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Though I very much respect the desire of Mr. Joshua Kwan to "make heads (or) tails of the abortion debate"--and wish many more people were so earnest about looking at the issue--I felt compelled to respond to several assertions made in his Feb. 22 op-ed piece about finding the "middle ground among extremes." "In America," says Kwan, "I am free to choose any definition oflife I please." Perhaps, but I certainly hope I am not free to act on any definition of life I please. A great many American citizens once held that people of darker skin...
...encouraged by Joshua Kwan's opinion piece "Abortion: What is Moderate?" (Feb. 22) because he seems genuinely interested finding an answer to the abortion controversy. Kwan represents the large middle ground of people who don't think abortion is a good thing but are reluctant to advocate government interference. But Kwan's questions can be answered much more precisely than many people realize, and the answers to his questions support the pro-life position...
Once we see that the unborn child is indeed a living human being, we can no longer be neutral on the abortion issue. Yet, as Kwan points out, many Americans are neutral on abortion, in that a large majority (69%) think that abortion is "the wrong thing to do," but that the government does not have "any business preventing a women from having an abortion." Kwan concludes that "Americans are reluctant to impose their morals on the great public." But we do this all the time--they're called laws. The logic here seems to say, 'don't like abortion...
...Kwan states that "Americans are reluctant to impose their morals on the great public. Despite their individual misgivings about abortion, they would rather allow each women to make the choice on her own." This is the exact same line of argument that perpetuated slavery. Many citizens believed slavery was wrong but were reluctant to impose their morals on others. Jesse Jackson (pro-life before running for president) once said, "There are those who argue that the right to privacy is of a higher order than the right to life...that was the premise of slavery. You could not protest...
Joshua L. Kwan, a junior in Pforzheimer House, is a Crimson editor...