"My only enemy is right-wing religious fundamentalism." – Clinton per Marquez (Jerusalem Post 3/28/99)

Washington Post 7/95 Stephen Higgins (Director BATF – WACO) "…The day has long passed when we can afford to ignore the threat that is posed by individuals who believe they are subject only to the laws of their god and not those of our government…. …."

Clinton lifted the ban on fetal tissue research in 1/93.

Justice Department filed a brief with the Supreme Court advocating a lower standard of child pornography in 93

Freeper CitizenX reports ".I for one am sickened by the attacks on my faith. I have seen time and time again where when I speak out on a issue from a moral standpoint I am attacked for "forcing my faith down their throat". Even though I am choosing my words to speak from a scientific viewpoint. Example: If I do not mention my Faith in God, and state that abortion is wrong because the unborn child is not "a blob of tissue" but a living Human being, genetically unique from the mother. It meets all the criteria of life: cellular division, exchange of O2 and CO2, assimilation of nutrients, etc. If I point out that this life begins at the beginning, which is conception, and the willful destruction of a unique human life is murder, the woman who pays for this surgical procedure has in fact contracted for a murder, and the abortionist is guilty of not only murder but is in truth a serial murderer of children! If I say that I am told "Don't force YOUR religion down my throat!" ."

AP 10/11/98 "Aborted fetuses found dumped in a field have been given to antiabortion groups for Christian burials, a move critics say violates the separation of church and state. San Bernardino County Coroner Brian McCormick released the remains of the 54 fetuses Friday over objections from American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California officials, who said they may take legal action..The fetuses were found last year in cardboard boxes in a county field. Authorities traced the fetuses to a Los Angeles abortion clinic, which has since been closed. A truck driver for the clinic was jailed for 71 days for dumping the fetuses.."

Fox Online 10/28/98 Barbara Fischkin ".The Free Republic, a self-described conservative forum, is planning an anti-Clinton march on Washington on Oct. 31.. There are rumors that Tripp herself may speak. She has become something of a folk heroine, this marginally professional, deceitful woman. She is a folk heroine to some of the same people who believe abortion and homosexuality are always wrong."

The American Cause 10/30/98 Patrick J Buchanan ".A week ago, an assassin fired through the kitchen window of Barnett Slepian, an obstetrician who did abortions in Amherst, N.Y. And like the murder of Matthew Shepard, the slaying of Slepian was seized upon and exploited to initiate a new moral pogrom against the American right. In Shepard's case, social conservatives who condemn homosexual conduct as immoral were charged with giving aid and comfort to his murderers. And those who decry abortion as "the killing of the unborn" are now accused of giving moral sanction to the killing of Slepian. The "hot rhetoric" of "right-wing extremists," the charge runs, has created an environment in which men feel justified in murdering doctors and gays. That it is a vicious lie, however, does not make it ineffective, especially when the Big Media concur in and promote it.. Shepard and Slepian are now being beatified as martyrs to the causes of gay rights and abortion rights. This, too, is false. Shepard was not fighting for gay rights on the night of his death. He was killed while out cruising for gay sex by thugs out cruising for easy mugging victims. Dr. Slepian was almost surely murdered by someone who believed he had been doing to death unborn children, which is exactly what Dr. Slepian had been doing, though that did not give anyone the right to murder him. Because the killings of Slepian and Shepard were wrong does not make what they were doing heroic or right..What is the truth? America is a country where slurs about minorities have been rightly purged from public speech, but the left freely employs such hate terms as racist, bigot, Nazi, fascist and homophobe. It is a country where -- as one can divine from the identity of the speakers shouted down on campuses and the storm troopers doing the shouting -- the greatest intolerance is on the left. It is a nation where the principal victims of sex crimes are not gays but women, boys and girls, and pedophiles are among the principal victimizers of the latter. It is a land where 35 million defenseless unborn children have been done to death in 25 years, and, yes, two abortionists have been killed and a number of clinics bombed. It is a nation where people who pillage and burn cities like L.A. are more likely to belong to the Crips and the Bloods than the Michigan Militia. Social conservatives will be making a fateful mistake if they do not stand in battle against this wicked characterization of who they are.."

