European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 22, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 a the stars and stripes monday july 22, 1991 thes european edition circulation 100,000 col Gene e. Townsend Usan commander publisher Bernard a. Zovistoski editor la col. Gayla w. Fix Usa Deputy commander Marie Komlyn Leckt production manager Bill Walker european editor William healer circulation manager switchboard 06155 6010. Ets 348-5741 or 5823. Telex 419-332. News Tel fax 06155-601416 mailing address Apo 09211-4211 or Post Fach 11 14 37, d-6100 Darmstadt 11,  06155-601 plus Extension or ets 348-8 plus Extension. News ext. 237, 255, 282, 226, 326. Sports ext. 225, 269, 263, 332, 321, 221. Features ext. 230,245, 341. Letters to editor ext 206. Education Jimi Jones ext. 226. Business Randy i Viu Clun ext. 326. Bureaus Bremerhaven Germany Ken Clauson building 103, Carl Schurz Cavern Apo 09069 Telephone ets 342-9659 or civilian 0471-90782. 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Everything advertised in this publication shall be made available for Purchase use or patronage without regard to race color religion sex National origin age marital status physical Handicap political affiliation or any other non ment Factor of the purchaser user or  in fathers this letter is in response to a no right to  birth control is not the sole responsibility of the woman. A typical male is willing to bed Down any female As Long As he does no to have to concern himself with the prevention of pregnancy. Child rearing should be a joint venture. But in the Case of unwanted pregnancy should the woman be forced to keep the child she is stuck raising this child alone As men go merrily on with their lives. The writers solution to this is abstinence which is Fine but when the heat is on How Many men will walk away when the woman says a sorry but in a preventing  although there Are Many forms of. Birth control on the Market with varying degrees of effectiveness men Are not the ones who interrupt their body a natural process to have a Safe  statistics Are now showing that women who have used the Milf extensively ate experiencing More incidents of breast and uterine cancer. Losing a breast can be More traumatic than having an abortion. If Laws were written so that abortion would Only be allowed in cases of incest or rape has anyone stopped to consider what this would do to the police stations in our country they would be inundated with rape cases from women who see no alternative other than to a fake it to secure an abortion. I am not suggesting that abortion should be used As a form of birth control As Many women do. 1 absolutely believe however that its a woman a Choice whether to have an abortion or raise a child alone because everyone knows that by the time the baby is born its father will be Long gone. A Eleanor Miller Frankfurt German Choice is never easy  lifers seem to be  feel anyone who is not  life is  abortion or rather  death a As if  Choice individuals purposely get pregnant to experience the pleasure of going through an abortion. The fact is that is far from the truth. Pro Choice Means it is left up to each woman to carefully look at All facets of her pregnancy and life and make a conscientious decision. Women have abortions for a myriad of valid reasons. They May not be valid to you but they Are of the utmost importance to that woman. The decision to have an abortion is never easy or done in haste nor is it made without a careful and meticulous thought process. I have had two abortions since i married. I also have a 6-year-old daughter whom i love dearly. Both of my aborted pregnancies were unexpected and due to failure of my birth control to work properly. Neither my husband nor i have any regrets. Any woman who has had an abortion will Tell you she would have much rather not been pregnant in the first place than to have an abortion. Finally 1 wont interfere with your right to not have an abortion. Done to you interfere with my right to have one if i choose. That is what  Choice is All about. Avalanche of letters editorials and panel discussions on abortion. Encountering that ubiquitous phrase my mind struggles to remind itself of the current meaning of  a ooh yeah it Means i should be Able to go to a clinic legally and have my unwanted fetus  but sometimes my mind rebels and in a left reeling under the weight of this irony free expression of sexual passion is now a a a rights the responsibility implicit in the act has become an option. The a a logic seems to go thus no need to a a control my body prior to Conception because if egg and sperm just happen to meet ill certainly be in control after that. This definition of abortion comes from a prior letter to the editor abortion is a Way of a correcting the mistake that both of us made a and where was this alleged mistake surely not in the act of sex a that