The Court of Appeal has upheld a High Court judge's ruling that unborn children do not have a right to life.
It also dismissed comments made by the judge about many abortions being granted "on request".
Right to Life sued the Abortion Supervisory Committee for allegedly failing to review whether certifying consultants were lawfully granting women abortions... more
Thursday 2 June 2011
Unborn have no legal right to life -Court of Appeal ruling
The Court of Appeal has just released its findings on the Right to Life case. Right to Life has been pursuing actions against the Abortion Supervisory Committee for several years, and in 2008, as a result of their action, Justice Miller found "reason to doubt the lawfulness of many abortions". However the Court of Appeal has quashed his findings. They also found that the unborn child had no legal right to life. Here is the article on Stuff:
Sunday 29 May 2011
Teen abortion in the news again
This is cross-posted from The Culture Vulture.
The Sunday Star Times has today published yet another story about informed consent, abortion, a young girl, and a lack of parental consent…
She went home intending to keep the baby, but sadly she miscarried the baby a month later – which is one of the possible outcomes of taking the cervix dilation/labour inducing drug that she took.
She now has her baby’s name, along with a set of tiny footprints, tattooed on her back as a memorial to the baby she lost.
In summation, the three serious issues we have here are:
1. a FIFTEEN year old girl whisked off for a serious surgical procedure without parental consent
2. a lack of proper and accurate information about abortion supplied to the girl (so no proper informed consent was present)
3. young girl and her parents left to deal with the trauma and pain of this event
This tragic and concerning incident could have been totally avoided if parental consent was a legal requirement in NZ, and it provides a very clear (and almost certainly very common) example of how a lack of parental consent is actually NOT in the best interests of the young women it is supposedly intended to protect.
It also demonstrates the fact that many young (and older) women are simply not supplied with the full facts about abortion in this country, and therefore its hard to truly claim that informed consent is actually present in a lot of NZ abortions.
Yep folks, the momentum for law changes around abortion and informed consent and parental consent is definitely growing, and the louder and harder that the pro-choice lobby fights such changes the more it exposes that they really aren’t interested in protecting women, but rather protecting abortion, even abortion without informed consent (i.e. a lack of real ‘choice’ involved).
The Sunday Star Times has today published yet another story about informed consent, abortion, a young girl, and a lack of parental consent…
Two years ago Natalie’s daughter discovered she was pregnant after taking a store-brought pregnancy test. A scan by a doctor confirmed the test, revealing she was more than three months’ pregnant.What is really important to note about this incident is that as soon as the father spoke to the girl and assured her of his support, the young girl changed her mind and decided to keep the baby. Tragically though, she had already been given the first stage of the abortion, the cervix dilation and labour inducing drug (even thought she hadn’t been fully informed about how the procedure would actually work).
Natalie, who was overseas at the time, said her daughter didn’t feel she could confide in anyone and decided to have a termination.
Four weeks later, and after a number of consultations, her doctor arranged for her to see a counsellor at Hastings Hospital. Her daughter told the Star-Times she was given a piece of paper at the hospital and asked to read and sign it.
She said no one went through it with her or explained what it meant.
“I quickly skimmed through it… to get it over and done with,” she said.
During the session the counsellor contacted Wellington Hospital and arranged for her to head down to the hospital that day, as Hastings Hospital cannot perform second-trimester abortions.
“At no time were the pros and cons of having a termination or keeping the baby discussed with her. They never sat down and went over anything like that,” Natalie said.
“She just said, she got asked, `Do you not think you can be a mother?’ and she said no.” Natalie acknowledged more information may not have changed her daughter’s mind as “at the time she didn’t want the baby”.
Her daughter was given petrol and accommodation vouchers, then drove to Napier to pack her bags. Her boyfriend’s sister drove her to Wellington.
Natalie wondered why her daughter wasn’t at home with the nanny, so rang her estranged husband. When he discovered where his daughter was, he drove to Wellington.
“He was devastated,” she said.
She went home intending to keep the baby, but sadly she miscarried the baby a month later – which is one of the possible outcomes of taking the cervix dilation/labour inducing drug that she took.
She now has her baby’s name, along with a set of tiny footprints, tattooed on her back as a memorial to the baby she lost.
In summation, the three serious issues we have here are:
1. a FIFTEEN year old girl whisked off for a serious surgical procedure without parental consent
2. a lack of proper and accurate information about abortion supplied to the girl (so no proper informed consent was present)
3. young girl and her parents left to deal with the trauma and pain of this event
This tragic and concerning incident could have been totally avoided if parental consent was a legal requirement in NZ, and it provides a very clear (and almost certainly very common) example of how a lack of parental consent is actually NOT in the best interests of the young women it is supposedly intended to protect.
It also demonstrates the fact that many young (and older) women are simply not supplied with the full facts about abortion in this country, and therefore its hard to truly claim that informed consent is actually present in a lot of NZ abortions.
Yep folks, the momentum for law changes around abortion and informed consent and parental consent is definitely growing, and the louder and harder that the pro-choice lobby fights such changes the more it exposes that they really aren’t interested in protecting women, but rather protecting abortion, even abortion without informed consent (i.e. a lack of real ‘choice’ involved).
Mother speaks out on her daughter's secret abortion
I wrote this up over a week ago and forgot to publish it so it's old news now! Oh well, here it is anyway :)
A Kiwi mum has spoken up about her grief over her daughter's secret abortion. Helen (not her real name) found out that her daughter had had an abortion, which was arranged by the school counsellor. Helen was not consulted. And it's all perfectly legal. Stuff.co.nz first covered the story:
The New Zealand Herald also did an article on the resulting debate, with comments from Mothers for Choice, ALRANZ, and Family First's Bob McCoskrie, who made an excellent point:
She continues:
Hmmm.
And the idea that Bob McCoskrie (or any other pro-lifer) would take a pregnant girl into their home is ridiculous. I mean, everyone knows that pro-lifers don't really care about anyone who's already born.
There were also two articles with opposing views from counsellors. Chris Hooker from the Association of Counsellors says:
In closing: doesn't it seem a bit ironic that a person must be 16 years old to consent to sex, but girls of any age are able to get an abortion without parental notification or consent? Does it not occur to those people who advocate a girl's "right to privacy" that many girls under 16 who get abortions may well be victims of statutory rape? Is it helping an underage rape victim to get her an abortion (thereby eliminating evidence of the crime) without at least notifying her parents? It's not rocket science that sexual predators use abortion to cover up their crimes. In any case, the fact that a parent has no say in their child's welfare in such a traumatic situation is a travesty. How ironic that the law that enshrines this "right" of underage girls to have an abortion without parental consent should be called the Care of Children Act.
*Just out of interest- why are we still saying "it"? The baby/unborn entity/fetus/whatever is never an "it". From the moment of conception the "it" is a he or a she. Using "it" is just one more way that the dehumanisation of the unborn has entered our vocabulary. If in doubt, just be politically correct and say "she".
A Kiwi mum has spoken up about her grief over her daughter's secret abortion. Helen (not her real name) found out that her daughter had had an abortion, which was arranged by the school counsellor. Helen was not consulted. And it's all perfectly legal. Stuff.co.nz first covered the story:
A mother is angry her 16-year-old daughter had a secret abortion arranged by a school counsellor.Read the rest here.
Helen, not her real name, found out about the termination four days after it had happened. "I was horrified. Horrified that she'd had to go through that on her own, and horrified her friends and counsellors had felt that she shouldn't talk to us," she said.
She had suspected something was wrong, but her daughter insisted her tears were over everyday teenage dramas.
But Helen confronted her daughter's friends, who said the counsellor had taken the girl for a scan and to doctors. "I didn't know that they could do that."
Helen said teachers could discuss how a student was doing in school or phone parents when their child misbehaved, but would then keep life-changing situations such as abortions secret.
The New Zealand Herald also did an article on the resulting debate, with comments from Mothers for Choice, ALRANZ, and Family First's Bob McCoskrie, who made an excellent point:
The law currently means that while a parent has to sign a letter for their daughter to go on a school trip to the zoo or to play in the netball team, they are totally excluded from any knowledge or granting of permission for that same child to be put on the pill, have a vaccine, or have a surgical abortion....moreHowever, in a Herald on Sunday article, columnist Deborah Coddington had something to say about that:
Of course the pro-life groups and Bob McCoskrie's Family First lobby group are outraged.Apart from the fact that her logic is absolutely ridiculous, it's nice that she condescended to call it a "baby".
McCoskrie says if parents must give consent for students to go on school trips, then they should have to do the same for abortions.
It's a fair argument but he's missing the point. The kids have already done something the parents would go ballistic over - had unprotected sex.
Isn't it a bit late to start fussing about consent forms when there's an unwanted baby on the way?
She continues:
What will a 12, 14 or 16-year-old do if mum won't sign the consent form and boots her out of home? Live with McCoskrie?So basically, some parents may disown their pregnant daughters, therefore no parents, caring or otherwise, should be legally entitled to know if their daughter wants an abortion.
Hmmm.
And the idea that Bob McCoskrie (or any other pro-lifer) would take a pregnant girl into their home is ridiculous. I mean, everyone knows that pro-lifers don't really care about anyone who's already born.
And what life will that unwanted baby have?Deborah Coddington should be ashamed of herself- this is such basic pro-abortion fallacious rubbish. Basically, "the child might be abused/battered/neglected/violently killed after it's born, so it's much better to violently kill it* before it's born".
Pro-lifers have no right to ruin a young girl's life and a foetus is just that. It can't survive on its own so has no claim over the mother.Wow, go tell every pregnant woman out there that their "foetus" is just a life-ruiner. Oh, I forgot- if it's wanted, it's a baby, but if it's unwanted, it's a foetus. And the whole "it can't survive on its own" argument is so blatantly fallacious but so widely touted that I'll have to do another blog post on it.