www.ewtn.com 11/10/98 ".Two Catholic churches and a pro-life group received letters that threatened they contained anthrax bacteria on Monday, 10 days after abortion clinics in four Midwestern states received similar threats. St. Matthew's Church and School in Indianapolis, Queen of Martyrs' Church in Cheektowaga, New York, and the Chicago office of the Pro-Life Action League all received letters that said, "You have been exposed to anthrax." The note was identical to a threat sent 10 days ago to the abortion clinics. Those letters had a Cincinnati postmark while the most recent threats had Texas and Illinois postmarks. Six parish staff and 481 students and teachers were treated for possible exposure to anthrax at St. Michael's, although authorities did know if the threat was real. Nine people were decontaminated at Queen of Martyrs, which is located near Amherst, New York where abortionist Barnett Slepian was murdered last month. None of the seven workers at the Pro-Life Action League were evacuated or treated. That group lost a lawsuit earlier this year that had been brought by pro-abortion groups.."

The Oklahoman 11/11/98 Cal Thomas ".MOTHER Teresa used to warn anyone who would listen that the abortion culture cheapens human life and finds expression in violent streets, terrorism of all sorts and a debasing of the uniqueness of human beings. She might have argued, were she still with us, that the murder of Dr. Barnett Slepian, who performed abortions in Amherst, N.Y., proves her point. While his killing by a sniper is indefensible and the antithesis of what it means to be pro- life, it also demonstrates where our 25-year inattention to protecting the endowed and unalienable right to life has brought us.Three abortionists have been murdered in the past five years, as have three clinic employees and a clinic "escort." But in the same period, more than 6 million babies have been denied their right to live. In the 25 years since the Roe vs. Wade ruling a staggering 30 million babies have died. No Times editorialist weeps for them or for what they might have become. Abortion is an industry that makes millions of dollars by exploiting women. As abortion is tolerated, pressure builds to remove protections on human life at other stages. That abortion is still conducted in secret, shielding us from confronting this immoral act, does not diminish its significance. The industry is able to keep us from having a full-scale debate because it has elevated "choice" to a sacrament, even while denying women access to the latest technology and information (like adoption) that frequently results in many choosing life for their unborn.."

The Wanderer 12/3/98 Paul Likoudis ".Right in the middle of a coordinated media campaign to vilify America's pro-life citizens as bombers, arsonists, and murderers, a Miami businessman pleaded guilty Oct. 28th in federal court in Trenton, N.J., to committing insurance fraud and authorizing unsafe medical practices at an abortion facility he owned here. Alan I. Weisberg, who will be sentenced on Jan. 29th, could face up to one year in jail and fines equal to double the amount for which he bilked five insurance companies and health maintenance organizations. Weiselberg, who remains the prime suspect in the April 22nd, 1991 arson of his Woodbridge, N.J. clinic, which caused more than $500,000 worth of damage, was not charged with the arson because the statute of limitations on the blaze had expired. As local writer Rick Malwitz observed in a Nov. 8th newspaper column: "There was never any evidence that linked the fire to anyone in the pro-life movement, according to persons involved in the investigation."."

USA Today 2/22/99 "...In poll after poll throughout the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, majorities of 2-1 and 3-1 repeatedly voiced strong disapproval of Clinton's behavior. In a USATODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll just days ago, 64% said changes since the 1960s are bad because the country is more permissive; 58% said they are more concerned about moral problems than economic ones. On abortion, for example, an issue of particular concern to many social conservatives, the pendulum is swinging in their direction. Public support for an unrestricted right to abortion is clearly down; support for subtle ways of making abortions more difficult to obtain is up...."

Nando Media/Agence France-Press 2/10/99 Philip Alfroy ".A Clinton administration decision to promote some human embryo research despite a law prohibiting it has delighted scientists but blurred the ethical boundaries of medical research, opponents say. Earlier this month the White House authorized public funding for scientific experiments on some human embryo cells. The decision, announced two weeks ago by National Health Institutes director Harold Warmus, inflamed an already heated debate on the ethics of meddling with human embryos. For most people, the issue of spending public money on such research died in 1995 when the Republican-led U.S. Congress banned it outright.."The Clinton administration now seeks to do indirectly what Congress has forbidden it to do directly: provide federal support for research in which human embryos are created and destroyed," said Richard Doerflinger, of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. ."

