Book on Scott
Sir, —I read (“The Press” June 6) that the author of the book “Amundsen and Scott” accuses Captain Scott of dropping hints to Captain Oates to end his life. Does the author know that Oates wished to be left behind in his sleeping bag. but that Scott refused this request. This author smears the name of a hero. — Yours, etc..
KEITH BROWN. June 6, 1980.
S.P.U.C. cartoons Sir, — C. E. Orchard (June 3) asks whether Gordon Tait considers an abortion to be “a simple operation. similar to an appendectomy?” If this correspondent had listened to 3ZB’s interview with Gordon Tait and’ Barbara Docherty last week, he/she would have heard Gordon Tait state that abortion should never be undertaken lightlyThe difference between Gordon Tait’s views and those of C. E. Orchard is that Mr Tait can see both side's of a very complex moral issue. As for the notion that the S.P.U.C. pamphlet is factual, anyone who has seen the Disneyesque figures of smiling, and ultimately, horrified babies, then compared these with actual photographs of an eight-week foetus, must recognise this as nonsense. If S.P.U.C. can so blatantly exaggerate the obviouslyhuman features of . the foetus, what else might they. be misrepresenting? —. Yours, etc., R. W. GLUE AND C. GLUE.
June 6, 1980.
Sir,-. — John Dobson is most selective in his use of statistics. Like most of those people of his persuasion, he uses statistics as a shield in order, to avoid discussing the;. issue, and ignores the evi- _ dence provided by men like Sir William Liley. This is hardly surprising since an A.L.R.A.N.Z. publication recently referred to Professor Sir William as a “rabid ; fanatic.” Never mind that he; is acknowledged throughout the World as an expert. I have found that I can make . a “good fellow” of myself with pro-abortionists if I accept that all individuals are free to choose, free to read, free to decide, provided always that such freedom is exercised in the manner they approve of, and so long as I accept that only they are in possession of the facts —Yours, etc.,
J. V. PIERSON, June 5. 1980.
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