Abortion

The Times is not honest when pursuing its pro-abortion stance. To say, as the April 4 editorial does, that what is at issue is “the choice to have a child, or the choice not to have one,” is not to speak the truth. Half a truth is the worst kind of a lie.

The pertinent issue concerns rather what is done in order not to have a child, and the critical question in the debate, therefore, is whether abortion is merely to prevent a potential human life, or to squash a human life that has potential. There is a vital difference, and for The Times to ignore this question is delusive journalism.

The Times’ selective and misleading reporting and editorializing on abortion is added reason why the profession of journalism is held in such low esteem by people today, a fact recently and sadly noted by The Times itself.

THE MOST REV. NORMAN F. McFARLAND

Bishop of Orange