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To the Editor:
Your editorial of March 5 inaccurately presents the parental notification bill passed by the Virginia General Assembly. The bill does not “force young women... to get their parents’ permission” for an abortion; rather, it requires that the physician notify one parent in advance of the scheduled abortion. If the child fears her parents, she can ask the juvenile and domestic relations court to authorize the abortion, bypassing the notification requirement.
The intent of the legislation is to involve the family in the abortion decision. It protects children from abusive parents. It is good legislation, and Gov. Wilder should sign it into law.
ROBERT M. DARBY
Woodville
Taking out
the knife
To the Editor:
Hoowhee! Ron Frazier certainly has his bowie knife out! (Glad to see NEA attacked, March 5.)
When Mr. Frazier says we should get rid of the National Endowment for the Arts because of a few questionable artistic endeavors, he’s saying we must penalize thousands of well-established, highly-respected, and much-loved orchestras, museums, theaters, dance-places, galleries and individual artists as well as those in the forefront of artistic experimentation. He’s also saying that he thinks the millions of us who get nourishment from the arts
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