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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1977-03-16, Page 4Page 4 Citizens News, March 16, 1977 (e< TdE POLICE VW uP OUR PIIPGE F I TY- T4EY LOOKED UNDER MIRE 91i1vGE! "When I said I pinched them, it was merely a figure of speech!" 1 The Canadian Council for National Righteousness has called for the resigna- tion of Federal Health Minister Marc Lalonde. Their reason for doing so is anger sparked by Mr. Lalonde's recent request that the provinces set up abortion clinics where hospitals are not available, en- courage the establishment of abortion com- mittees in existing hospitals and increase funds going to local and provincial affiliates of national and voluntary services. The council stated in a press release they feel by issuing such statements the govern- ment of Canada is "deliberately promoting the slaughter of the innocents". The coun- cil goes on to say they are getting in touch with the 4,000 churches they communicate with and urging them to telegram or write Mr. Trudeau concerning their objections to such proposals. All Mr. Lalonde is proposing is to in- crease the fairness of the execution of the present laws of this country concerning abortion and family planning. He said nothing about making abortions' free and easy to obtain, he only said he wishes all women of this land of ours to have equal 0 access to abortions according to the law. We are not saying we think abortion should be used as a means of contraception. The point is, we are not willing to impose our opinions on anyone. We believe no government has the right to tell an individual in this country what she can or cannot do with her own body. We do not agree that the Canadian Coun- cil for National Righteousness has the supreme right on their side and should be allowed to force their personal beliefs on all women in this country. A woman is a thinking human being who in our opinion has the right to decide for herself what she will or will not do with her own body. We may not always agree with another persons decision, but that decision must be reached between that woman and her con- science because in the end she is the one who will have to live with her decision. Mr. Lalonde is simply trying to assure every woman has the same opportunity to make her own decision under the laws of our country. The readers Dear Editor: The Huron Perth Lung Association, your local Christ- mas Seal Organization sincerely appreciates the consideration and co-operation of all facets of the Community in the 1976-77 Campaign just completed. We received $42,311.58,which is an all time high for the area. Special thanks to the local Post Offices and Media for their continued support. We are deeply appreciative alae of the Church Service proceeds of the Perth County Junior Farmers and the special dance project proceeds of the students of Wingham District Secondary School. Respiratory Disease is the fastest growing health problem on this continent and the most common cause of absenteeism in schools and industry. We are rite working to change this pattern in educational, rehabilitative and research programs. We can not operate at all without the con- stant assistance of the residents of Huron and Perth counties. Sincerely, Mrs. Beryl Dunsmore, Reg. N., Executive Director Huron Perth Lung Association, 121 Wellington St., Stratford, Ont. N5A 2L4. FIRST WITH LOCAL NEWS Published Each Wednesday By J.W. Eedy Publications Ltd. eNA Manager - Betty O'Brien Member: Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association News Editor - Cathy McKinley Second Class Mail Registration Number 1385 Subscription Rates: $7.00 per year in advance in Canada $18.00 per year outside Canada Single copies 204 by Lathy McKinley Congratulations to our novice team. They captured the A Championship novice trophy last Saturday in a tournament against Grand Bend, Bayfield and Goderich. Those boys and their coaches have worked hard to win that trophy. I must apologize to thein for not being there to get a pic- ture of them in their moment of glory. I had planned to at- tend but at the last minute was unable to make it. Congratulations again, and I hope next season is just as successful as this one has been. I mentioned the litter on the streets last week, but as the snowbanks continue to melt the problem becomes even worse. The area around Shaw's dairy store was bad for a while but I am very happy to say it has been cleaned up and is now spotless. Let's keep it that way. Please try and educate your children by explaining to them just where garbage is supposed to go and then make sure that is where they put it. However, it will do no good to educate the children if they see so-called adults littering as well. Why not start a cam- paign to make a point of keeping litter in the garbage cans' and setting an example for the children. Filthy streets do little for a town's image and with the warm weather corn- ing it looks much better to the increased amount of the traf- fic passing through the village if they see clean, cared for streets instead of gutter to gutter garbage. * * Well, the Canadian government has done it again. This time they say the artificial sweetener saccharine is a cancer causing chemical and it is going to be banned from the market. The reason, so the government says, is that saccharine has been found to cause cancer in rats who were fed the sweetener over a prolonged period of time.The thing is, how much of the sweetener were the rats fed,and for what length of time? Is the small amount a person may use in a cup of coffee or get from a serving of diet pop really going to do them that much harm? Were the rats saturated with saccharine as rats have been saturated with other chemicals which have also been banned by the government. If saccharine is so dangerous, then why is the government allowing it to remain to be sold in drugstores so diabetics will not be completely deprived of its benefits while at the same time ordering so many foods containing the sweetener to be taken off the market? It reminds me of that chemical weed killer which was ordered off the market because it too was said to cause cancer in rats. It turned out, if I recall correctly, that a rat would have to eat about a truckload of grain a day over a period of years to obtain comparable amounts of the chemical. Let's not carry these experiments too far. It would probably be a pretty safe bet to say almost anything can kill you if you take too much of it over a long period of time. But what really gets me about this whole thing is how a government can be so hypocritical. It will ban a chemical sweetener from the market because the possibility exists there may be some connection between the chemical and cancer in rats. Yet that same government doesn't do a darn thing about cigarettes and they have been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt to contribute to lung cancer in even small amounts. Why I've never even heard of anyone dying from too much saccharine, but how many friends and relatives have you had who had lung cancer, or who wake up in the morning hardly able to breathe because of the fouling effect of cigarette smoke. There is of course some logic to this hypocrisy. Cigarettes supply a lot of money to the government of ours, I guess saccharine doesn't. Money, that must be the name of the game.