This letter apparently missed the deadline for inclusion in The Pilot, but I wanted you to see it, anyhow.    –Dave Burton, webmaster,   www.mooregop.org     H: 919-481-0098     7/18/2004

Letter To The Editor:
Many of Richard Morgan's detractors complain about his support for tax increases, which most other Republican legislators opposed.  But those tax increases add up to only about $300 for an average family of four, for 2005.
The greatest tragedy of this legislative session isn't measured in dollars.  It's the thousands of innocent lives needlessly lost because Co-Speakers Morgan and Black won't allow a vote on a bill to reduce the number of abortions.
There are about eighty elective abortions per day in North Carolina.  But the term “elective” is deceptive.  It implies choice.  But many abortions are obtained by women who don't truly want them.  They feel trapped, they think they have no other choice, because they don't know what help is available for them and their babies.
HB-998, “Abortion - Woman's Right To Know,” would solve that.  It would require that at least 24 hours before obtaining an abortion a pregnant woman must be given factual, unbiased information about medical facts and risks, available resources and alternatives, and her legal rights.
It wouldn't prohibit any abortions.  It would just empower young women with the information they need to make informed choices.
We know, from States that already have this protection, that it would prevent more than 3000 unnecessary abortions per year in North Carolina.
The votes are there to pass this bill.  In fact, most House Members co-sponsored it.  But the abortion industry opposes it, so Black and Morgan are killing it.
Every abortion is tragic.  But the most tragic of all are abortions obtained by mothers who want to keep their babies, but abort them because they don't know they have other choices.
What could be worse that that?  Not a $300 tax hike, that's for sure!

Flo Miller, Carthage
  and
Loretta Thompson, Knightdale
Executive Director, American Victims of Abortion, NC Chapter
“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you...”  -Jeremiah 1:5     “...as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.” -Matthew 25:40,45