LETTERS: ADD VOICES TO ABORTION CONCERNS

To the editor:

This letter is in response to Gov. Mel Carnahan's veto of the bill that would have banned partial-birth abortions.

Not being very politically astute, I sometimes have difficulty discerning between cheap political double talk and legitimate legal issues, but when the governor of our state cannot, or will not, sign a bill that would stop the killing of babies because, he says, it would be unconstitutional, it seems painfully evident that something is wrong. We either have the wrong man as governor, or we need to amend the Constitution.

The very thought that our Constitution supposedly allows such abortions is distasteful enough, but the idea that it prevents us from stopping such killing is totally absurd.

We should rise up and add our voices to those trying to correct this sad situation.

RAY DUFFEY

Cape Girardeau