(A3a4d2) pro life Americans

Mark Crutcher, Steven Ertelt, Linda Harvey, Frank Joseph, Norma McCorvey, Alan Keyes and Michael Peroutka, are some noted pro life Americans. ******* As of this date, 07-09-19, this folder contains 33 items. ******* item 1 NEW BILL INFORMS WOMEN ABOUT PAIN BABIES FEEL DURING ABORTIONS ******* item 2 FAMILY SAVED BY CHRISTIANS IN COLUMBUS OHIO ******* item 3 ARIZONA COUNTY OFFICIAL JOE ARPAIO CHALLENGED ON DENYING ABORTIONS FOR INMATES ******* item 4 CATHOLIC BISHOP WILL CONTINUE FOCUS ON ABORTION AND COMMUNION DEBATE ******* item 5 LOUISIANA ELECTS 2 PRO-LIFERS TO CONGRESS ******* item 6 ABORTION-BREAST CANCER NEWS HEADLINES - ACTIVIST QUITS OVER ABORTION ******* item 7 MICHIGAN COUPLE REJECTS ABORTION TO HAVE SEXTUPLETS, FEEL BLESSED ******* item 8 SEXTUPLETS CELEBRATE FIRST BIRTHDAY AFTER PARENTS REFUSED ABORTION ******* item 9 DENVER WOMEN COMMEND GOVERNOR FOR VETO OF EMERGENCEY CONTRACEPTION BILL ******* item 10 JUDGE REFUSES CASES ON ABORTION ******* item 11 PLANNED PARENTHOOD GIVES KIDS PORN BOOK ******* item 12 GLORIA POOLE'S TESTIMONY AS A REGISTERED NURSE ABOUT HEALTH CARE IN THE USA ******* item 13 PRO ABORTION INJUNCTION ******* item 14 INTERVIEW WITH A PARENTS' RIGHTS ACTIVIST: BRIAN CAMENKER ******* item 15 THREE CATHOLIC BISHOPS SAY NO COMMUNION FOR PRO-ABORTION ******* item 16 DAUGHTER'S ABORTION DEATH PROMPTS FATHER TO START POST-ABORTION FOUNDATION ******* item 17 AMERICAN RED CROSS EMPLOYEE FIRED FOR NOT CELEBRATING HOMOSEXUALITY ******* item 18 PERSECUTION OF PRO-LIFE SUPPORTERS ******* item 19 ERIC RUDOLPH'S ALLOCUTION ******* item 20 99 YEAR OLD PROTESTS ABORTIONS DAILY ******* item 21 VOTING FOR A POLITICIAN WHO BACKS ABORTION IS A GRAVE SIN, BISHOP SAYS ******* item 22 A LEGACY OF LIFE IN A CULTURE OF DEATH ******* item 23 PUBLISHER PUSHES ONE ISSUE ABOVE ALL OTHERS: ABORTION ******* item 24 WHO'S AFRAID OF AN ARGUMENT? THE INSECURITIES OF THE ABORTION RIGHTS MOVEMENT ******* item 25 JUDGE DISMISSES CHARGES AGAINST ANTI-GAY PROTESTORS ******* item 26 UPDATE ON JOE ARPAIO ******* item 27 U. S. ANTI-ABORTION EXTREMIST APOLOGIZES TO SLAIN DOCTOR'S WIDOW ******* item 28 COLORADO SPRINGS SCHOOL DISTRICT OUSTS PLANNED PARENTHOOD ******* item 29 DENVER ARCHBISHOP SAYS CATHOLICS REFUSING TO DEFEND MORALITY "DEMONSTRATING COWARDICE" ******* item 30 CATHOLIC GAY ACTIVISTS DENIED COMMUNION IN CHICAGO ******* item 31 "WE SHALL OVERCOME ... ABORTION" SAYS NATIONAL PRO-LIFE UNION PRESIDENT ******* item 32 MAYOR COMMITTED TO PREVENTING PUBLIC HOMOSEXUAL ACTS IN CHILDREN'S PARK ******* item 33 ALAN KEYES THROWS HAT INTO REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION RACE ************************************************************************************************************************ ******* item 1 NEW BILL INFORMS WOMEN ABOUT PAIN BABIES FEEL DURING ABORTIONS ******* Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 ******* from [email protected] ******* As you read the article below, the 20 week onset of pain in unborn children is a consensus. In other words, it is a definite YES. One must also bear in mind that some studies have indicated that the unborn may feel pain as early as 9 weeks, since it is clear that the fetus responds to touch from five and a half weeks after conception. ******* In unborn children, the mechanism that allows older children and adults to "dampen down" the pain messages has not been as fully developed, as the pain receptors. Thus, they feel pain at the slightest trauma, let alone being torn apart, in which case the pain would be excruciating. ******* The unborn child must be given the benefit of the doubt. The same as we give to murderers, only in this case the unborn child has had no trial. ******* Frank Joseph MD ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ NEW BILL INFORMS WOMEN ABOUT PAIN BABIES FEEL DURING ABORTIONS ******* by Steven Ertelt ******* LifeNews.com Editor ******* May 20, 2004 ******* Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- New legislation introduced in Congress will focus on an aspect of abortion that normally receives little attention -- the pain that unborn children feel during an abortion. ******* The bill would make certain that those performing abortions inform women of the pain unborn children experience during an abortion, especially later in pregnancy. ******* The Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act would specifically require abortion practitioners to tell women having abortions after 20 weeks that the unborn child feels pain. Under the bill, women should be given the opportunity to allow her baby to have pain control drugs administered prior to the abortion. ******* During the recent trials of lawsuits seeking to overturn the federal ban on partial-birth abortions, Dr. Kanwaljeet Anand, a pain specialist, told a California judge that unborn children feel enormous pain during an abortion. "There will be pain caused to the fetus. And I believe it will be severe and excruciating pain," Dr. Anand, a pediatrician at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, said. ******* Dr. Anand said that unborn children show increased heart rate, blood flow, and hormone levels in response to pain. "The physiological responses have been very clearly studied," he said. ******* Yet, abortion practitioners are reluctant to tell women that's the case. ******* Judge Richard Casey in New York asked abortion practitioner Marilynn Fredriksen what she tells women on whom she performs partial-birth abortions. "Do you tell whether or not it will hurt the fetus," Judge Casey asked. Fredriksen responded, "The intent [is] that the fetus will die during the process of uterine evacuation." ******* "Ma'am, I didn't ask you that," Judge Casey persisted. "You will deliver the baby partially and then insert a pair of scissors in the base of the fetus' skull. ... Do you tell them whether or not that hurts the fetus?" Fredricksen snapped, "I have never talked to a fetus about whether or not they experience pain." ******* Family Research Council President Tony Perkins said the evidence is abundant that unborn children feel intense pain during an abortion. "We cannot deny the medical evidence now before us," Perkins said. "From testimony taken during the recent partial-birth abortion hearings and advancements in the field of in utero technology, science is telling us unborn children as young as 20 weeks old can feel pain. The evidence we have is clear, and we should not keep that evidence from women." ******* An April Zogby poll shows that 77% of Americans back "laws requiring that women who are 20 weeks or more along in their pregnancy be given information about fetal pain before having an abortion." Only 16 percent disagreed with such a proposal, according to the poll, commissioned by the National Right to Life Committee. Despite the polling results, Perkins said he wouldn't be surprised if abortion advocates opposed the new measure. "Women have the right to know what happens when they have an abortion and they have a right to know the pain their unborn child will experience when it is being aborted. Anyone who would deny a woman such information is hardly a defender of women's rights," Perkins said. ******* Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas and Rep. Chris Smith of New Jersey, two leading pro-life advocates, are the bill's main sponsors. The Southern Baptist Convention and U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops have joined NRLC and FRC in endorsing the legislation. ************************************************************************************************************************ ******* item 2 FRANK WAGNER'S RESPONSE TO ITEM 1 ******* Dear Dr. Joseph, ******* There's nothing in this article that I can dispute. In particular, I do not dispute the fact that a preborn child experiences excruciating pain during an abort ion. My best guess is that in a late term abortion the child feels greater pain than would an adult who is being beheaded with a dull knife. ******* I would like to comment on three related matters. ******* The first is the relationship between the body and soul. In a sense the soul is to the body as the body is to clothing. At conception the body is joined to the soul, which then directs the growth and development of the body. At conception consciousness is a direct soul consciousness. As the soul causes the body to grow, soul consciousness is gradually replaced by consciousness through the body, i.e. through the developing 5 senses. The precise time in a human life when the senses are most acute is not known to me but my best guess is that it's near the time of birth. ******* When an abortion is committed there are at least 2 victims. If it is not already dead, the mother's soul dies and the child's body dies. The mother remains physically alive and the child remains spiritually alive. Spiritual death is worse than physical death. Therefore the mother suffers the worse fate. ******* The second point I want to comment on is the terror experienced by the aborted child. The child is fully aware of the abortion, both immediately before the abortion is committed and during the time it is being committed. Because of the aborted children's direct consciousness by their souls these children are more aware of the spiritual dimension of abortion than those of us who survived the womb. They have a keener sense of the spiritual power driving today's abortion holocaust than do those of us who survived the womb. They also have a keener sense of the spiritual laws which govern us and our behaviour. In particular, they know that if the terror of abortion is not ended that terror will spread to those of us who survived the womb. "As you sow so shall you reap." Their cry of terror is therefore not just for themselves, but also, and perhaps more so for us. Indeed todays terrorism, as commonly understood, is a consequence of the world's abortion holocaust. ******* Just as the physical universe is governed by physical laws so human beings are governed by spiritual laws. One of these spiritual laws dictates that the terror experienced by the aborted children will come to those who condone, promote, facilitate or commit abortion. An abortion is a terrorist act. The terror experienced by aborted children is the same terror experienced by the victims of the beheaders, for it is the same spirit which drives both acts. Abortion and terrorism are two faces of the same coin. ******* Thirdly I want to comment on John Kerry's stated intention to hunt down and kill terrorists. This stated intention is a pathetic, tragic and futile comment on the state of his soul and on the present status of a once great United States of America. John Kerry has spent 2 decades promoting terrorism in the form of abortion. The American people have done the same for 3 decades. America fails to recognize the fact that they, perhaps more so than any other nation on earth, have brought about the growing terrorism throughout the world. The antidote to terrorism is not military power but repentance of the sin of abortion. ******* Frank Wagner *********************************************************************************************************************** ******* item 2 FAMILY SAVED BY CHRISTIANS IN COLUMBUS OHIO ******* Fom: "Patrick Johnston, D.O." ******* date Sun, 7 Nov 2004 ******* Dear friends, ******* I think many of you will find this encouraging. Anywhere from fifteen to thirty Protestants have joined a few dozen Catholics out in front of the Capital Care Women's Clinic, an abortion clinic close to the campus of Ohio State University. Three women who were there Saturday - Nancy from New Beginnings Church of God in Warsaw, Beth from Perry Chapel in Coshocton, and Cindy from Belville - drive about an hour to get there. We stand outside with our anti-abortion signs, praying, pleading for couples to repent and keep their child. About thirty "Clinic Volunteers" and a Security Guard named Dave are the recipients of most of our preaching and exhortations. Nancy, Beth, and Cindy begged a black woman who was headed for the clinic doors to reconsider, to not kill her baby, and they pleaded with the man that was with her to repent and care for his child. The black woman just shook her head and walked inside, sheltered from our cries by the Volunteers who were skilled in distracting troubled mothers from our calls and our signs. The three pro-life women felt a special burden to pray for this black woman, and so they did. ******* An half an hour later, the black couple walked out of the clinic and headed for their car. Nancy asked her, "Did you do it? Did you get an abortion?" ******* The black woman just shook her head and mumbled, "I couldn't do it." ******* The three women rushed toward her with tears of joy in their eyes and embraced her. The man that was with her came over and some of the men shook his hand and encouraged him. One of the pro-lifers put an hundred dollar bill into his hand to help him care for the child. With their permission, we laid hands on both of them, and prayed for their baby and their family. They thanked us, and got in their car to leave. ******* It was at this time that I realized that the Security Guard, Dave, was about five feet away from us! In the excitement, we did not realize that we were on the property of the abortion clinic! Those of you who have experience ministering in front of an abortion clinic know that, whatever you do, you don't go on the property of an abortion clinic! Dave had come over to scoot us off the property, but when he saw that we were praying for the couple, he let us finish praying. I sensed a tenderness in his heart toward us that I had never felt there before in my three years ministering at this clinic. I was able to witness to him like never before. ******* Please take a moment and pray for Dave, for this young black family, and for Capital Care to close down in Jesus name! Nothing is too difficult to those who believe. If you don't live close to an abortion clinic, don't let that discourage you. Find the nearest one that's open on a Saturday, and make it a family outing! Nancy, Beth, and Cindy drove an hour to get to the clinic, but, boy, are they glad they did! ******* For "the least of these, ******* Patrick Johnston www.prolifephysicians.org www.rightremedy.org *********************************************************************************************************************** ******* item 3 ARIZONA COUNTY OFFICIAL JOE ARPAIO CHALLENGED ON DENYING ABORTIONS FOR INMATES ******* Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 ******* From: "Steven Ertelt" and LifeNews.com Pro-Life Report 10/16/04 #3379 ******* For news updated throughout the day, visit http://www.LifeNews.com ******* Phoenix, AZ (LifeNews.com) -- An Arizona sheriff says pregnant inmates at the prison he operates should not be transported by prison officials for abortions. The decision is drawing a challenge from the ACLU and other abortion advocates. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who is pro-life, says he only allows inmates to be transported for trips that are medically necessary and he says abortion is an elective procedure. He doesn't want to use taxpayer funds by having his staff take women to obtain abortions. "I don't run a taxi service from jail to an abortion clinic and back," Arpaio said. ACLU attorney Angie Polizzi said her group believes abortion is a constitutional right that should not be revoked when a woman is jailed. Polizzi said she is concerned that some women must wait for weeks for a court order authorizing her to be transported to an abortion business. *********************************************************************************************************************** ******* item 4 CATHOLIC BISHOP WILL CONTINUE FOCUS ON ABORTION AND COMMUNION DEBATE ******* From: "LifeNews.com" ******* Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 10:21:33 -0500 (EST) ******* For news updated throughout the day, visit LifeNews.com. ******* St. Louis, MO (LifeNews.com) -- A Catholic bishop who drew national attention and sparked an intense debate when he said pro-abortion Catholic politicians shouldn't receive communion has no plans to let up on his efforts even though the election year is over. Archbishop Raymond L. Burke of St. Louis told the Catholic News Service in an interview that he expects the abortion-communion debate to continue. He told CNS that his outspoken position -- which included a statement that he would refuse communion to pro-abortion presidential candidate John Kerry -- has earned him criticism from detractors. "It's funny because some people now characterize me as a fundamentalist, or an extremist," Archbishop Burke said. "But these are questions that are at the very foundation of the life of our country. We just simply have to continue to address them," he added. Burke later added to his position on abortion and the Christian sacrament with a letter to parishioners saying he thought it was inappropriate for faithful Catholics to vote for candidates who back abortion. The nation's Catholic bishops met over the summer to debate the abortion-communion issue and decided to allow individual bishops to decide on their own whether to allow or prohibit pro-abortion elected officials from taking the sacrament. *********************************************************************************************************************** ******* item 5 LOUISIANA ELECTS 2 PRO-LIFERS TO CONGRESS ******* Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Rounding out the 2004 elections, Louisiana voters over the weekend sent two more pro-life advocates to the U.S. House of Representatives. Republicans and Democrats each picked up Congressional seats Saturday, but both winners have a pro-life position. Voters in Louisiana's 7th District, a longtime bastion of Democratic politics, chose Republican Charles Boustany, a retired heart surgeon, as their next congressman. Boustany defeated Democratic state Sen. Willie Landry Mount by a 55 to 45 percent margin. Despite voting Republican in recent presidential elections, this district has not elected a Republican to Congress since Reconstruction. In the southern 3rd Congressional District, pro-life Democrat Charles Melancon eked out a small 500 vote victory over Billy Tauzin III, son of the retiring pro-life Republican Rep. Billy Tauzin. Melancon, a former state representative, was victorious some say because of his pro-life stance. Had he backed abortion, some of his supporters would have defected to Tauzin. ************************************************************************************************************************* ******* item 6 ABORTION-BREAST CANCER NEWS HEADLINES - ACTIVIST QUITS OVER ABORTION ******* From: [email protected] via [email protected] ******* Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 ******* Dear Friends: ******* The National Catholic Register (NCR) has a front page article this week (Dec. 5-11 issue) discussing the abortion-breast cancer link and Eve Sanchez Silver's very public resignation from her position as a Latina adviser and speaker for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation (SGK). ******* Readers of the Abortion-Breast Cancer News Headlines know that Sanchez Silver resigned because SGK gives funds to Planned Parenthood and because SGK never told her about the existence of the abortion-breast cancer research. The article, "Activist