Reuters 7/10/98 Anthony Goodman "Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Friday the United States could lose its U.N. General Assembly vote if it failed to pay its dues. .The U.S. Congress had approved legislation that would cover a large part of the arrears. But President Clinton has vowed to veto the measure because it includes a provision barring international family planning agencies that receive U.S. aid from lobbying foreign governments to change their abortion laws."

AP 9/18/98 AP "The 64-36 roll call by which the Senate failed to override President Clinton's veto of an abortion ban. A two-thirds majority, or 67, votes were needed. Voting ``yes'' were 13 Democrats and 51 Republicans. Voting ``no'' were 32 Democrats and 4 Republicans.."

Minneapolis Star Tribune 8/19/98 H J Cummins ".Scientists already have moved on -- backed up, really, to before birth -- to examine the brain-building work that goes on in a fetus. Their question: What does your fetus know, and when does he know it? Although the facts are clear -- evidence is mounting that fetuses are busily shaping their own development -- what that means is the basis of heated debate. One side says this credits fetuses with thoughts and feelings. The other calls that an absurd leap. "All the things a fetus can do are also seen in common insects," said Scott Robinson, co-editor of the book, "Behavior of the Fetus." "Now, what do you want to conclude from that?" Besides any implications for abortion or prenatal care, the research approaches the keystone of human nature. "This gets right to one of the last great mysteries," said Myron Hofer, psychiatry professor at Columbia University in New York. "That is, human consciousness." The research is important, scientists say, partly because it traces human traits to their absolute origin. And it has played a role in changing the medical view of newborns, long considered nothing more than a bundle of reflexes.Some discoveries: At about 10 weeks, a fetus will begin touching its face with its hands, sometimes even putting its fingers in its mouth. At about 2 months, a fetus will respond by moving if it's touched in the area around its mouth. At about 4« months, a fetus will quicken its swallowing of amniotic fluid when that fluid is sweetened, and slow it down when a bitter flavor is added. At about 6 months, a fetus has REM (rapid-eye-movement) sleep -- the kind associated with dreaming. Fetuses respond to various stimuli, including pain and familiar music. Within minutes after birth, a baby will suck a computer-connected nipple at the rate necessary to hear its mother's voice. It will prefer her voice as it sounds in the womb over her real-world voice -- indicating a preference developed in utero. Also, when a baby's mother regularly read Dr. Seuss' "The Cat in the Hat" throughout her pregnancy, it will suck the nipple that activates a recording of her voice reading that story.."

ACLU Ira Glasser 1/19/99 ".Dear Friend: You may be surprised that the Executive Director of the ACLU is writing to you on the subject of morality, rather than on law or the Constitution or some civil liberties emergency. Well, I've decided to reach out to you and others like you because a growing struggle between two competing visions of morality is now taking place in America. This struggle should command the attention and involvement of all of us who share deep beliefs and treasure the fundamental value of individual freedom. Individual freedom vs. government authoritarianism. That's what the struggle over competing visions of morality is all about. On the one hand, the New Puritans want to use the police power of the state to enter our bedrooms and control the most intimate details of our personal lives -- who people love, who they commit their lives to, whether or when they pray, whether they prefer marijuana to martinis, whether they use birth control or decide to have an abortion. The other vision is the one we represent - - a vision where the government is prevented from controlling and punishing such personal behavior, and where the moral purpose of government is to insure fairness in law and public policy. Right now those who would impose their pious standards of morality on private, personal behavior are dangerously close to winning the debate. By not responding and challenging their authoritarian vision of "morality," you and I concede far too much. And that is why I am writing, without apology for raising the subject of "morality," to seek support from you and others like you. Specifically, the American Civil Liberties Union has embarked on a special membership drive. Our goal is to enlist those Americans we believe will help make the difference between winning and losing the national debate over freedom vs. authoritarianism.."

Media Research Center - Press Release 1/29/99 Brent Bozell Freeper Aherald ".Media Research Center Chairman Brent Bozell is challenging the national establishment media to fully air and report the findings of a landmark national survey of American women. The findings reveal that a majority of American women - 53 percent - now support the Pro-Life position on abortion. Most notably, the survey was paid for by the Center for Gender Equality, headed by former Planned Parenthood Executive Director Faye Wattleton..."It's obvious why the Center for Gender Equality waited until now to make these findings public. According to the Associated Press, the poll was done last year and it's almost February. Ms. Wattleton told the Washington Times that her survey's findings were - quote - 'very disturbing.' She and her organization released these findings yesterday in hopes that the impeachment story will overshadow them.."

