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

DATE: MONDAY, April 9, 1990                   TAG: 9004090265
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A10   EDITION: METRO 
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WILL GOVERNMENT BE THERE IN AFTERMATH?

THE STATEWIDE Parental Notification Bill has once again been killed in the Senate Education and Health Committee, despite senators' receiving many phone calls from constituents requesting that they vote for it. This shows me that it is necessary, in the next election, to replace those members with pro-family legislators. In the meantime, I have some questions for those senators.

If my daughter had an abortion without my knowledge or permission, but with the help and consent of the government, would the government bear the cost - and panic - when I have to rush her to the hospital, hemorrhaging or with infection?

When guilt and remorse set in, will the government be there to transport her to the mental-health clinic and pay for treatment?

Aside from any monetary concern, and more importantly, will a government representative be with us when her screams wake the family or when she attempts suicide?

Further, if my daughter learns that, due to "something that went wrong," she will be unable to have children in the future, will the government bear her sorrow? Will it bear the grief I would experience from being robbed of my natural grandchildren? Will it?\ JUDITH E. DUNCAN\ ALLISONIA

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