quits over abortion," is available online. I'm providing a link to the NCR article under the headlines listed below. ******* If you haven't yet purchased the book, "The 'Cost of Choice'," from Encounter Books (www.encounterbooks.com), then please consider purchasing a copy soon for yourself or a friend. Eunice Kennedy Shriver, a sister of abortion-supporter Senator Edward Kennedy, provided an endorsement of the book. ******* She wrote: "The essays in this book describe with impact and accuracy the hazards - physical and mental - of abortion. The frequency of breast cancer is increased; suicide and depression are common - far more than usual post-partum depression. [T]he mother of [a] child, born or unborn, has an obligation to feed and shelter her child, society an obligation to help her, if needed, and the law an obligation to protect the fetus against willful injury or death. Such feeling of obligations are lost, however, on the feminist creed that abortion is a woman's emancipation. The essays [in the book] clearly dispel the belief that abortion is just another harmless minor surgical procedure." ******* Spread the word far and wide. ******* Sincerely, Karen Malec, Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer ************************************************************************************************************************* ******* item 7 MICHIGAN COUPLE REJECTS ABORTION TO HAVE SEXTUPLETS, FEEL BLESSED ******* From: "LifeNews.com" ******* Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 ******* For news updated throughout the day, visit LifeNews.com. ******* Detroit, MI (LifeNews.com) -- Amy and Ben Van Houten are counting their blessings--all six of them. More than a year ago, Amy gave birth to sextuplets, the only set of sextuplets in Michigan and one of a dozen around the nation. The couple rejected �fetal reduction,� a process in which one or more unborn babies is aborted, ostensibly to increase the chances of survival for the remaining babies. "The Lord wanted us to take them," Amy told the Detroit News. "He didn't create life for us to destroy it." Raising sextuplets has not been with out its challenges. The couple has little in the way of privacy, money, or free time, and two of the babies have major medical problems. One has undergone four surgeries on his eyes, another is fed through a feeding tube. Still, Amy, 27, considers the babies her little brood of miracles. �I just feel like I've been blessed from the beginning," Amy told the Detroit News. Her husband is equally optimistic. "They all beat the odds. They've blown through everything," Ben added. ************************************************************************************************************************* ******* item 8 SEXTUPLETS CELEBRATE FIRST BIRTHDAY AFTER PARENTS REFUSED ABORTION ******* From: "LifeNews.com" ******* Subject: LifeNews.com Pro-Life News Report 4/13/05 #3450 ******* Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 ******* For news updated throughout the day, visit LifeNews.com. ******* Creve Coeur, MO (LifeNews.com) -- The first set of sextuplets born in Missouri are celebrating their first birthday after their parents made national headlines by refusing to consider having an abortion of one or more of the babies to ensure the survival of the others. St. John's Mercy Medical Center, the hospital where they were born, held a birthday bash honoring Ron and Tina Otten's children. The three boys and three girls each received their own birthday cake, but singing "Happy Birthday" became difficult when friends and family had to insert each of the six names. Jacob, Isabella, Madison, Joshua, Riley and Tyler were born second apart about 10 weeks ahead of their normal due date. All are healthy despite the premature birth. The Ottens have had a busy household as they already had two daughters before the set of six children were born -- Abigail, 3, and Hannah, 5. "We've got a miracle on our hands here and it's just amazing that everything's just worked out the way it has," Ron Otten said. The Ottens chose to go ahead with the pregnancy, even though doctors recommended abortion. The physicians used the phrase "selective reduction," a procedure in which one or more babies are aborted to improve the chances that the rest will survive and be healthy. But the Ottens rejected the idea of ending the lives of their babies before birth. "We asked them not to even discuss it with us again," Ron Otten told a Belleville, Illinois newspaper. "We can't play God." ********************************************************************************************************************* ******* item 9 DENVER WOMEN COMMEND GOVERNOR FOR VETO OF EMERGENCEY CONTRACEPTION BILL ******* Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 ******* From: [email protected] ******* DENVER, USA, April 15 (CNA) - Yesterday at the Colorado State Capitol building, over 40 people turned out at a press conference to show their support for Governor Bill Owens� decision to veto an emergency contraception bill passed by the state legislature. ******* The Catholic governor has been taking considerable heat for his decision, in which he called House Bill 1042 a violation of religious freedom. ******* Critics of the bill, including Denver�s Archbishop Charles Chaput, have said that it violates the religious freedom of hospitals, particularly Catholic ones, by forcing them to offer information on abortion to victims of rape. ******* A panel of three Denver-area women presented yesterday�s press conference. Jamila Spencer represents the Colorado Catholic Conference, Terri Polakovic, ENDOW (Educating on the Nature and Dignity of Women), and Alexis Wagner, President of the University of Colorado�s Respect Life Committee also presented. ******* Wagner expressed her gratitude to the governor for his moral courage in striking down the bill, which, she noted, �offends the fundamental rights of the unborn.� ******* She also empathized with the governor�s difficult position and echoed the words of Archbishop Chaput in his February column, in which called the bill well intentioned, but seriously flawed. ******* In response to some of the more hostile reporters gathered yesterday, Spencer explained that HB 1042 �was not about educating women on emergency contraception�it was about making referrals or requiring Catholic hospitals to supply emergency contraception.� ******* She clarified the fact that emergency contraception often aborts an unborn, but conceived child. ******* �We must�, she emphasized, �allow Catholic hospitals to define pregnancy under their own terms.� ******* In cases of rape, Spencer said that �the rapist should be punished�not the child.� ******* She likewise outlined the Catholic Church�s stance saying that, �all human life is valuable. To ask the Church to choose between a woman and her child is to ask the Church to choose one life over another.� ******* �The Church will never do that,� she said. ******* Kathryn Johnson, a student at the University of Colorado Medical Center, now in her residency, commented that, �it�s really alarming that so many senators want to define for doctors how to do their work. It�s a really alarming double standard.� ******* Added Spencer: �[The bill suggests] that the state of Colorado knows better than the Catholic hospitals.� ******* �It absolutely breeds intolerance.� ***************************************************************************************************************** ******* item 10 JUDGE REFUSES CASES ON ABORTION ******* Posted on Sun, Sep. 04, 2005 ******* from South Carolina's "the State" via New York Times News Service ******* Moral decision stirs debate on recusals, responsibility ******* MEMPHIS, Tenn. � A pregnant teenager went to the grand and imposing county courthouse here early this summer, saying she wanted an abortion. The circuit court judge refused to hear the case, and he announced that he would recuse himself from any others like it. ******* �Taking the life of an innocent human being is contrary to the moral order,� the judge, John R. McCarroll of Shelby County Circuit Court, wrote in June. �I could not in good conscience make a finding that would allow the minor to proceed with the abortion.� ******* The teenager was in court because Tennessee, like 18 other states � including South Carolina � requires minors to get a parent�s permission before they can have an abortion. But the state also allows another option. Teens can ask a judge for permission to decide for themselves. ******* Judges, however, are starting to opt out. Some in Alabama and Pennsylvania also have said they will not take such cases. ******* The actions, similar in some ways to pharmacists� refusal to dispense drugs related to contraception or abortion on moral grounds, have set off a debate about the responsibilities of judges and the consequences of such recusals, including political ones when judges are elected rather than appointed. ******* McCarroll�s decision prompted 12 experts on judicial ethics to write to the Tennessee Supreme Court in late August. They called his action lawless and said they feared his approach could spread around the nation and to subjects like the death penalty, medical marijuana, flag burning and even divorce. ******* Helena Silverstein, who teaches government and law at Lafayette College in Easton, Pa., said those experts might be right in the abstract. But Silverstein wondered about the consequences of forcing judges to act. ******* �If you require judges to hear these cases when they are morally and, maybe, religiously opposed to abortion,� she said, �they are likely to impose their views on the minor. And that happens.� ******* Judge D�Army Bailey, another judge on the circuit court here, said he had been hearing more than his share of minors� applications since McCarroll and others began recusing themselves. ******* �I didn�t swear to uphold all of the laws of Tennessee except for X, Y and Z,�� Bailey said. �You�re sworn to uphold the law whether you agree with it or not.�� ********************************************************************************************************************* ******* item 11 PLANNED PARENTHOOD GIVES KIDS PORN BOOK ******* Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 ******* From: "Mission America" ******* Conference that excludes parents distributes explicit material ******* � 2004 WorldNetDaily.com ******* Planned Parenthood held a conference for children, without their parents, that included distribution of a book deemed pornography by critics. ******* The "Nobody's Fool" 2004 conference in Waco, Texas, this week was from start to finish a "thinly veiled attack on parental rights, public morality and the health and well-being of our children," asserted Jim Sedlak, executive director of American Life League's STOPP International, a group that monitors Planned Parenthood. ******* Parents were not permitted to attend the conference, which was limited to children in the fifth through ninth grades, ages 10-14, Sedlak said. ******* "Planned Parenthood barred mothers and fathers from attending the actual sessions because Planned Parenthood knows that parental participation would have hampered its efforts to indoctrinate these children into its world of lies and propaganda," he contended. ******* Children in grades seven through nine received a free copy of the book, "It's Perfectly Normal." ******* The controversial sex-ed primer contains detailed explanations on how to perform sexual acts and masturbation, accompanied by sexually explicit line drawings. ******* "This so-called 'educational text' is nothing more than pornography in comic book form," stated Sedlak. ******* This is irresponsible at best and child abuse at worst," he added. ******* On its website, Planned Parenthood of Central Texas says the purpose of the conference is "to provide teens and pre-teens with factual information about growing up, puberty, dating, relationships, sexual issues and sexually transmitted diseases, including AIDS." ******* The group says, "We hope this education will encourage better communication between teens and their parents. Most of all, we want your teen or pre-teen to learn how to make the most of his or her strengths and approach relationships of all kinds responsibly." ******* One year ago, John Pisciotta, a Baylor University economics professor, led a successful boycott of the Bluebonnet Council of the Girl Scouts in Waco because of its co-sponsorship of last year's "Nobody's Fool" conference. ******* Planned Parenthood passed out a book, that included the Girl Scouts logo and chapters on masturbation and homosexuality, to young girls. The book also had images of couples having sex and a boy wearing a condom. ******* Pisciotta took action after the council named Texas Planned Parenthood Executive Director Pam Smallwood its 2003 "Woman of Distinction." ******* As a result of national attention gained by the boycott, parents began removing their girls from the Scouts, leading to the closure of several troops and a decision by the council to not sponsor future conferences. ******* In an editorial in the Waco Tribune-Herald, Smallwood responded: "The children of Central Texas now have been given the clear message that the bullying tactics of a few are more successful than an informed democracy." ******* STOPP International has worked closely over the past several years with Pro-Life Waco to reduce Planned Parenthood's influence on their community, notes Sedlak. ******* But the problems will persist, he says, "until parents and all people of good will across the nation stand together to oppose Planned Parenthood's continued assault on our families and children." ******* http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39498 ******* Mail service for Mission America provided by American Family Online www.afo.net ******* Mission America www.missionamerica.com ********************************************************************************************************************* ******* item 12 GLORIA POOLE'S TESTIMONY AS A REGISTERED NURSE ABOUT HEALTH CARE IN THE USA ******* Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 ******* From: "Gloria Poole Pappas,RN" ******* Hello, I am writing out my testimony to share with the public in the hopes that it makes a difference. Please read through to the end and please publish this if you will. Also, please see at the end the Candidate I would like to see elected as our next President in the US and his website. Also, you will see my websites that give details of my credentials and work. I ask you to study them and also to go to my Prolife List page and read the comments and articles there. It is also listed with my signature below this article. ******* WHY I BELIEVE HEALTH CARE IS ON THE WRONG TRACK IN THE US--MY PERSONAL TESTIMONY-by Gloria Poole Pappas,RN ******* First let me begin by pointing out the organizations and/or hospitals that would not hire me because of my refusal to participate in abortions and/or verbally protesting abortions. ******* Kaiser Permanente is a socialized medicine group and I do not believe that they have their patient's best interest at heart for these reasons: I interviewed with them in Falls Church VA and was well qualified as a Registered Nurse for the position they advertised. I asked if they perfomed or referred for abortions and the demeanor of the interviewor changed toward me and he quickly dismissed me from the interview. Subsequently they would not hire me. They implied my prolife approach to nursing would be unacceptable to them. ******* Also, the Fairfax (County) Hospital, Va. refused to hire me to work on the L & D unit (after two or three good interviews) when I asked if that unit also assisted with abortions. They asked "was that an issue with me?" and I said yes--that as a believer in the Living Lord who said "thou shalt not kill" I could not participate in or be an accomplice to killing of the innocents. And they said they would have to "get back with me" and then I got a letter refusing to hire me. I called back and they said that my prolife attitude prevented me from being hired. This also happened to me in Omaha, Nebraska and Port Chester, NY, and Bethesda, Maryland. ******* There are three times I have been fired for being prolife. I would like to tell you about them. I was very ashamed once of having been fired so many times but now I realize it is not about me, but about the shift of the focus. ******* Health care has been hijacked by the groups like Planned Parenthood, the devil's own tool for destroying the human race. The focus shifted from giving life in hospitals to bringing about death for those appointed to destruction by the "powers that be" in hospitals and politics in the form of abortion, euthanasia whether active or passive, and "harvesting" of vital organs from the injured, or severely wounded. ******* The first incident was years ago, when I worked for the Camden County Hospital in Kingsland GA and was hired to work in the operating room. I started out by being assigned to work in the Pre-op area to learn the routine there. On about my 8th day there, a woman came into Pre-Op to be prepped for a "D & C". As I was taking her history, I noted how sad and dejected she acted. I asked her what was wrong. She said, "the doctor says my baby is dead". I thought "aha--that is the cause of her sadness". But then she went on to say, "my mother thinks I should not have any more children." And then she said, " I think I will die on the operating room table today." That latter statement was so alarming to me because usually patients expect to wake up from surgery in most cases. So I asked more questions as any good nurse would do. First, I asked her why she thought she would die and she said, "it would be God's justice". I thought that indicated guilt for some reason so I asked her, "did you have a postive pregnancy test?" She said "yes". I said "do you believe your doctor is telling you the truth? Do you feel life?" She did not answer. She just turned away from me and said "my mother thinks I should not have any more children." I thought, "is this a forced abortion?" I said, "I am going to listen for fetal heart tones if ok with you. " I got a stethoscope because there was not fetalscope there, and I proceeded to try to hear fetal heart tones. As I did this, the Nurse Manager came into the room and she called me aside. She asked me what I was doing and "why I questioned this patient". I relayed to her what I have told you here. She said "you are not allowed to ask her these questions. You make the doctor look bad!" I was shocked by what she said! I could not believe it, in fact. I said "nurses operate in the State of Georgia under the Nurse Practice Act that gives us the right to question any doctor; and it tells us the law will hold us accountable if we fail to exercise good nursing judgement. That law gives me the right to question anything that concerns a patient's well-being." She said, No I was wrong, that I never had the right to second-guess a doctor! She said "that if the doctor had determined the baby was dead then who was I to question it? I said based upon the woman's testimony and sadness I perceived that she was being forced to abort a living baby and the doctor was just going along with pressure from the woman's mother. And that I did not want to be an accomplice to such an event so I was also looking out for my own soul, in so many words. She said "follow her",and we went into her office. She fired me on the spot! I went immediately down to the Human Resources Section and the Manager told me she had called him and I was indeed fired. I said that is a violation of the First Amendment and also the Nurse Practice Act. He said "so sue us" and then he said, "we spent a lot of money recruiting a doctor to come here and only a $1,000 to recruit you. You are dispensable, he is not." and then he called the Security Guard to walk me out and off the grounds! I was so shocked and so humiliated that I was ashamed to tell anyone for years! ******* The second time I was fired for objecting on the grounds of conscientous belief, was when I worked at Grady Health Care System in Atlanta, GA. I was hired as a prn person making $28/hr and was to work first in the Medical Peer Review Section reading medical records to ascertain the facts of why a patient was admitted via the ER and document them for payment through the Medicare/caid system. I was qualified for that because I had reviewed medical records for the Georgia Medical Care Foundation (peer review org) for 2 years previously. In my job duties I was supposed to read the medical records as stated but I also knew a good nurse would also look at the patient! I found an instance where the documentation on the chart did not match the patient! The chart said the patient had diabetes (but no blood sugars or evidence on chart) and if I remember correctly, heart disease. I went to see the patient, innocently expecting to find that to be the case. I found instead a patient dumped from a nursing home for non-payment, and not too old but essentially a homeless person. I asked about the diabetes and the heart disease. The patient thought I was crazy! He said he did not have diabetes or heart disease. I asked him how he got to Grady. He said by ambulance. I asked him why he was in the hospital and he said because he had nowhere else to go. I went back to the Acting Director and I reported these events and I said that is fraud against the Medicare/caid system and reportable to the federal government. She said "you were hired to make sure Grady gets paid. It is not your problem." I said "there is nothing to document a necessary admission to a hospital. A homeless shelter would be better for him and the hospital too." She said what was I basing that on? I told her no evidence of blood sugar testing or heart disease on the chart and he had been admitted 3 DAYS earlier! And that the patient told me he was homeless and admitted for that reason (because he had to leave the nursing home because benefits and need had expired,) and had no place to go. she said, "just document what is on the chart and forget about the patient!" I said that would be falsifying medical records and assigning him a disease he emphatically denies having, just to make sure Grady got paid which is fraud. I also said assigning him false diseases certainly would not help him! That designation will follow him! It is immoral." She said either do what she said or change departments. ******* So I changed departments which brings me around to how I got fired. I went to work in the Clinics of Grady, a huge conglomeration of clinics for the city people primarily on Medicaid and Medicare or city benefits. I was assigned to different clinics. I did not last long there. I was told to help hold down an infant while nurses gave injections in all four limbs simultaneously to him. I refused saying it was unconscionable, that they would not treat an adult that way, and I would not do that to a child. They let me get away with that. But then in a day or two they told me to give vaccinations by the schedule recommended by the American Pediatric Association to an infant. I did not know the protocols so I looked them up. And I started drawing up in syringes the vaccinations to give one at a time. I came to one bottle that said "LIVE VIRUS" in big letters. I stopped.I went to the NP and said this bottle says "live virus" and I am not injecting a healthy baby with a live virus. That is unconscionable to me and it should be to anyone! She said, "The American Pediatric Association recommends giving it." I said "so what? They also endorse abortion which kills babies. Should I assume that an organization that endorses killing of infants will care if the vaccination causes a disease that kills a baby?" She was furious with me and reported me. I got fired! ******* The third time I got fired for protesting abortion was last year from the Rose Medical Center in Denver. I asked 3 (HR and Nurse Manager) people before I took the job if they participated in or referred for abortion. Whatever they said to me must have satisfied my mind at the time because they offered me a job on Orthopedics Unit and I took it. I had to do a long orientation and all that time of 3 months I was closely supervised to make sure I was doing ok. The Nurse Manager had a very reassuring and helpful attitude toward me the whole time. Then one night ( I worked 3-11) I was doing my charting on the computer. A screen I had never seen before suddenly popped up in front ot me. It said right smack at eye level,"Planned Parenthood clinic". I was stunned. I felt betrayed. I decided I would go in early the next day and ask for the name of the person in charge of it. I did go in early and went to the Hospital Administrator's Secretary and told her what happened. She said she was also surprised and that she did not know who was in charge of that "clinic" but she would find out and call me on my unit. I went on to my shift and she did call me telling me the man's name who was the overall Department Head for it. I wrote it down, and worked my shift. A few days later, I wrote him a letter and I took it to the same Administrative Secretary for her to hand deliver to him and she said she would. I also told her she could read it if she liked. In a few days, I was given a notice by the same Nurse Manager who had been totally pleased with me, that suddenly I was "not meeting their standards". I had finished my orientation by this time and checked off by a lot of people as being satisfactory. Then in another week or maybe two I was called into the Human Resources Department and asked (grilled) by the head of the HR. He started out by saying, "why did I write that letter?" "what did I mean by it?", and "did I intend to harm Rose?" I knew immediately he had not read my letter because in it I said that hospitals should be in the healing business and not the killing business, and that since Planned Parenthood is a notorious killer of innocent babies, they should not be allowed to operate on hospital grounds. I also said I was writing to protest based upon First Amendment rights to protest and that I was not making any threats, just asking them to do the right thing and remove killing from the hospital grounds. The HR Director told me he was going "to give me one more chance to change my mind." I said I didn't need another chance--that I knew what I believe and why (that killing of innocents is wrong) and would not recant that position. So he said "it is obvious your values and the values of Rose are not compatible so you are discharged immediately." And he handed me my drawn up papers testifying to that! So he fired me for my values! I tried to appeal to the EEOC office but was told I did not have a claim. I applied at 3-5 hospitals in Denver after this happened but was not even contacted by them. ******* Now, I have given up the expectation of working in nursing realizing that it is in America now just as in the Nazi Regime in Germany. Those nurses in the Nazi government hospitals (socialized medicine there) who would not participate in abominable medical research or help kill patients, or who protested were not allowed to work. The same was true of the Medical Doctors, only worse. They were told they would lose their medical licenses if they protested, but 100 MD's who were true to their Hippocratic oath to first do no harm, protested and the AP press picked up the protests and beamed them around the world. The US got wind of it and became the good guys in that battle but not before some MD's lost their licenses and if I remember correctly, one MD even was arrested and went to jail for refusing to participate in helping triage the Jews to their death or help with the gassing of them. ******* It is a pity that the US did not learn from what happened in Germany and how it happened.The politicians like John Kerry and Hillary Clinton who never worked in a hospital or took care of the sick, are attempting to socialize medicine in this nation so the numbers can be crunched and health care rationed in surreptious ways so the health care dollars can be siphoned off into pockets. To facilitate the take-over of life-giving care to make it the instrument of death, prolifers are removed from the midst of their killing centers all in the name of "health care" of course. That happened then and it has happened now. The case of Terri Schindler Schiavo in Florida is proof that the US health care system is being hijacked by the death-to-the-unwanted groups like Planned Parenthood, death-with-dignity, "End of Life" euthanasia as a "right" public policy advocates and the whole ungodly premise behind the national donation of organs programs. That ungodly tranplant program decides some are more "worthy" of life than others and then proceeds to rip out the hearts that were beating just a moment before by using KCL to stop them and using curare-like drugs to paralyze the abdominal reflex against evisceration. ******* Health care as it is now being done makes me sick to my stomach! I do not want to participate in killing the innocent, the elderly, the sick, the handicapped, the injured, the "unwanted by an adulterous husband" (Terri S.Schiavo), the doomed (those appointed to destruction by the transplant (voodoo) team)! ******* The whole idea of the devil's "Living Will" which in essence is a person assigning away his right to life to anyone who happens to be on call in the ER when he presents, and is not about life at all but a contract to die. It is a blanket waiver of the right to life and only a fool would sign it! I put the word voodoo there because voodoo also kills humans for their blood and their body parts and so did the Mayans, the Incas, the ancient barbaric tribes. The idea that killing can be used to bring luck or prosperity is as old as Adam and Eve in the garden when Eve made a pact with the devil that cost her son's life. It is ungodly and it will never bring about "health" or life to anyone! It is destroying this nation and every "civilized" nation where it is allowed. It has split the health industry into prolifers who have licenses but cannot be hired and those willing to kill on demand and thus employable. ******* The public is not so stupid however. They are catching on. They are choosing life by going to alternative forms of medicine, like herbs, and massage therapy for the laying on of hands for healing and to spiritual forms of healing. They are forsaking the traditional paths of socialized health care for the ones that will lead to life and healing. I publish this letter for their sakes that all may read it and know the truth and be fore-warned about the true intent of many hospitals and "doctors". ******* True doctors do not kill! And neither do true nurses! /s/Gloria Poole Pappas, RN (licensed in the State of Colorado as Gloria Poole Papas, and in the State of Virginia as Gloria Poole and in the UK as Ms.G.Poole) ******* I would like for you to publish the information about Michael Peroutka of the Constitution Party because he stands for life for all and he believes in the actual words of the US Constitution. His information is www.constitutionparty.com. ******* My Prolife List is http://gloriapoole.com/mailman/listinfo/prolife_gloriapoole.com ******* Gloria Poole Pappas, RN http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/do_not_abort/ ******* www.home.earthlink.net/~gloria.poole.pappas_reg.nurse/ ******* www.home.earthlink.net/~tapestry.of.life.tv/ ******* http://gloriapoole.com ******* www.geocities.com/gloriapooleRN/Chooselife.html ******* PO Box 46017, Denver, Colorado 80201 ******* tel 303-861-4027 ******* Gloria Poole Pappas, RN ******* http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/do_not_abort/ ******* www.home.earthlink.net/~gloria.poole.pappas_reg.nurse/ ******* www.home.earthlink.net/~tapestry.of.life.tv/ ******* http://gloriapoole.com ******* PO Box 46017, Denver, Colorado 80201 ******* tel 303-861-4027 ********************************************************************************************************************* ******* item 13 PRO ABORTION INJUNCTION ******* From: "dan & donna holman" , Missionaries to the Pre-born Iowa, P.O. Box 135 Keokuk, Iowa 52632 (319) 601-9349, [email protected] ******* Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 ******* Dear Friends, ******* My Motion to Dissolve Injunction was heard in Johnson Co. Circuit Court on October 10th. The injunction was imposed on me in 2003 because of my remarks in the New York Times at the execution of Paul Hill. I insist that unborn children are entitled to the same Rights, privileges, and protection as post-born people. The hearing was attended by local media. I was asked if I was still was in favor of murdering abortion doctors. I replied �I don�t think it is possible to murder an abortionist!� Declaring the humanity of the pre-born, I turned their baby-killing rhetoric on the abortionist. ******* �I am moderately pro-choice when it comes to shooting abortionists. I personally would not shoot one, but I would not impose my morality on someone who does want to shoot one. I believe shooting an abortionist should be done only in the extreme cases, like when a baby�s life is in danger. These are the arguments used by the Plaintiffs. When they use them on defense-less children, they are deemed reasonable; when I use the rhetoric on them I am labeled a terrorist. They admit to killing 2018 children in 2003. I have killed no one, nor have I threatened to kill anyone! I admit that I do not love God or my neighbor with my whole heart, mind, and soul. Paul Hill had more love in his trigger finger, than I have in my entire body!� ******* Judge Patrick Grady�s decision is forthcoming. ********************************************************************************************************************* ******* item 14 INTERVIEW WITH A PARENTS' RIGHTS ACTIVIST: BRIAN CAMENKER ******* by Joseph Nicolosi, Ph.D. ******* Updated: 20 September 2004 ******* This article can be found on line at http://www.narth.com/docs/camenker.html ******* In cooperation with gay groups such as GLSEN and GLAAD, the state of Massachusetts has recently instituted a broad range of gay-affirming Health and Human Sexuality programs. Some of these programs have caught the attention of parents, who are disturbed at the programs' one-sided approach, and also their tendency to override the values of many parents. Here, NARTH interviews Massachusetts parent-activist Brian Camenker. ******* JN: Tell us, Brian, what is the Parents' Rights Coalition? And what motivated you to get started? ******* BC: It's an organization focusing mainly on the gay-affirming and sex-education programs in the state of Massachusetts. ******* JN: You're a computer programmer with two children in the public school system in that state. What problems did you see in those programs? ******* BC: In my hometown of Newton in 1992, a group of parents became very concerned about the homosexual agenda and the general approach to sexuality being introduced into the community schools by those programs. ******* When we first went to the local school committee to discuss our concerns, we were rebuffed. They called us some very unflattering names, and said that the community should avoid people like me because I was a Christian fundamentalist. Even though I'm Jewish! We basically got nowhere. Then the newspapers contacted me. ******* Later that year the Catholic Archbishop of Boston called a meeting of intellectuals, academics, and others from different ethnic backgrounds and religious faiths to talk about the issues troubling them in our culture. One of those issues of concern was Massachusetts' new sex-education programs. This group became The Interfaith Coalition of Massachusetts, and I was elected chairman. ******* JN: And then what happened? ******* BC: The first thing we wanted to do was create the "Parents' Rights Bill," which we wrote and presented to the State Legislature. Essentially, it said that parents have to be told when their children are being put into these courses. They should have the option to remove their kids if they wished; schools could not take retribution on the kids that had opted out; and parents had the right to see the course material. ******* Over a period of time, The Interfaith Coalition became the Parents' Rights Coalition. In short order our work began to generate a lot of controversy, and then a lot of the clergy involved didn't want to take the heat, and they stepped back. ******* What was left of our group then solidified, and it became less of a group of academics and community leaders, and more of a group of thousands of parents. ******* JN: It seems that many religious leaders tend to avoid conflict, doesn't it? ******* BC: Oh, yes, there was a great reticence about controversy. Eventually we had to forget about the religious leaders and rely on the parents instead. They were the ones who carried us through. ******* What happened next, was that we presented this bill in the State Legislature. It got tremendous hostility from the Teachers' Unions and the homosexual groups. Tremendous, tremendous hostility. However, we battled on, we got thousands of parents involved, and it took a couple of years--but we got it passed by both Houses, and then signed into law by Governor Bill Weld. ******* Now during that process, unfortunately it got watered down a lot, but still, it was a great victory for us and a great defeat for them because they put a tremendous amount of effort into killing it. ******* One of the interesting things was when it came down to the very last afternoon of the legislative session, we were outside the chambers of the House of Representatives, and the activists had a dozen of their key lobbyists there. They were polling every single member of the legislature as they came in and went out, as to how they were going to vote. In that same room, we had 120 parents! These activists were very upset because for the first time, they were being challenged. ******* These little mothers, some had come in 100 miles from Worcester, saying to the legislators, "Why won't you let us have these rights, why are you doing this to our children?" And the legislators had no answers. ******* JN: They weren't expecting such resistance. ******* BC: They're used to being the intimidators. They're used to holding the moral high ground against people they had been painting as bad guys, and they were in shock at who they actually had to answer to. They had to answer to a group of dedicated mothers. ******* JN: So much of the success of the gay agenda has always been because the victims take the moral high ground. The fact they tend to blur, is that while gay-bashing is morally objectionable to everyone, people are entitled to voice legitimate, principled objection. There are some reasonable distinctions to be made between