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...fascinated to read, in the same few days, Michael Pakaluk's piece on Proposition 1 (Crimson Forum, October 4) and his essay in Veritas Reconsidered (September, 1986) on the decline of "sexual morality...
...staggered by the illogic of Michael Pakaluk's argument against tax funding for abortion. He fails to distinguish between the undesirable role of the state where it imposes its will in "intensely personal matters," and its beneficial role where it facilitates choice in such matters. His argument begins to unravel when he speciously compares the use of public money to facilitate abortion, with its use to facilitate access to a synagogue or church. The risk of pregnancy is an unavoidable, inherent condition of normal adult female life. The risk of not finding the religious facility of one's choice...
...argument begins to get lost it also becomes offensive. He refers to "convenience abortions." If Pakaluk had ever experienced the procedure he would not use such glib language. Abortion is always the lesser of two evils for women, and not a small one on account of being less terrible than bearing an unwanted child...
...suction abortion) or cut the little one to pieces with a knife (as in a D&C)? And how could anyone do this--or who makes the preposterous claim that any human being has a right to do this--say that he or she is pro-life? Michael Pakaluk '79 Philosophy Teaching Fellow
Abortion was not invented in 1973 and will never be legislated out of existence; it is a reality for many women, whether Michael Pakaluk or any of us like it or not. To talk about "life" in reverent tones and willfully ignore the devastating consequences of illegal abortions is the sheerest hypocrisy...