To the Editor:
I read the article on abortion in the Jan. 18 issue of The Dartmouth , and I just wanted to pose these questions to the Dartmouth community:
Would you consider abortion in these cases?
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There is a preacher and wife who are very, very poor. They already have 14 kids. Now she finds out she is pregnant with her 15th. They are living in tremendous poverty. Considering their poverty and the excessive world population, would you consider recommending abortion?
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The father is sick with sniffles, the mother has TB. They have four children. The first is blind, the second is dead. The third is deaf and the fourth has TB. The mother finds she is pregnant again. Given the extreme situation, would you recommend abortion?
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A white man raped a 13 year old black girl and she got pregnant. If you were her parents, would you consider recommending abortion?
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A teenage girl is pregnant. She is not married. Her fiancee is not the father of the baby, and he is very upset. Would you recommend an abortion?
If you have answered yes to any of these situations: In the first case you would have killed John Wesley, one of the great evangelists of the 19th century. In the second case, you would have killed Beethoven. In the third case you would have killed Ethel Waters, the great black gospel singer. In the fourth case you would have recommended the murder of Jesus Christ.
With U. S. abortion deaths topping 35 million since Roe vs. Wade in 1973, only God knows what we have sacrificed in lost human talent and creativity. When will people understand that abortion is nothing but cold-blooded murder? I advise Dartmouth's students to think about the effects that their promiscuous and irresponsible behaviours could have on others before they drink and have un-protected and pre-marrital sex.
