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Unwanted children worse than abortion

With all the same old regurgitated pro/anti-choice letters lately, I thought I'd take a third angle at it. I'm pro-abortion, meaning I don't only think that there should be a choice, but that it should be done more often. The hard-core religious right always goes on about the right to life, but what about the rights of the parents (notice not just mother) to life, liberty and namely the pursuit of happiness? Whether the pro-life crowd is willing to admit it or not, unwanted pregnancies ruin lives, especially teen pregnancies.

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ASMSU selling out untrue; facts omitted

The column by Philip Moon, "ASMSU is selling out its constituents with Mobile Campus service" (SN 2/09), failed to press the importance of several points about the bill passed by Student Assembly. The most important being that bill 42-60 does not force MSU into a contract with Mobile Campus.

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Education funds high priority for governor

In her recent letter to the editor, "Gov.

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Wait to banish Coke

As you sit there in the cafeteria, reading your copy of The State News (hopefully), the pop you're drinking symbolizes a large debate on campus. The Students for Economic Justice, or SEJ, accuse Coca-Cola of treating workers poorly and being anti-union.

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'Truth' of Bible can't be believed with history of additions, deletions

I recently walked by the hilariously entertaining Wells Hall preachers and heard one proclaim "the Bible is truth; everything else is lies." After laughing, I remembered that such bibliolatry is disturbingly common.

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Vengeance against preachers not sweet

I think just about everybody who has passed Wells Hall lately has been confronted by the notorious preachers.

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Take your pick

Five people will compete in the primary today for the Senate seat vacated by Virg Bernero, mayor of Lansing.

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SN misleads readers with MCRI editorial

The State News editorial titled "Bad move with MCRI" (SN 2/13) is misleading on two fronts. First, you give too much weight to the fraud claims directed against petition circulators while ignoring the accusers.

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Fetuses show human traits, have own lives

As the mother of a 5-month-old beautiful, "baby girl," not "baby fetus," I am disgusted at the carelessness and lack of knowledge of women in our society. I am not going to indulge in the battle of whether aborting your child is wrong or right — you all can make your own moral decisions. My issue here is the ignorance of some people who might in fact disagree with my opinion but have little real knowledge of birth. A baby or "fetus" in the first trimester has a beating heart.

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Some apology

Fred Poston is sorry students were inappropriately teargassed last April 2-3. Poston, the vice president for finance and operations at MSU, made an apology at a joint meeting between Residence Halls Association and ASMSU, MSU's undergraduate student government.

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Censoring images inhibits free speech

After all the commentary — "Freedom of press must be respected; violence not suitable reaction," "People skirting issues, merely comment on 'tastelessness' of images" and "Danish cartoon depiction inaccurate perception; needlessly offensive" (SN 2/14) — about the Danish cartoons which depicted Muhammad in an offensive light, one question stands out: Should the right to freedom of speech protect offensive or tasteless speech? I must absolutely say yes.

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Logical arguments by 'pro-death' flawed

I am writing in response to the letter by Jocelyn Peirce, "Abortion, Holocaust can't be compared" (SN 2/15). We endlessly listen to pro-choicers talk about the rights of the mother, but what of the father's?

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Cells are living, basis of all living things

This is in response to the letter by Shane Krouse, "Fetus not living until it exits womb, born" (SN 2/08). I'm 20 years old and still rely on my parents for survival. Yeah, this seems like an absurd claim, to compare a 20-year-old to an unborn child, but when do you draw the line?

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Begin with stem cells

Stem cell research could find a home in Michigan, creating new opportunities that would help the medical world. Gov.

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People inconsistent with abortion 'facts'

All this talk of abortion and law confuses me. Why is it, again, that killing a pregnant woman constitutes a double murder, but aborting a fetus constitutes a woman's choice?

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SEJ members offer MSU alternatives to killer Coca-Cola; join fight

Let me be honest — I don't really drink pop (or soda or whatever else you want to call it) on any sort of regular basis.

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Writer skews facts, doesn't know Europe

As a student from the Netherlands visiting MSU for a couple of weeks, my attention was drawn to Mike Ramsey's "People skirting issue, merely comment on 'tastelessness' of images" (SN 2/14). His description of a bigoted, anti-Muslim Europe clearly demonstrates his ignorance of Europe. It leads me to question whether he has ever visited Europe and, if so, I am sure he has not ventured far outside the tourist areas where he might have encountered the truth about the problems he so hastily attributes to European racism. I don't know how much time Ramsey spent researching his story, but he has obviously missed that Europe has provided non-Western immigrants with resources like housing, welfare and health care for more than 30 years without demanding anything in return. Many immigrant communities — first and foremost the Islamic — are now turning on their hosts.

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DPPS inconsistent with ticketing power

The parking division of the MSU Department of Police and Public Safety serves as a prime example of enforcer-student problems at MSU. Academics at the university are exceptional, the sports are invigorating and the campus is one of the most beautiful in the nation.

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Not firing tear gas best change for April

It's good to see the MSU and East Lansing police departments pursuing a less aggressive policy toward crowd control for this year's NCAA basketball tournament.

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Primary concern

On Tuesday, you'll get the chance to decide who should run for the Michigan Senate. A special election on March 14 was announced by Gov.