WashingtonTimes 2/6/99 Wes Pruden ".Everybody's trying to get at me. Nobody even tries to understand me. A man has to do what a man has to do . Well, let's see. What else? Ah, yes. Religious faith. They're even measuring the size of the Bible I take to church. That was a good stroke, though, finding that big-print Bible the last time I went home. Nobody can miss that on Page One. Ought to send Dick Morris out to take a poll. Is there still any percentage in exploiting what the preachers call the faith of our fathers? Maybe enough people still go for that stuff to make it worth my while. Some people will say I'm just trying to plunder religion, too, but nobody but the ACLU would criticize me for loud praying. Inviting Yasser Arafat to the prayer breakfast was a stroke of genius. Sometimes I surprise even myself. I owe those prayer breakfast guys a payback, anyway. Inviting Mother Teresa to give me hell over abortion. Why won't those abortion people shut up? I was against abortion back home. Didn't help much. The hicks in the legislature gave me a hard time, anyway. Hillary's friends were always railing at me for it. I thought that stuff would go away when I got up here. Some of those Planned Parenthood gals look like possibilities.."

ZENIT (Catholic News Agency) 12/23/98 ".The government of Alberto Fujimori implemented a systematic sterilization campaign in the most depressed areas of Peru. As a result, 250,000 women were sterilized without their knowledge and consent. This information was revealed in a report by the Latin American and Caribbean Committee for the Defense of the Rights of Woman (CLADEM), presented in Madrid.. "Deceptions, coercion and false promises were the currency of this campaign," which has been denounced in the Peruvian press for the past year. ..The author of the report, "Nothing Special," funded by CLADEM, is Giulia Tamayo, a 40 year old Peruvian, director of the Flora Tristan Center for the Peruvian Woman, one of the most active feminist organizations in the country. The first cases denounced to the Defender of the Peruvian People were in 1997 and, since then, evidence "has been accumulated over the systematic violations of human rights, due to the aggressive policy imposing sterilization on poor or extremely poor women," the report states. ." Freeper Vince Ferrer adds ".This program was funded by the US agency USAID.."

THE REAGAN INFORMATION INTERCHANGE 4/12/99 "...FRIDAY FAX April 9, 1999 Volume 2, Number 23 OVERREACHING BY US AND EU ANGERS DEVELOPING WORLD, STALLS CAIRO+5

* The final preparatory committee meeting of the Cairo+5 conference ended last week without completing its main task which was to write a document for the UN General Assembly. There are many reasons for what has become an embarrassing circumstance for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the United States, the European Union and radical feminist NGOs. Essentially, this group overplayed their hand and slowed the debate by introducing new and highly controversial language into the document. In the process they angered the 133-member Group of 77 from the developing world.

* From the very beginning of this nearly ten day process, the G - 77 played by the rules, established by the UN General Assembly (GA), that no new language be introduced into the document. The GA wanted to prevent opening old ideological wounds from the contentious Cairo conference in 1994, particularly in the area of "reproductive rights." ....

* The developed world, led by the US, did not show the same restraint. For instance, they insisted upon wholly new language on "emergency contraception." Considered by many in the scientific and medical communities to be frequently abortifacient, "emergency contraception" was objected to by the G - 77 as a violation of the GA's order against new language. The US insisted, with the vocal support of the EU, and Canada, so "emergency contraception" had to be "square bracketed" and held for a later debate.

* The G - 77 was also angered by the US's attempt to get parental rights eliminated from the document. A big push at the conference has been in favor of adolescent sexual rights, again advanced by the industrialized west. The G - 77 insisted upon parental rights. The German delegate, representing the EU, remarked during the debate that "parents have too many rights already." Much of this language was also "square bracketed."

*The G - 77 showed particular discomfort toward the aggressive radical feminist NGOs. At one point, radical feminists formed an intimidating gauntlet outside the conference room through which delegates had to wade. Attempting to shame developing world diplomats, feminists waved leaflets saying "Group of 77 -7 = Consensus." The Libyan delegate waved the leaflet in the air and shouted to the conference, "this kind of demonstration has never been seen inside the United Nations." Another G - 77 diplomat complained bitterly that pro-life NGO voices were deliberately discriminated against by the Cairo+5 Secretariat and by UNFPA.

