: “Suspicion”, a drawing by Sharon Danili of Howe Sound Secondary School In Squamish, is one of dozens of striking art works currently on ex- hibit In the Terrace Art Gallery, downstairs from the public library. On display until Feb. 27 are pieces from the British Columbia Young Artists Show, a travelling exhibit sponsored by the Emily Carr College of Art and Design. WCB seeks advice Labor Minister Lyall hanson said recently he wants a better system of setting policy for the Workers’ Compensation Board. Hanson announced he will ap- point an advisory committee to recommend ways to improve participation for all parties af- fected by the WCB. ‘‘Workers and employers need to participate more effec- tively in establishing WCB policies,’” Hanson said. ‘‘As a result of consultation with representatives of business and labor, I will appoint a special committee to recommend what form that participation should take.” Prince Rupert NATIONWIDE. sk your local dealer. Terrace 624-4236 635-4948 632-5000 Hanson has asked business and labor to recommend the names of possible committee ‘members and expects to make an announcement soon. The committee Hanson ap- points has until August 31, 1988 to recommend. ways of improv- ing participation in the policy- setting process of the WCB. The Minister concluded: ‘As well as addressing some of the concerns raised by the Om- budsman in his WCB report last summer, this initiative also reflects the government’s com- mitment to safety and fairness in the workplace.”’ Kitimat ST ee eR Commentary The abortion issue splits peo- ple into two camps with few Why? Perhaps the media has focus- ed our attention on the emo- tional dichotomy without ad- dressing the pros and cons of the issue, in order to make a more actually is. Certainly, ripping a tiny helpless embryo into fragments elicits our protective instincts and it is a cruel act. On the other side of this issue is unwanted pregnancy and the cruelty of pro-lifers towards the pregnant woman, and the cruel- ty of society towards unwanted children plus the cruelty of un- wanted children towards society. When is an egg just an em- bryo, a ‘human’ embryo, a ‘live human’ fetus, an ‘unborn child’, a ‘legal human being’ with all the rights and privileges of socie- ty? At what point in its develop- ment does it become human? The answer is that it is live human protoplasm at every stage as long as it is alive and has human genes. Where then do we draw the line at what or degree of development the human being gets legal status? It must of necessity be ar- bitrary where we set the line but it should be practical from a human perspective. The most convenient is of course at birth. Are we going to start giving live human protoplasm legal protection? -What about skin cells in tissue culture? Does it deserve legal status? What about epithelial cells from the mouth? © front wheel drive ¢ 5 speed manual transaxle ® Electronic Fuel injection * 1.9L engine lingerers in the middle ground. sensational story out of it than it - Standard Equipment “Terrace Review — Wednesday, February 24, 1988 ‘7 Is some life more precious than other life? by Jorma Jyrkkanen What about individual sperm cells, or individual ova that are potential babies but get wasted each month unless fertilized? Every one of the ova is a. potential adult human, and most are wasted. If we truly think that all life is precious, then every ovum within every female should be fertilized and made into a baby. Each woman could therefore produce about 300 offspring during a lifetime. Wasting sperm or ova would have to be made illegal, and we would have to police this. Cameras under the sheets? But how many pro-lifers have taken birth control? How many pro-lifers have gone a month without being pregnant? How many pro-lifers have gone a month without being pregnant? How many sperm cells are wasted each month by pro- lifers? - Ford Escort The world’s best-selling car. | $500 Cash Bonus" plus value package savings on 1988 Escort L * power brakes ® reclining front bucket seats ® rear window defroster * cloth seat frim * independent 4 wheel suspension TERRACE casiaone'deet SAVE $500 “foTEM FORD Equipment Package 015A 4631 Keith Ave., Terrace, B.C. The toll in unborn wasted human potential is enormous, if this is the rationale that we ac- cept. Clearly, the unborn ‘wasted-human-potential-all- life-is-precious’ argument isn’t even adhered to in this sense by pro-lifers, nor is it acceptable for purely practical reasons, How many pro-lifers do we know that have even twenty kids? I can’t think of one. They in fact take the position that an ovum isn’t human or worthy of life just because it’s an ovum. It must be fertilized. If 1 read this correctly, the position of these pro-lifers is then changed by the act of inter- course. It miraculously trans- forms the hitherto worthless but very human ovum into-an entity worthy of legal protection from their point of view. ; Should it matter if that inter- course was with a child, rapist or by incest or if the person is suicidal or absolutely lacks the will or stamina to carry a fetus to term? Doesn’t it matter to them if the mother can care for it or not or if she has trauma giving a baby up? Do pro-lifers care if the fetus is severely malformed or if the thought of having it destroys the mother? Does it matter to them if the mother wants privacy or not over her body and are they not in fact contemptuous of our Supreme Court and the right of privacy of the woman? Do they want to rape her of her privacy as well and do they continued on page 16 * tinted glass ¢ AM/FM radio * rear window defroster #8995 Quality is Job 1 635-4984 Call toll free: 1-800-772-1128 DL 5548