The Virginian-Pilot
                            THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT  
              Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Thursday, November 16, 1995            TAG: 9511150021
SECTION: FRONT                    PAGE: A14  EDITION: FINAL 
TYPE: Letter 
                                             LENGTH: Short :   27 lines

LATE-TERM ABORTIONS

Why does your paper insist on not reporting truthfully on matters concerning abortion? Under the headline ``House bill would ban some abortions'' (news, Nov. 2), you reported, ``The 288-139 vote was limited to a highly specialized procedure, known medically as intact dilation and evacuation.''

These high-sounding words are a cover-up for an act whereby late-term babies are killed by the doctor by pulling all but the head out of the mother's body and then stabbing the back of the infant's head with scissors or other sharp instrument and sucking the infant's brains out so that a dead infant can be delivered as an abortion.

The brutality of this act speaks for itself and explains why there was such an overwhelming majority for banning it.

JAMES T. HAYES

Virginia Beach, Nov. 8, 1995 by CNB