There were also two articles with opposing views from counsellors. Chris Hooker from the Association of Counsellors says:
We would rather work with parents. It's more comfortable and productive when we can, but I come back to that basic thing – if it's not confidential, kids won't get the help they need... moreAnd Steve Taylor, director of private counselling practice 24-7 Ltd, says:
The fact is that no client of a Counsellor has a right to blanket confidentiality, and extreme care must be taken when the client is a young person, particularly a young person in crisis... more
In closing: doesn't it seem a bit ironic that a person must be 16 years old to consent to sex, but girls of any age are able to get an abortion without parental notification or consent? Does it not occur to those people who advocate a girl's "right to privacy" that many girls under 16 who get abortions may well be victims of statutory rape? Is it helping an underage rape victim to get her an abortion (thereby eliminating evidence of the crime) without at least notifying her parents? It's not rocket science that sexual predators use abortion to cover up their crimes. In any case, the fact that a parent has no say in their child's welfare in such a traumatic situation is a travesty. How ironic that the law that enshrines this "right" of underage girls to have an abortion without parental consent should be called the Care of Children Act.
*Just out of interest- why are we still saying "it"? The baby/unborn entity/fetus/whatever is never an "it". From the moment of conception the "it" is a he or a she. Using "it" is just one more way that the dehumanisation of the unborn has entered our vocabulary. If in doubt, just be politically correct and say "she".
Sunday 24 April 2011
The Hand of God
I am currently reading a book called The Hand of God by Dr. Bernard Nathanson, and it is so brilliant I thought I would relate a few passages. The Hand of God is Dr. Nathanson's autobiography and the record of his involvement with the abortion rights scene in the USA. Over the course of his life Dr. Nathanson performed or presided over 60,000 abortions, including one of his own children. He was one of the founders of the National Association for Repeal of Abortion Laws (now the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League), otherwise known as NARAL. His book delivers a fascinating account of how he and his counterparts in NARAL and other organisations manipulated the political situation in America to rapidly overturn the existing abortion statutes in what he terms a 'political blitzkrieg'. Nathanson was the director of the Centre for Reproductive and Sexual Health, the largest abortion facility in the western world. Yet he changed his mind on abortion after seeing the unborn child on ultrasound, and in the last thirty years of his life he was a passionate pro-life advocate. One of his greatest contributions to the pro-life cause is the documentary The Silent Scream, which contains the ultrasound images of a 12-week old unborn child being aborted (most abortions happen between eight and eleven weeks). Nathanson relates the beginnings of the documentary with his typical raw honesty:
You can watch The Silent Scream here.
Dr. Nathanson also recalls a moving encounter with pro-life demonstrators from Operation Rescue, a vocal pro-life organisation which stages protests at abortion facilities:
You can read Nathanson's testimony here.
You can buy The Hand of God, and Nathanson's other book, Aborting America, at Amazon.
When ultrasound in the early 1970s confronted me with the sight of the embryo in the womb, I simply lost my faith in abortion on demand[...]
By 1984... I had begun to ask myself more questions about abortion: What actually goes on in an abortion? I had done many, but abortion is a blind procedure. The doctor does not see what he is doing. He puts an instrument into a uterus and he turns on a motor, and a suction machines [sic] goes on and something is vacuumed out; it ends up as a little pile of meat in a gauze bag. I wanted to know what happened, so in 1984 I said to a friend of mine, who was doing fifteen or maybe twenty abortions a day, "Look, do me a favour, Jay. Next Saturday, when you are doing all these abortions, put an ultrasound device on the mother and tape it for me."
He did, and when he looked at the tapes with me in an editing studio, he was so affected that he never did another abortion. I, though I had not done an abortion in five years, was shaken to the very roots of my soul by what I saw.[...]
[T]he response to the tape was so intense and dramatic that finally I was approached by a man named Don Smith, who wanted to make my tape into a film. I agreed that it would be a good idea. That is how The Silent Scream came about.[...]
The Silent Scream depicts a twelve-week-old fetus being torn to pieces in utero by the combination of suction and crushing instrumentation by the abortionist. It was so powerful that pro-choicers trotted out their heaviest hitters to denounce the tape. They very cleverly deflected the impact of the film into an academic cul de sac: a dispute regarding whether the fetus feels pain during an abortion. [...]
Is someone who feels little or no pain (a patient under anesthesia, a cancer victim having undergone dorsal rhizotomy, or a chronic invalid on heavy analgesic medication) somehow diminished in the personhood sweepstakes?
You can watch The Silent Scream here.
Dr. Nathanson also recalls a moving encounter with pro-life demonstrators from Operation Rescue, a vocal pro-life organisation which stages protests at abortion facilities:
I attended an action by Operation Rescue against Planned Parenthood in New York City in 1989. I was planning an article to be published in an ethics journal on the moral and ethical aspects of such demonstrations: Were they legitimate protests or domestic terrorism--that is, the denial of constitutionally based rights to pregnant women?
The morning of the Rescue was bitterly cold. I joined the legion, approximately twelve hundred demonstrators, at their rendezvous in the west forties in Manhattan and proceeded with them by subway and foot to the clinic on Second Avenue and Twenty-first Street. They sat themselves down in rows in front of the clinic, effectively blocking entrances to and exits from the abortion clinic. They began to sing hymns softly, joining hands and swaying from the waist. I circulated on the periphery at first, observing the faces, interviewing some of the participants, making notes furiously. It was only then that I apprehended the exaltation, the pure love on the faces of that shivering mass of people, surrounded as they were by hundreds of New York City policemen.
They prayed, they supported and encouraged each other, they sang hymns of joy, and they constantly reminded each other of the absolute prohibition against violence. It was, I suppose, the sheer intensity of the love and prayer that astonished me: They prayed for the unborn babies, for the confused and frightened pregnant women, and for the doctors and nurses in the clinic. They even prayed for the police and the media who were covering the event. They prayed for each other but never for themselves. And I wondered: How can these people give of themselves for a constituency that is (and always will be) mute, invisible, and unable to thank them?
You can read Nathanson's testimony here.
You can buy The Hand of God, and Nathanson's other book, Aborting America, at Amazon.
Friday 22 April 2011
The Only True Hero
Gotta hand it to YouTube- pretty much whatever you search for, someone's thought of it before you!
I love this song from Skillet and I was thinking about the lyrics in relation to Good Friday and what Jesus did for us. The song might seem like an unusual combination with the footage from Passion of the Christ but I think the intense strings and distorted guitars with the raw vocals mirror the mood of the video really well. And the lyrics express my individual need and humanity's collective need of a hero who won't let us down. How amazed I am to reflect that there was only one Man who ever walked the talk one hundred percent. Our beautiful Yeshua. How much we owe him; we will never be able to comprehend how much, let alone begin to repay him.
"I need a hero to save my life
A hero will save me just in time"
I love this song from Skillet and I was thinking about the lyrics in relation to Good Friday and what Jesus did for us. The song might seem like an unusual combination with the footage from Passion of the Christ but I think the intense strings and distorted guitars with the raw vocals mirror the mood of the video really well. And the lyrics express my individual need and humanity's collective need of a hero who won't let us down. How amazed I am to reflect that there was only one Man who ever walked the talk one hundred percent. Our beautiful Yeshua. How much we owe him; we will never be able to comprehend how much, let alone begin to repay him.
"I need a hero to save my life
A hero will save me just in time"
Meet Baby Patrick
Honestly, every time I see this picture I pretty much choke with happiness! :)
This beautiful little boy is Patrick. He is alive because some people were praying outside the facility where his mother was scheduled to have an abortion. With him is Shawn Carney from 40 Days for Life, an organisation that encourages people to fast, pray and hold vigils outside abortion facilities during the forty days of Lent. This year 400,000 people from 247 cities in the USA participated, as well as groups in England, Ireland, Spain, Armenia, Georgia and Australia. (NZ hasn't caught on as yet!) Over 600 babies have been saved this year because of their efforts. Patrick is just one of these hundreds who have been saved simply because there were people outside the abortion facility who brought a peaceful and compassionate message of hope to women seeking an abortion. How amazing to see this little boy's beautiful face and to realise that he came so close to being just another sad statistic, a number in the abortion body count, that we can grasp with our intellects but that our hearts don't comprehend. These are the moments when I'm reminded that the reason we're prolife is not to defend abstract concepts or philosophical theories. We are here for children like Patrick- real, unique, precious and unrepeatable human persons of infinite worth and value.
I was also moved by one of the daily devotionals that come with the campaign updates. It is by Fr. Frank Pavone, the national director of Priest for Life and a tireless prolife advocate. You can read it here.
In the audio clip that comes in this blog post, Shawn tells about how he boarded a plane only to find himself seated next to "Doctor" LeRoy Carhart, a high-profile late-term abortionist. Shawn's grace and compassion for everyone, even people like Dr. Carhart, is such an inspiration to me.
You can read stories from participants and daily updates at the 40 Days for Life site.
This beautiful little boy is Patrick. He is alive because some people were praying outside the facility where his mother was scheduled to have an abortion. With him is Shawn Carney from 40 Days for Life, an organisation that encourages people to fast, pray and hold vigils outside abortion facilities during the forty days of Lent. This year 400,000 people from 247 cities in the USA participated, as well as groups in England, Ireland, Spain, Armenia, Georgia and Australia. (NZ hasn't caught on as yet!) Over 600 babies have been saved this year because of their efforts. Patrick is just one of these hundreds who have been saved simply because there were people outside the abortion facility who brought a peaceful and compassionate message of hope to women seeking an abortion. How amazing to see this little boy's beautiful face and to realise that he came so close to being just another sad statistic, a number in the abortion body count, that we can grasp with our intellects but that our hearts don't comprehend. These are the moments when I'm reminded that the reason we're prolife is not to defend abstract concepts or philosophical theories. We are here for children like Patrick- real, unique, precious and unrepeatable human persons of infinite worth and value.
