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Branding anti-abortionists as lawless, olent is u ;2.f/.95 SAN DIEGO I t would be difficult to find a moral issue that more divides the American people than abortion. courages chauvinism. It would~ difficult to imagine a more sophistical system of male repression of women than the Cltrrent Jaw which seems designed to reUe,.,e men of paternal responsibility.

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With the Supreme Court scheduled next week to reconsider the implications of Roe vs. Wade in light of a Missouri challenge- case, _along with the large pro-choice rally in Was_hington, D.C., plus the recent aggr ive ~ctics of Operation Rescue, the issue again IS on center stage. Moral judgment in today's world is ever so ~elf-righteously circumscribed by the reign- mg _socio-political orthodoxy. And the pre- vailing. conventional wisdom supJ)(?rts the pro-choice stance on abortion. Anything Jess IS philistinism. To borrow a remark from Alice in Lewis Carr_oll's classic "Alice in Wonderland," the pubhc debate on abortion "can make words mean so many diffP.rent things." Like Hump- ty Dumpty, one often is left wondering "which (meaning) is to be master" Is the correct description of abortion kill- mg an unborn child or terminating an By JOHN DONNELLY unwanted pregnancy? Is it suctioning out a human being or surgically removing an ob- structionistic piece of tissue? Many supporters of abortion have depicted the Catholic Church as the prime force be- hind efforts to modify or overturn our cur- rent abortion laws. They have speculated that the pope opposes abortion because it deprives his church of future members. De- spite such rhetoric, many Catholics are di- vided on this issue. Sel!•proclaimed Catholics participate in abortions (and thereby incur automatic ex- communication) at a rate consistent with other religious or non-religious persons Overlooked m the intramural Catholic bick- ~ring is h?w remarkab!y ecumenical relig- ious opposition to abortion really is, uniting many Moslems, Jews and Christians (ranging m polar extremes from the Nobel laureate Mother Theresa to the most demagogic televangelist) in a common bond. Surely the pope realizes that many non-aborted fetuses will grow up with no allegiance to and possi- ble enmity toward the church, thereby coun- ter-balancing any potential zealous Catholics saved in the offing.

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Ironically, femi n1Sts commend those men who support and encourage tbnt in their abortions. Paradoxically, Isn't this exactly what chauvinistic males usuau, ,tant? They get no _responsibility for thEflr complicity, along with the unexpected bonus of apprecia- tion from their women. The oft-displayed signs at pro-choice ral- lies - "If men could get pregnant, abortion would_ be sacrament" - are inadvertently persp1cac10us. In fact, many pro-choice males have made abortions sacramental, without the biological nece.isity to engage in such "religious rituals." There's something pitiful about the con- stant refrain of pro-choicers that hell forbid if abortion laws are ever reve~d wome~ will still want abortions and will either per- form self-abort ions (t he malig ned coathanger perhaps replaced by pills mailed from France) or return to the makeshift back-alley clinics. Because Innocent bystand- ers ~casionally die in drug-related drive-by shootmgs or mafia-style executions should we, by parity of reasoning, seriously'counte- nance the_ ~reventive measure of legalizing such hom1c1des? Should we establish desig- nated "killing fields" in which these killings (for genuine participants only) can be accom- plished in a rule-governed spirit of a duel? Language and common sense seem to have gone on h~lida~. How could a genuinely lib- eral and civil-rights stance against abortion ever be labelled conservative and Draconi- an? Yet, Operation Rescue members are de- picted as violent and lawless. Despite a recent peaceful, civil-rights demonstration by pro-lifers at an Escondido abortion facility, ever-zealous ACLU work- ers served them an injunction and photo- graphed them for possible persecution. Last month in Philadelphia, the Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against demonstrat- ing pro-lifers, charging them with violations under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act (RICO). The demonstrators were assessed $128,000 in civil damages and legal fees. The result is that pro-lifers, engaged in non-violent, civil disobedience, are branded as extortionists and racketeers. To add inju- ry to insult, they are ostracized by other civil-rights activists, who reject any analogy to the civil-rights struggles of the 1960s. Far from being correctly perceived as neo-aboli- tionists, the anti-abortion activists are casti- gated by Jesse Jackson, Andrew Young and others as neo-segregationists.

