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...someone engaged in the pursuit of Truth. Michael Pakaluk (Teaching Fellow in Philosophy) goes out of his way in his letter of April 22 to misrepresent the recent event, Abortion: Whose Life, Whose Choice? His letter is so fallacious and hysterical as to perhaps not warrant considered response; however, the issue is an important one and deserves deeper discussion than that presented in his letter...
First, let me respond to Pakaluk's characterization of the event--a panel discussion followed by question and answer period itself. He attempts to portray the organizers (of which I am one) and speakers as singleminded selfish baby-killers who have no interest in discussing the complexity of the issues. He does not, of course, mention anything the speakers actually said--for example, one speaker's description of the kind of process women choosing to have an abortion go through, or another's recounting of her own shift from an anti-choice to a pro-choice position. Further, Pakaluk states...
...Pakaluk misses and distorts the point that pregnancy involves not only fetuses but real live women, and that it is a personal and complicated matter for these women. He equates the desire for legal abortion with hedonistic "sexual freedom," apparently never having heard of the fact that all types of women need abortions--married as well as unmarried, monogamous as well as "sexually free." Being pro-choice is not being pro-abortion; no one is "pro-abortion." Being pro-choice is, if anything, being pro-women and children, pro-responsibility. At the present stage of contraceptive technology, even in those...
...smiling. Instead, they are grim, without humor, without simple hopes or simple joys. They are "un-women" who can, without blinking, with words that outwardly have the cloak of moral rhetoric but inwardly express selfishness and auger, that they will kill their own children to get their way. Michael Pakaluk Teaching Fellow in Philosophy
...Many people try to fit in the mold of the scholarship they are applying for, and I think that the Marshall people were careful to weed out those applicants," Pakaluk said...