homosexuality and heterosexuality, and that of course is not "hatred" of a group of people. ******* BC: Indeed it is not. But the Legislature did not want to pass this bill, so we essentially had to show them that we had the support to get it through, and now it is state law. ******* Since then, we've had some other minor victories too. In my own situation with my then 11-year-old daughter in the sixth grade, she was put in a Health course whose goal, among other things, was to help each child understand his race, class, ethnicity, and sexual orientation. This was a course they had in place for an 11-year-old. ******* The principal would not let me take her out. He said the Massachusetts court curriculum guidelines required Health, and so I presented all of this to the State Board of Education. ******* A few months later, the state Board of Education removed Health from the curriculum guidelines. ******* But that victory stirred up a new controversy. Making my experience as an example of what's wrong in Massachusetts, The Boston Globe was livid, and they published a story that was very unflattering about me. But the controversy settled down again because parents and a lot of other people got involved. What I've found is that's what it takes--parents getting involved. ******* JN: Why is it so hard to mobilize parents? ******* BC: The other side is tremendously well organized. But mostly, parents have their own lives to live and don't have the time to get involved in activism to defend the issues that are important to them. On the other hand, our opposition on this issue can invest a great deal of time, energy and passion in what they believe in. ******* Also, many people are simply unaware of what is happening. When we show them these school curriculums, they don't believe us. ******* I have a close friend, an older guy who was in interned in Nazi concentration camps in Word War II. He was a Holocaust survivor, and he "gets it"...he understands the problem of denial and how it can paralyze a whole society. When people don't believe something is actually going on, they go about their lives as if nothing is happening. ******* So because people can't imagine it is that extreme, we've very carefully documented all of what we talk about. ******* In fact, we had an article about us in the National Review, in September 1995, that documented a lot of this. We still get calls from that article. ******* JN: Where can people reach you? ******* BC: Our address is The Parents Rights Coalition, P.O. Box 175, Newton, MA 02466. We have a voice mail at (781) 433-7106. We finally were able to get an office with an Executive Director--we've been able to raise enough money from concerned citizens to establish ourselves. ******* Our tape has been heard by thousands of people by now. In fact when the Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives heard it, he called me into his office while the House was in session to talk about his concerns about the school system. But that time, the lawmakers didn't have the guts to follow through and actually do something. ******* JN: They were intimidated. ******* BC: They didn't want to offend anyone. So our job in this next year is to make them more afraid of the voters than they are of the gay agenda. What I think is their Achilles' heel, is the recovery movement. ******* JN: Absolutely. ******* BC: That is their Achilles' heel, and that's what we have to nurture in Massachusetts. ******* JN: Where do you plan to go from here? ******* BC: What our latest objective is to de-fund the million and half dollars that Republican Governor Celucci gives every year to the Gay/Straight Alliance out of the state budget. We think that should be a private enterprise, like our group--not a cause promoted by tax dollars. As our audiotape reveals, this group has been incredibly destructive in the public schools. ******* Another thing we've done is to documented the educational abuses we talk about. I can cite the location of every one I've mentioned--"chapter and verse." ******* Another thing we did here in Newton is to support candidates for the school committee. Recently we almost won several seats, so the school committee is worried about us. ******* JN: What do they say about your tape? ******* BC: One of the committee members called me up and we went to lunch this past Friday. I pulled out documentation of all of these things that are going on in the public schools. She didn't believe what I'd said--until I showed her the papers and handouts. ******* JN: What is your strategy in approaching the schools? ******* BC: We used to just say to the school committees, "We hope that this is something you won't do, because of this-and-that reason." But we've changed. You need to confront these people directly. ******* Our stand now is, "You do not have the right or the authority to do this to our children." That is a different perspective that takes them a little off-guard, and it is much more effective. Because in these programs, nobody is standing up and admitting to the kids, "This is a self-destructive lifestyle that could kill you." ******* Someone who believes in what we're doing once came here and spoke to a Parents' Rights gathering. At first he was arguing whether or not these programs that support kids in getting into a gay lifestyle are a civil right or not. I believe that when you argue on that level, you've lost. I believe you have to get right to the heart of it, right to the behavior, right to what a gay lifestyle really is...the whole way it tears apart your soul. ******* One of the reasons that I feel more comfortable than others in discussing this is that in my own life I've had many close friends who are homosexual. I've seen close-up what this does to them...the inner turmoil they're going through. ******* I may not be a psychologist, but I can see very clearly--I'd say, intuitively--that homosexuality has got to be a symptom of something deeper going on in the individual. ******* JN: I agree. It's about a deep desire to be acceptable within the company of members of one's own sex, and to experience their affirmation, attention and affection. Homosexuality is not, fundamentally, about sex. It's a search for identity and a sense of belonging. ******* BC: Yes, that's exactly how I see it. They take these fragile, confused kids and say to them: "Well, you may feel unsure of who you are, but from what you've told us, we've decided that what you really are is homosexual, so come on downtown and meet these other guys." ******* The superintendent of the schools at Newton actually had a public meeting, where he introduced a 16-year-old who talked about his love for men. The superintendent was proud of this! This is how the schools' Gay/Straight Alliances are helping kids. ******* George Orwell once said that "There's no idea so bizarre that it will not be accepted by an intellectual." It seems that the smarter people are, the more willing they are to accept nonsense that simply contradicts common sense. ******* I live in Newton, which has several Nobel Prize winners, and... ******* JN: ...And I bet they're all paralyzed when it comes to thinking clearly and decisively about these issues. ******* BC: You're right. ******* JN: Because the intellectual says, "Well, I don't know...maybe it's true, who can say, who can judge? Maybe that's his truth, even if it's not my truth." When you talk about something that you passionately believe to be true, and offer reasonable arguments, their eyes just glaze over. ******* In fact--I still laugh when I remember this--The New York Times ran an article in 1998 called "Analysts Get Together for a Synthesis." It was a report on a psychoanalytic conference at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Manhattan. ******* Analysts now tend to avoid the attempt to get to the truth in their patients' histories--"abandoning certainty in favor of a reasonable myth the patient can believe in." ******* "The discussion of true versus false is a false issue," one analyst said. Another conceded, "We're all anxious to show what we don't know." ******* "During the meeting," said The Times, "only a few analysts claimed to know anything." ******* BC: Yet they all believe that homosexuality is normal and healthy, and a gay lifestyle is good. That, they seem to have no doubt about. ******* The root of this problem--and so many other people around me find to be true also--is that when you give up believing in a transcendent moral order reflected in human nature, with laws that mankind cannot change by popular vote, then anything's possible. Anything at all is possible when you say there is no objective truth. That's a big problem, particularly among intellectuals, who are much smarter than God. ******* One of the things for which I've looked to NARTH, is help in getting the scientific facts together. I really enjoyed a book by one of your Scientific Advisory Board members, Jeffrey Satinover. His Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth has been very important to us. I also liked both of Scott Lively's books...very good. That's what I find is very powerful--when you confront people with the truth. ******* JN: People who in their gut feel there's something not quite right about homosexuality. That's what I call "natural homophobia." I'm not talking about the kind of homophobia that leads to gay-bashing or scapegoating...we all know, without question, that's wrong. I'm talking about the gut feeling people have that there is something not really quite normal about two men or two women falling in love. ******* The average person just knows there is something missing there. There is--as a very prominent member of the American Psychiatric Association, Dr. Robert Spitzer, recently admitted--something that is just "not working" when a person has no capacity for heterosexual arousal. ******* But when the layman thinks this way, he is hit with so-called scientific information that disproves his intuition about homosexuality, and then he feels guilty and embarrassed about having had that intuition. The gay movement says that his idea is the same as racial hatred--a feeling all of us know is reprehensible. So at that point, the average person just throws up his hands. After all, if science is against him, then his feelings must represent nothing more than ignorance and prejudice. ******* But the fact is, science supports his gut reaction. ******* BC: And NARTH is clarifying that for us--that there's scientific information on the other side of this issue. ******* JN: I'm glad we've been able to get the information out there. ******* BC: By the way, I've discovered that when I deal with the media, it's actually better to say it exactly as it is; don't sugar-coat it. ******* I had an interesting situation on WGBH-TV,, the public television center in Boston. They had me there on a talk show last year. I was on on Emily Rooney's show--she's Andy Rooney's daughter--along with a woman who's the head of The New England Gay and Lesbian Advocacy. ******* Emily Rooney's first question was, "Well Mr. Camenker, what is it about homosexuality that seems to bother you so much?" ******* And I said, "Well Emily, for one thing it's a public-health problem. A lifetime of anal sex does not do great things for the body." ******* Nobody had ever said that on public television. ******* JN: So you got right to it. ******* BC: The place erupted. They started screaming at me. ******* JN: Because as troubling as that statement sounds, there is no logical argument against it. ******* BC: So then she said, "Well, what about lesbians?" And I mentioned something about the lesbian sexual practices that happened to be described in detail to kids in my daughter's "Living and Learning" health class--a particular practice which happens to be especially gross. ******* She said, "What do you know about what I do with my sexuality--what do you know?" ******* I said, "Emily, that's the whole point, we don't want to know. Nobody wants to know." And neither do our children need to be taught these things in junior high school. ******* She apparently is heterosexual, but she just lost it. ******* I must have gotten letters and phone calls from people for two months saying, "Boy, you were wonderful!" ******* JN: Sometimes you have to get right down to the bottom line and just say it. Because the paradox is that many people who support the full affirmation of homosexuality in our society do not even want to consider what the actual behavior is. ******* BC: No, they don't. ******* JN: They like to think, as someone once commented, "that gay men just hug." ******* BC: In fact, I've found that the truth is a very powerful thing. I think it was Pope Paul who was quoted in the Wall Street Journal, of all places saying essentially, "The main thing that brought about freedom in Eastern Europe and destabilized the totalitarian movement was people's refusal to lie." That is what we have to learn. ******* JN: And your audiotape has been pretty clear in delivering the facts about what's been happening in the schools. ******* BC: We've gotten out that one-hour tape to thousands of people by now. In fact, when the Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives heard it, he called me into his office while the House was in session to talk about his concerns about the school system. Of course, he didn't have the guts to do anything. But our job in this next year is to make them more afraid of the voters than they are of the gay agenda. ******* What I think is their Achilles' heel, is the recovery movement. ******* JN: Absolutely. And that's where NARTH comes in. ******* BC: Right. That is their Achilles' heel, and that's what we have to nurture here in Massachusetts. ******* JN: This is really where the solution lies--reparative therapy, the healing of homosexuality. When we show a person who was once gay and now is no longer gay, that pulls the rug out from under the entire notion that there are two distinct groups of people, different from birth--gay people and straight people. ******* BC: I don't think we're really going to get anywhere until we can get the recovery movement off the ground. ******* JN: That's what NARTH is trying to do. ******* BC: It must be extremely difficult. I can imagine that it is one of the most difficult things for a person to get free from--harder, I would think, than alcoholism. ******* JN: Yes it is, because there's not just an addictive behavior involved, but it's more than that--the basic issue goes back to identity. The only solution for many men seems to be an annihilation of the self, and an identification with an idealized male who it seems must be "out there" somewhere, if only he can find him. The issue is about a struggle with self-hatred, and about the search for identity. ******* BC: You know, I personally have known dozens of such men. I've had many as close friends who I deeply cared about, and I've seen this torment and watched it in their lives. And I hope to persuade the Massachusetts schools that they aren't helping our kids by opening up the door into a destructive lifestyle. ******* JN: NARTH's position is that the teenage years are not the time to make a decision about sexual identity. This is a decision to be made by a mature person in adulthood, when all the facts are available, and when the options can be carefully considered, and he has the benefit of a few more years of life experience. ******* Thanks very much, Brian, for a most interesting description of what's happening in Massachusetts. ******* In our next issue, we'll publish a transcript of your audiotape describing those Massachusetts school programs in detail. **************************************************************************************************************** ******* item 15 THREE CATHOLIC BISHOPS SAY NO COMMUNION FOR PRO-ABORTION POLITICIANS ******* Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 ******* From: "Steven Ertelt" ******* For news updated throughout the day, visit http://www.lifenews.com ******* Atlanta, GA (LifeNews.com) -- Three leading Catholic bishops in southern states said Wednesday that elected officials who back abortion and refuse to recant their position should be denied communion in Catholic churches in their jurisdictions. The Archbishop of Atlanta and bishops in Charlotte, North Carolina and Charleston, South Carolina put in place some of the strongest guidelines on communion and abortion. They said pro-abortion politicians must publicly renounce their views and seek permission from the bishops to continue receiving communion. Their decision affects more than 200 churches. "Catholics in political life have the responsibility to exemplify in their public service [the pro-life] teaching of the Church, and to work for the protection of all innocent life," the bishops said. "Catholic public officials who consistently support abortion on demand are cooperating with evil in a public manner," the bishops wrote. **************************************************************************************************************** ******* item 16 DAUGHTER'S ABORTION DEATH PROMPTS FATHER TO START POST-ABORTION FOUNDATION ******* by Christina Mitchell ******* February 2, 2006 ******* Christina Mitchell writes about families in her column Ties That Bind, which appears in the Cherry Hill Courier Post newspaper in New Jersey. ******* If it's true hindsight is 20/20, then George J. Zallie's vision never has been sharper. But his heart is in pieces. ******* Zallie's daughter and youngest child, Stacy, took her own life in October 2002, almost a year after having an abortion she kept from her close-knit family. ******* Zallie is convinced the resulting emotional roller coaster led to her death, days before she was to be a bridesmaid in her older brother's wedding. ******* "I knew it was a life event for her," says Zallie, 53. ". . . It was the most serious issue in that brief life of hers. I know, in my heart, it took a toll on her emotionally and mentally, that she couldn't recover from it. And it just breaks my heart that she didn't open up." ******* So Zallie put his shattered heart, his prominent name -- he's the second-generation owner of eight area ShopRites -- and his financial clout behind a Web portal and foundation in his daughter's name that provides post-abortion support and advice. ******* The Cherry Hill resident immersed himself in research on the emotional after-effects of abortion and heard both sides of the great divide, committing to neither one. (For the record, Zallie family campaign contributions over the last several years have gone to Democrats and Republicans alike.) ******* Zallie admits he was previously ambivalent about the issue -- as a man; as the father of a stereotypical "good kid"; as part of a great, silent majority for whom abortion is neither black nor white but a murky gray. ******* But when he attended a retreat in Malvern, Pa., after Stacy's death -- the only man in a roomful of 22 women who'd had abortions -- Zallie had his epiphany. ******* "I heard guilt, remorse, loss," he recalls. "Their frankness was really astounding to me. It was helpful for me in understanding just what Stacy was going through . . . It became important to me to get the message out." ******* And while Zallie may be more committed to the message than most people, it's fair to argue, as he does, that post-abortion effects have not been widely studied or publicized. Twenty percent of women who've had