim. The beliefs of one group cannot change the behavior of another group that are not under the same religious rule.

To prove this, I need only give two examples: Prohibition and the war against illegal drugs.

Did people stop drinking?

Do we no longer have “crack babies?” I’m afraid not.

Irene Choi
animal science senior