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

DATE: SUNDAY, February 21, 1993                   TAG: 9302220260
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: F-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DEED, NOT THE BAN, IS REPUGNANT

I AM REPULSED and sickened by your perverse comment in your Feb. 6 editorial ("What hath Clinton wrought?") stating that the Reagan-Bush ban on fetal-tissue research was "repugnant."

Possibly you are ignorant of the preferred method of obtainment or are intrinsically cannibalistic. (I hope the former.)

According to Dr. Bernard Nathanson, a pro-life advocate, a former abortionist and one of the founding members of the National Abortion Rights Action League, the preferred method of obtaining fetal-transplant tissue is to drill a hole through the skull of a living second- or third-trimester unborn child, and then suction out the brain just before it is killed by the abortion procedure (fresh meat).

Now, who is "repugnant"? TONY CONRAD COVINGTON

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