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The San Diego Union/Bill Romero

AA t tournament. TERRIFIC TOREROS rn ment for his Toreros, who took this weekend's conferenc

USO overcame lo of oriega to net big year

Collegiate rankings 1. UCLA 2. California 3. LSU 4. Georgia 5. UC Irvine 6. Kentucky 7. Stanford 8. South Carolina 9. Clemson 10. USC, Miami, Fla. (tie) 12. Texas Christian 13. Pepperdlne 14. Arizona •1s. UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO 16. Alabama 17. Northwestern 18. Mississippi 19. Arkansas 20. Long Beach •Rankings made before 5-1 victory against Pepperdine and return ol No. 1 player Jose Luis Noriega. him. Last falf at USO he earned three B's and a C. His class load: macroeconomics, composition, algebra and world civilization. • It was more than six months after he was admitted, and almost four weeks into the tennJS season, that Noriega was ruled ineligible. "Rule or no rule, it wasn't fair," Collins said. "I know why the rule exists: to prevent kids that are aca- demically weak from playing col- lege athletics, because they should be studying. This kid is not academ- ically inferior ... The fact that he took the SAT before he could speak English wasn't his fault. And it wasn't his fault that he didn't retake it when he got a bad score. It's just nobody found out about it . .. It was an accident. Here is a rule that is made for a reason, but (Noriega) falls, I guess, between the cracks." Noriega retook the SAT in Febru- ary and exceeded 700. In discussing his almost two months of ineligibili- ty, Noriega, whose sentences are complete and coherent, three times said, "I got really mad." ''The new athletic director, he was doing his job, I guess. Only things take a lot of time. I really thought I wasn't going to play this season. I was worried about it. I couldn't sleep for a week. I couldn't eat." What Noriega also couldn't do was play tennis. "I had no motiva-

lion to practice," he said. But in the final hour, the system worked. Last Friday, two days before USO was to face Pepperdin·e in a match that likely would put the winner in the NCAA tournament, Collins sat in his office, expecting the worst. "I got a call from (an NCAA offi- cial in) Kansas," he said. "I'm think- ing, 'Oh, hell, they're going to go home for the weekend. They're going to take care of it on Monday, after the Pepperdine match. And they called .. . (he looked upward, as if to give thanks).'.' Said Iannacone, who became ath- letic director last fall: "The process takes time, unfortunately. We had to withhold him until we could clar- ify his position to the NCAA .. . It's something I don't anticipate will happen again ... " Since returning against Pepper- dine, Noriega has won three straight matches. Because his match total is till low. however, he might not be eligible for the NCAA individual singles tournament. Come what may, USO, a school of 3,600 enrollment, has turned some heads already. The school's aca- demic requirements for players are at least as tough as those of power- ful Intrastate rivals Stanford, Pep- perdine and USC, and probably more rigorous than those of Long Beach State, UC Irvine and UCLA, Collins said. Further, getting a berth from the West Region is most difficult. UCLA (No. 15), USC (12) and Stanford (9) have combined to win 36 of the 45 NCAA team titles. But USO has beaten USC (then ranked No. 4) once in two tries this season. It has also beaten Long Beach State (then No. 20) and SMU (19). In beating Cal, among others, without Noriega, USO proved to be the deepest team in the country, said Hugh Bream, the coach of San Diego State, a 6-0 loser to USO. "All those guys are playing with such confidence," Bream said. "With No- riega back, and Dan Mattera, a fine player, at No. 6, they can beat any- body on the right day."

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English, a 16-y r-old from Lima, Peru, took th Scholastic Aptitude T t thr years go He scored a 670 A score of 700 (1 Proposition 48. a mea ure that raised th standards for fresh- man athletic ehg1b1hty at NCAA- m mber I tltuuo "A very, very bright kid," Ed Collms said of Jose Luis Noriega. He could play tennis, too. Though a !re hman, Noriega, it was thought, would provide the extra oomph needed to land the USO m n's program in the CAA team tournament for the first time. Along the way, 1t ex h U , coach d by Colli would win its first W t Coast Athlcllc Confer- nee title. The things likely will take pla e. The Toreros (24-6) yesterday won the confercnc tournament at Pepperdme. And USD, ranked No. 15 ~lore 1t I No 13 Pepperdtne 1 t Sunday, tands a 95 percent chance, Collins said, of bemg one of the 20 chools selected May 14 for the 'CAA tournament, which be- gms ay 19 in Athen , Ga Further, USD could win the darn thing The slowi concrete courts at Georgia favor basehners. Five of USD's top players prefer the base- Im approach, including Noriega, hose game 1s rooted in clay " Top-ranked) UCLA eems a little notch abovt: everybody, but there' a lot of parity in college tennis this year," Collins aid. Parity imp!Jes depth; that is what U D showed after Feb. 20, a date etched In Collins' mmd. On that day oriega was de- clared ineligible by USO athletic di- rector Tom Iannacone and, in turn, the NCAA because of Noriega's 670 on the SAT. Noriega at the time was

