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

DATE: FRIDAY, April 19, 1991                   TAG: 9104190696
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A10   EDITION: METRO 
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NEED REFERENDUM ON PARENTAL CONSENT

ONCE AGAIN the General Assembly has decided that Virginia parents are not intelligent enough to make a decision about their daughters. It rejected for the second time the parental-consent law.

Seventy-two percent of Virginia parents want this law. A referendum should be placed on the ballot. I would like to see 72 percent of parents deluge Richmond with demands those few lawmakers give Virginians the right to say "We the people" have the constitutional freedom and wisdom to think and live our lives as our forefathers intended, instead of giving our children as wards of the state.

Sooner or later, some 14-year-old girl will (God forbid) die from complications of an abortion, leading to the biggest multimillion-dollar suit Planned Parenthood, the school system and the state thought possible. Abortion is a big-money industry, and the Hippocratic oath taken by doctors is all but forgotten when it comes to saving humans. OTIS E. CURD\

MONTVALE

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