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

DATE: SATURDAY, March 27, 1993                   TAG: 9303290412
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A-7   EDITION: METRO 
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MEDIA DISTORT PRO-LIFE MOVEMENT

THE KILLING of abortionist Dr. David Gunn outside a Pensacola Abortion Clinic is a tragedy. All life, whether born or unborn, is sacred, and I pray that this act of violence is not repeated. Violence never solves a problem, it only escalates it.

I am very disappointed with the news media in regard to this incident. They have painted all pro-lifers as violent and extremists because of the actions of one or a few. It would be analogous to say that Dr. Martin Luther King and the civil-rights movement was violent because of the actions of the Black Panthers. Dr. King wasn't violent and neither are 99.99 percent of those in the pro-life movement.

When will the television cameras start focusing on the violence of holocaust proportions inside the clinics instead of the sideshow on the outside? TONY CONRAD COVINGTON

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