Reuters 2/10/99 Freeper yea whatever ".A liberal activist group Wednesday launched a $5 million campaign aimed at ousting in the 2000 election vulnerable Republican legislators who voted to impeach President Clinton. People for the American Way, a group which fights the religious conservative groups such as the Christian Coalition, provided a preliminary hit list of 68 Republican members of the House of Representatives who voted to impeach Clinton and who represent districts carried by the president in the 1996 election.It said it would try to link impeachment to other agenda items of conservative Christians including their opposition to abortion, support of prayer in public schools and opposition to homosexual rights. ``The impeachment fiasco presents us with a unique opportunity,'' Shields said..."

San Francisco Chronicle 2/12/99 Betsy Hart ".Results that many might find startling appear in a new national poll of American women. The report, just issued by the Center for Gender Equality, says women are generally conservative - and are moving more and more to the right. The poll found that a majority, 53 percent, could be generally classified as pro-life. Meaning they think abortion should not be allowed at all, or only in cases of rape, incest, or to save the mother's life. That number is up from 45 percent in 1996. Another 41 percent of women said that issues championed by the conservative Christian Coalition would improve the lives of women. That compares with only 18 percent who said the coalition's issues would make women's lives worse. A whopping 75 percent of women say religion is very important in their lives. That's up from 69 percent two years ago. Of women surveyed, 46 percent said that politicians should be guided by religious values, up from 32 percent six years ago... The large-sample poll of 1,000 women was conducted by the prestigious Princeton Research Associates. Faye Wattleton, who heads the Center for Gender Equality, is best known for her previous role as executive director of Planned Parenthood. She was dismayed. She told the Washington Post that the responses "were surprising and disturbing to everyone who cares about women's status and liberty in this country." Wattleton blamed the numbers on what she says has for years been the domination of religious conservatives in the public policy debate. You see, women just shouldn't think this way.."

Human Life International Reports at www.hli.org 2/2/99 ".The month of November witessed the election of Gray Davis, an ardent abortion supporter, as Governor of California. In an attempt to mask his abortion agenda Davis apologists developed the concept of an ecumenical religious program to disguise a reign of terror in California against babies in the womb. The banner was quickly picked up by a number of liberal religious including Rabbi Brad Bloom, a longtime Davis backer. Representing the "Sacramento Interfaith Service Bureau" Rabbi Bloom contacted religious leaders throughout the area inviting them to the rally to portray Davis as having the backing of the religious community.. Dear Rabbi Bloom: Your invitation of 24 December to attend an inaugural event on Sunday morning, 3 January 1999, for Governor-elect Gray Davis causes me profound distress and grave insult. Surely you must know that Gray Davis is an outspoken, militant champion of violence-the most cold-blooded violence of killing pre- born and partially born human beings. He incessantly and obsessively proclaimed his commitment to unrestricted and taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand in his TV campaign commercials, debates, campaign position statements and even on his Internet campaign site. He would force every California taxpayer, including all the Catholic bishops, priests and lay people, to be his fiscal accomplices in payments to abortionists for over 100,000 Medi-Cal abortions per year (out of about 300,000 to 400,000 abortions per year in California). .To presume that any true Catholic, and in particular, a Catholic priest and pastor, would violate the moral teachings of the Catholic Faith and the very moral foundation of human rights, and would betray and scandalize the faithful by attending a political function dedicated to a leader of the American Holocaust, is mind-boggling. Any Catholic priest and pastor who would publicly give honor and affirmation to Gray Davis would be subject to severe penalties and would rightfully expect the just denunciation and harsh censure of not only Catholics, but all who defend the right to life..Monsignor Edward J. Kavanaugh St. Rose Catholic Church Sacramento."

Catholic World News 3/5/99 "… A federal judge ruled on Thursday that a Louisiana law banning partial-birth abortions is unconstitutional because it was intended to create confusion. US District Judge Thomas Porteous said the law was too broadly worded. "This act's broad language seems to purposefully create confusion and ambiguity," Porteous wrote in the ruling. The law forbade any abortion performed once any part of the unborn child entered the birth canal…."

