I would be grateful of the following letter could be included in the next edition of Salient;

On leaving the Union Hall after attending the Forum on March 3 regarding the Abortion Issue, I felt disgusted and sickened by the behaviour of my fellow students. In fact I was ashamed to be associated with a group of people whose response to the invited speakers was nothing less than an insult and a display of blatant disrespect.

At any public meeting or forum, as I understand it, it is the part of the audience (if they have any manners or respect at all) to listen, not to interject abusively, throw darts or talk themselves. If the meeting is properly chaired (which this one certainly was not) the time for questions and clarifications comes after the speaker has completed his or her address.

Regardless of whether one agrees with the speakers or not, it is surely common decency to allow them to present their views especially when we have invited them along expressly to do just that.

I see no point in inviting people to speak at forums if their voices are going to be drowned and their rights abused by the irresponsible behaviour of so many of the students. The right to life was not the only right challenged at that forum — the right of our invited speakers to present their views was also challenged.

It seems to me that many people have not only a total disregard for the right of the unborn child but having sacrificed and lost sight of this most fundamental of rights — the Right to Life —they are now intent upon the destruction of further human rights.

One might well ask "Where will it end?"