MANY PRO-LIFERS' ACTIONS ARE AMAZING

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, February 19, 1992                   TAG: 9202190363
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MANY PRO-LIFERS' ACTIONS ARE AMAZING
BEING pro-choice does not mean being pro-death. It means being given the right to choose. The right, the very thing this country was founded on, rights and choice.
Margaret Kelso (letter, Feb. 9) said if any abortion proponents had a problem with her plan of death for children, then we would understand why pro-lifers had a problem with abortion. I do have a problem, and it's with small, closed-minded people.
I never cease to be amazed at how many pro-lifers fight sex education in schools, or the passing out of contraceptive devices to those who want them. Doesn't it make sense to educate and provide means to stop the problem of unwanted pregnancy, or sexually transmitted disease, before someone must face the decision of abortion?
If Ms. Kelso wants to take all the unwanted children into her home, then more power to her! I truly feel great pain for all the children born with the odds stacked so high against them. I just hope that when they grow up, the world will not have been taken over by people who inflict their ignorance on others, and that they will still have the right to choose. MICHELLE CORDLE SALEM

by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB