This is Norman Ng. I was good friends with Howard Mak then and I do remember Joey Chia. Howard, Alan Moy and a few others who I can’t remember used to go over my house to celebrate some bdays with me.

Howard was like the smartest kid I knew..I wonder what he’s up to these days.

Jenny Hsieh lived down the block from me in grade school and I used to play handball with his younger brother. I heard she’s a lawyer now and living in the city.

Anyone know what ever happened to Ms. Brook(e)s? She’d always give out hamsters and kiss her students on the cheek leaving lipstick marks!

I actually went back last yr to visit and was talking to a random teacher outside. She said most of the teachers I mentioned are either retired or moved on. Mr. Saltz retired a few yrs ago.

Pro-choice describes the political and ethical view that a woman should have complete control over her fertility and pregnancy. This entails the guarantee of reproductive rights, which includes access to sexual education; access to safe and legal abortion, contraception, and fertility treatments; and legal protection from forced abortion. Individuals and organizations who support these positions make up the pro-choice movement.

Some people who are pro-choice see abortion as a last resort and focus on a number of situations where they feel abortion is a necessary option. Among these situations are those where the woman was raped, her health or life (or that of the fetus) is at risk, contraception was used but failed, or she feels unable to raise a child. Some pro-choice moderates, who would otherwise be willing to accept certain restrictions ..ion, feel that political pragmatism compels them to oppose any such restrictions, as they could be used to form a slippery slope against all abortions.

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Definition Explained:
First paragraph– This includes the access to sexual education and contraception meaning that sex ed should be in schools and contraception should be available and free to women who need it to prevent pregnancy. So unless you are completely celibate or only have sex to make babies–this probably applies to YOU.

Denote second paragraph. “Some people who are pro-choice see abortion as a LAST resort and focus on a number of situations.” There is a HUGE misconception on this issue and I feel it needs to be CLARIFIED by FACTUAL information, NOT stereotypes.

It does NOT mean that democrats and pro-choicers believe it should be used as a method of birth control! , which is why democrats propose that sex education be instituted in schools.

Also, VERY important to note–Some pro-choice moderates, who would otherwise be willing to accept certain restrictions ..ion (i.e Partial and Induced Abortions) feel that political pragmatism compels them to oppose any such restrictions,as they could be used to form a slippery slope against all abortions–MEANING that they cannot vote NO on these types of abortions because it could be regarded as contradictory and cause conflict about their stance ..ion even in cases of rape, incest, health concerns, etc.

SO–Before you go calling me immoral or my choice for president a baby killer—KNOW the FACTS.

If you go to wikipedia and type in pro choice, I believe that there is more information about how before Roe v Wade and abortion was illegal–It caused much more problems than it fixed.

It is also important to note how a young girl in middle or high school would be treated upon unplanned pregnancy. People will call her a whore and treat her really badly. If she does the noble act of giving it up for adoption, people will say “How could she?” There are also many young girls with bad home lives who may be beaten should they become pregnant.

Also important! America is the only country where adoption can be reversed meaning that it isn’t final and a biological “mother” (I say that in quotations because mother would imply that she raised the child) can decide after say the child is 5, 10 years old that she has “cleaned up her act” and wants to take the child back. Imagine how awful this would be for the child and family who raised the child. This is, perhaps, the reason why many couples choose to adopt children overseas and not here.

Any questions? There’s more on wikipedia and other sources.

Thanks:)

You were very gracious in how you described the person who asked the question of why “they” always stick together. I think it’s probably more reasonable to ask why “they” in the majority (who have access to power, resources, etc.) don’t reach out to those different from themselves.

I get the feeling that even first-gen Korean Americans can live missionally in community and minister to those outside the Korean context. Now, I’d be hard-pressed to give a concrete example of an entire institutional church that does this, but I’ve seen pockets of it in many different places across the country. People who love Jesus and want to join in God’s mission, wherever that might be (esp. at their workplaces).

The reality is, even second and third gen Asian Americans will still need a place to be accepted solely as “insider” — the triple consciousness that Soong-Chan Rah describes in The Next Evangelicalism. I agree with you, though: the next gen is the key. Can we *be* the church for a broken and hurting world; can we be humble enough to recognize that we’re not “bringing Jesus” anywhere, but that God is very much at work already, and can our pain lead to past alienation and into empathetic understanding of others who are not like us (whether ethnically, socio-economically, politically, etc.)?