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[ Friday, Sept. 15, 2006 ]

Letter to the Editor
Playing the what-if game makes for odd bedfellows

It was impossible not to notice that all of the participants of the Tradition, Family and Property's abortion protest, as well as those who wrote letters to the Collegian from Penn State's own Penn State Students for Life, were men.

Let's imagine for a moment that these individuals, so concerned with the morality of abortion, spent their time working to improve the lives of single mothers instead of self-righteously protesting a decision they themselves will never face.

Maybe fewer women who are now choosing abortion would feel as though having a child was a really feasible option.

Imagine if these moral men really cared about the human condition of potentially aborted fetuses and worked tirelessly to ensure that a child born today was guaranteed health care, a safe and healthy home and an end to the feminization of poverty that so impacts their mothers.

Maybe so-called pro-lifers and feminists should form a coalition.

Kate Driscoll Derickson
graduate - geography and women's studies
 



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