abortions may suffer some depression, says Mark Rosenberg, an advanced practice psychiatric nurse at the University of Medicine and Dentistry-School of Medicine in Stratford. ******* Related web sites: Stacy Zallie Foundation Web site - http://www.stacyzallie.org ********************************************************************************************************************** ******* item 17 AMERICAN RED CROSS EMPLOYEE FIRED FOR NOT CELEBRATING HOMOSEXUALITY - By Lindsey Douthit ******* From: Robert A Jason ******* Sent: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 ******* The Red Cross even has Corporate Diversity committees that oversee the implementation of a "diversity code." ******* The American Red Cross fired an employee, Michael Hartman, for expressing his disagreement with homosexuality. ******* Hartman had been a volunteer and donor for the Red Cross for over 30 years when he became an employee at the San Diego, California, center. He had been there for about eight months when, in the latter part of May 2005, a mass e-mail was sent to employees reminding everyone that June was Gay and Lesbian Pride Month and employees were encouraged to "observe" the celebration. The e-mail, distributed by Chief Diversity Officer David Wilkins, stated, "It is my pleasure to announce that June will be recognized as Gay and Lesbian Pride Month at national headquarters…It is only fitting that we reinforce our organization's commitment to inclusion…by recognizing this important group and celebrating the many accomplishments they have made to our organization…I'd like to take this opportunity during the month of June to encourage field units to extend their reach into gay and lesbian communities." ******* As a Christian, Hartman was concerned by the e-mail and expressed his sentiments to his female supervisor, "who did not care." He then e-mailed several head administrators, who immediately called him into the Red Cross regional center in Pomona, California. Hartman was reprimanded and told that his e-mail was "not appropriate." ******* The "inappropriate" e-mail that Hartman sent contained the following statements: "I would like to start by stating that I am a Christian not willing to compromise my beliefs to promote the agenda of the homosexual community. I would also like to say that I think it's disgraceful that while most of us [at the Red Cross] are trying to save lives, a select few are using this organization to promote their own lifestyles which in my opinion are unacceptable." ******* Hartman went on to say that if anyone reading his e-mail "is personally involved in this lifestyle…I think it's important that you know I have nothing against you as a person but the life you've chosen to live." He added Bible verses including Galatians 6:7 and Joshua 24:15. ******* After being reprimanded, Hartman took a week off of work because his mother, a U.S. Marine, had passed away. When he returned to the office, he noticed that Gay and Lesbian Pride posters were placed all over the office. In a later e-mail to the Pacific Justice Institute, an organization that Hartman contacted after his termination, he wrote, "One of my primary jobs is recruiting and promoting the Red Cross. Under the present circumstances I cannot promote something that harbors and encourages this sexual cancer, that we all know is eroding our society." ******* Convicted that he had to take action, Hartman "prayed about it" and put together an e-mail to the Southern California region of the Red Cross. In the e-mail, he reiterated, "I respect and value your opinions" but added, "as you explained to me, celebrating homosexual pride month is consistent with our recognition of Black History Month, Women's History Month, Older Americans Month, and Asian Pacific Islanders Heritage Month…I'm still struggling to see a correlation between celebrating Great Americans and celebrating a sexual preference." ******* He also suggested that since the Red Cross is "such a diversified organization," perhaps it should hold a Christian celebration. ******* He was put on "administrative leave" from work and called into another meeting with administrators. ******* James Hartline, an ex-homosexual who is now a Christian conservative activist, went with Hartman to the meeting to serve as a form of representation. The administrators refused to see Hartman unless he was by himself, and when he insisted upon having counsel at the meeting, he was dismissed and told that they would "reschedule" a time to speak with him. Two days later, he received his termination notice. ******* Hartman has experienced an intensely difficult year - two years ago, he lost all of his belongings in the California wildfires, and he recently lost his mother. A Sunday School teacher and father of three daughters, he said, "I realize what I'm up against, but I'll go the distance…So many have a complacent attitude, and our kids are facing the consequences." ******* He plans to seek help from Christian legal groups such as the Alliance Defense Fund. ******* Unfortunately, Hartman's legal options may be limited, as the Red Cross is a privately funded organization and may therefore exert its own prerogative in these matters. ******* The Red Cross even has its own body of Corporate Diversity committees that oversees the implementation of a "diversity code" for the organization. Employees must participate in "diversity training" seminars, and they are subject to the "diversity vision" of the Red Cross that includes "sexual orientation" on the list of "communities we serve." ******* "We are seeing an alarming double standard emerging in corporations and nonprofits," said Robert Knight, director of Concerned Women for America's Culture & Family Institute. "If you are not in a specially protected group, you don't get the same consideration. More and more, Christians are being harshly disciplined or even fired for actions that would bring a slap on the wrist to a homosexual activist or feminist." ******* It is important that Christians are alerted to this unfortunate situation. Many Christians give money or support to the American Red Cross without ever realizing that the organization openly promotes homosexuality. In the words of Michael Hartman, "If the public knew what was going on within the Red Cross I have no doubt their unselfish support would screech to a halt." Lindsey Douthit is a Ronald Reagan Memorial Intern with Concerned Women for America. She interviewed Michael Hartman over the phone on July 29, 2005. A representative for the Red Cross could not be reached for comment. ******************************************************************************** ******* item 18 PERSECUTION OF PRO-LIFE SUPPORTERS - Abortion Ban Supporters Hit by Vandalism by Wendy Cloyd March 3, 2006 http://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0039731.cfm ******* From: Robert A. Jason ******* SUMMARY: South Dakota pro-lifers are targets of eggs and threatening calls. ******* Pro-abortion activists in South Dakota have apparently begun punishing supporters of an abortion ban. The bill to ban abortion sailed through both houses of the state Legislature last month and is now at the governor's desk awaiting his signature. ******* Leslee Unruh, founder of the Alpha Center, a pregnancy-resource agency, fought hard to get the message to lawmakers that abortion kills innocent babies and hurts women. She said she and her family have now become targets. Her house has been splattered with eggs. She's had coat hangers arrive in her mailbox. Someone placed dead animals on the property of her husband's chiropractic clinic, leading some employees to fear coming to work. She's received extremely threatening calls in the middle of the night, a ton of hate mail, and her favorite coffee shop told her not to come back. "They said, 'We have a choice as to who we serve, and we choose not to serve you,'" she said. "They were careful to emphasize the word 'choice.'" ******* Unruh said she knew some people would be upset by the ban, but she's shocked at the level of the anger. "I am sad for all the people that send the hangers and have all this anger because of being connected to the abortion issue in their own lives," she said. "I'm concerned about my whole country now. I thought you were at least free to say what you thought, but they do not want me to speak. Not only do they want to hush unborn children, they don't want me to talk about it, either." Unruh said her opponents especially don't want to hear how abortion affects women. "It seems to make them the most angry," she said, "when I talk about post-abortive women." ******* Unruh is trying to make the best of the situation. She said she plans to use the coat hangers to hang up baby clothes at the pregnancy-resource center. Carrie Gordon Earll, director of issue analysis at Focus on the Family Action, said the events in South Dakota are a reminder that taking a stand for life can come at a cost. "The more restrictive the pro-life legislation being considered, the more likely we are to see attacks against those supporting it," she said. "It would be naive on our part to assume that positive movement by lawmakers toward the pro-life position will be greeted with neutrality by abortion advocates." Earll said as pro-lifers win more battles, they should be ready for a backlash. "Threatened people sometimes respond in threatening ways," she said. "We would hope that cooler heads would prevail, but, at the same time, pro-lifers should be prepared for extreme responses from the pro-abortion side as some may have no qualms about turning verbal threats into action." ******* Copyright (c) 2006, Focus on the Family. ********************************************************************************************************* ******* item 19 ERIC RUDOLPH'S ALLOCUTION July 18, 2005 ******* From: "dan & donna holman" ******* I'm here today to be sentenced for my actions on January 29, 1998. On that date I detonated a bomb at an abortion mill here in Birmingham, killing the abortion mill's security guard and injuring one of the abortion mill's employees. I had nothing personal against either of these individuals, Sanderson and Lyons. I did not target them for who they were but for what they did. And what they did was participate in the murder and dismemberment of upwards of 50 children a week. Even though the security guard, Sanderson, may have been ambivalent about the politics of abortion, he volunteered to wield a weapon in defense of these murderers, as they went about their gruesome work. And this makes him just as culpable as the murderers themselves. ******* My actions that day were motivated by my recognition that abortion is murder. And because it is murder, I believe that deadly force is indeed justified in an attempt to stop it. I do not claim this as a right but rather consider it the moral duty to come to the defense of my fellow man when they are under attack. This is an essential concept embedded in Western Civilization - that we are our brother's keeper. ******* Abortion on demand is a return to the ancient practice of infanticide. Whether it is to protect their limited food supply by killing off excess children, or whether in obedience to taboo, most primitive societies practice infanticide. When excess or tabooed children are born they are exposed, burnt, have their skulls bashed in with rocks, or they are drowned in water. Among the savages the strong control the weak as property to be disposed of at will. There is no inherent value attached to human life. People must serve a purpose or they can be subjected to death at the hands of the strong. This is how the Yanomamo of the Amazon and the New Guinea highlanders have lived for thousands of years. The ideas that underpin civilization * inherent rights, justice, fair play * don't exist among the primitives. Human weakness is less tolerated. Only the strong survive, and all obey the eternal decrees of nature that I'm not my brother's keeper, unless my brother serves some material advantage. And because of this children are disposed of at will. ******* It was a huge advancement when man stepped out of the jungle of self-interest and started to organize society on the idea of being our brother's keeper, of owing some measure of deference to our fellow man. Mankind traveled light-years on this concept of service to others. It is the bedrock of morality and has made higher civilization possible. This concept demanded rights and enforceable laws, with the notion of fairness and protection for all equally situated citizens. With this the weak were offered some measure of protection from the strong. Values were promoted respecting the unique dignity of the individual, whether he was weak, strong, poor, rich, young or old. Of course, civilization has struggled against the forces of barbarism embedded in human nature: slavery was tolerated for centuries but finally abolished . ******* Then in 1973, America took a giant step back into the shadows of the jungle when it decided to legalize abortion on demand. Thousands of years of moral progress were sacrificed upon the altar of selfishness and materialism. A new barbarism, a culture of death has now taken root in America. The state is no longer the protector of the innocent, promoting values that challenge the darker angels of human nature, but now it is the handmaiden of the new hedonism, supporting the citizen in a lifestyle of selfishness and decadence. It is a black, nasty decadence; the kind that will sacrifice a child to one's vanity or ambition. Rights which were created to protect life are now used to protect the killer, the savage painted in the blood of innocent children. Fundamental rights such as the right to life have now been twisted into the prerogatives of the barbarian ogre satisfying his lifestyle of self-indulgence. The abortion mill has become an integral part of this philosophy of self-indulgence. It is the necessary adjunct to the sexual license that goes with the orgy of modern life. It is the vomitorium of modernity helping the hedonistic partiers disgorge the unwanted consequences of their sexual license. ******* The purveyors of the culture of death tell us that the abortionist is the hero of the new progressive ethos of tolerance and diversity, laboring selflessly to protect our most sacred rights. A wise man once said that there is nothing new under the sun. And this is especially true of the abortionist. Far from being the paragon of progress, the abortionist is a barbarian taking us back to the jungle, back to the savage wielding the bloody rock over the helpless child's skull. ******* Hide abortion as you will behind the thin veneer of legality and technology, but it is still the same bloody practice of infanticide, the same concept of humans as property. Instead of the crude methods of exposure, the new barbarian performs her murders behind the sterile white gown of medical technology. The skull is no longer crushed by a rock, now the scalpel and anaesthesia quickly, efficiently dispatch the victim. The scream of the helpless infant no longer echoes through the lonely forest, instead the cry of the innocent child is silenced in the womb by saline and suction machine. Clean, quiet, respectable * the modern killer goes about her trade. ******* But make no mistake, despite the methods used the intention is the same: and that is the disposal of unwanted property. The new law even acknowledges that the child is property by leaving the protection of the infant to the discretion of the mother. Like the master of a slave, the mother can access the protection of the laws for her unborn child if she chooses. There are laws protecting the unborn from assault if she chooses to recognize the child's worth. And also like the master of a slave, the pregnant mother can dispose of her child as unwanted property through abortion. The child, the child has no inherent value. This is the law of the jungle, barbarism. ******* On the other hand, the values of civilization recognizing that we are our brother's keeper, demand, for example, that the driver slow down and halt for the jaywalker that passes in front of his car. Likewise, the values of civilization should demand of the mother that she must slow down and let the unexpected child pass through her life. The culture of death, the new barbarism says, "Keep your morality away from my property. I don't have time to stop for the child; I don't have nine months to waste on the unwanted child passing before the wheels of my life." It is a great poverty of humanity, a supreme diminution of morality to counsel a woman to build her independence and career upon the corpse of her unwanted child. This is not progress, this is not humanity, this is a return to barbarism and the culture of death. ******* What I did on January 29, 1998, was pull back the lid on this stinking vat of vomit, revealing the murderers behind the new "progressive" society. For this reason I'm hated. As I stand in this courtroom today I can feel the eyes of hatred upon me. However, I understand where the hatred comes from. The haters are like junkies or drunks being confronted with their vile behavior, causing them to react with burning hatred for the person who points out their addiction. ******* America was a great country, like a ship of discovery sailing straight and true to new lands. Then in 1973 its rudder was jammed and now it veers wildly on the seas of moral uncertainty. This country that put a man on the moon, now will not provide enough sustenance to care for its own children. This country has enough food to feed the world, but not an ounce of milk to spare for another child. Americans have the technology to satisfy any desire, but can't bring themselves to slow down for nine months as another human being passes through their lives. This country promotes a culture of selfishness and death and tells its daughters that their lives will be wasted if they bring an unplanned pregnancy to term. Every variety of filth is tolerated and aggressively pushed with the complete support of the state * abortion, homosexuality, pornography * but this country does not tolerate the values of life, family, and human dignity. They celebrate the likes of Hugh Hefner, Larry Flint, and Howard Stern as reflections of the American spirit, but those who attempt to save the lives of unborn children and who wish to promote a culture that respects life are now treated as fanatics, threats to American freedom. Britney Spears, Eminem, and Madonna are held up for our children as heroes, but the names of American's great men are now drug through the mud. And more heinous still, this country lionizes the fallen abortionist as a martyr for freedom, but he who attempted to knock the bloody knife out of her hand is treated as a criminal, standing in the docket for sentence. ******* God is not fooled, posterity will certainly judge differently. Even if it should take ten years, 50 years, or 500 years before this black night of barbarism is swept into the dustbin of history, I will be vindicated, my actions in Birmingham that overcast day in January of 1998 will be vindicated. And as I go to a prison cell for a lifetime, I know that "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course. I have kept the faith." ********************************************************************************************************* ******* item 20 99 YEAR OLD PROTESTS ABORTIONS DAILY http://www.newhousenews.com/archive/hallman100404.html ******* From: [email protected] ******* Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 ******* Nonagenarian Abortion Protester Maintains Lonely Vigil - BY TOM HALLMAN JR. c.2004 Newhouse News Service ******* PORTLAND, Ore. -- When he slips from bed long before sunrise, Marion Hite's body reminds him of his long journey: bad ticker, teary eyes and ears that, despite hearing aids so sensitive they occasionally squeal, don't hear so well. He's nearly 99 and doesn't expect to see 100. Yet this old-timer considers himself a warrior whose only goal for 25 years has been to march -- well, walk slowly -- into the enemy's stronghold. ******* He has no use for the exercise class or the coffee-and-conversation sessions held at the senior-citizens complex where he rents a studio apartment. What gets him up long before anyone else in the building is the fight. He skips breakfast, getting sustenance from a prayer asking for the strength he needs to wage a solitary battle played out each day -- rain or snow, heat or cold -- on a Portland street corner. ******* After dressing, Hite sits at a table cluttered with a Bible, prayer books, religious tracts and several disaster prophecies warning of demons, fire falling from the sky and lost souls condemned to eternal flames. To his right, next to a paper outlining Satan's latest plans in easy-to-read type, are two large sacks of bite-size candy bars that Hite will snack on when he returns home. ******* There's nothing in his apartment to distract him from doing what he calls "God's work." A cross and images of Jesus, the Virgin Mary and the pope hang on the walls. A shelf holds several religious statues, including one of a saint whose name he no longer remembers. "At my age, you tend to forget," he says. "Let me tell you, it isn't all sugar and honey." ******* He clutches a battered prayer book and leaves his apartment at 5:45 a.m. He waits outside for a friend who drives him to his post in front of the Lovejoy Surgicenter. ******* Hite protests against abortions carried out inside the nondescript building. In years past, protesters filled the street, and Surgicenter employees often called police. Hite has been convicted of criminal trespass and cited for contempt, and he says he once spent a month in jail. ******* Kayla, the Surgicenter director, doesn't want to give her full name because, she says, protesters have been known to show up at employees' homes. She remembers the protests in front of the center as mean-spirited, with Hite joining others as they shouted names and accusations at arriving women. ******* "It was very loud and violent protesting," Kayla says. "The protests were sweeping the country, and in Portland this group showed up and made it hard for the women to come inside. They'd block the door and use bullhorns. They shouted at the women. The noise level was so loud that it violated city codes. It was a form of intimidation." ******* Over time, the number of protesters dwindled. ******* "We used to have 30 people out there," Kayla says. ******* Now there's only one. ******* The streets are dark and empty when Hite hoists himself out of the car up the hill from the Surgicenter. He collects his tools from a home on the same block. Then he slowly makes his way down the hill. He looks like a man trying to beat the crowd for a good spot at the parade. He carries a lawn chair in his right hand and a large sign in his left. ******* Although the Surgicenter doesn't open until 8 a.m., Hite believes if lights are on, they could be doing something. So he insists on being in place before 6:30 a.m. ******* Hite comes prepared for all kinds of weather. He wears blue pants, white tennis shoes, a baseball-style cap and a blue windbreaker. He has a second jacket in case it gets cold, and a blue-and-white umbrella he can use to ward off the rain or the sun. ******* He settles into the chair and hoists the sign on his shoulder. He slips the butt of the wooden pole into a black baby shoe that rests next to his thigh. He adjusts the sign, which has the same message on both sides so people approaching the center from either direction can read it: "Please let your baby live. We will help you; give him or her to us." Below is an 800 number for an adoption service. ******* Kayla, the Surgicenter director, points out that the center also offers adoption services. ******* When the sun rises, Hite reads his 79-page prayer book. As he does every morning, he starts at the beginning. After turning a few well-worn pages, he sets the book in his lap and stares at the Surgicenter's front door. The door is locked, the lobby dark, and two newspapers sit out front. ******* "There used to be all kinds of trouble out here," he says. "The police always treated me good enough, and I didn't mind jail. I know those people in there'd like to get rid of me. But I'm part of the game." ******* Hite, a retired trucker who never married and has no children, doesn't remember who first brought him to this corner, doesn't even remember what made him raise his voice that first day. ******* "My memory's real bad," he admits. "When you get to be 98, see if you can remember." ******* He knows, however, why he stays. ******* "They're killing babies," he says. "The Lord said what we do to the least of his brethren we do to him. Those babies are human beings created by God, and one of the commandments is that we should not kill. And we are killing those babies." ******* Hite believes that over the years he's made a difference, but he can point to only one instance for sure. He says a woman came up to him one day and said she'd decided to continue her pregnancy after approaching the center and seeing his sign. She told Hite that, as a result, she had a 9-year-old daughter. ******* Hite checks his watch. The Surgicenter opens soon. ******* He sees a woman in blue scrubs walking up the street toward the front door. She glances at Hite but says nothing. "They've talked to me over the years," he says. "I've told them I wouldn't work in there for a million dollars." ******* Ten minutes later, a woman and a man hurry by Hite and walk into the Surgicenter without a glance at him. He checks his watch and settles back in his lawn chair. ******* "Don't know how much longer I'll be doing this," he says. "Don't think I've too much more time to go. Guess I'll quit when my heart stops." ******* (Tom Hallman Jr. is a staff writer for The Oregonian. He can be contacted at [email protected].) ********************************************************************************************************* ******* item 21 VOTING FOR A POLITICIAN WHO BACKS ABORTION IS A GRAVE SIN, BISHOP SAYS ******* From: [email protected] ******* Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 06:50:51 EDT ******* By P.J. Huffstutter, Times Staff Writer ******* ST. LOUIS — After Wednesday's morning Masses, Catholic parishioners voiced anger and support for the archbishop of St. Louis, who issued a pastoral letter saying it was a "grave sin" to vote for politicians who supported same-sex marriage, abortion or stem-cell research. ******* Archbishop Raymond Burke's letter states that voters are violating "the solemn duty to protect human life" if they support politicians who back those issues. The letter, about 6,700 words long, was published Friday in the weekly archdiocesan newspaper and posted on its website. ******* "Procured abortion and homosexual acts are intrinsically evil, and, as such, can never be justified in any circumstance," Burke wrote. "Although war and capital punishment can rarely be justified, they are not intrinsically evil; neither practice includes the direct intention of killing innocent human beings." ******* If all candidates in a race support abortion rights or same-sex marriage, then a Catholic can vote without committing sin, according to Burke's letter. ******* "I don't know what to do," retiree Terrence Praince, 69, said as he left Mass Wednesday at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis. "I think [same-sex] marriage is wrong, but I'm also against the war. My wife and I are both Democrats. How do we vote?" ******* A summary of the letter, as well as a question-and-answer section regarding it, was released this week. ******* A few priests took things a step further and invited members at several area Catholic churches to sign a pledge saying that legalized abortion, euthanasia, embryonic stem-cell research, human cloning and same-sex marriage were "intrinsically evil." ******* The archbishop published his letter as the city prepared for Friday's debate between President Bush and his Democratic challenger, Sen. John F. Kerry of Massachusetts, at Washington University in St. Louis. ******* Burke earlier this year said he would not give Communion to Kerry, who's Catholic, because of the politician's support of abortion rights. ******* The pastoral letter was not designed to sway voters away from Kerry or any other specific candidate, said the Rev. Edward J. Richard, spokesman for the Archdiocese of St. Louis. Instead, the archbishop was "presenting traditional Christian teaching to help voters make informed decisions, not only about this election but future ones," Richard said. "We had these values before there were Republicans and Democrats. And the church will have them long after this race." ******* Burke's letter provoked debate among readers on the editorial pages of local newspapers. ******* "You cannot pick and choose what you believe in. If you are a Catholic, you should be willing to follow the church's teaching. Archbishop Burke is merely echoing what the Bible teaches us on these subjects," one person wrote to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. ******* Countered another: "After reading Archbishop Burke's letter, I must think otherwise when it states he is not endorsing a particular candidate." ******* "Shaped by 35 years of Catholic experiences, I will not let Burke guilt me into a confessional." ******* Theologians and presidential campaign analysts have argued about the letter's political ramifications on TV news broadcasts. They've debated whether it would draw votes away from Kerry or whether people would rebel and intentionally vote for him. ******* This isn't the first time the archbishop has weighed in on politics. While a bishop in La Crosse, Wis., Burke issued a directive in January stating that any Catholic politician who backed euthanasia or abortion rights should not be given Communion. ******* Burke brought the issue up again after he arrived in St. Louis in late January and made his comment about denying Communion to Kerry. The archbishop of Atlanta, and the bishops of Charleston, S.C., and Charlotte, N.C., later issued similar statements. ******* Of the 2.2 million people who live within the Archdiocese of St. Louis, which consists of the city and 10 surrounding counties, about 550,000 are Catholic. ******* Some followers wonder whether they will have to go to confession if they vote for Kerry. That question was asked by a few who attended Mass on Wednesday. Walking along Maryland Avenue on her way to the Cathedral of St. Louis, Carrie Blayner spotted signs promoting the Kerry-Edwards campaign. ******* She pulled open the church's heavy wooden doors, walked inside and sat in a pew toward the back. Above her, tiny tiles formed massive murals dedicated to various saints. Somber gray statues and gilded angels gazed upon the sparse crowd. ******* "I've read the letter, and I want to do what's right," said Blayner, 42, a housewife who attended Catholic school. "We trust the church to guide us. But voting as a sin? It seems a little extreme." ******* There is a centuries-long tradition of clergy guiding parishioners about political and legal issues, and Burke's past comments and last week's letter reflect a desire to remind Catholic voters of the issues the church considers important, said Luis E. Lugo, director of the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. ******* "Politicians see votes. For the church, this is about ethical questions," said John C. Green, a political science professor at the University of Akron in Ohio. ******* A spokesman for Bush declined to comment on the letter. ******* Kerry spokesman David Wade issued a statement: "We have the deepest respect for the leaders of the Catholic Church. Every Catholic struggles with their own conscience, and Catholicism is not defined by one stand on one issue." ******* While Missouri as a state tends to vote more conservatively, its urban centers see themselves as more liberal. In the 2000 presidential election, Bush beat Al Gore by 3 percentage points statewide. In St. Louis, Gore swept Bush by more than 50 percentage points. ******* * Times staff writer Matea Gold contributed to this report. ******* SUMMARY POINTS from the Archbishop's letter: The Pastoral Letter of Archbishop Raymond Leo Burke ON OUR CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE COMMON GOOD ******* 1. The Archbishop is impelled to speak to Catholics and all people of good will in the metropolitan community on Our Civic Responsibility for the Common Good on account of his responsibility as a Bishop to teach clearly the moral law. ******* 2. Scripture teaches definitively that we are our "rother's keeper", good Samaritans charged to exercise our civic responsibility to promote the common good. Above all, we must promote and protect the inviolable dignity of all human life. ******* We are called to be "Christians Without Borders",? without boundaries to our love of neighbor. ******* 3. Our civic responsibility to promote the common good is informed by our life in Christ, which unites us in a bond of charity. ******* 4. As citizens of Heaven and earth we are bound by the moral law to act with respect for the rights of others and to promote the common good. ******* 5. The right to act in accord with conscience presupposes that it is informed with the truth God has inscribed in our hearts and revealed in Sacred Scripture. Conscience is the voice of God within us, assisting us to choose good and to avoid evil, in accord with God's law. ******* 6. We are morally bound in conscience to choose government leaders who will serve the common good. The first priority of the common good is the protection of human life, the basis of all other social conditions. There can never be justification for directly and deliberately taking innocent human life: abortion, destruction of human embryos, euthanasia, human cloning. ******* Legal recognition of same-sex relationships undermines the truth about marriage and sanctions gravely immoral acts. ******* For the sake of the common good we must safeguard the good of human life and the good of marriage and family life. ******* The death penalty and war are different from procured abortion and same-sex "marriage"?, since these latter acts are intrinsically evil and therefore can never be justified. Although war and capital punishment can rarely be justified, they are not intrinsically evil. ******* 7. To insure the common good Catholics have a responsibility to vote for a worthy candidate, because the welfare of the community depends upon the persons elected and appointed to office. ******* 8. It is never right to vote for a candidate in order to promote immoral practices; this is "formal cooperation"? in evil. ******* In some circumstances it is morally permissible for a Catholic to vote for a candidate who supports some immoral practices while opposing other immoral practices. This is called "material cooperation"? and is permissible under certain conditions and when it is impossible to avoid all cooperation with evil, as may well be true in selecting a candidate for public office. ******* There is no element of the common good that could justify voting for a candidate who also endorses, without restriction or limitation, the deliberate killing of the innocent, abortion, embryonic stem-cell research, euthanasia, human cloning, or same-sex marriage. ******* 9. If a candidate supports abortion in a limited number of cases, but is opposed otherwise, Catholics may vote for this person. This is not a question of choosing a lesser evil but of limiting all the evil one is able to limit at the time. ******* 10. As Catholics we cannot remain silent. We have a serious obligation to bring the moral law to bear upon our life in society, so that the good of all will be served. ******* The complete text can be found at http://www.archstl.org/letters/100104pastoral_letter.pdf ********************************************************************************************************* ******* item 22 A LEGACY OF LIFE IN A CULTURE OF DEATH - By Doug Patton, August 8, 2005 ******* From "Bobby Eberle - GOPUSA" ******* Susan Anne Catherine Torres came into the world two months early, weighing 1 lb., 13 oz., at 8:18 a.m. on Tuesday, August 2, 2005. Susan Michelle Rollin Torres died shortly after her baby was delivered by Caesarean section at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington. ******* Susan Torres was just 26 years old. She and her husband, Jason, had been eagerly anticipating the arrival of their second child when Susan collapsed and fell into a coma. Doctors said she had melanoma, a very aggressive form of cancer, which had spread to her brain, causing a severe stroke. ******* That was in May. ******* With his wife just 15 weeks into her pregnancy, Jason made a decision with which he knew his wife would agree. He decided to keep her on life support long enough to give their baby what his wife no longer had: a fighting chance at survival. Life sustaining measures were terminated after the baby's birth, and Susan Torres died. ******* As I read this incredible, life-affirming story, I thought of the 4,000 babies destroyed through abortion every day in America. And I thought about Margie Janovich. ******* Margie Janovich was a very special lady from Omaha, Nebraska. She was the devoted mother of nine children who was told in the fifth month of her last pregnancy that she had thyroid cancer. Her doctor prescribed immediate treatment, including radiation and chemotherapy, but Margie refused any treatment that might harm her unborn baby. Instead, she waited four months in order to give her baby daughter a chance to be born. By then, the cancer had spread to both her breasts and both her lungs. Margie Janovich battled for another 20 months before finally succumbing to her illness on March 9, 1997, at the age of 44. Her husband, Ron, said of her, "If there was an angel on Earth, that was her." The word "choice" has become code for the virtually unchecked right of a pregnant woman to abort her unborn baby. The callousness with which that choice is made and the self-centered reasons for making it are now commonplace. ******* Margie Janovich made another choice. She chose to pass on a legacy to her children like no other she could have given them. Yes, it is sad that little Mary Beth Janovich and her eight brothers and sisters are growing up without their mother. But what is sadder still is that Margie Janovich was an anomaly. She was by far the exception rather than the rule. ******* Most in our society would say that the Janovich family would have been better off with eight children and a mother than nine children and no mother. Margie saw it differently, and she made the ultimate sacrifice in order to give her daughter life. That was her choice. For those who would nonchalantly defend the indefensible, including such procedures