Felix Issue 504, 1979
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THE NEWSPAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE UNION Friday.November 23rd,1979 Issue No.535 -RAG ISSUE - PLEASE DONATE 5P (OR MORE) MORPHY BATTLE! Photo by Steve Groves DISGUSTING GAMES Photo by Paul Johnson EXEC TORTURE Photo by Steve Groves threaten your own dogmatic noted that only white perfect right that holds only under certain ideas. This leads to your babies are wanted - there are over conditions as being truly exclusion and hatred of people 250,000 children in care. fundamental? Again, I think not. LETTERS I would put to you then, that the presenting these differing views. The bill will completely smash You would be better to deal with the charities who in performing only fundamental right that these problems by open abortions at cost (ie even though obtains in an abortion case is that Dear Editor discussion with other people. their turnover may be £1 million, of the unborn child to life. Do not In your report, FELIX 16th You may need-further advice in this is used to pay staff, make the error of thinking that November 1979, of our recent order to be able to play a provisions, maintenance etc., 'might' is 'right'. It is not, and can staff/student committee meeting constructive role in society in the they (BPAS, PAS) are registered never be. you quoted me as saying that I future. We can suggest various charities). In some areas eg E M Ugoala had "ordered a complete freeze addresses (if you could send a Birmingham, the NHS perform Physics 3 on all expenditure, in the hope of plain brown paper envelope to the less than 15% of abortions in bringing the true nature of the those areas - the charities perform FELIX Office), oryou could attend Dear Editor situation home to the College a vital function in these areas. a counselling session in Huxley I would like to thank all the authorities". What I actually said Building Room 640 today (Friday) people who helped me after my was "....home to the CCD staff, its The consciousness clause will at 2:30pm. accident on Sunday afternoon. students and the College now mean that any person not Yours helpfufly, Especially those who carried me authorities". wishing to have anything to do Anna and Marge (Ms' Raeburn down the stairs, held doors open In parallel with our call for with abortions can refuse without and Proops). and drove me to the hospital and administrative action to change either giving any warning nor any then home. Also thanks to Beit our classicifcation and grants to reason. Obviously no one wants Security, St Stephens casuality reflect the true nature of our Dear ICU unsympathetic people involved in staff, Dr S Whiting and members undergraduate course, the At the last Union meeting over the performing of abortions or of Rag. department must launch a serious three quarters of an hour was after care but unsympathetic Yours gratefully effort to plan expenditure and spent discussing a motion against doctors who will simply refuse a Ian Brown eliminate waste. Apart from the the Corrie Bill. Before a vote was woman, without referring her fact that there is, at present, no taken on the motion the quorum elsewhere, are certainly not money to spend in the kitty, was successfully challenged (the helping her in any way and only Dear Sir achievement of the necessary count was 294, six people short of causing more hardshipand strain. Mr Philip Cole in his letter of degree of economy requires the the required 300). The feeling at The British Medical Association is 16th November made a rather odd active awareness and collabora- the meeting, I would guage, would against the Corrie Bill. statement over the calling of the tion of the entire CCD staff. It was have passed the motion (but we I therefore urge you to consider quorate at the last UGM, hoped that a freeze would help to won't speculate on the reasons these arguments, remembering suggesting it was neither small or achieve this - indeed it has: Since why quorum was called) and I feel that a woman must be able to undemocratic, can he possibly the freeze would inevitably affect that most people understood the control her body. Turn up to the believe that 294 students are students it needed to be brought question, so to repeat the whole Union Meeting. representatives of ICU as a to their attention, hence my debate would only restrict the Merche Clark whole? Surely they will be more statement to the staff/student amount of time available to likely to be members of an committee. discuss other topics. In this letter I Dear People interested pressure group. This Yours sincerely will therefore outline the case In discussions on abortion, the mechanism ensures that an M M Lehman presented at the last UGM and most often quoted rights are: that organized group of individuals do Head of Department and suggest a move to the vote at the of the unborn child to life, and the not become controlled by elites, Professor of Computing Science | next UGM on Tuesday. right of the woman to determine or to lesser extent pluralist. The motion notes the clauses in what happens to her body. The He also condemns thecalling of Dear Disgusted the Corrie bill, believes that the second of these is in no way quorate as a political action We have discussed your bill will cut the number of legally fundamental, as compared to the designed to prevent a 'demo- problem at great length and have available abortions by 2/3rds, the first, which is, and therefore, cratic' verdict on the motion. Yet decided that you may need to bill constitutes a direct attack on cannot be used in opposition to by definition had the vote been seek counselling advice. abortion rights and a woman's the same. I will explain the taken it would have been Your problem is not uncommon right to choose; the bill will mean a reasoning behind this assertion. undemocratic, this alone must be at IC. It begins with your return to backstreet abortions. It The so-called right of the a justification of Mr Burton's arithmetic inaccuracy. Only 85% resolves to support future actions woman over her body is, in this action. It is likely that anybody of the College are unable to against the Corrie Bill, affiliation case, merely an expression ofthe believing passionately in any become pregnant and a lesser to the campaign against Corrie Right of Might, for the woman in cause is going to use all weapons percentage than that are and organise a collection for question simply argues thus: at their disposal since they will incapable of taking any part in the donations to Campaign against "Since this pregnancy is consider themselves right to do process whatsoever (these Corrie. inconvenient to me, and since I so, that the ends justify the means, figures are not at hand). The bill reduces the upper time have the capability, whether by this has been recognised ever Your second problem is limit for abortions from 28 weeks legal or illegal means to terminate since Machiavelli wrote 'The extreme self-centredness leading to 20 weeks. This will only effect this pregnancy, since I have the Prince'. to paranoid exclusion of all 1% of women seeking abortions. might, then I also have the rightto The other major point Mr Cole . problems except those directly At present less than 1% of terminate this pregnancy." raised was that there should be a affecting yourself. In time, you abortions take place after 20 Those who would argue thatthe guillotine in operation at UGMs, could expect to be able to accept weeks . These are the most woman's 'right' must prevail over he indicates that it is preferable to that other people can concern desperate cases - school girls the right of her unborn child to be efficient than to fully discuss themselves with issues of (who hope if they don't say life, must realise thattheiropinion an issue, did he attend the importance to various minority anything their periods will come is simply another expression of lectures on Totalitarianism? I sections without excluding the and they won't be pregnant), older the right of might, since the other doubt whether any important problems of the majority. (In fact, women (who mistake pregnancy partly concerned (the unborn issue can be fully dealt with at a majorities are made up of symptoms for the menopause), child) is in no position to give an UGM, to have six important minorities - often including women who after having tests find opinion, (and consequently no motions on one agenda is absurd individuals!). the child they are carrying has a right to one!). if anything of any importance is to Your final problem is a desire to high chance of physical or mental If 50% or more of abortion result. The executive must rethink be unpleasant to individuals or handicap, if it is found that there is operations resulted in the death of its policy on the planning of the groups of individuals that you do a high risk of woman dying in the mother, could one still speak UGM rather than lapse into not personally know, nor have any childbirth. of the right of "a woman to hysterics because people leave reason to bear a grudge against. Anti-abortionists always give abortion. In other words, if the when they overrun. Most often this feeling results the option of adoption - but 'might' element were removed, Yours sincerely from an inability to understand or besides the fact that women are would the 'right' still obtain? I Stephen Goulder come to terms with concepts that not breeding machines, it must be think not, can we considerthen, a Life Sciences 1 2 NAB HOLDS ON Photos by Mickie Marsh & Steve Groves RCS WIN RAFT RACE Broadsheet ...