
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, June 14, 1990                   TAG: 9006140475
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A-14   EDITION: METRO 
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ANTI-ABORTIONISTS NOT CIVIL-RIGHTS LEADERS

MANY anti-abortionists seem to see themselves as civil-rights leaders for the unborn. But who are these people trying to kid? The civil-rights leaders of yesterday sought rights for those who were born in this country and were denied their rights because of race.

Those leaders were often beaten and had their homes or churches burned. The anti-abortionists of today are removed by police with stretchers, and then often ask police to arrest them!

To me, life begins at birth. If we say that life begins at conception, how shall we define "birth"?

JOE MAYS\ LYNCHBURG

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