as partial birth abortion, the story of the Janovich and the Torres families should cause them to search their hearts for a shred of human kindness toward the defenseless unborn. ******* And for those in the great "moderate" middle, who have a vague uneasiness about abortion, yet think it should remain an on-demand option for American mothers, I recommend these two poignant stories as a way of coming to grips with the truth about the whole issue of life. In this era of jaded, self-centered living, when women are told they can destroy their pre-born babies for the sake of mere convenience, it is inspiring to find a mother with such love that she would lay down her life for her child. ******* Mary Beth Janovich is now nine years old. Susan Anne Catherine Torres is a premature newborn struggling for life. Both have been given an incredibly legacy of life in a culture of death. ------------ Doug Patton is a freelance columnist who has served as a political speechwriter and policy advisor for federal, state and local candidates, elected officials and public policy organizations. His weekly column can be read in newspapers across the country and on selected Internet web sites, including www.TheConservativeVoice.com and www.GOPUSA.com, where he also serves as the Nebraska editor. Write him at [email protected]. ******************************************************************************************************** ******* item 23 PUBLISHER PUSHES ONE ISSUE ABOVE ALL OTHERS: ABORTION ******* From: GerryW via "Suzanne Fortin" ******* Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 ******* James E. Holman makes his living in the world of alternative newspapers. For 33 years, his irreverent and wildly successful weekly, the San Diego Reader, has needled the city's captains of commerce, government and society. ******* But Holman has also pursued a passion unusual among his brethren in the left-leaning alternative press: a quiet crusade against abortion. ******* This year, the strict Catholic from Coronado is tapping his sizable fortune to advance a November ballot measure that would make it harder for girls to terminate pregnancies in California. Proposition 73 would require doctors to notify a minor's parents at least 48 hours before performing an abortion. Teenagers facing a medical emergency, or obtaining permission from a judge, would be exempt. ******* Records show that Holman, 59, is by far the leading contributor to the cause, providing more than $1.1 million of the nearly $1.8 million reported by backers so far. His contributions have included loans, cash and nonmonetary donations, with much of the money used to pay for the gathering of signatures needed to qualify the measure for a vote. ******* "He's very passionate about the issue," said friend and fellow Proposition 73 supporter Albin Rhomberg, "and very committed to making this effort a success." ******* Holman did not return telephone calls from The Times. A campaign spokesman said he would not be granting interviews. ******* A father of seven, Holman has been described in some accounts as a recluse and ultraconservative ideologue. Friends say that portrait is off the mark. ******* Rather, they say, the lean, graying-at-the-temples publisher is a cerebral man who tilts libertarian but is defined mostly by his deep religious beliefs. He attends Mass daily and counts priests among his close friends. He once took an extended leave from his newspaper to work with a missionary group on Los Angeles' skid row. ******* Despite his substantial wealth, Holman takes the bus to work, eats sack lunches and lives modestly - an anti-consumerist lifestyle his friends attribute to his faith. In addition to the Reader, he publishes four lay Catholic papers - in San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Tijuana - that routinely skewer bishops and others who stray from the official teachings of the church in Rome. The papers also reflect the Catholic doctrine that homosexual acts are sinful. ******* "Jim is devoutly Catholic, and everything he does is informed by his faith," said Bob McPhail, editor of La Cruz de California, Holman's Tijuana-based paper. McPhail said Holman is legendary among nuns and priests in Tijuana - where he once lived in a spartan apartment in the city's red-light district - for his financial support of church schools, homes for unwed mothers and programs for the poor. ******* Abortion has long been one of the publisher's overriding concerns, stemming, friends say, from his belief in the sanctity of life. Holman has been to jail for protesting outside abortion clinics, and has given money to politicians who share his views. ******* In years past, supporters of abortion rights picketed his office because of articles in the Reader and Holman's refusal to accept ads offering abortion services. One cover story was particularly controversial. It was headlined "What Becomes of San Diego County's 20,000 Fetuses Each Year," and, unlike most stories in the paper, was based on an idea of Holman's, he acknowledged in a 1989 interview with The Times. ******* In the same interview, Holman explained his ban on ads for abortion services - a choice that distinguishes him from publishers of most other urban weeklies. "There are some things that are legal that I find so heinous, so horrible morally, that I wouldn't want to be an agent to it," he said. ******* He also declines to run same-sex personal ads. And though the Reader is full of scantily clad women promoting breast augmentation and bikini waxing, it does not carry the sexually explicit ads sometimes seen in other alternative papers. ******* Opponents of Proposition 73 say the publisher's personal beliefs prove that the measure's backers have an agenda beyond notifying parents about a minor's abortion. They say proponents - stalled in their efforts to overturn Roe vs. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion 32 years ago - are nibbling away at it by making access more difficult. ******* Holman's initiative would insert into the state Constitution language defining abortion as causing the death of "a child conceived but not yet born." The adoption of such language would lay the foundation for encroachment on reproductive rights, said Kathy Kneer, president of Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, which is leading the fight to defeat the measure. ******* "It concerns us that someone with such deep personal and religious views is able to enter the arena of public policy and essentially force those views on everyone else," said Kneer, whose organization offers family planning and abortion services. ******* Rhomberg says the initiative's goal is strictly to protect parents' rights, and that Holman, whose four daughters range in age from 9 to 18, "obviously has a real interest in this matter." He acknowledged, however, that "we believe a side benefit of this initiative is that it would reduce the number of abortions, and of course Mr. Holman would be happy about that." ******* Raised in the Los Angeles area, Holman attended Carleton College in Minnesota and served with the Navy in Vietnam. He was awarded the Purple Heart and, friends say, still experiences pain from shrapnel in his back. ******* He taught English in Colombia for a while, then briefly pursued graduate studies in philosophy at UC San Diego. In 1972, he founded the Reader in his Mission Beach apartment, building on his experience selling ads at a Chicago paper by the same name. ******* Alex Farnsley, an early partner in the venture, said the early years were lean. He and Holman used pseudonyms for their articles and photographs "so it wouldn't look like it was the same people doing everything." ******* Initially about eight pages, the paper struggled for a long time. Farnsley had a falling-out with Holman and received a cash settlement after seven years of litigation, an ending he describes as "very sad." ******* Gradually, the Reader grew and became a coveted destination for San Diego writers. One former reporter, Paul Krueger, described Holman as generous with salaries, a gifted and inspiring editor and fearless when it came to printing hard-hitting stories. He also kept his views from influencing the journalism, Krueger said, with one exception: abortion. ******* "As my memory serves me, that was really the only taboo subject," said Krueger, who spent a dozen years at the Reader and now is a television news producer in San Diego. "If you had a story that made a pro-choice person or position look 'good,' it wasn't likely to get in the paper." ******* The Reader today is a glossy tabloid that runs an average of 220 pages each Thursday. Though critics say it has lost its reputation for tough but balanced investigative work, the Assn. of Alternative Newsweeklies describes it as the largest publication of its kind in the nation, with a circulation of more than 171,000. ******* Such success has provided Holman the money to bankroll Proposition 73. The measure is the fruition of years of effort by anti-abortion activists and others dismayed after the state Supreme Court blocked a parental consent law passed by the Legislature in 1987. ******* But Holman's role goes beyond check writer. He also has recruited other large donors - including Domino's Pizza founder Tom Monaghan, an acquaintance and fellow Catholic from Michigan - and has used his Catholic papers to rally support. ******* During the signature-gathering phase, the publications carried copies of the petitions that could be snipped out and circulated, Rhomberg said, as well as ads and articles that declared the initiative "the first pro-life measure to come before the public in California history." ******* At Planned Parenthood in San Diego, President Mark Salo said Holman's low-profile but critical support for Proposition 73 does not surprise him. For years, as he entered the driveway at the agency, Salo would pass a lone abortion protester. The man never yelled or bothered anyone, but he did hold a sign bearing an enlarged color picture of a fetus. ******* "It was Jim Holman," Salo said, "just standing out there with his sign." ******************************************************************************************************** ******* item 24 WHO'S AFRAID OF AN ARGUMENT? THE INSECURITIES OF THE ABORTION RIGHTS MOVEMENT ******* to see this article go to ******* http://www.albertmohler.com/commentary_read.php?cdate=2006-02-20 ******************************************************************************************************** ******* item 25 JUDGE DISMISSES CHARGES AGAINST ANTI-GAY PROTESTORS ******* From: News & Views (Friday, February 18, 2005)" via Robert Jason" � ******* Men Arrested For Allegedly Trying To Incite Riot At Gay Street Festival ******* PHILADELPHIA -- A city judge dismissed charges Thursday against four members of a conservative Christian group who were arrested last fall while picketing a street festival for gays and lesbians. ******* Common Pleas Judge Pamela Dembe tossed the charges after watching a videotape of the events leading to the defendants' arrest, saying: "We are one of the very few countries that protect unpopular speech." ******* The demonstrators, affiliated with a local group called Repent America, said their opposition to homosexuality is based on the Bible. They had faced a variety of charges, including felonies, in connection with their protest last fall at the Outfest event in downtown Philadelphia. ******* Prosecutors had said the bullhorn-wielding activists, led by Repent America founder Michael Marcavage of Lansdowne, Pa., were trying to incite the crowd. The defendants said they were being prosecuted for voicing their religious belief that homosexuality is a sin. ******* Marcavage had been charged with felony riot, criminal conspiracy and ethnic intimidation -- Pennsylvania's version of a hate crime -- and five misdemeanor counts including disorderly conduct and reckless endangerment. ******* He has been arrested, detained or cited by police around the country since founding Repent America in 2002, including at a demonstration against same-sex marriages in San Francisco and at a graphic traveling protest in Connecticut against abortion. ******* http://www.nbc10.com/news/4208129/detail.html ******************************************************************************************************** ******* item 26 UPDATE ON JOE ARPAIO ******* From: [email protected] ******* Sent: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 ******* Is it possible to get a Sheriff Joe in every state of the Union????!!! ******* This Sheriff recently appeared on Fox News. He stated the reason that he issues pink underwear, socks, towels, etc., to the male prisoners is that they will not steal them. ******* TO THOSE OF YOU NOT FAMILIAR WITH JOE ARPAIO ******* HE IS THE MARICOPA ARIZONA COUNTY SHERIFF ******* AND HE KEEPS GETTING ELECTED OVER AND OVER ******* THIS IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY: ******* Sheriff Joe Arpaio (in Arizona) who created the "tent city jail": ******* He has jail meals down to 40 cents a serving and charges the inmates for them. ******* He stopped smoking and porno magazines in the jails. Took away their weights. Cut off all but "G" movies. ******* He started chain gangs so the inmates could do free work on county and city projects. ******* Then he started chain gangs for women so he wouldn't get sued for discrimination. ******* He took away cable TV until he found out there was a federal court order that required cable TV for jails. So he hooked up the cable TV again only let in the Disney channel and the weather channel. ******* When asked why the weather channel he replied, so they will know how hot it's gonna be while they are working on my chain gangs. ******* He cut off coffee since it has zero nutritional value. ******* When the inmates complained, he told them, "This isn't the Ritz/Carlton. If you don't like it, don't come back." ******* He bought Newt Gingrich' lecture series on videotape that he pipes into the jails. ******* MORE ON THE ARIZONA SHERIFF: ******* With temperatures being even hotter than usual in Phoenix (116 degrees just set a new record), the Associated Press reports: About 2,000 inmates living in a barbed-wire-surrounded tent encampment at the Maricopa County Jail have been given permission to strip down to their government-issued pink boxer shorts. ******* On Wednesday, hundreds of men wearing boxers were either curled up on their bunk beds or chatted in the tents, which reached 138 degrees inside the week before. ******* Many were also swathed in wet, pink towels as sweat collected on their chests and dripped down to their pink socks. ******* "It feels like we are in a furnace," said James Zanzot, an inmate who has lived in the tents for 1 year. "It's inhumane." ******* Joe Arpaio, the tough-guy sheriff who created the tent city and long ago started making his prisoners wear pink, and eat bologna sandwiches, is not one bit sympathetic He said Wednesday that he told all of the inmates: "It's 120 degrees in Iraq and our soldiers are living in tents too, and they have to wear full battle gear, but they didn't commit any crimes, so shut your damned mouths!" ******* Way to go, Sheriff! Maybe if all prisons were like this one there would be a lot less crime and/or repeat offenders. Criminals should be punished for their crimes - not live in luxury until it's time for their parole, only to go out and commit another crime so they can get back in to live on taxpayers money and enjoy things taxpayers can't afford to have for themselves. ******************************************************************************************************** ******* item 27 U. S. ANTI-ABORTION EXTREMIST APOLOGIZES TO SLAIN DOCTOR'S WIDOW - By Carolyn Thompson ******* Tue Jan 9, 5:57 PM ******* BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - Anti-abortion extremist James Kopp apologized to the widow of a doctor he killed and chose not to cross-examine her Tuesday after she described how her bleeding husband fell against her when he was shot in their kitchen. ******* The apology came on the first day of trial as Kopp defended himself against U.S. federal charges he violated the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances act by killing Barnett Slepian, a doctor who provided abortions. ******* "Mrs. Slepian, I just wanted to say I'm sorry. I respect you and your family," Kopp, 52, said in a voice so quiet the rest of the courtroom strained to hear. ******* Lynne Slepian, who had just recounted the Oct. 23, 1998 shooting for jurors, looked at Kopp but did not react. ******* Kopp is acting as his own lawyer and offered the apology when it was his turn to question the widow. He asked her no questions. ******* Earlier Tuesday, Kopp used his opening statement to tell jurors Slepian's death was "a full-bore, 100 per cent tragedy" but not murder because it was not malicious or premeditated. ******* While Kopp has acknowledged planning the shooting for a year and then firing a high-powered military rifle with telescopic sights from the woods behind the Slepian home, he has said he meant only to wound the doctor to prevent him from performing abortions. ******* Kopp was also a suspect in four non-fatal shootings of doctors in the Hamilton, Winnipeg and Vancouver areas and in Rochester, N.Y., in the decade before Slepian's death. ******* He is already serving a 25-year-to-life state sentence for his 2003 second-degree murder conviction in Slepian's death. A federal conviction would carry a maximum sentence of life without parole. ******* "Shoot them in the head, blow up a car, riddle their body with bullets like they do in the movies. That's how you kill someone" with premeditation, said Kopp, who wore a blue sports coat, tie and glasses and flipped through a white legal pad. ******* He urged jurors to keep things in context and look for evidence of premeditation or malice toward Slepian. ******* "If you don't see it, that's me proving my case," he said. ******* Twice, U.S. District Judge Richard Arcara interrupted Kopp to keep him on track during his 40-minute statement, which he peppered with hypothetical scenarios that alluded to his contention he was acting to save unborn children. ******* The judge has barred the lifelong abortion foe from talking about abortion or his belief the shooting was justified, forcing the extremist nicknamed "Atomic Dog" to find other ways to make his point. A handful of Kopp supporters watched from the gallery, along with one of the Slepians' now-grown sons and other Slepian family members. ******* "What would you do if your daughter was in danger, what would you do?" Kopp asked, drawing an objection from prosecutors. ******* "I stand for weakness, that's what I represent. If I am guilty, weakness is guilty." ******* "If I am guilty, innocence is guilty. Those who can't protect themselves..." Kopp said before being cut off by another objection. ******* "Reading between the lines, between what he said and didn't say, I think he got his ideas across," public defender John Humann, Kopp's court-appointed standby counsel, observed afterward. ******* Assistant U.S. attorney Kathleen Mehltretter outlined a case that will rely in part on Kopp's own admissions about the shooting, made in the media and at his state trial. ******* Lynne Slepian began the government's case with her description of the shooting just after she and her husband returned home from a memorial service for Barnett Slepian's father at about 10 p.m. ******* "He was starving so he went right to the refrigerator," Lynne Slepian said. ******* While soup was heating in the microwave, Slepian began emptying his pockets at a desk as she spoke in the kitchen with two of their four sons, ages seven to 15 at the time. ******* "I heard a popping noise," she said. "He looked at me and thought he'd been shot. I rushed over to him." "He fell against me and then fell to the floor. I yelled to my oldest son." "One of us called 911 and we grabbed some dish towels and we tried to stop the bleeding." ******* In addition to violating FACE, Kopp is charged with using a weapon in a violent crime. ******* The trial is expected to last about three weeks. ******************************************************************************************************** ******* item 28 COLORADO SPRINGS SCHOOL DISTRICT OUSTS PLANNED PARENTHOOD ******* From: [email protected]�� ******* date March 17 - 2005 ******* COLORADO SPRINGS, USA, March 17 (CNA) - After months of heated debate, a Colorado Springs school district has decided to ban Planned Parenthood from speaking in their schools. The debate began six months ago when Mike Gamble, a Colorado Springs man became �fed up with what he had learned about Planned Parenthood and their widely accepted sex education classes that have been taught in the public schools over the past 30 years.� ******* Enlisting the help of a small group of dedicated Christians and utilizing the Freedom of Information Act, which requires disclosure of information about groups who use federal funds, Gamble began a campaign of displaying what he calls �the graphic horrors of abortion� outside three area high schools where the group was scheduled to speak. ******* Though some, Christians and non-Christians alike, have criticized his use of graphic images to spread his message, the strategy eventually worked and the school district opted to cease the invitations to Planned Parenthood. ******* Although the Colorado Springs school board decided on January 12th to allow the group, the �Colorado Springs Independent� reported on February 24th that, �Administrators at Palmer, Mitchell and Wasson high schools have canceled the [Planned Parenthood] speakers�effective immediately.� The schools said that they did not want the attention and protests that Gamble promised would follow each of the group�s presentations. ********************************************************************************************************* ******* item 29 DENVER ARCHBISHOP SAYS CATHOLICS REFUSING TO DEFEND MORALITY "DEMONSTRATING COWARDICE" Indirectly slams Kerry citing "dishonest", "dangerous" avoidance phrases used by some Catholics ******* From: "Robert A Jason" ******* Date: 23 Oct 2004 ******* DENVER, Colorado, October 22, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput has once again come out in the New York Times powerfully teaching the serious obligation and right of Catholics to defend moral principles during elections. ******* In his New York Times Op-ed article today, "Faith and Patriotism", the outspokenly faithful Denver archbishop responds to "lectures" that Roman Catholics must not "impose their beliefs on society" and "warnings about the need for 'the separation of church and state.'" Predictably, Presidential candidate John Kerry who claims to be Catholic, has emphasized his agreement with such statements. ******* Chaput responds, "These are two of the emptiest slogans in current American politics, intended to discourage serious debate. No one in mainstream American politics wants a theocracy. Nor does anyone doubt the importance of morality in public life. Therefore, we should recognize these slogans for what they are: frequently dishonest and ultimately dangerous sound bites." ******* The Denver Archbishop also condemns the silence of Catholics who know that abortion is the taking of a human life. He writes, "For anyone who sees this fact clearly, neutrality, silence or private disapproval are not options. They are evils almost as grave as abortion itself. If religious believers do not advance their convictions about public morality in public debate, they are demonstrating not tolerance but cowardice." ******* Archbishop Chaput concludes, "Words are cheap. Actions matter. If we believe in the sanctity of life from conception to natural death, we need to prove that by our actions, including our political choices. Anything less leads to the corruption of our integrity. Patriotism, which is a virtue for people of all faiths, requires that we fight, ethically and nonviolently, for what we believe. Claiming that 'we don't want to impose our beliefs on society' is not merely politically convenient; it is morally incoherent and irresponsible." ******* See the complete text of Chaput's article on LifeSiteNews.com at: http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/oct/041 ******* See October LifeSiteNews.com story: Denver Archbishop: Voting for Known Pro-Abortion Candidates is a Sin Requiring Confession http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/oct/04102003.html ********************************************************************************************************* ******* item 30 CATHOLIC GAY ACTIVISTS DENIED COMMUNION IN CHICAGO By Andrew Stern ******* date 30 May 2004 ******* from "Mission America" ******* CHICAGO (Reuters) - Priests denied Holy Communion on Sunday to a group of rainbow sash-wearing gay activists who showed up to protest a directive from Chicago's prelate that they violated church teachings by advertising their homosexuality. ******* The volatile issue of denying Communion to Catholics who disagree with church teachings, a controversy that has recently entangled U.S. politicians, was fueled in Chicago after Cardinal Francis George sent a memo to priests in the second-largest U.S. archdiocese, ordering them not to offer Communion to sash-wearers. ******* More than a dozen men and women activists sang and prayed with other parishioners filling the pews at Holy Name Cathedral but were offered only blessings when they sought to receive Communion with the others. "The bishop just said 'God Bless,"' Joe Murray, a spokesman for the American Sash Movement, said afterward outside on the cathedral steps. "We're good enough to be blessed, but we're not good enough to receive the Holy Eucharist." ******* The demonstrators then stood for the remaining few minutes of the two-hour mass. "It's sheer hubris," said Lonnie Chafin, who -- like more than a dozen other gay Catholics -- came to the most visible church in the diocese to display his displeasure. He wore a rainbow ribbon, a gay symbol, and was given Communion after some hesitancy by the priest. "Who is the church to say who can and cannot get communion?" said Greg Van Hyfte, 27, carrying a rainbow-hued umbrella prior to the services to fend off a driving rain. ******* Murray said he had received scores of messages from around the country in response to Cardinal George's memo, and that he was disappointed that the prelate had not kept his promise to continue a dialogue on the subject. ******* In his message to priests, George said the church's moral teaching is that "genital homosexual relations are objectively morally sinful" and that Rainbow Sash members "give witness to their opposition to the Church and her teaching as they come to Communion." ******* Rainbow Sash members have been quietly protesting on Pentecost Sunday -- which celebrates the Holy Spirit's appearance promised to Christ's Apostles and often thought of as the anniversary of the Church's birth -- for several years. However, recent events swelled attendance and heightened the drama. ******* Some bishops have threatened to deny the sacrament to John Kerry, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, because of his stand on abortion rights. ******* A recent letter, signed by 48 congressmen and sent to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, objected to threats voiced by a few U.S. church leaders to withhold Communion from politicians who support abortion rights or stem cell research. ******* In contrast to Cardinal George, who was returning from Rome and was not at the church on Sunday, Murray said Los Angeles' Cardinal Roger Mahony had met with sash members and pledged to offer them Communion. Other protests were taking place in New Orleans; Minneapolis; Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Rochester, New York. ******* Mail service for Mission America provided by American Family Online www.afo.net ******* Mission America www.missionamerica.com ********************************************************************************************************* ******* item 31 "WE SHALL OVERCOME ... ABORTION" SAYS NATIONAL PRO-LIFE UNION PRESIDENT ******* From: "LifeSiteNews" ******* Special to LifeSiteNews.com by Day Gardner, President, National Black Pro-Life Union ?******* WASHINGTON, February 6, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The following statement was released today by Day Gardner, president of the National Black Pro-Life Union: ******* Throughout the month of February, we take the time ... one month out of the year to remember the tragedies and celebrate the triumphs of African Americans in history. We celebrate the fact that we are a strong race that survived the many horrors and inhumane treatment when we were an enslaved people -- presumed by many to be less than human.?******* We came together in the 1960s facing very difficult times when hundreds of African Americans suffered physical torture and sometimes even death .. all for wanting to experience the American dream and for insisting that we be allowed that which we as American citizens are entitled to under the laws of this great country.?******* And since the '60s we have continued to make great strides in breaking down color barriers and the walls of inequality. We become doctors, lawyers, educators, movie stars, corporations and conglomerates. But I worry that many of us in the black community have forgotten what the struggle was all about. In our quest for higher education, bigger houses, better jobs and flashier cars ... are we closing our eyes to the fact that more than a thousand of our children die each day by the horrible practice of abortion? These children are denied their most basic human right -- which is the right to life; a right which our ancestors so proudly worked for, marched for and many of them died for.?******* More than 44 million children have been killed by abortion -- 15 million of them were black children. Abortion has become the number one killer of black people in this country -- killing more African Americans that accidents, heart disease, stroke, crimes, HIV-AIDS and all other deaths ... COMBINED!?******* What bothers me is we are very quick as a people to recognize racism everywhere else except the one place that truly affects all of us. Most blacks will agree that racism is sill very much alive -- yet say nothing when abortion facilities are placed purposefully in minority and poor communities. This is no accident! More than 37 percent of all abortions are performed on black women. Last year alone, more than 400,000 black babies were killed by abortion.?******* We must realize that abortion is a multi-million dollar a year business that makes most of its money by killing our children. Abortion providers need us to make their blood money. If we as black people say no to abortion -- the industry will cease to exist. We are the underground railroad of our time and it's up to us to make abortion a thing of our historical past. If we stand united against this horrific practice ... we shall overcome this, too.?******* See related coverage:?African-American Catholic Bishop Hopes to See His Community More Active on Pro-Life http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/jan/07013001.html ********************************************************************************************************* ******* item 32 MAYOR COMMITTED TO PREVENTING PUBLIC HOMOSEXUAL ACTS IN CHILDREN'S PARK - By Elizabeth O'Brien ******* Also voted against massive gay and lesbian Stonewall Library being set up in main children's park?******* FORT LAUDERDALE, July 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In the face of protests and demands for his resignation, Mayor Jim Naugle remains committed to cleaning up the problem of male "sex" taking place in the children's park public washrooms.?******* This Tuesday about 50 protestors gathered in front of city hall, and one loudly requested that the mayor resign. Homosexual activists have been angry ever since Naugle spoke out against homosexual "sex" in public bathrooms. They also reacted furiously when he said he used the word "homosexual" rather than "gay" because homosexuals are "unhappy". Shortly afterwards, the mayor voted against the massive gay and lesbian Stonewall Library being set up in the city's main children's park. ?******* The mayor is not scheduled to resign until March 2009, however, and has no intention of stepping down earlier. He said, "If I ever felt the majority of the residents didn't want me, I would resign, but that's not the case," The California Advocate Reports. ?******* Naugle told LifeSiteNews.com that people have been mischaracterizing his words as "hate-speech" and calling him "homophobic" and "bigoted". "I am doing what I think is truth speech and it's being labeled as hate-speech," he said.?******* He also stated that the majority of people support him. Parents have called his office concerned about evidence of activities that have gone on in the public washrooms. "I'm awakening the community and getting an outpouring of support from residents saying it's about time someone talked about this problem." ?******* Hundreds of people are thanking him for having the courage to speak out. He stated, "By the leader of the community speaking out, I think it will make other people more comfortable speaking out. It's something that has been kept hush-hush, but now people are feeling more free to talk about it." ?******* While rejecting the notion that he's homophobic, Naugle refuses to let the issue go un-addressed "under the banner of diversity and political correctness and inclusiveness," for "sometimes the notion of political correctness masks the truth." He claims that he is not homophobic because he was the deciding vote in favor of hiring an open homosexual as City Manager.?******* "What they do on their own is their own business, but what they do in a children's park becomes the Mayor's business," he continued. "People say you should be tolerant, but when it's people having sex in a park where children go, that's were I draw the line. ?******* Naugle also referred to the case of Republican state representative Bob Allen, who was recently charged with soliciting a male under-cover police officer in a washroom in Titusville. A Florida gay activities web-guide lists Titusville as one of the locations where gay men can go "cruising" for male sex. Also listed on the web-page guide is Fort Lauderdale's main children's park.?******* Concerned about this fact, Naugle stated, "I am hoping to get the city removed from the cruising area. I am asking the homosexual community to assist me in doing that." Furthermore, he is trying to make them understand that his concerns aren't against them, but against illegal activity in public places. ?******* Read previous LifeSiteNews coverage:?******* Homosexual Library with Hard-Core Porn Opens on Public City Property?http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/jul/07071104.html ********************************************************************************************************* ******* item 33 ALAN KEYES THROWS HAT INTO REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION RACE - By Peter J. Smith 18 Sep 2007?******* from "Neal Ford" ?******* WASHINGTON, D.C., September 17, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Alan Keyes, a former US ambassador and articulate defender of pro-life and pro-family values, has now announced his own intention to enter the Republican presidential primary.?******* Keyes declared his candidacy Friday and stated on the nationally syndicated Janet Parshall radio program that not only would he be joining the nine other Republican contenders in the primary, but he would also be participating in tonight's Values Voter Debate in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.?******* "I will be participating in the Values Voter Debate on Monday as a candidate, and I will be trying my best - as I forever have, in the course of the years that I have been involved at this level in politics," Keyes said.?******* "There isn't a standout," Keyes told Parshall in explaining his decision to run saying there needed to be someone who could clearly express the "key kernel of truth that must, with courage, be presented to our people." Keyes said that he felt "like a lot of folks" who have been "unmoved" by the other candidates - including staunchly pro-life and conservative candidates Sen. Sam Brownback, Gov. Mike Huckabee, and Rep. Ron Paul - saying none of them possessed a "forthright, clear, and clarion declaration."?******* Keyes also told supporters on the website RenewAmerica that he had filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission on Friday making official his 3rd run for the White House. ?******* While Keyes is known nationally as an eloquent defender of life, marriage, and family, he also is known for his unsuccessful ventures. He ran for Maryland Senate in 1992, 1998; the White House in 1996, 2000; then in 2004 relocated to Illinois to make an unsuccessful challenge to Barack Obama for Senate at the behest of state Republicans desperate for a champion after their own candidate withdrew in disgrace. ?******* "The one thing I've always been called to do is to raise the standard," said Keyes, "of our allegiance to God and His authority that has been the foundation stone of our nation's life."?******* Keyes entry into the race makes him the second black candidate running for president, placing him opposite Democratic contender Barack Obama. Keyes previously said that Obama had to be stopped saying he had taken a "wicked and evil position" through his radical support of abortion.?******* See previous coverage on Alan Keyes by LifeSiteNews.com:?******* Dobson, Keyes to Highlight Massive Pro-Marriage Rally in Washington?http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/oct/04100705.html ?******* Alan Keyes Comes out Swinging on Abortion as Illinois Republican Candidate for U.S. Senate?http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/aug/04081007.html ?******* ALAN KEYES SAYS "RACISTS IN THE MEDIA" DENY COVERAGE ?http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2000/feb/00022304.html *********************************************************************************************************

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The following warning is a prophetic message given to me, Frank Wagner, in November of 1974. ******* LISTEN TO THE CRY OF THE ABORTED CHILDREN. THEIR CRY IS NO. THEIR CRY IS A CRY OF TERROR. HEED THEIR CRY. ******* This prophecy is now being fulfilled. ******* For details about the source, meaning and fulfillment of this prophetic message go to ******* http://ca.geocities.com/fwagner4/index.html ******* email me at *** [email protected] ***