The veto was right.(Pres. Clinton's veto of the 'partial birth' abortion ban)(Letter to the Editor)

From: Commonweal | Date: June 14, 1996| Author: | Copyright information

An outraged reader, a Republican mother whose life was saved an emergency abortion the vetoed law would have banned, challenges a Commonweal editorial against the veto. The editors are sympathetic but steadfast in their conclusion that the procedures are immoral.

As practicing Catholics, my husband and I are deeply dismayed at the misrepresentations that appeared in Commonweal regarding the president's veto of H.R. 1833, a bill that would have banned certain types of late-term abortions [editorials, April 19 and May 3]. This legislation was wrong, and its authors have misled its ...

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