THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Wednesday, February 8, 1995 TAG: 9502080010
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A11 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: Short : 32 lines
In the article on the Right to Life march in Washington, D.C. (news, Jan. 24), you chose to put the primary emphasis on the isolated instances of attacks on abortion clinics. These attacks are wrong, but they represent only a tiny fringe of the anti-abortion movement.
Probably far fewer people have been killed or injured by attacks on abortion clinics than the number of mothers who have been killed or seriously harmed by botched abortions in today's legalized clinics, about which we seldom hear in the news media.
I have great sympathy for the woman who is faced with a decision whether to abort a child and who usually receives very one-sided counseling from those who would benefit, financially or otherwise, from her abortion.
I have less sympathy for the man for whom abortion is an easy way to escape taking responsibility for his actions. (Indeed, abortion is not so much an issue of women's liberty as it is of men's irresponsibility.)
And I have very little sympathy for those in the business of making money by killing babies and who lobby vigorously to preserve that business.
JAMES MORRISSON
Virginia Beach, Jan. 24, 1995 by CNB