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

DATE: FRIDAY, March 12, 1993                   TAG: 9303120630
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A-8   EDITION: METRO 
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ENFORCE THE LAW ON ABORTION, TOO

IT SEEMS to be a very useful law under which preacher Elwood Gallimore is being prosecuted. Why isn't it invoked every time a 15-year-old girl has an abortion? If there is an actual law against having sex with an underage girl, aren't abortion clinics being accessories after the fact if they destroy the evidence of the crime without reporting it to the police?

I don't usually agree with the National Rifle Association, but they do have a point when they say we should enforce the laws we already have. JANE PILSON RIDGEWAY

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