I was also moved by one of the daily devotionals that come with the campaign updates. It is by Fr. Frank Pavone, the national director of Priest for Life and a tireless prolife advocate. You can read it here.
In the audio clip that comes in this blog post, Shawn tells about how he boarded a plane only to find himself seated next to "Doctor" LeRoy Carhart, a high-profile late-term abortionist. Shawn's grace and compassion for everyone, even people like Dr. Carhart, is such an inspiration to me.
You can read stories from participants and daily updates at the 40 Days for Life site.
Sunday 27 March 2011
Adoption Option
Recently I came across a brilliant site about adoption in New Zealand. Adoption Option is aimed at pregnant mothers who may be considering giving up their baby for adoption. I encourage you to check it out- especially if you or someone you know is pregnant and looking at her options. The birth mums' stories are wonderful- these girls are so courageous. Adoption today is so very different from the closed adoptions of a few decades ago, where the birth mum had to give her baby up knowing she would never see him or her again. In today's open adoptions there is the opportunity for the birth mother to have an ongoing relationship with her child and with the adoptive parents. As one mother on the site, Nicola, said:
"Ellie [my baby] is a joy. I am very lucky. I found two people who have kept their promises to me, have included me in their life, and have allowed me the joy of watching Ellie grow up. The most important thing is that they are great parents - the best, and I love them for that. I do not regret my decision, even now. I think that it has helped me in many ways. And I wouldn't trade having them in my life for anything. Ellie is growing up knowing her birth family, too, which is very special for all of us."
Read the rest here.
There are so many couples out there who want children desperately but are unable to have them. Open adoption is a wonderful way for these couples to have the child they want so much, while at the same time giving the birth mother an ongoing relationship with her child.
Check out the Adoption Option site for more.
for the children :)
freedomfightergirl
"Ellie [my baby] is a joy. I am very lucky. I found two people who have kept their promises to me, have included me in their life, and have allowed me the joy of watching Ellie grow up. The most important thing is that they are great parents - the best, and I love them for that. I do not regret my decision, even now. I think that it has helped me in many ways. And I wouldn't trade having them in my life for anything. Ellie is growing up knowing her birth family, too, which is very special for all of us."
Read the rest here.
There are so many couples out there who want children desperately but are unable to have them. Open adoption is a wonderful way for these couples to have the child they want so much, while at the same time giving the birth mother an ongoing relationship with her child.
Check out the Adoption Option site for more.
for the children :)
freedomfightergirl
Child Soldier No More
Recently I was fortunate enough to see the Restore Tour from Watoto, Uganda. They have been touring NZ with a drama and dance performance called Child Soldier No More. I didn't really know what to expect but when I saw it I was absolutely blown away! The actors and dancers are all children and young people, most of whom have absolutely unbelievable stories from their experiences in the 20-year-long civil war in Uganda. Many of them were forced to be child soldiers and have endured every suffering and indignity imaginable (and unimaginable). However, as stunned and horrified as I was by what they had suffered, the most powerful thing for me was how they have risen above their circumstances. They are people of such joy and dignity. After telling their stories, they gave their forgiveness to the soldiers who abused them, to their families who rejected them, and to themselves. I was so incredibly humbled by their courage and strength. Whenever I look at the world and at myself and feel discouraged or despairing, I hope I will remember them, because they are living reminders to me that nothing is beyond God's reach to restore and heal.
Watoto.com has a good trailer and some awesome photos of the tour, a summary of the Watoto story and more about their various projects in Uganda.
(images from watoto.com)
Redemption, love and life :)
freedomfightergirl
Watoto.com has a good trailer and some awesome photos of the tour, a summary of the Watoto story and more about their various projects in Uganda.
(images from watoto.com)
Redemption, love and life :)
freedomfightergirl
Tuesday 15 March 2011
Phill Kline Part 2
Here are several videos from the first part of the ethics hearing:
Kline mentioned here that the ethics case has taken up most of his time. This is obviously the opposition's whole idea. If they can't get his law licence taken away, they will stall and stall and stall. Because at all costs the charges against Planned Parenthood must not be investigated.
The woman standing behind him is his wife Barbara.
Recuse: to refuse to be a judge in a lawsuit because of conflict of interest or other good reason. (see how I'm learning my legal terms!)
Judge Anderson is one of the two judges who investigated the ethics complaints against Kline and found no probable cause to proceed with the case (as Kline mentioned earlier). The case is still proceeding because Anderson's findings weren't what the opposition wanted to hear (obviously). Moreover, as Kline says in the next video, Anderson did find probable cause to continue with Kline's charges against Planned Parenthood (all 107 of them!). Again, this was the wrong result, so Morrison (Kline's successor as District Attorney) and Six (Morrison's successor) effectively silenced Judge Anderson.
Can you imagine being raped at 11 or 12 years old and then being forced to undergo a late term abortion? Late term abortions, by the way, are where the baby (highly developed at this point, and capable of feeling excruciating pain) is literally ripped limb from limb in order to remove it from the womb. The doctor (if you want to dignify them with that name) then checks the mangled body parts to see if they've got it all. Head? Check. Two arms? Check. Two legs? Check. Job done.
This is what Dr Tiller did for a living. This is the insanity of "choice". What choice did that poor raped girl have? What choice did her child have as it was being dismembered?
Never, ever say you are "pro-choice". That is utter cowardice. It's not a choice between chocolate and vanilla. It's a choice to kill a human being.
Further links: Kansas Watchdog
For justice.
freedomfightergirl
Kline mentioned here that the ethics case has taken up most of his time. This is obviously the opposition's whole idea. If they can't get his law licence taken away, they will stall and stall and stall. Because at all costs the charges against Planned Parenthood must not be investigated.
The woman standing behind him is his wife Barbara.
Recuse: to refuse to be a judge in a lawsuit because of conflict of interest or other good reason. (see how I'm learning my legal terms!)
Judge Anderson is one of the two judges who investigated the ethics complaints against Kline and found no probable cause to proceed with the case (as Kline mentioned earlier). The case is still proceeding because Anderson's findings weren't what the opposition wanted to hear (obviously). Moreover, as Kline says in the next video, Anderson did find probable cause to continue with Kline's charges against Planned Parenthood (all 107 of them!). Again, this was the wrong result, so Morrison (Kline's successor as District Attorney) and Six (Morrison's successor) effectively silenced Judge Anderson.
Can you imagine being raped at 11 or 12 years old and then being forced to undergo a late term abortion? Late term abortions, by the way, are where the baby (highly developed at this point, and capable of feeling excruciating pain) is literally ripped limb from limb in order to remove it from the womb. The doctor (if you want to dignify them with that name) then checks the mangled body parts to see if they've got it all. Head? Check. Two arms? Check. Two legs? Check. Job done.
This is what Dr Tiller did for a living. This is the insanity of "choice". What choice did that poor raped girl have? What choice did her child have as it was being dismembered?
Never, ever say you are "pro-choice". That is utter cowardice. It's not a choice between chocolate and vanilla. It's a choice to kill a human being.
Further links: Kansas Watchdog
For justice.
freedomfightergirl
Babies Aren't Really People
A very smart guy called Matt Flannagan said words to this effect: "Among pro-abortion bioethicists, those who also support infanticide as well as abortion are not extreme- they're just the intellectually honest ones." This is simply because if an unborn child is a living human being from the moment of conception (and it is) then abortion is just as indefensible as infanticide. This forces people like this philosophy professor to argue that babies aren't really people until about 18 months of age or some such arbitrary date. Such is the insanity of the abortion ideology when taken to its logical end.
“I don’t understand what this thing humanity is or the property of being human,” the professor said.... read the rest here.
“I don’t understand what this thing humanity is or the property of being human,” the professor said.... read the rest here.
Champions of Choice
I'm back (again)! Here's a little gem I found in my ceasless trolling of the online pro-life scene. It's from the latest "Walk for Choice" in Chicago. Disclaimer: I am not in any way insinuating that all pro-choicers are like this. Rather, I would like to suggest that if you consider yourself pro-choice, have a look at what these champions of your cause are like.
A few things came to mind as I watched this. First, to the guy who wants Planned Parenthood clinics to be like Starbucks -one on every corner- of course you do, mate. Reminded me of this guy:
(image from fsunews.com)
Hmm.....
The girl with the "keep your rosaries off my ovaries" sign reminded me of a comment made by Dr. Bernard Nathanson about the role of the abortion rights movement in vilifying the Catholic Church as anti-choice religious fanatics bent on keeping women oppressed under a patriarchal religious system. Now, I'll be the first to say that the Catholic establishment has done a lot of indefensible things down the centuries, but this is not one of them. As Dr Nathanson said,
" We systematically vilified the Catholic Church and its "socially backward ideas" and picked on the Catholic hierarchy as the villain in opposing abortion. This theme was played endlessly. We fed the media such lies as "we all know that opposition to abortion comes from the hierarchy and not from most Catholics" and "Polls prove time and again that most Catholics want abortion law reform". And the media drum-fired all this into the American people, persuading them that anyone opposing permissive abortion must be under the influence of the Catholic hierarchy..." [emphasis mine]
And anyway, what about every Hindu/Muslim/Buddhist/agnostic/atheist prolifer out there? Surely they deserve their fair share of vilification as "anti-choice fanatics"! Just kidding.
The rest of Dr. Nathanson's testimony can be read here.
For peace, love and respect in all things,
freedomfightergirl
A few things came to mind as I watched this. First, to the guy who wants Planned Parenthood clinics to be like Starbucks -one on every corner- of course you do, mate. Reminded me of this guy:
(image from fsunews.com)
Hmm.....