a our right our Freedom of Choice the mistake was simply failure to take a preventive measures or failure to a consider the possibility of  the irony crushes Ajjie. A Kristine Martinez Kaiserslautern German Yin editor s note a i letters from readers expressing their viewpoints or opinions Are published daily in this space. All letters must be signed. We Reserve the right to edit letters for clarity length and taste. Preference is Given to Shorter letters so that More can be published in a timely manner. Letters should be addressed to letters to the editor the stars and stripes Apo 09211-4211. O a o letters requesting information or assistance arc answered in a feature called readers action line which appears on Page 16 every Day except thursday and sunday. Such letters should be addressed to readers action line the stars and stripes Apo 09211-4211.staying part of the Job i am a Soldier serving in Southwest Asia. For More than two months now 1 have been Reading and hearing a lot about the guard and Reserve spending a not one More Day in this theater. I am an Active duty Soldier and 1, too am still in this theater and have been since the beginning of september. Like yourself i did not Volunteer to stay Here for this Long. 1 look at it this Way the army picked the Best units to stay a units they knew could get the Job done. You should be proud not perturbed. The Active duty Soldier also has a family and Normal life he would like to return to. Just like you this is part of our Job. When our Job is done we will All go Home. A sgt Gary t. Kandarczyk operation desert storm Swiss know their guns a Simone u. Phipson Augsburg Germany a c Rushing irony a a woman should control her own  those words Echo through the a favorite myth of gun control advocates is a it works in other  it does not. Crime rates Are a function of National character not Laws. When your National tradition consists of several thousands of years on your Knees before various Kings shoguns and dictators a tendency toward docility letters to the editor and obedience is to be expected. We however Are descendants of people who up and ran their Little european King out at the Point of a Bayonet. So yes americans Are More a a prickly than your average european. Americans Are wilful individualistic and Best left alone. We need not apologize for our National character. I respect Many things european but there Are moneymaking american professional golfers who Are older than some european democracies. So they have nothing to teach us in this regard. A better european example is Switzerland probably the most heavily armed socket yen the world. The Swiss love firearms Are shooting fanatics and the government heavily supports it. Terror in the streets right sorry. Their crime rate is zilch and they have been a free democracy for about 500 years even Hitler backed away from Swiss marksmanship. That great cynic of Western civilization Niccolo Machiavelli paid grudging respect to Switzerland with the terse comment a the Swiss yes. Excellently armed and absolutely  a capt. . Daniels Bremerhaven German Sloppy organization lately in be noticed a disturbing trend in the Way american sponsored events Are managed. For instance on june 30 the Hanau Rod and gun club held its twice monthly mud races. The races did no to Start on time because there was no wrecker. The wrecker that should have been there was More than an hour late when it did arrive. This forced everyone there americans and germans alike to wait that extra hour in the Sun. Another example happened july 5 in Niernberg at the Star trek convention. It was advertised that tickets would be available for Purchase at the door. As it turned out there were no tickets available because they were a tied up in finance for whatever reason. Can to americans do any better than this in be been to Many German sponsored events that ran smoothly. What would the germans think of americans if everything we sponsored started late or just did no to live up to what was advertised a warrant officer Michael Winstead Nardheim German please no open posts sometimes you wish there was a com Mon sense test for Community commanders. A few months ago there were soldiers at every Gate checking the inside and outside of every car even if the Driver was known and trusted. Today nothing is checked. As a matter of fact there Isnit even anyone there anymore to do any checking. The Gate guards have been replaced with signs that say a open  while the Gulf War May be Over and the cold War May be gone there Are still people and organizations that will do us ill if Given an easy Opportunity to do so. We did not have open posts before the Gulf War. We did not even have open posts before Gen. Frederick Kroe sends car was attacked in 1982 and Security was stepped up. Open posts did no to make sense then and they done to make sense now. A Paul a Renschen Augsburg Germany