Rep_roductive freedom is a central plank in fem1D1Sm. Yet, feminists are faced with a real dilemma over the use of amniocentesis as a technique of sex selection. To oppose such sex selection, which often spares male fetuses while aborting female ones is to col- lide with their belief that wome~ have a right to control their own bodies. On the other _hand, to ~void such special pleading by allowing abortions based on sex selection is to foster the killing of a disproportionate number of female fetuses. Feminists ardently decry men who oppose abor~ions as chauvinistic. Overall, the allega- tion IS not only inaccurate but remarkably self-deceptive. In fact, the current law en- John Donnelly is a professor ofphilosophy at theUn~ Diego.

The San Diego Union/Bill Romero No. 1 singles player Jose Luis Noriega, who was ineligible for nearly two months, has not lost since his return. ranked No. 33 m the nation wi a 9-

Copper Michael Chang and a for- mer CIF-San Diego Section champi- on at San Dieguito), and teamed with ark Farren for a doubles Vic- ory. The victory against Cal offset losse to Te Christian, then ranked No. 9, and unranked teams from Auburn and Trinity (Texas). Moreover, it showed that USO could beat any team. During Noriega's absence, senior Dave Stewart kept the team focused, and without fifth-year sen- iors Farren, Curtis Dadian and Rick Matheson, "We would have been dead in the water," Collins said. As for how USD got Noriega back after nearly two months, that gets complicated. Iannacone, citing No- riega's right to privacy, declined to discuss details. Collins and Noriega were more specific. The key, Collins said, was to impre upon the NCAA that No- riega's SAT score was misleading and that a strict interpretation of Prop. 48 di

A recent alumni magazine of an Ivy League university featured a story about stu- dent romance and campus personal relation- ships. The director of health education at this university observed that pregnancy is not a problem there. In her eight years working at the university, she knows of. "some 40-50 pregnancies a year,'' but happily reports that only one of those pregnancies was not termi- nated. · RICO or RIP?

1 record at No. 1 singles. His fast start had belied the transition fro clay to ardcourt. With o gone, did Collins beh"ve his team' goals ere still attainable? "Oh, no," Collins said "That's v.hat was so frustrating. It seemed like at the time it was like a death sentence of sorts .. . The thing maybe a non-tennis person would fail to under tand, to lose somebody in the middle of your lineup IS not that significant. But when you lose the top guy, then everybody has to move up a position to compete. He's just so important to the team Basi- cally, without (Noriega), this was the same team that last year went 15-10 without any big wins." Collins chuckled and paused It really JS quite dr ma tlc, huh? To hold on and then . . How they held on: With Noriega's appeal for a waiver still bogged down at NCAA headquarters USO went to top-rank~ California lor a match. The Toreros won, 5-4. ' Most exciting college tenms match I've seen," Collins said. The decisive player that day (March 21) was Poway High alum- nus Chris Toomey, a junior who ral- lied to beat Cal's No. 2 player, Carl Chang (older brother of Davis

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..----.iHeball - Bob Grandr pitched only the eighth inning but got the win in West Coast Athletic Con- ference victory at the University of San Francisco. The Toreros (17-6) squeezed in the winning run in the ninth. Three USO pitchers ~ol!!]2i.ned on a four-hitter. ?--9 ? ,