The girl with the "keep your rosaries off my ovaries" sign reminded me of a comment made by Dr. Bernard Nathanson about the role of the abortion rights movement in vilifying the Catholic Church as anti-choice religious fanatics bent on keeping women oppressed under a patriarchal religious system. Now, I'll be the first to say that the Catholic establishment has done a lot of indefensible things down the centuries, but this is not one of them. As Dr Nathanson said,
" We systematically vilified the Catholic Church and its "socially backward ideas" and picked on the Catholic hierarchy as the villain in opposing abortion. This theme was played endlessly. We fed the media such lies as "we all know that opposition to abortion comes from the hierarchy and not from most Catholics" and "Polls prove time and again that most Catholics want abortion law reform". And the media drum-fired all this into the American people, persuading them that anyone opposing permissive abortion must be under the influence of the Catholic hierarchy..." [emphasis mine]
And anyway, what about every Hindu/Muslim/Buddhist/agnostic/atheist prolifer out there? Surely they deserve their fair share of vilification as "anti-choice fanatics"! Just kidding.
The rest of Dr. Nathanson's testimony can be read here.
For peace, love and respect in all things,
freedomfightergirl
Saturday 19 February 2011
Phill Kline, Part 1 of Many
This post covers what is, in my opinion, one of the most important developments in the pro-life scene this year. I am incredibly excited about this whole case. I must emphasise that while I do my best to have all my facts straight, this is a very complicated case, and my legal mind is still in its infancy (or perhaps still at an embryonic stage!). Add to this my very incomplete understanding of the American legislative system, and I'm sure I will get a few things wrong. I hope, however, that I will be correct on the essentials.
In a nutshell: Phill Kline, a former state prosecutor for Kansas, is the first person to bring charges against Planned Parenthood in its entirety. He has, in fact, charged Planned Parenthood with 107 crimes, including 23 felonies. Many of these charges relate to illegal late-term abortions and the concealment of statutory rape. This monumentous case is still pending, because the opposition has brought its own charges against Kline, namely for ethics violations to do with collection of personal details of women who received abortions.
I think it is fair to say that these are trumped-up charges with little or no plausible grounds. In fact, the ethics complaints in question were examined a few years ago by two judges who advised that they did not find any probable cause to believe that Kline broke the law. The documents containing these findings were buried by the opposition and only resurfaced this year. These findings has not stopped the opposition from first suing one of the judges and then continuing to sue Kline.
The hearings for the first case of ethics violations ended a week or two ago. As I said, I have found this an immensely complicated topic to research, but I think it is fair to say that these court proceedings were a spectacular miscarriage of justice. The hearings took eight days in total. The opposition took the floor first. After they had elaborated for seven days, the court then advised Kline that they wished to finish up with proceedings, and that he would have one day to present his defense. Kline and his lawyers in the end had somewhere around half a day to present his defense before the judges wrapped up proceedings. If that's not a pretty good indicator of judicial bias, I don't know what is. You can see Kline talking about it here:
This angers me more than I can say. More on this soon. Anyway, don't take my word for any of this- you can find out for yourself. Search jillstanek.com, lifesitenews.com, and wnd.com for information.
For justice.
freedomfightergirl
In a nutshell: Phill Kline, a former state prosecutor for Kansas, is the first person to bring charges against Planned Parenthood in its entirety. He has, in fact, charged Planned Parenthood with 107 crimes, including 23 felonies. Many of these charges relate to illegal late-term abortions and the concealment of statutory rape. This monumentous case is still pending, because the opposition has brought its own charges against Kline, namely for ethics violations to do with collection of personal details of women who received abortions.
I think it is fair to say that these are trumped-up charges with little or no plausible grounds. In fact, the ethics complaints in question were examined a few years ago by two judges who advised that they did not find any probable cause to believe that Kline broke the law. The documents containing these findings were buried by the opposition and only resurfaced this year. These findings has not stopped the opposition from first suing one of the judges and then continuing to sue Kline.
The hearings for the first case of ethics violations ended a week or two ago. As I said, I have found this an immensely complicated topic to research, but I think it is fair to say that these court proceedings were a spectacular miscarriage of justice. The hearings took eight days in total. The opposition took the floor first. After they had elaborated for seven days, the court then advised Kline that they wished to finish up with proceedings, and that he would have one day to present his defense. Kline and his lawyers in the end had somewhere around half a day to present his defense before the judges wrapped up proceedings. If that's not a pretty good indicator of judicial bias, I don't know what is. You can see Kline talking about it here:
This angers me more than I can say. More on this soon. Anyway, don't take my word for any of this- you can find out for yourself. Search jillstanek.com, lifesitenews.com, and wnd.com for information.
For justice.
freedomfightergirl
Friday 18 February 2011
March for Life 2011
Here's a cool time-lapse of approx. 400,000 people marching in Washington D.C. this January. The March for Life has been happening every year since Roe v. Wade, on the anniversary of the Supreme Court decision. Nearly half a million people.... pretty awesome.
Monday 24 January 2011
Carol Everett, Former Abortionist
Below I have an amazing testimony from Carol Everett, a former abortionist. This speech was originally made at a "Meet the Abortion Providers" workshop sponsored by the Pro-Life Action League of Chicago. I have copied the text in its entirety from this site.
"Thank you all for coming. In 1973, when abortion was legalized, I was married, had an 8 year-old daughter and a 10 year-old son. Two weeks later, with abortion very much in the news and everywhere we turned we were still talking about abortion, I found myself pregnant.
When I told my husband, I was excited. But his initial reaction was, you'll just have to have an abortion. Because I really didn't want to deal with that with him, I decided I'd look for someone to help me. I went to my friend, my doctor, and cried out to him, and said, "Harvey, Tom doesn't want me to have this baby." And he said, "Oh, that's easy. You bring Tom's urine in, the pregnancy test will be negative, we'll do the abortion in the hospital, and your insurance will pay for it".
What I'm telling you is that this man offered to do an illegal abortion in the State of Texas and, yes, indeed, we did it. I was looking for someone to tell me not to have the abortion and I ran into an abortion salesman. And that's what happens in our nation today. We're going to talk a lot more about that, but let's go back to my story and what happened to me.
When I woke from that abortion, I picked up the telephone, and literally started working from my hospital bed, not realizing that I was already running from that decision. Within a month I was having an affair, and that had not been one of my patterns prior to that time. Very soon I started drinking; I'd not ever drunk in my life and I would go out and just get drunk once a month. It was almost like on target; once a month I had to do it. Very soon I asked my husband to leave, and then I started seeing a psychiatrist daily.
At the rate of $125.00 an hour, I could not go on with this very long. So I decided to do what I called, "get hold of myself." I changed everything I could in my life, except my children. I got away from the job I'd had; got away from my husband, and decided I would make it on my own.
What I'm telling you is the story about how my life went along at a pretty good level for a while, and the moment I had that abortion, it went straight downhill. And I think that's what happens to every woman who has an abortion.
One of the things that I want to impress upon you today is, yes, we do have to save the babies; they're important. But we're saving the mother, and, yes, we're saving the father. My ex-husband has been in counseling all this year trying to deal with this abortion. And we're saving all those family units in our entire nation. We've got a lot of work ahead of us.
When I did get hold of myself, I went to work for a nice Catholic man who had a medical supply business. At about this time abortion became legal in the State of Texas, and very soon we had an account on-line that was very profitable for us. We were making over $1,000 a month profit out of this account. So he decided that he wanted to look into it to see exactly what sort of business they were, and yes, indeed, they were an abortion clinic. So this great Catholic man who told me he never wanted to see an abortion, never wanted to know what an abortion really was, opened his first abortion clinic, and soon he had four. All this time he kept inviting me to join. He kept saying, come over and do this, come over and do that; if you'll go out and sell abortions for me, I'll pay you $10 an abortion, and on and on and on. I kept selling medical supplies, and finally the day came when I needed to make more money, and I went in and said, hey, I'm quitting my job; I want to go with another company. And he said, give me some time; let me come up with something. So, he got me on the fringe of the abortion industry by asking me to go out and set up referral clinics all over Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana. And I did that for a while and it was quite profitable. Then one day the call came: Come into the clinic; I need you to work in here for a month.
When I got in the clinic I had to decide whether to get involved in the abortions over here (and I am a scrub tech, so I have been involved in the medical industry for a long time), or if I was going to get involved with the numbers. And since I had that option, I got involved with the numbers. With just a very few small changes, his abortions went from 190-195 per month to over 400 per month. So then he sent me to another clinic. I went to his Fort Worth clinic, and yes, we were soon doubling his abortions over there. The last month I was with him in those two clinics (by then he had split with his partner), he was doing something over 800 abortions a month.
I went in and said, hey, look, I've doubled your business, come on, give me an equity interest in the business. And he politely said no, and I politely scheduled my hysterectomy, the kids teeth being fixed, everything his insurance would pay for, and, by the way, I placed my Yellow Page ad to come out in six months for my own abortion clinic. We opened and the first month we did 45; 65; 85, and the last month I was there, with two clinics functioning in the Dallas area, we did over 500 abortions a month in that clinic. I was compensated at the rate of $25.00 per case, plus one-third of the clinic's, so you can imagine what my motivation was. I sold abortions. I had made $150,000; was on target in 1983 to make about $260,000; and when we opened our five clinics, I would have been taking home about a million dollars a year. I expected to make more than that after we were really functioning.
All of this sounds neat. I had two kids in college, and I was alone and I was making plenty of money. But that money went absolutely nowhere. Taking home that much money a month, I literally couldn't even pay my utilities. What you've got to remember is that this is really one of Satan's strongholds. That money literally ran through my fingers so that my motivation was to do more abortions to make more money, and on and on and on.
