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What Our Readers Say

Choosing Sex

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the Unborn

1

want to comment on the

article entitled "Choosing Your

Unborn Child's Sex."

1

am a

physician (M.D.) but

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have

stopped delivering babies to

anyone.

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seriously question the

trend of the scientists to mess

with the human ovum and arti–

ficially inseminating a human

being.

1

also want to congratu–

late you in my heartiest way on

your opposition to this

who/e–

sale murdering

of babies called

abortion.

1

believe God in His

great goodness will hold this

against a lot, a whole lot, of

people when the great day of

judgment comes.

Haney F. Enyeart, M.O.

Jeanette, Pennsyhania

When the Kissing Begins to

Stop

"When the Kissing Stops"

was the best

1

ever read.

1

cut it

out and hung it up on the bulle–

ti

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board at work. After it was

there two days a woman

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know

took it so she could give it to

her husband.

Joe Kovalcik

Meriden, Connecticut

Divorce is a major subject

throughout the world, and many

people remain bachelors and

spinsters as a result of the fear

of divorce. Many thanks for giv–

ing a highlight on the altitudes

that sweeten matrimony.

Sydney Leballo

Lefifi, Settlers, R.S.A.

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would like to commend you

on an article on marriage which

highl ighted sorne points that

did not occur to me.

1

am not

married, but

1

always dreamed

about being married and the

fun involved, but 1 did not look

February

1983

on marriage from the point of

view of

give.

1 was looking on it

as a means of being indepen–

dent from my parents and what

enjoyment

1

could

gel,

and not

what

1

could give. So thank you

for the advice.

Drugs

C.

Johnson

Kingston, Jamaica

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acknowledge receipt of the

five copies of the

Plain Truth

issue devoted to drugs and alco–

holism for which

1

extend my

grateful thanks. These have

been duly distributed amongst

the social workers employed by

the Algoa Bay Council for the

Aged, all of whom expressed

admiration for the comprehen–

siveness of the articles on drugs

and alcohol-two significantly

importan! factors embodied in

their field of social and eco–

nomic investigations.

L.

Scott,

Port Elizabeth, R.S.A.

Nutrition and Pregnancy

It

was encouraging to see the

finely written, timely article on

nutrition in pregnancy. As a

childbirth educator,

1

can say

the writer's up-to-dateness was

evident by her acknowledge–

ment of the work of Or. Tom

Brewer. His research showing

the harm being brought to mil–

lions of American mothers and

babies today by the low-salt,

low-calorie diet and use of di–

uretics will somcday rank him

along with other obstetric pio–

neers like lgnacz Semmelweis,

the 19th century discoverer of

the cause of childbed fever.

Evolution

Sandra Oreaden

Mayer, Arizona

"Eye-Opening Proof Evolu–

tion Did Not Occur" presents

an interesting viewpoint to the

curren! evolution-creation con–

troversy.

My high school generation

( 1914-18) was probably as

skeptical as any before or

since. Our teachers of that day

not only encouraged us to

question and think for our–

selves, but also at that time it

was permissible to discuss cre–

ationism and a Supreme Being

in the classroom.

When Darwin carne up in

our science class, it was easy to

go along with his

Survival of

the Fittest.

because in a small

town rural environment we had

evidence everywhere that the

crippled and weak succumbed,

whether pigs, chickens, cats,

dogs, or whatever, leaving the

st rongest and healthiest to

propagate the species.

lt was on his

Origin oj Spe–

cies

that we had our liveliest

discussions, because Darwin

raised more questions than he

answered. We weren't sophisti–

cated to the point of discussing

the eye, but our attention cen–

tered on other common obser–

vations .

Principal among these was

the Jife-cycle of the butterfty

and moth, the frog and even

the mosquito. Assuming life

began with the egg, when and

how did one egg develop into a

caterpillar while another be–

carne a tadpole? And how

many eons did it take for the

caterpillar, spi nning a few

more turns each time, to spin a

perfect cocoon, or did the

cocoon have to be complete on

the very first try?

Once the cocoon was com–

plete the final result emerged

as a winged

insect

with all

manner of beautiful coloring.

And with abil ity to lay eggs

that would repeat the ongoing

process indefinitely! Or was it

reasonable to suppose that this

entire process: egg, caterpillar,

cocoon, winged insect all had

to be completed successfully

on the very first try. Darwin

failed to answer this to our sat–

isfaction. Same with develop–

ment of a tadpole into a fou r–

legged fróg, and mosquito lar–

va into a winged insect.

We probably gave Darwin a

rough time, bu t in all the

recent court proceedings, with

evolut ionists and crcationists

clouding the issue with irrele–

vant trivia, never once has any

prominent religious author ity

raised the questions that we

grappled with as teenagers.

Alfred H. Robins, Sr.

San Jose, California

Papal Visit to Britain

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take great exception to your