Lyman Miller pins a corsag @ on Anne Sites after the two were chosen Queen and King of Hearts for 1988 at the an- nual Kinette Sweetheart Dinner and Dance held recently in the Terrace Elks Hall. Jorma Jyrkkanen — continued from page 7 want to hurt her still deeper by branding her a murderer and by prolonged social castigation? Think for a moment what it would mean if abortion were reclassified as murder. A late period would have to be registered with the authorities, as would sex partners names and the time of having sex, purely so - that the legal entity, the embryo, . could have the protection of law. What if a woman did all this and her period started? What would be the fine for failure to register? Would it be testing to determine if that was in fact a possibility. The charge would be premeditated murder which would in all likelihood carry the maximum sentence. This is a high price to pay for being the victim of incest, for having used a leaky condom, or for preserving one’s sanity. It would in fact be use of the law to further injure the victim, abhorrent to our sense. of fairness and justice. Besides the privacy issue, which should settle the matter once and for all, there are other “The fetus would have to be given a name and identification marks would have to be found to. distinguish it from everyone else...’’ enforceable? Would doctors have to tell? Parents would have to be in- “formed so that wills could be rewritten to accommodate the fetus. . The fetus would have to be given a name and identification marks would have to be found to distinguish it from everyone else, perhaps by genetic karyotyping, obtained by prob- jing the mother’s body with a biopsy tool. -. If a woman was accused of having an abortion say by a | jealous ex-wife who had been ‘deposed, here’s what she might expect, - Byidence would be gathered ~ on the woman who had the - alleged abortion by R.C.M.P. as to how the abortion was con- ducted and by whom and these -would be charged as murderers as well, photos of the aborted ‘cadaver would have to be taken and shown in the court room -gnd someone would have to -jdentify the remains, the murder weapon, perhaps a vacuum - ¢leaner, would. have to be pro- ~ duced as evidence, and of course the motive. -- Tf the motive was to save the -- mother’s life or sanity, it would have to be proved that these’ were imminently endangered, “which would boil down in most "gases to a subjective evaluation. _- Hler- psychiatric condition would have to be determined perhaps by a 30-day confine- ent to a mental institution dur- ing which time if she wasn’t in- - gané before, probability go insane. _ If a woman argues that it was . a miscatriage, then the woman “and the fetus would have to undergo intensive medical she would in all considerations. . Do pro-lifers care if the land cannot support the sheer weight of population impacting on it, or that there are already millions of children running around out there that could use all of their help and every penny of their money? Do they care about the pain of the mother watching her children dying of starvation later, or the sheer numbers of children putting the mother into a grave in her early forties like they do in many countries of the world? , Do they care about the ecology and the other. species that are going extinct because we are driving them out of their habitats by our weight of | numbers? Do they democracy? Does it matter to them that cutting funding will increase depression in mothers and suicides, back alley abortions, social inequality, prolonged care care about TO Klddla Corner from the Post Office Thornhill Public Market - Wednesday is Men’s business shirts or Ladies’ cotton blena _ dress shirts. expertly laundered | Richards Cleaners subsidies, birthing costs, unhap- py unwanted children that become a future social burden through costly crime and mental illness? | . Is their passion to save fetuses at all costs so vital to them that these other costs mean nothing? But the costs I’ve outlined above are real costs and they are in fact costs which impact on the quality of human life more than the quantity. Shouldn’t society be more concerned with the quality of life? Shouldn’t decisions be predicated upon less but better lives than more but miserable ones? The pro-life. philosophy will “be its own undoing as it~ is, already in certain Third World countries. — Primitive people had solutions to their population problems, we called them savages needing con- version. Now that they have conform- ed to moral views like that of white Anglo-Saxons, their numbers are destroying their habitats so fast that they are dy- ing of starvation in enormous numbers. We substituted a small blem with a bigger one. I say let’s get democratic and real and get out of peoples’ bedrooms, and let’s leave people alone to make their tough deci- sions and to get on with their sometimes painful, sometimes happy lives. Everyone will be better off for In Terrace provincial court on Friday, January 29 Gordon Gaspar was fined $650 and received a six month drivers license suspension for impaired driving. pro- it Anne Sites and Lyman Miller Queen and King of Hearts for 1988. Their coronation was held Feb. 14 during the annual Sweetheart Dinner and Dance sponsored by the Kinettes of Terrace. by Pam Whitaker Betwen the roast beef dinner served to 125 Terrace senior citizens and the music by ‘‘Mothballs”’, the monarchs were chosen. Guests had been ing cards. The lucky lady was the one finding the queen of hearts in her envelope. As Sites is a widow, the man receiving the jack of hearts became her king. They supplanted last year’s king and queen, Joe and _ Aurore Schulmeister. R.C.M.P. in dress uniform escorted first the queen and then the king to their respective thrones. There the queen receiv- ed her crown-and the king, his hat. Then they were presented with gifts donated by local mer- chants. Rental of the Elks Hall was also donated for the benefit of the seniors, as were numerous door prizes. Opening remarks to the ceremony were given by guest Ruth Hallock. She said, “We wouldn’t have the Terrace we have today without the people we have in this room.’’ Eighty- two-year-old Sites appreciated ;that rematk. She has lived in Terrace since 1945, and Lyman Miller since 1957. White-clothed tables with real carnation centerpieces were Queen and King — - of Hearts chosen | at Kinette dance ‘of Terrace are the. reigning - given envelopes containing play- - waited on by genteely dressed Kinsmen. Other Kinsmen, not so genteely dresséd, helped out in the kitchen. Red hearts, red and white streamers and balloons decorated the hall in keeping with the Valentine theme. Also in keeping with the day, passers- by 2822 Tetrault Street would have heard strains of ‘‘Let Me Call You Sweetheart” played by the old-time band. a | 7 : | gonorth — Directors of Kitimat-Stikine Regional District have agreed to hold their June board meeting in Telegraph Creek. ~The board also agreed to in-- clude an air tour while in the area to have a first hand look at the Lower Stikine River Recrea- tion Corridor as well as Edzidza Park and nearby mining and logging operations. , Administration has suggested that the regional district charter a Trans-Provincial 16-passenger — Twin Otter for the trip at an estimated cost of $3,500. The idea was originally pro- posed by Area D Director Dan: Pakula, who said the board» would benefit and gain a better _ understanding of the area. - In court In Terrace provincial court on Thursday, February 4 Bernard. Fickel was fined $500 for a violation of the Narcotics Con- trol Act. 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