That's what I think happens with doctors. A banker called me one time and asked me to go to work for an abortionist there in the Dallas area. He said he was putting $27,000 a month in my bank in his account and he can't pay me back what he owes me. Go to work for him and help me. That's the way it is. These guys just get in there and it goes on and on. With Satan in there, we had problems between the partners, and so if we were going to open these five clinics, I went to our financial advisers and said we've got to get the partners' problems straightened out, let's do it. So he called in a man he told me was a business counselor. This man met with us for an hour each, brought us back together for a fourth hour, and had a paper with six points on it. All six of these points were in my favor, and I thought, boy, I paid you $75.00 an hour long ago when I found you. He told the doctor's live-in girlfriend to get out of the clinic and stay out and to leave me alone. But we had to agree to meet with him for four more weeks, an hour each. On our second visit, I found I couldn't control him. You know, when you're in the world you control people, but I couldn't move him. So I suppose out of desperation I finally asked him the question: Are you a preacher? He said, yes. I said, what in the world are you doing in here? He said, God sent me. I said, wait a minute! I'm a Christian; I have a Bible in my desk; I tithe on all this abortion money, and I want you to know that God has me in here helping women, and God doesn't really talk to people anyway.
So, through a long period of discussions, he told me that indeed God did talk to people. That God had asked him to come into this situation for 30 days, and through much prayer, he and his elders had decided that there was indeed someone in there that the Lord wanted out. And we left in 27 days. Now that's kind of remarkable. But you don't take this lying, cheating, stealing on our income tax woman, and just change her into an angel overnight. And you also don't just walk away from all of this without looking back. So when I started telling people that I was leaving the clinic, they started telling me how crazy I was. They'd say, how are you going to pay your bills? Of course, I did spend it all. I mean, you'll never be able to make this much money; you can't even live on $5,000 a month, and where are you going to make $5,000 anyway?
Then people said, you worked so hard to be here, why? So I literally fell to my knees in that abortion clinic. At this point it was: Lord, if there is a Lord, if this is not where you want me, hit me over the head with a 2 x 4. Now I encourage people not to ask that because He has a 2 x 4, and my 2 x 4 was a report that Channel 4, a television station in our area did.
They sent their star reporter, Laura Randall, in, wired for sound. And we so convinced her that she was pregnant and that yes, she needed an abortion, and we had the answer, that when she left there the poor girl was so shaken that she went to another doctor. She was not sure she wasn't pregnant. And she wasn't pregnant. So we had a five-day report wherein Laura Randall, wired for sound, came in the abortion clinic and had our doctor saying, yes, baby, you're pregnant. Come on, let's do this abortion today. You haven't had anything to eat, you've got your money, why would you want to come back tomorrow. Come on, let's do it now. And that was my answer to prayer.
I didn't understand why. I didn't have enough sense to know, but I did know that I had a peace about walking out, and I did know that God did answer prayers. He put me in a wilderness situation for a long time.
I've got to tell you this, and there is no good way to tell it. I have tried a million times. From the abortion clinics, I had a meat market. Now my problem is that I don't very often call it a meat market. You see, I call it a butcher shop.
So when I say butcher shop, people think I'm talking about the abortion clinic. But I was involved in the butcher business for several years, I guess. (That wasn't very funny.) Anyway, I did go into this butcher shop and I did stay out there and the Lord worked with me for a very long time. And through the man who washed my windows in the butcher shop, the Right-to-Life came into my life. Through a long period of association with this man who was a seminary student washing my windows, I finally decided that yes, the Lord did want me to speak out, and that I would become involved in this Movement. Now what I do is just go around and tell people the truth about what really happens inside one of the abortion mills.
There are all sorts of experiences with the abortion. I want to walk you through my experiences in an abortion clinic.
Let's just step back. How many of you have children 14 and under? How many of you have seen a number, unsolicited, that you think you could call that said, "Problem Pregnancy," "Abortion Information," or "Pregnant?" in your area where you think you could call for abortion information?
Let's talk about those kids when they find out that they are pregnant. They may not want an abortion; they may want information. But when they call that number that's paid for by abortion money, what kind of information do you think they're going to get? Let's remember, they sell abortions. They don't sell keeping the baby. They don't sell giving the baby up for adoption. They don't sell delivering that baby in any form. They only sell abortions.
In the State of Texas, a girl can come in to have an abortion, and the abortion clinics are not required to have parental consent. Most of the abortion clinics in Texas do require it for 14 and under. However, let's paint this picture: The girl comes in, has an abortion, she can sign for it. But when the doctor rips her uterus out and they take her to the hospital, they won't admit her until her parents get there and are told she had this abortion without their consent. And they will not repair the damage or try to save her life until the parents sign on the dotted line. And that happens. It's terrible.
So the girl calls this number and says, I'm pregnant. How far along are you? What's the first day of your last normal period? They've got their wheel there and they figure it out. This counselor is paid to be this girl's friend. She is paid to be the authority for this girl. She is supposed to seduce her into a friendship of sorts to sell her the abortion. Every problem this girl has: I don't want to tell my parents. You don't have to tell your parents. They don't have to know. You're old enough to come in and have it without them knowing. And then the money, and they ask them to go get their money and pay the people back in a year. Then the two questions they ask are: Does it hurt? Oh, no. Your uterus is a muscle, and they hold their hand up if they're seeing them; if not, they tell them over the phone: It's a cramp to open it; a cramp to close it; it's a slight cramping sensation. Everybody's had cramps; every woman in the world. So they think that's no problem. I can stand that; I've been through it before.
And then they say: Is it a baby? No, it's a product of conception; it's a blood clot; it's a piece of tissue. They don't even really tell them it's a fetus, because, you see, that almost humanizes it too much. It's never a baby. They can't admit it themselves when they go in the back and have little 6-week fetuses, babies that they put down disposals, and that's how we did it in our clinic. The clinics in Dallas use disposals so none of those crazy Pro-Lifers will come and get them out of the trash anymore and bury them the way they did. So, they lie to her. You know, if you look at abortion from the face, I cannot tell you one thing that happens in an abortion clinic that is not a lie. They tell the counselors, and I told the counselors, not to rock the boat; not to answer any questions that they didn't ask. Get them in here; the faster you can get them in here, the easier it is on them. You concentrate on the woman; you tell them to help her, and you don't deal with the baby at all.
So they get this girl to come in the clinic, and many times they just get her to come in for a pregnancy test, and if that's the case then they greet her at the door and they say, Oh, Linda, I'm so glad you're here. I've been waiting for you. This girl doesn't know they have an appointment book and each counselor has to schedule their appointments an hour apart so she has plenty of time to spend being their "friend" while they're there. She takes them back; she does the pregnancy test; it doesn't really matter. If there's any way they can convince this girl she's pregnant, she's going to be pregnant. But they go through this test anyway. She tells her she's pregnant, and the girl might cry. She may get upset. But they take her into a separate room; they don't want anyone to see anyone crying in there; it's supposed to be a great place; we're supposed to help people in the abortion clinic.
If she has the abortion that day, she goes through one procedure, but if she comes back another day, she just comes in the front door, fills out some forms (very minimal information). Most of the information on that form is name, address, telephone number, and your financial status. So they can find out to what group they need to appeal with their $250,000 per clinic Yellow Page budget.
Then the girl goes back, has some lab work, and then she pays, up-front, for what they have decided the term of pregnancy she is. Cash, Master Card, or Visa--get a Master Card, Visa or American Express. You might consider sending them back because they do charge for abortions, and tell them why you're sending them back. They will accept those charges.
Then the girl goes into this room for counseling and they give her a 6 to 12-page form. This form is written by an abortion attorney. Ours was written by one out of New York, and it was written to confuse the girl to death. It had every possible complication of an abortion you could imagine, and it would take [a doctor] two hours with a medical dictionary to go through it. Words two inches long that no one could possibly understand, and it does its job. It confuses her and she doesn't ask any questions. She goes back to the two questions: Does it hurt? Is it a baby? And when you have convinced her again and lied to her again that no, it's not going to hurt, and if she doesn't have her money--in the State of Texas you have to pay extra to be put to sleep--it's an extra $100 to $250, depending on how far you are into the pregnancy.
Then she goes into this holding room, waiting for the abortion. And it depends on the day of the week, of course, as to how many people are in there. Saturday is the big day, but it could be a day in the week when there are only five or six people in there waiting. And soon, if there are 30 or 40, especially, they kind of number each other so they know what order they are going to be going out in. They kind of laugh and joke. And if there is one crying in there, you get that one out. You don't want that one affecting the rest of them.
She is taken back to the procedure room, put on the table, and draped. Her chart is put in the door. Each chart in our clinics was handled with a little coupon on the front. The coupon was for the doctor, because when he walks up to that door for the first time--if you have two or three doctors working, you don't know which one is going to do the abortion--so, they don't collect the doctor's money with the clinic money, they collect it separately and do not show it on any of the records in those clinics. In the four clinics I've been in and worked in, they never showed that they collected the doctor's money at any place. That way, they are independent contractors; you don't have to be concerned with their malpractice insurance, and you don't have to report it to IRS. He collects the coupon, puts it in his scrub suit pocket. At the end of the day he goes up and presents his coupons. This is how many I've done. And each doctor presents them separately. The girl counts the coupons, figures out how much she owes him, and pays him in cash.
As I said earlier, I have seen doctors walk out after three hours work and split $4,500 between them on a Saturday morning. More, if you go longer into the day, of course. The doctor walks in, sees the patient for the very first time, pats her on the leg, says, Hi, baby, how are you? You call them "baby" so you don't have to remember their name. And she says, Oh, I'm scared, or, I'm cold. Never anything positive. And he doesn't really ask her any questions. It's just get the abortion done. If he discovers that she may be farther along than anyone thought she was, they stop right there, collect the money, and then finish the procedure.
