THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Wednesday, October 23, 1996 TAG: 9610230004
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A14 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: 26 lines
On Sept. 8 you published three separate letters berating Congress for not overriding the president's veto on the law banning ``partial birth abortions'' (a media term, not a medical term).
Does anyone know the facts? This procedure is done on infants who are so severely deformed (missing brains in some cases) that they have no chance of survival outside the womb as anything resembling human beings. No law we could pass will save these children.
This so-called abortion is not something elective, not a form of birth control, but merely a medical response to fatal birth defects before they can drag the mother down to her own death as well.
Do not condemn the president for his veto of a law that can only put families - already facing the tragedy of a lost child - at risk of losing a mother, a wife and the chance to ever have another, healthy child. Instead, applaud that someone in Washington is aware that all the laws in the world won't give a chance at life to a child who never formed correctly.
LISA Z. MORGAN
Portsmouth, Oct. 8, 1996 by CNB