SDMen Break Pepperdine's 16-Year Hold, Win Their First WCAC Tennis Title Th No. l~?e~mversity of No. 8 Mattera's victory over No. 3 -------------------------- ------------- is 20-20, 7-7. an tl.iego, completely dorruril'ifuig Tomer Zimmerman of Pepperdine, San Diego Sports et Cetera COLLEGE BASEBALL s1 and doubles. ended 6-3, 7-6. Edwards was beaten by P perd,nc's stnng of 16 consecu- No. 6 Farren 1n the quarterfinals. tive titles and chnched its first In doubles, also at USO, the team W t Coast Athletic Conference of CurtlS Dad1an and Mattera will will play No. I-seeded Jennifer s tennis tournament champ1- play the team of Noriega and Larkin and Aby Brayton of USO. SOCCER P Saturday at Pepperdine Stewart for the championship. ThC' other USD teams to advance ------------ D players earned all four spots to todays semifinals are Jana Ko- in he singles semlfmals and both D vacev1ch/ Anna Brunstrom and Jill spots In th e doubles fmal whlie The USO women lead second- Greenwood/ Sako.wan Kachareon. nc mulating 99 points, 36 ahead of place Pepperdine in the women's cond place Pepperdme we today's singles at USD, Mark AC tourney, 68-56, going into Fa r n will play teammate Dan today's semifinal and final rounds M ttera tn one semifinal, while the at Pepperdme 1 ded Jose Luis Noriega will Unlike the USO men, the Toreras David Stewart m the other. have allowed Pepperdine to mo- wmn rs will advance to the nopohze the four slots in the semis. later today. But USO has three teams m the day's smgles h1ghllghts in- doubles sem1f1nals. ed a victory by unseeded J.R. In the doubles pairings , ards of USO over No. 2 Grant Pepperdme's Gmger Helgeson and k of Pepperdme, 6 1, 6-1, and Camilla Orhman (seeded third) • ThE" women's team at Point Loma l\azan.ne College f1mshed Its Golden State Athletic Conference seasor! with a 6-3 Victory over Cal-Lutheran. PLNC (11 9, 4-2 m GSAC play) picked up a singles victory from No. 3 Cmdy Lusmk, wh defeated Elizabeth Bosley, 2-6, 7-6 (7-4), 6-1. The San Diego Nomads open their Western Soccer Alliance sea- son against the Los Angeles Heat tonight at 7 at Balboa Stadium. The Nomads finished third in the pro- fessional outdoor league last sea- son. Marcel Balboa, a member of the U.S. Nallonal team and a former player at San Diego State, will lead the Nomads along with Thien Nguyen, who led UC San Diego to a second-place finish in the Division III national championships last sea- son. San· Diego State pitchers Rob Brown and Erik Platenburg com- bined to strike out 19 Air Force batters as the Aztecs swept a Western Athletic Conference doubleheader, 3-0and 3-1. Brown went the distance (seven innings) in the first one, striking out eight and walking two. San Diego State picked up all three runs in the second. Brian Lutes got things going, driving in Bill Miller with a single. After Anthony Johnson followed with another single, Casey McKean chased home both runners with a double down the right-field line. In the second game, Platenburg struck out 11 and walked only one. San Diego State improved to 28-18, 10-4 in the WAC. Air Force • UC San Diego, ranked No. 8 in Division III, swept a doubleheader from The Master's College, 8-3, 9-3, to improve to 20-15. In the first game, Gary FeSSia was three for three with a home run. He also stole home off pitcher Roger March and threw out Mark Preston, who tried to score on a fly out, from center field. In the second game, Henry Jime- nez sparked three-run rallies in the third and fifth innings with dou- • bles. He was two for two, as was Matt Bynum. Pitcher Rick Rupkey improved to 9-3. · Point

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Club's Fastest Masters IOK on Fiesta Island. Valencia covered the 6.2-mile course in 32,31, breaking Pat Murphy's record of last year by six seconds The women's wmner was Mary Leivers in 39,38

spli t a doubleheader with host Southern California College, win- ning the first game, 2- I, and losing the second, 5-1. Tony Nobinski went two for three in the first game for PLNC 09-22. 7-12 in the Golden State Athletic Conference) . RUNNING Armando Valencia set a race record to win the San Diego Track

BOWLING

The San Diego Stale men's bowl· ing team finished eighth m the National Collegiate Bowling Champ1onsh1ps in Las Vegas. Cal State Fullerton defeated Washing- ton State in the final, 414-392, to win the title.

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