If abortion is such a good thing, why don't they give them away? If abortion is such a good thing, why don't they go ahead and do the abortion then, and trust you to pay the extra $200 when they're finished? That's not the way it is. I've never been able to come up with the words to describe the abortion procedure, because, you see, you're educating people about abortion. You know more about it than the average person. However, no matter how bad you think abortion is, there are no words to describe how bad it really is. It kills the baby. And, yes, I've seen sonograms with the baby pulling away from the instruments that are introduced into the vagina. And the woman, the mother, is hurt if she doesn't have the extra money to be put to sleep, and I've seen D&Es through 32 weeks done without the mother being put to sleep. And, yes, they hurt, and they are very painful to the baby. But, yes, they are very, very painful to the woman. I've seen six people hold a woman on the table while they did her abortion.
But, they have the abortion and they go to the recovery room, and then there are two reactions in the recovery room. The first one is: I've killed my baby. And even then, it amazed me that that was the first time they called it a baby and the first time they called it murder. But, you know, as bad as that sounds, that's probably the healthiest reaction. That woman is probably going to have the ability to walk out of there and deal with it, and perhaps be healed and go on.
And now, in Europe, where they've had abortions for much, much longer than we have, there are some authorities in the Netherlands who are alluding to a spiritual healing that women have to go through before they can completely deal with their abortion. So they're getting closer day by day by day. But the second reaction is: I am hungry, you kept me in here for four hours and you told me I'd only be here for two; let me out of here. Now that woman is doing what I did. She's running from her abortion. She's not dealing with it; she's choosing to deny it, and she's the woman that we read all the statistics about, post-abortion syndrome. They say now it's an average of five years before people actually deal with the fact that, yes, they did kill their baby. And yes, they do have to deal with that.
You know, I go back to my own personal healing, which just started a year ago. I was making deals with God. I didn't want to talk about my own abortion. Then when I finally did deal with it, I cried nonstop for five months because, you see, I killed my baby, and I'm still not through that. And how difficult it is for all these women because, you see, I believe that every woman, even if she's not physically harmed, is harmed by abortion.
Then what the recovery room personnel do is resell it. They resell them on their next abortion. They don't say, hey, I'm reselling you so you'll go out and get pregnant and come back. But they make subtle innuendos that say, you know, this isn't going to happen again, but, you know we're always here. And when you leave here you're going to have a couple of days when you won't feel so good. You'll have a couple of days of depression, and that's just your hormones realigning, and everyone who has a baby has postpartum depression, and don't worry about it. And there they are encouraging them to suppress their feelings about that abortion.
So they go through this whole gamut of reselling abortion, encouraging suppression, and say, call us if you have a problem. And the girls leave, and they do have problems.
The girls that walk out of there, though, are the lucky ones. We were seeing over 500 abortions per month; we were doing the only one-day second or third trimester abortion in the state of Texas. (We didn't call it third; we called it second.) Meaning that we didn't use the laminaria. We did all the dilation on that day, and that's why we were seeing such a tremendous number of complications. We saw complications in the second and third trimester, but we were seeing one per 500 abortions for over a year. Yes, we had a death. A 32 year-old woman with a 17 year-old son and a 2 year-old son. Never made the papers. Her boyfriend felt guilty for his part in the abortion and he didn't want to deal with it. Her family thought, yes, she had probably had an abortion, but they didn't want to deal with it. It never came out. No lawsuit.
The 21-year-old that danced in, and I'll never forget her for as long as I live. She was my son's age. Danced in to get her "problem" taken care of. Had the extra money to be put to sleep. And you see, my job with two of those doctors was to put my right hand on the baby and hold it while they did the abortion so I could tell them where the head was and where the legs were, and all of that. And I had my hand on that woman's stomach, and that baby was perfectly inside her uterus; she had been examined by the doctor; and he said, yes, the baby was inside her uterus and everything was fine and she was 24-weeks. And he went in one time, and he pulled out placenta, and he went in the second time and he went through the back of her uterus and pulled her bowel out through her vagina. We put her in the car because we didn't want an ambulance in front of the abortion clinic and we took her to the hospital. Seven doctors worked on her and they did a colostomy on her. When the reports came back, they said that it was an abdominal pregnancy that had not been in the uterus, and seven doctors and a pathologist concurred with that, and then the hospital wrote off her bill, and there was no lawsuit, ever. She was told that had been a normal complication; it was just amazing that she'd made it that long. And she didn't know any better. And then the girl that the doctors decided had a fibroid tumor at the back of her uterus. That's a highly common tumor that's very rarely malignant. And the two doctors decided they were just going to pull this out after she had her abortion, and they didn't know they were pulling on the back of her uterus, and they pulled the uterus out wrong-side-out of a 21- year-old; she had a hysterectomy.
Those are the ones that I remember. Those are the ones that bother me. Those are the ones that I have to go through and deal with and be healed of constantly. Because, you see, it was like the mothers were presenting their babies to be killed. And it was okay to kill 500 babies a month. But when we started killing or maiming a mother for each 500 babies, even I couldn't handle that.
There are two problems that are going on that we might be able to do something with, too. That is, that abortion clinics, if they have someone that does present themselves thinking they're pregnant and of course the test show they're not; that they're going to sell that abortion to that non-pregnant woman. And every time that you are standing in front of an abortion clinic, you are holding a light on inside that clinic. You are holding those people accountable and that day they are less likely to do the woman who is not pregnant because they're scared of you. They think these crazy Pro-Lifers are going to run in, chain themselves to the table. We had seven locks or something from the front door to the back. They are less likely to do that woman who is too far along that day too, because, you see, when the babies are so big they don't come apart like the others. Their muscle structure is strong that the heads come off from the body, and you can't dispose of those in the disposal. You have to put those in the trash. And we used to take ours over to opposition abortion clinics' trash and hope they'd be found there.
But every time you're in front, you're holding that light on. They slow down. An abortionist who brags and thinks he can do eight to ten, maybe even twelve abortions an hour, with a picketer in front of him, will slow down. Do four, six, three, something--but he'll slow down. He's afraid of you.
If there is good medical care inside an abortuary, the day you're standing out there is the day it happens. And you asked me how I feel about what you do? First of all, in Dallas, Texas, we have a guy named Winston Wilder, and thank you, Lord, for Winston. When I finally got over the right side... That's another thing, you don't see the defectors from the Pro-Life side to the abortion side, did you ever notice that? The defection's this way, and there are a lot of them. Winston and I sat down and I gave him all the names, addresses, telephone numbers, business offices (because many times their partners do not even know they do abortions).
We had one guy called in from the Bahamas because they suddenly started picketing his office, and his partner didn't know he did abortions in the clinics. At their private homes, many times their wives do not know they do abortions. Many times their mother-in-law doesn't know they're doing abortions. Many times the maid doesn't know they're doing abortions. Their neighbors, of course, rarely know. But that's the most effective thing. Picket them where they live. The clinics, yes, because it is my firm conviction that every day abortion is done and we're not standing in front of the abortion clinic, that we are held accountable. We must be there doing what they say that we should do.
But even more important than that, I believe at their homes and their private clinics where they're going in and being closet abortionists. We do have responsibility; it's pretty clearly laid out to us. I'm just so delighted to meet people who are out there doing it.
Thank God for you'all."
"Thank you all for coming. In 1973, when abortion was legalized, I was married, had an 8 year-old daughter and a 10 year-old son. Two weeks later, with abortion very much in the news and everywhere we turned we were still talking about abortion, I found myself pregnant.
When I told my husband, I was excited. But his initial reaction was, you'll just have to have an abortion. Because I really didn't want to deal with that with him, I decided I'd look for someone to help me. I went to my friend, my doctor, and cried out to him, and said, "Harvey, Tom doesn't want me to have this baby." And he said, "Oh, that's easy. You bring Tom's urine in, the pregnancy test will be negative, we'll do the abortion in the hospital, and your insurance will pay for it".
What I'm telling you is that this man offered to do an illegal abortion in the State of Texas and, yes, indeed, we did it. I was looking for someone to tell me not to have the abortion and I ran into an abortion salesman. And that's what happens in our nation today. We're going to talk a lot more about that, but let's go back to my story and what happened to me.
When I woke from that abortion, I picked up the telephone, and literally started working from my hospital bed, not realizing that I was already running from that decision. Within a month I was having an affair, and that had not been one of my patterns prior to that time. Very soon I started drinking; I'd not ever drunk in my life and I would go out and just get drunk once a month. It was almost like on target; once a month I had to do it. Very soon I asked my husband to leave, and then I started seeing a psychiatrist daily.
At the rate of $125.00 an hour, I could not go on with this very long. So I decided to do what I called, "get hold of myself." I changed everything I could in my life, except my children. I got away from the job I'd had; got away from my husband, and decided I would make it on my own.
What I'm telling you is the story about how my life went along at a pretty good level for a while, and the moment I had that abortion, it went straight downhill. And I think that's what happens to every woman who has an abortion.
One of the things that I want to impress upon you today is, yes, we do have to save the babies; they're important. But we're saving the mother, and, yes, we're saving the father. My ex-husband has been in counseling all this year trying to deal with this abortion. And we're saving all those family units in our entire nation. We've got a lot of work ahead of us.
