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' ' t'm certainlh GiAP last week's eco/vom/c summit was a success. \ MEAH, It SHoWEP That, AS Americans, \ WE CAA/r BE CoNTROLUEP B^ A^ | OTHER. NATION. EMPLOYEE ? ] Pi3sP 1? Lfe >W*K\ Neurotic rel; While suffering from a recent heat stroke, I had an opportunity to contemplate weighty limuci^ I1A.C 1UVC dliu MJllCIlllg. lllifc Udlll U1 thought was inspired by the movie "Sleepless in Seattle" with Meg Ryan, whom I love with a blind and undiluted passion. I have long marveled at my friends' and associates' unerring ability to become entangled in neurotic romances, as if they had some strange, magnetic aura that attracted only diseased minds and tortured souls. I have yet to be encumbered by such problems because I seem to scare young ladies away with my unexpected willingness to speak a tender word or give voice to my feelings. In fact, I have been told that most women seem to expect a man to be nothing short of a bastard ana are caught on guard by sincerity and vulnerability in a prospective beau. Which brings me back to the subject of this column: screwed up relationships. Perhaps I am too much the hopeless romantic to understand the pervasiveness of relationships that seem to thrive on discord. It Solution to ab< Two summers ago protesters, agitators, or terrorists, as some have called them, began their campaign of targeting major cities and their abortion clinics. The confrontations have begun again, and it looks like we're in for one long hot summer of unresolved, and unresolvable, conflict. Summer heat waves will assuredly add to more reasoned arguments on the part of the combatants. The confrontation is a waste of time, though pro-life Christians would probably say the struggle is all that counts. And now abortion-rights activists have now begun protesting at church services and anti-abortion rallies. This confrontation is no longer about changing minds, saving souls or enlightening someone. It's not about persuasion, but coercion. The abortion debate as it is portrayed on television is polarized to such a degree that only a few liberals and a few conservative Christians seem to be leading the fights while jj Motoft W(S WtfToft ? co. |j m . Co | t p ^(ail k Ml 1kl=mfe itionships syi i 1 1 x Columnist seems to be rendered in its starkest form on chr\u/C cnph oc Onroh n/horo tho KottoroH tirifa oajv7 r* j ouvn cio v/pcui yy liv/i v uiv i/aiiuivu wut or girlfriend responds to the question, "Why do you keep going back to him?" Invariably the reply is, "Because I love him." I have always lived under the assumption that love was a tender feeling, but coming of age in the past 15 years of the 20th century has forced me to reconsider. Perhaps love has become something other than what it was before. Now it appears to be an emotion of possession, an instrument of suppression. For the longest time, my untutored mind rtion debate d Jack i O. Dunn . * If Columnist i?L the middle ground is lost or often forgotten. For there to be any solution, it must be found somewhere, in this middle oround When anti-abortion activists call abortions the killing of unborn human beings and abortion-rights activists call it a medical procedure, it may be hard to find. But there are some things everyone should agree on concerning abortion: Roe v. Wade is the law of the land, and while it may be bad law as far as its constitutional basis (privacy has never been an \S || billcftnlrlft dolea cujmsy, w sna e*xvi*6 meat saw ^epuanofoid^aurus gore nearly exw*t, put ao?pw? raj2c iiH tnbolize spiri thought this unbalanced form of love was caused by an overreliance in the magical powers of sex, but I have come to see it as something depnpr T helievp nponlp vnnno o ^r*" - J o and old, are suffering from a deep spiritual malaise, some superabundance of lesions on the soul. It is impossible to trace the causes of this Soul sickness, but I think the complicated lives we lead in the modern era have overwhelmed the emotional faculties most humans have to counter the enormous stress of simply living. It is undeniably a cliche, but the world is a hard place to live and love in. Is it any wonder people muddle through their lives and only with great luck discover the magic of love? I suffer from an optimistic, perhaps foolish, belief that it is entirely possible for anyone to find their own enchantment, their own miraculous parcel of happiness. There is too much darkness and despair in the world already to subject ourselves to miserable little affairs filled with bruises and abuse. How dismal epends on ratii absolute right), it should remain the law. The Supreme Court's decision should not change with the ideological wind. Just as Prohibition did not stop people drinking alcohol, a ban on abortions will not stop women from having them performed. The government, however, should not be involved in providing or funding abortions. The government's job should be to educate, counsel and provide contraceptives to those in need. Abortion is at least a social evil, if not a moral one. Just as war and the death penalty are legal actions under certain circumstances, so too should it be with abortions. No one can deny that in the best of possible worlds these things should not exist. So abortions should be allowed only in certain cases. Since even most abortion-rights advocates wouldn't agree to allowing third trimester abortions, they already agree to some restrictions placed on them. Therefore, the government should propose an evolving plan, whereby the window of opportunity for abortions is n 1 SAURlrt m UlUAKVO&Cm. WWJWIEPfiNW R.VW6H16H D&URU5 GBR6ENBER1UAL 9DTIHP M6WN6 EARW ATIB*^ H> COMMUNICATE itual malaise would it be to think of your life as a succession of timid attempts to break out of these iicuiuui uyau>: I challenge women to defy an abusive lover, to have the courage to forsake the fragment of love he provides and seek something deeper and more meaningful. There are men out there who are not afraid to be in love or demonstrate their ardor. Most of the time, I fancy myself to be such a man, but the fact remains that the nurturing nature of love does not have to be missing from relationships. With the roles of the sexes in a state of flux, it is more important now than ever before to have a special relationship where both partners are equal and give of them selves in equal measure. It is too easy to find ourselves living in loneliness, despairing at the prospect of finding love, but we must persevere in our quest to find it. After all, what is the alternative? Jay King is a columnist for The Gamecock onal dialogue restricted. The time period would be restricted and the government would look into detecting pregnancies as soon as possible to keep unwanted pregnancies from entering into the later stages ot development. Our country has dealt with its most serious and fundamental questions through dialogue and compromise; only one time in our history has it come to violent conflict, and even then it took almost one hundred years of compromise to resolve anything. The victories of the Civil Rights Movement came through the achievements of peaceful demonstration and rational dialogue. It will probably take many years and many hot summers for us to realize that there can be some middle ground, even for a controversial issue such as abortion, but it will be found. Hopefully, without any violence. Jack Dunn is Editor in Chief of The Gamecock