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To the Editor: Generally, I heartily agree with you (June 12 issue)¹ that legislators should not be practicing medicine. However, the issue of partial-birth abortion should not be mixed in with the others. The concern over this matter, as opposed to a need for mammography or hospitalization for delivery, is one of morality and is properly a decision more for our elected representatives than for doctors. The question of whether the fetus at any certain age is a human being worthy of society's protection against violation cannot be decided by scientific evidence. This question, however, is appropriately addressed by the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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