"This newspaper has never been, and will never be pro-abortion"

[Maddy McCall]

Editorial, Sun Herald, Biloxi, MS.

This newspaper has never been and, we hope, will never be pro abortion


On Monday, the Sun Herald published a column by Ellen Goodman of the Boston Globe concerning the career of Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. In Goodman's opinion, O'Connor's finest moments on the nation's highest court occurred when she was defending the court's decision in Roe vs. Wade, which made abortion legal across the nation.

As sometimes happens, a reader took the publication of a column as an indication of the Sun Herald's position on a subject. In this case, abortion.

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As for the concerns of this particular reader, the most recent editorial we wrote on abortion dealt with the procedure often described as partial-birth abortion, a procedure we still consider to be horrendous, abhorrent and justifiable only if there is no other way to save the life of the mother.

As for abortion in general, we profoundly regret that it has become, for far too many women and men, a remedy for carelessness and a substitute for more responsible means of birth control.

While we appreciate that there are circumstances that necessitate abortion in some cases, we cannot imagine any circumstances that would make us proponents of abortion.

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/editorial/12127511.htm