Eetter to the Editor

Dear Editor,

When I pick a hero, Dr. Henry Morgentaler does not spring to mind. Normally, his name would not arise, but, in the last issue of the Panther Prints, Jennifer Caseley wrote an editorial about her hero. According to her, he “fights forthe rights of the oppressed.” This hero is Dr. Henry Morgentaler.

This presents a prob- lem. In my _ mind, Morgentaler’s name comes up on a list of villains. How can one person’s hero be another’s fiend?

Yes, Dr. Morgentaler fights for the rights of women with unwanted pregnancies, but they are not the only af- fected group involved. The unborn, unwanted babies are certainly oppressed. They have no rights, and no voice. Their unwilling mothers are fighting to relieve themselves of the unpleasant obligation of preg-

nancy. Theundesired children are fighting fortheir lives. Who has the harder struggle? Who has more to lose?

It’s sad when the rights of one group conflict with those ofanother. It’s atragedy when one group, in order to protect theirrights, has to wage war on another. It’s acrime when the group under attack has abso- lutely no defence.

In her editorial, Ms. Caseley champions Morgentaler as “aman willing to risk his reputation and his life for a group of Canadians who are unable (only because they are afraid), to stand up for themselves.” Yetthesame man is an executioner of another group, also “unable to stand up for themselves.” How can he be a hero? To use Ms.

Caseley’s own allusion to the world’s best-known superhero, does Superman slaughter evil-

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doers to protect the innocent?

Perhaps Dr. Morgentaler has chosen to for- get the plight of his victims. Maybe his ears are closed to their cries. Maybe he doesn’t see them as victims. I do not honestly know. All I know is that he is a far cry from a great Canadian Hero.

Marko Peric

I am on a quest. It is a noble quest -- one that, some- day, poets and cheesy rock musicians will immortalize in verse and song. Itoccupies my waking days and fills my sleep- less nights. What is my quest, you ask? What is this precious thing that I have dedicated the better part of my university career to finding? Can't you see!? 1am looking for one. Just one, UPEI student who, though lost within a sea of apathy, actually cares about something -- who actually cares about anything. And when! find him or her, I will put them down like the mad, crazed animal that they are!

Fine, go ahead and laugh. I know that this person or maybe even people are out there hiding somewhere. They are afraid of us, you see. They

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to much time around us sheep, they too will stop questioning things. They will become trapped in our mind set, lost within our complacency. Like the runaway who falls in with a cult, they will stop thinking and learn to just...accept. "Who cares?" you ask. Exactly.

At one point in time, they were many. Like buffalo, they roamed the universities defending their rights and in- terests with their puffed up sense of justice. The local RCMP called them subversive and wentso farastosend some of their own, in disguise, among them. The detectives were never heard from again. (Legend has itthey went mad from to much independent thought.) Now, though, there is only one; and! will find this person. They will be assimilated. Resistance is

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Iam ona quest, you see. It is a noble quest -- one that will be remembered forever. Why Iam telling you about it! will never know. You don't care anyway.

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