Wednesday, July 3, 2002

As a medical student at the Medical College of Georgia, founder of a Catholic group there, member of Medical Students for Life, and strong believer in the physician's duty to protect life from conception to natural death, I found Michelle Malkin's column [in the Friday paper] both right-on and very disturbing.

I can only speak about my class of 2004, which I believe is representative of most southern medical schools if not most national schools. A majority of my classmates are antiabortion, with a sizable minority being pro-abortion. Convictions about the issue tend to run deep in most of my classmates.

Disturbing for both pro- and antiabortion medical students should be NARAL's move to impose its will upon the teaching of, and by extension the practice of, medicine. Such a move by an organization that proposes to defend freedoms and liberties demonstrates a fatal flaw in what the organization promotes. What other reason could there be for such a desperate move than a feeling within that group of impending crisis?

I pray that editorials such as Michelle Malkin's and stories such as this NARAL incident will show the public at large that the "Culture of Death" is slowly losing its grip on our society.

Brian Varisco

Peachtree City

mp8270md@mail.mcg.edu

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