THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Tuesday, October 8, 1996 TAG: 9610080006
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A16 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: 25 lines
I am appalled that 41 of our senators did not vote to override the president's veto on the issue of partial-birth abortions.
Some who vote no object because there is nothing there for the protection of the ``health'' (not life) of the mother. She would be less traumatized if she gave the baby up for adoption than knowing she literally murdered a baby, her baby.
It's time we stopped with the empty rationalizations. Once a woman has conceived, she is no longer just a woman with a choice, she is now a mother who is either going to nourish the life form in her womb or go against everything the name ``mother'' implies and abort it.
There is no difference in a preemie and a partial-birth abortion baby other than a mother who chose life and one who chose to be rid of her inconvenience, even though there are many loving couples who long for an ``inconvenience'' of their own.
D. E. MILLER
Virginia Beach, Sept. 27, 1996 by CNB