Original Sources 3/6/99 Mary Mostert "…In the syrupy adulation after the death of retired Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, the author of Roe vs. Wade, little has been said of his other decision which dramatically changed our culture. He not only wrote the decision which declared that the unborn, like black slaves in the Dred Scott Decision of 1857, were not human, he also changed the meaning of "due process" to make it not only legal, but mandatory, to make decisions based on race and gender…. That legacy may be best expressed in the words of a 20 something young woman who reminded C-span listeners that "The baby boomer generation killed one third of my generation - one third of my generation were killed by their parents before they were born." …Once America's doctors took a sacred oath before they began practicing medicine that said in part: "I will use my power to help the sick to the best of my ability and judgment; I will abstain from harming or wronging any man by it. I will not give a fatal draught to anyone if I am asked, nor will I suggest any such thing. Neither will I give a woman means to procure an abortion." In less than 30 years we have gone from that to a nation which has so downgraded its concern for its children that over 51% of all pregnancies end either in the death of the baby or in the birth of a live baby who has no legal father. How could that have happened? …"

Wall Street Journal 3/12/99 Lorena Rodrigues Bottum "…During her Barbara Walters interview, Monica Lewinsky casually mentioned that she'd had an abortion while dating a Pentagon official. Like the rest of her conduct, it was nothing she was ashamed of. Unfortunately in this regard, at least, she's no aberration--as I learned recently at a park in my well-to-do Washington, D.C., neighborhood…. We exchanged information about baby-sitters, complained about the local supermarket, and spoke about our doctors--at least, until the older woman explained: "The same week that Bob got his warning that we have to go overseas, I missed my period. And I thought to myself, 'Oh, no, not another abortion!' " "Oh, I know," said the other. "It's so expensive, and you feel sick for days afterwards."…Proponents of abortion rights typically insist that abortion is a traumatic decision for women and not undertaken lightly. But the fact is that my neighbors in the park are not moral monsters. Neither are they moral philosophers, of course. They're ordinary, middle-class, stay-at-home mothers, best described not so much in positive terms as in double negatives: not unfriendly, not unkind, not unintelligent, not uneasy. Somehow, modern America has allowed them to develop the ability to casually discuss their multiple casual abortions with a stranger. What's going on here?…"

Insight Magazine 4/5-12/99 J Michael Waller Freeper pfesser "…. In open defiance of the Clinton administration, lawmakers in El Salvador overwhelmingly have voted to amend their country's constitution to declare that life begins at conception. Ratification was timed to preempt President Clinton's March 9 visit. "We wanted El Salvador to be the first country in the world to roll back an abortion law," explains Ricardo Enrique Posada, one of the amendment organizers…."

LifeSite Daily News 3/31/99 "…Speaking with LifeSite News just moments after stepping off the plane from New York, veteran UN diplomat Gilles Grondin told LifeSite that the UN Cairo+5 prepcom which was scheduled to end yesterday continues today despite sessions that went till 1:30am. The reason for the delay, says Grondin is that the G-77 countries are rejecting efforts by the West, particularly the European Union, the US and Canada to have an anti-family agenda dictated to them. "At every turn," reports Mr. Grondin, "sexual and reproductive rights are pushed on the G-77 countries." He confirmed that by these terms the West was referring to 'rights' to homosexuality, abortion, contraception, sterilization and sex-education to be granted from the age of 10. According to Mr. Grondin, the G-77 nations are demanding that the UN articles be chapeaued, thus allowing them to exercise national sovereignty, but the US and Western delegates are fighting sovereignty proposals with the help of the UN Secretariat. Mr. Grondin recalled that at the conference the Vatican delegate noted that whenever world "health" was mentioned only "reproductive health" was discussed. Furthermore, it was made clear that there was no end of money from the West available for reproductive health but that there were definite limits on funding for other health concerns. Mr. Grondin, a pro-life lobbyist at the conference and himself a former Western UN diplomat involved in human rights in the Third World, said, "I was ashamed to be from the West."…"

LifeSite Daily News 3/26/99 "…A group calling itself "Catholics for a Free Choice" (CFFC) has proven to be the furthest from Catholic in attempting to strip the Vatican of its voting status at the UN this week. CFFC is a very low membership front group for a number of powerful anti-Catholic U.S. foundations that vehemently oppose the Catholic Church's international influence on population- related and moral issues. Through CFFC, the Rockefeller, Ford and Playboy Foundations and International Planned Parenthood, have been attempting to spread a great deal of confusion about the church's position on these issues and to undermine the credibility and authority of legitimate, faithful church leaders and institutions. Wednesday, CFFC held a meeting entitled "A Challenge to the Vatican's Status at the UN" thereby launching a postcard campaign calling on UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to conduct an official review of the Holy See's status as a voting delegation at the UN. The pro-abortion CFFC was unsuccessful with a similar campaign in 1995…."