When I did get hold of myself, I went to work for a nice Catholic man who had a medical supply business. At about this time abortion became legal in the State of Texas, and very soon we had an account on-line that was very profitable for us. We were making over $1,000 a month profit out of this account. So he decided that he wanted to look into it to see exactly what sort of business they were, and yes, indeed, they were an abortion clinic. So this great Catholic man who told me he never wanted to see an abortion, never wanted to know what an abortion really was, opened his first abortion clinic, and soon he had four. All this time he kept inviting me to join. He kept saying, come over and do this, come over and do that; if you'll go out and sell abortions for me, I'll pay you $10 an abortion, and on and on and on. I kept selling medical supplies, and finally the day came when I needed to make more money, and I went in and said, hey, I'm quitting my job; I want to go with another company. And he said, give me some time; let me come up with something. So, he got me on the fringe of the abortion industry by asking me to go out and set up referral clinics all over Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana. And I did that for a while and it was quite profitable. Then one day the call came: Come into the clinic; I need you to work in here for a month.
When I got in the clinic I had to decide whether to get involved in the abortions over here (and I am a scrub tech, so I have been involved in the medical industry for a long time), or if I was going to get involved with the numbers. And since I had that option, I got involved with the numbers. With just a very few small changes, his abortions went from 190-195 per month to over 400 per month. So then he sent me to another clinic. I went to his Fort Worth clinic, and yes, we were soon doubling his abortions over there. The last month I was with him in those two clinics (by then he had split with his partner), he was doing something over 800 abortions a month.
I went in and said, hey, look, I've doubled your business, come on, give me an equity interest in the business. And he politely said no, and I politely scheduled my hysterectomy, the kids teeth being fixed, everything his insurance would pay for, and, by the way, I placed my Yellow Page ad to come out in six months for my own abortion clinic. We opened and the first month we did 45; 65; 85, and the last month I was there, with two clinics functioning in the Dallas area, we did over 500 abortions a month in that clinic. I was compensated at the rate of $25.00 per case, plus one-third of the clinic's, so you can imagine what my motivation was. I sold abortions. I had made $150,000; was on target in 1983 to make about $260,000; and when we opened our five clinics, I would have been taking home about a million dollars a year. I expected to make more than that after we were really functioning.
All of this sounds neat. I had two kids in college, and I was alone and I was making plenty of money. But that money went absolutely nowhere. Taking home that much money a month, I literally couldn't even pay my utilities. What you've got to remember is that this is really one of Satan's strongholds. That money literally ran through my fingers so that my motivation was to do more abortions to make more money, and on and on and on.
That's what I think happens with doctors. A banker called me one time and asked me to go to work for an abortionist there in the Dallas area. He said he was putting $27,000 a month in my bank in his account and he can't pay me back what he owes me. Go to work for him and help me. That's the way it is. These guys just get in there and it goes on and on. With Satan in there, we had problems between the partners, and so if we were going to open these five clinics, I went to our financial advisers and said we've got to get the partners' problems straightened out, let's do it. So he called in a man he told me was a business counselor. This man met with us for an hour each, brought us back together for a fourth hour, and had a paper with six points on it. All six of these points were in my favor, and I thought, boy, I paid you $75.00 an hour long ago when I found you. He told the doctor's live-in girlfriend to get out of the clinic and stay out and to leave me alone. But we had to agree to meet with him for four more weeks, an hour each. On our second visit, I found I couldn't control him. You know, when you're in the world you control people, but I couldn't move him. So I suppose out of desperation I finally asked him the question: Are you a preacher? He said, yes. I said, what in the world are you doing in here? He said, God sent me. I said, wait a minute! I'm a Christian; I have a Bible in my desk; I tithe on all this abortion money, and I want you to know that God has me in here helping women, and God doesn't really talk to people anyway.
So, through a long period of discussions, he told me that indeed God did talk to people. That God had asked him to come into this situation for 30 days, and through much prayer, he and his elders had decided that there was indeed someone in there that the Lord wanted out. And we left in 27 days. Now that's kind of remarkable. But you don't take this lying, cheating, stealing on our income tax woman, and just change her into an angel overnight. And you also don't just walk away from all of this without looking back. So when I started telling people that I was leaving the clinic, they started telling me how crazy I was. They'd say, how are you going to pay your bills? Of course, I did spend it all. I mean, you'll never be able to make this much money; you can't even live on $5,000 a month, and where are you going to make $5,000 anyway?
Then people said, you worked so hard to be here, why? So I literally fell to my knees in that abortion clinic. At this point it was: Lord, if there is a Lord, if this is not where you want me, hit me over the head with a 2 x 4. Now I encourage people not to ask that because He has a 2 x 4, and my 2 x 4 was a report that Channel 4, a television station in our area did.
They sent their star reporter, Laura Randall, in, wired for sound. And we so convinced her that she was pregnant and that yes, she needed an abortion, and we had the answer, that when she left there the poor girl was so shaken that she went to another doctor. She was not sure she wasn't pregnant. And she wasn't pregnant. So we had a five-day report wherein Laura Randall, wired for sound, came in the abortion clinic and had our doctor saying, yes, baby, you're pregnant. Come on, let's do this abortion today. You haven't had anything to eat, you've got your money, why would you want to come back tomorrow. Come on, let's do it now. And that was my answer to prayer.
I didn't understand why. I didn't have enough sense to know, but I did know that I had a peace about walking out, and I did know that God did answer prayers. He put me in a wilderness situation for a long time.
I've got to tell you this, and there is no good way to tell it. I have tried a million times. From the abortion clinics, I had a meat market. Now my problem is that I don't very often call it a meat market. You see, I call it a butcher shop.
So when I say butcher shop, people think I'm talking about the abortion clinic. But I was involved in the butcher business for several years, I guess. (That wasn't very funny.) Anyway, I did go into this butcher shop and I did stay out there and the Lord worked with me for a very long time. And through the man who washed my windows in the butcher shop, the Right-to-Life came into my life. Through a long period of association with this man who was a seminary student washing my windows, I finally decided that yes, the Lord did want me to speak out, and that I would become involved in this Movement. Now what I do is just go around and tell people the truth about what really happens inside one of the abortion mills.
There are all sorts of experiences with the abortion. I want to walk you through my experiences in an abortion clinic.
Let's just step back. How many of you have children 14 and under? How many of you have seen a number, unsolicited, that you think you could call that said, "Problem Pregnancy," "Abortion Information," or "Pregnant?" in your area where you think you could call for abortion information?
Let's talk about those kids when they find out that they are pregnant. They may not want an abortion; they may want information. But when they call that number that's paid for by abortion money, what kind of information do you think they're going to get? Let's remember, they sell abortions. They don't sell keeping the baby. They don't sell giving the baby up for adoption. They don't sell delivering that baby in any form. They only sell abortions.
In the State of Texas, a girl can come in to have an abortion, and the abortion clinics are not required to have parental consent. Most of the abortion clinics in Texas do require it for 14 and under. However, let's paint this picture: The girl comes in, has an abortion, she can sign for it. But when the doctor rips her uterus out and they take her to the hospital, they won't admit her until her parents get there and are told she had this abortion without their consent. And they will not repair the damage or try to save her life until the parents sign on the dotted line. And that happens. It's terrible.
So the girl calls this number and says, I'm pregnant. How far along are you? What's the first day of your last normal period? They've got their wheel there and they figure it out. This counselor is paid to be this girl's friend. She is paid to be the authority for this girl. She is supposed to seduce her into a friendship of sorts to sell her the abortion. Every problem this girl has: I don't want to tell my parents. You don't have to tell your parents. They don't have to know. You're old enough to come in and have it without them knowing. And then the money, and they ask them to go get their money and pay the people back in a year. Then the two questions they ask are: Does it hurt? Oh, no. Your uterus is a muscle, and they hold their hand up if they're seeing them; if not, they tell them over the phone: It's a cramp to open it; a cramp to close it; it's a slight cramping sensation. Everybody's had cramps; every woman in the world. So they think that's no problem. I can stand that; I've been through it before.
And then they say: Is it a baby? No, it's a product of conception; it's a blood clot; it's a piece of tissue. They don't even really tell them it's a fetus, because, you see, that almost humanizes it too much. It's never a baby. They can't admit it themselves when they go in the back and have little 6-week fetuses, babies that they put down disposals, and that's how we did it in our clinic. The clinics in Dallas use disposals so none of those crazy Pro-Lifers will come and get them out of the trash anymore and bury them the way they did. So, they lie to her. You know, if you look at abortion from the face, I cannot tell you one thing that happens in an abortion clinic that is not a lie. They tell the counselors, and I told the counselors, not to rock the boat; not to answer any questions that they didn't ask. Get them in here; the faster you can get them in here, the easier it is on them. You concentrate on the woman; you tell them to help her, and you don't deal with the baby at all.
So they get this girl to come in the clinic, and many times they just get her to come in for a pregnancy test, and if that's the case then they greet her at the door and they say, Oh, Linda, I'm so glad you're here. I've been waiting for you. This girl doesn't know they have an appointment book and each counselor has to schedule their appointments an hour apart so she has plenty of time to spend being their "friend" while they're there. She takes them back; she does the pregnancy test; it doesn't really matter. If there's any way they can convince this girl she's pregnant, she's going to be pregnant. But they go through this test anyway. She tells her she's pregnant, and the girl might cry. She may get upset. But they take her into a separate room; they don't want anyone to see anyone crying in there; it's supposed to be a great place; we're supposed to help people in the abortion clinic.
If she has the abortion that day, she goes through one procedure, but if she comes back another day, she just comes in the front door, fills out some forms (very minimal information). Most of the information on that form is name, address, telephone number, and your financial status. So they can find out to what group they need to appeal with their $250,000 per clinic Yellow Page budget.
Then the girl goes back, has some lab work, and then she pays, up-front, for what they have decided the term of pregnancy she is. Cash, Master Card, or Visa--get a Master Card, Visa or American Express. You might consider sending them back because they do charge for abortions, and tell them why you're sending them back. They will accept those charges.
