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June 18, 2001

"Abortion Doctor's Neighborhood Picketed"

HINSDALE, IL. June 18, 2001 (CN)-- Just when doctor Leonard Feinkind
(FINE-kinnd) thought it was safe to return to his plush Hinsdale neighborhood
for the weekend, dozens of picketers appeared in the normally serene suburban
setting.

The message sent by Citizens for a Pro-Life Society was clear: "Abortion
doctors may run but not hide."

Group spokesperson Tom Logue (LOHG) defended the demonstration saying,
"Doctors who are contemplating being in the business of terminating
pregnancies should consider the consequences of public scrutiny of their
actions, including the stigma of what's attached to that business."

Feinkind was singled out because he is one of a handful of U.S. doctors
testing the legal limits of infanticide by inducing premature labor, allowing
babies to be born alive, but denying them life support. Some of the abandoned
babies have stunned hospital personnel by fighting for their lives for as
long as eight hours before finally dying.

A package of bills known as the "Born Alive Infants Protection Act" was
poised to ban such procedures from being performed in Illinois. The measures
passed in the Illinois Senate, but were killed in the House Judiciary
Committee during the last legislative session and never allowed to go for a
full House vote. The Act would have required all newborns to receive
appropriate nutrition and medical care, regardless of the circumstances of
their birth.

The protest could spark a new trend of increased residential picketing.
Stated Logue, "Doctors can be picketed in their neighborhood and not just in
a one square block of a hospital."

Contact: Citizens for a Pro-Life Society spokesman Tom Logue, 630-921-4500

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