To the editor:

After The Chicago Tribune published two separate headlines last year that included the term “anti-choice,” public editor Don Wycliff in a Nov. 6 column apologized to readers.

“In either case” wrote Wycliff, “the flaw was the same: The perspective of those who define the issues involved in terms of ‘choice’ was taken as normative, and the position of those who disagree with them and define the issues differently was characterized in ‘choice’ terms. The result was two headlines that couldn’t have been more slanted if they had come directly from the public relations office of NARAL Pro-Choice America.”

When the term “anti-choice” appeared in a Nov. 30, 1995, Journal-World article, it appeared to be merely a case of an editor missing an inappropriate term used by a young reporter.

However, how does the Journal-World explain the use of “anti-choice” in a bold headline in the Jan. 19 issue?

Kevin Groenhagen,

Lawrence