Then the girl goes into this room for counseling and they give her a 6 to 12-page form. This form is written by an abortion attorney. Ours was written by one out of New York, and it was written to confuse the girl to death. It had every possible complication of an abortion you could imagine, and it would take [a doctor] two hours with a medical dictionary to go through it. Words two inches long that no one could possibly understand, and it does its job. It confuses her and she doesn't ask any questions. She goes back to the two questions: Does it hurt? Is it a baby? And when you have convinced her again and lied to her again that no, it's not going to hurt, and if she doesn't have her money--in the State of Texas you have to pay extra to be put to sleep--it's an extra $100 to $250, depending on how far you are into the pregnancy.
Then she goes into this holding room, waiting for the abortion. And it depends on the day of the week, of course, as to how many people are in there. Saturday is the big day, but it could be a day in the week when there are only five or six people in there waiting. And soon, if there are 30 or 40, especially, they kind of number each other so they know what order they are going to be going out in. They kind of laugh and joke. And if there is one crying in there, you get that one out. You don't want that one affecting the rest of them.
She is taken back to the procedure room, put on the table, and draped. Her chart is put in the door. Each chart in our clinics was handled with a little coupon on the front. The coupon was for the doctor, because when he walks up to that door for the first time--if you have two or three doctors working, you don't know which one is going to do the abortion--so, they don't collect the doctor's money with the clinic money, they collect it separately and do not show it on any of the records in those clinics. In the four clinics I've been in and worked in, they never showed that they collected the doctor's money at any place. That way, they are independent contractors; you don't have to be concerned with their malpractice insurance, and you don't have to report it to IRS. He collects the coupon, puts it in his scrub suit pocket. At the end of the day he goes up and presents his coupons. This is how many I've done. And each doctor presents them separately. The girl counts the coupons, figures out how much she owes him, and pays him in cash.
As I said earlier, I have seen doctors walk out after three hours work and split $4,500 between them on a Saturday morning. More, if you go longer into the day, of course. The doctor walks in, sees the patient for the very first time, pats her on the leg, says, Hi, baby, how are you? You call them "baby" so you don't have to remember their name. And she says, Oh, I'm scared, or, I'm cold. Never anything positive. And he doesn't really ask her any questions. It's just get the abortion done. If he discovers that she may be farther along than anyone thought she was, they stop right there, collect the money, and then finish the procedure.
If abortion is such a good thing, why don't they give them away? If abortion is such a good thing, why don't they go ahead and do the abortion then, and trust you to pay the extra $200 when they're finished? That's not the way it is. I've never been able to come up with the words to describe the abortion procedure, because, you see, you're educating people about abortion. You know more about it than the average person. However, no matter how bad you think abortion is, there are no words to describe how bad it really is. It kills the baby. And, yes, I've seen sonograms with the baby pulling away from the instruments that are introduced into the vagina. And the woman, the mother, is hurt if she doesn't have the extra money to be put to sleep, and I've seen D&Es through 32 weeks done without the mother being put to sleep. And, yes, they hurt, and they are very painful to the baby. But, yes, they are very, very painful to the woman. I've seen six people hold a woman on the table while they did her abortion.
But, they have the abortion and they go to the recovery room, and then there are two reactions in the recovery room. The first one is: I've killed my baby. And even then, it amazed me that that was the first time they called it a baby and the first time they called it murder. But, you know, as bad as that sounds, that's probably the healthiest reaction. That woman is probably going to have the ability to walk out of there and deal with it, and perhaps be healed and go on.
And now, in Europe, where they've had abortions for much, much longer than we have, there are some authorities in the Netherlands who are alluding to a spiritual healing that women have to go through before they can completely deal with their abortion. So they're getting closer day by day by day. But the second reaction is: I am hungry, you kept me in here for four hours and you told me I'd only be here for two; let me out of here. Now that woman is doing what I did. She's running from her abortion. She's not dealing with it; she's choosing to deny it, and she's the woman that we read all the statistics about, post-abortion syndrome. They say now it's an average of five years before people actually deal with the fact that, yes, they did kill their baby. And yes, they do have to deal with that.
You know, I go back to my own personal healing, which just started a year ago. I was making deals with God. I didn't want to talk about my own abortion. Then when I finally did deal with it, I cried nonstop for five months because, you see, I killed my baby, and I'm still not through that. And how difficult it is for all these women because, you see, I believe that every woman, even if she's not physically harmed, is harmed by abortion.
Then what the recovery room personnel do is resell it. They resell them on their next abortion. They don't say, hey, I'm reselling you so you'll go out and get pregnant and come back. But they make subtle innuendos that say, you know, this isn't going to happen again, but, you know we're always here. And when you leave here you're going to have a couple of days when you won't feel so good. You'll have a couple of days of depression, and that's just your hormones realigning, and everyone who has a baby has postpartum depression, and don't worry about it. And there they are encouraging them to suppress their feelings about that abortion.
So they go through this whole gamut of reselling abortion, encouraging suppression, and say, call us if you have a problem. And the girls leave, and they do have problems.
The girls that walk out of there, though, are the lucky ones. We were seeing over 500 abortions per month; we were doing the only one-day second or third trimester abortion in the state of Texas. (We didn't call it third; we called it second.) Meaning that we didn't use the laminaria. We did all the dilation on that day, and that's why we were seeing such a tremendous number of complications. We saw complications in the second and third trimester, but we were seeing one per 500 abortions for over a year. Yes, we had a death. A 32 year-old woman with a 17 year-old son and a 2 year-old son. Never made the papers. Her boyfriend felt guilty for his part in the abortion and he didn't want to deal with it. Her family thought, yes, she had probably had an abortion, but they didn't want to deal with it. It never came out. No lawsuit.
The 21-year-old that danced in, and I'll never forget her for as long as I live. She was my son's age. Danced in to get her "problem" taken care of. Had the extra money to be put to sleep. And you see, my job with two of those doctors was to put my right hand on the baby and hold it while they did the abortion so I could tell them where the head was and where the legs were, and all of that. And I had my hand on that woman's stomach, and that baby was perfectly inside her uterus; she had been examined by the doctor; and he said, yes, the baby was inside her uterus and everything was fine and she was 24-weeks. And he went in one time, and he pulled out placenta, and he went in the second time and he went through the back of her uterus and pulled her bowel out through her vagina. We put her in the car because we didn't want an ambulance in front of the abortion clinic and we took her to the hospital. Seven doctors worked on her and they did a colostomy on her. When the reports came back, they said that it was an abdominal pregnancy that had not been in the uterus, and seven doctors and a pathologist concurred with that, and then the hospital wrote off her bill, and there was no lawsuit, ever. She was told that had been a normal complication; it was just amazing that she'd made it that long. And she didn't know any better. And then the girl that the doctors decided had a fibroid tumor at the back of her uterus. That's a highly common tumor that's very rarely malignant. And the two doctors decided they were just going to pull this out after she had her abortion, and they didn't know they were pulling on the back of her uterus, and they pulled the uterus out wrong-side-out of a 21- year-old; she had a hysterectomy.
Those are the ones that I remember. Those are the ones that bother me. Those are the ones that I have to go through and deal with and be healed of constantly. Because, you see, it was like the mothers were presenting their babies to be killed. And it was okay to kill 500 babies a month. But when we started killing or maiming a mother for each 500 babies, even I couldn't handle that.
There are two problems that are going on that we might be able to do something with, too. That is, that abortion clinics, if they have someone that does present themselves thinking they're pregnant and of course the test show they're not; that they're going to sell that abortion to that non-pregnant woman. And every time that you are standing in front of an abortion clinic, you are holding a light on inside that clinic. You are holding those people accountable and that day they are less likely to do the woman who is not pregnant because they're scared of you. They think these crazy Pro-Lifers are going to run in, chain themselves to the table. We had seven locks or something from the front door to the back. They are less likely to do that woman who is too far along that day too, because, you see, when the babies are so big they don't come apart like the others. Their muscle structure is strong that the heads come off from the body, and you can't dispose of those in the disposal. You have to put those in the trash. And we used to take ours over to opposition abortion clinics' trash and hope they'd be found there.
But every time you're in front, you're holding that light on. They slow down. An abortionist who brags and thinks he can do eight to ten, maybe even twelve abortions an hour, with a picketer in front of him, will slow down. Do four, six, three, something--but he'll slow down. He's afraid of you.
If there is good medical care inside an abortuary, the day you're standing out there is the day it happens. And you asked me how I feel about what you do? First of all, in Dallas, Texas, we have a guy named Winston Wilder, and thank you, Lord, for Winston. When I finally got over the right side... That's another thing, you don't see the defectors from the Pro-Life side to the abortion side, did you ever notice that? The defection's this way, and there are a lot of them. Winston and I sat down and I gave him all the names, addresses, telephone numbers, business offices (because many times their partners do not even know they do abortions).
We had one guy called in from the Bahamas because they suddenly started picketing his office, and his partner didn't know he did abortions in the clinics. At their private homes, many times their wives do not know they do abortions. Many times their mother-in-law doesn't know they're doing abortions. Many times the maid doesn't know they're doing abortions. Their neighbors, of course, rarely know. But that's the most effective thing. Picket them where they live. The clinics, yes, because it is my firm conviction that every day abortion is done and we're not standing in front of the abortion clinic, that we are held accountable. We must be there doing what they say that we should do.
But even more important than that, I believe at their homes and their private clinics where they're going in and being closet abortionists. We do have responsibility; it's pretty clearly laid out to us. I'm just so delighted to meet people who are out there doing it.
Thank God for you'all."
Friday 7 January 2011
Some Light(er) Relief
As a break from all the doom and gloom below, here's a treat from my favourite artist of the moment. Her voice is stunning (over 3 octaves in range) and full of character and the power to carry over the rest of the sound; I love her lyrics because I find I can always relate to them; and what a kick-ass song this is! Enjoy!
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