THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Thursday, November 16, 1995 TAG: 9511150020
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A14 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: Short : 28 lines
How can The Virginian-Pilot possibly support the partial-birth-abortion procedure? Your recent editorial was purposely misleading. You failed to note that of the tiny number of women who undergo this procedure, eight out of 10 do so by choice, not anguished medical necessity.
You should have asked, ``Why leave the baby's head inside the mother while removing the baby's brain?'' Why the partial birth?
The answer is unsettling. Removing the brain is the most effective way to kill the baby. You can't kill her if she is a person (that's murder), but if she is only partially'' born, she is an ``it'' which may be legally killed. So, you may have to remove its brain before it becomes a person. See?
Right now, late-term abortions are legal. Not just for the deformed or hopeless but also for healthy viable babies. The real question being asked by legislation you want to stop is: ``Do we as a people want this to continue?''
WILLIAM D. ROBERTSON
Virginia Beach, Nov. 9, 1995 by CNB