2008 Woodie Awards
Letters to the Editor
Issue date: 11/19/07 Section: Soap Box
I would like to say that Heather Steeves' little attack on Ben Lankin in her piece "UMaine better at promoting itself than providing services" is just plain wrong. I happen to be in the same fraternity as him, and if she happened to ask anyone that knew him, then she would have known that his life is really like that. He works hard and is devoted in what he does. His "A Day in the Life of Ben Lankin" is quite accurate. He does really do all those things in a day. He is a good student. There is a reason they picked him to be on the Web site.
Kole McBreairty, brother of Sigma Phi Epsilon
I was forced into it by my husband. My boyfriend was going to leave me if I had the baby. My parents insisted I have an abortion. I didn't have the finances to raise a baby. Now do any of these sound free? Was the mother making a free choice? It appears that they were forced into it. Sadly, so many women of today feel this way. Many really wanted to have the baby but peer pressure persuaded them to do otherwise. Not only does abortion kill the baby, but it can destroy a woman emotionally and physically.
Go read testimonies from women who have gone through abortion. You can read them by going to silentnomoreawareness.org. You will hear the trauma and heartache that these women went through after an abortion. They are "silent no more." They are trying to help other women of today to not make the same mistake they made. Their message is clear, and they want the women of today to have the baby despite of what others say. Pro-abortion advocates say it's a woman's right to choose, and that it is free choice. However, as stated earlier, there didn't appear to be much freedom of choice from those who felt forced into an abortion. So please go to the Web site and call 1-800-395-HELP if you are pregnant, confused and scared. There is help available!
Michael Rachiele, of Pittsfield, Mass.
Kole McBreairty, brother of Sigma Phi Epsilon
I was forced into it by my husband. My boyfriend was going to leave me if I had the baby. My parents insisted I have an abortion. I didn't have the finances to raise a baby. Now do any of these sound free? Was the mother making a free choice? It appears that they were forced into it. Sadly, so many women of today feel this way. Many really wanted to have the baby but peer pressure persuaded them to do otherwise. Not only does abortion kill the baby, but it can destroy a woman emotionally and physically.
Go read testimonies from women who have gone through abortion. You can read them by going to silentnomoreawareness.org. You will hear the trauma and heartache that these women went through after an abortion. They are "silent no more." They are trying to help other women of today to not make the same mistake they made. Their message is clear, and they want the women of today to have the baby despite of what others say. Pro-abortion advocates say it's a woman's right to choose, and that it is free choice. However, as stated earlier, there didn't appear to be much freedom of choice from those who felt forced into an abortion. So please go to the Web site and call 1-800-395-HELP if you are pregnant, confused and scared. There is help available!
Michael Rachiele, of Pittsfield, Mass.
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