NewsMax (Inside cover) 4/6/99 "…Michael Eisner and his Disney Corp., parent company to Miramax Films, seems to have an obsession with defaming Jesus Christ. At least that's the way it looks by the advance word on the next Miramax movie release, "Dogma." …Disney and Miramax enjoy antagonizing Christians with blasphemy, having produced 1995's "Priest" and last year's TV sitcom "Nothing Sacred" on Disney-owned ABC. "Nothing Sacred" caused a fireball of protest from Catholic groups. Now comes "Dogma," the latest Miramax production, in which Disney's movie studio stepchild apparently outdoes itself. Monday's New York Post Page Six reports that "Among ['Dogma's'] elements are a trash-talking 13th apostle, the notion that Joseph and Mary had sex, a female descendant of Jesus who works in an abortion clinic, a Skee-ball-obsessed God and an updated Christ who no longer hangs from the cross but instead offers a thumbs-up salute." William Donohue, president of the New York-based Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, tells Inside Cover that he tried to contact Disney chief Eisner about "Dogma" last year but got no response. Now Donohue warns that if the movie is as bad as early reports indicate, he'll take on "Dogma" the way he did Disney's "Nothing Sacred." "We had a lot of problems with that show and worked successfully to kill it. We got 37 corporate advertisers to withdraw their sponsorship of the program," Donohue told Inside Cover…."

AP 4/13/99 Victor Simpson Freeper TheOtherOne "...Use of the ``morning after'' pill by rape victims is tantamount to abortion, a senior Vatican official said Tuesday, expressing church opposition to their distribution to Kosovo refugees by U.N. aid workers. He called the pill an ``abortion technique'' that should not be confused with contraceptives. The position stated by Monsignor Elio Sgreccia, vice president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, reflected the Vatican's firm opposition to abortion and its concern that rape victims would end their pregnancies. Sgreccia, writing in the Italian Roman Catholic daily newspaper Avvenire, was reacting to last week's announcement by the U.N. Population Fund that it was providing emergency reproductive health kits for about 350,000 people...."

LifeSite Daily News -- www.lifesite.net 4/8/99 "....On Monday the New York Post reported that Mirimax, a subsidiary of Disney, was preparing to distribute a film called "Dogma" - another gratuitous attack on Christianity. However, after the Catholic League threatened Disney with a major boycott, Mirimax announced yesterday that their co-chairmen, Bob and Harvey Weinstein, will personally buy thefilm rights for "Dogma" and will look for a new distributor for the film. As a result the Catholic league will focus its boycott and other actions on the Weinstein brothers and film writer/director Kevin Smith. William Donahue, president of the Catholic League publicized the substance of the movie after reading the script of "Dogma". "Smith says the movie is 'intended as a love letter to both faith and God almighty.' But in the movie, Joseph and Mary have sex and a descendant of theirs is a lapsed Catholic who works at an abortion clinic; it is said of Mary that 'Believing a wife never humped her husband - that's just gullibility'; God is played by (Alanis Morissette) a singer known for her nude videos and songs about oral sex; the 13th apostle resembles Howard Stern; the Mass is compared to lousy sex. This sounds more like hate mail than a love letter." ..."

Cincinnati Post 4/18/99 Andrew Conte "...The live birth of a 22-week-old fetus during a partial-birth abortion in Cincinnati earlier this month prompted abortion opponents to call today for new federal regulations banning the procedure. After undergoing the first part of a three-day abortion process at the Women's Med Center in Dayton on April 6, the unidentified mother experienced abdominal pains the next morning and was taken to a Cincinnati hospital where she gave birth, according to members of the Warren County Right to Life organization. The baby girl, dubbed Baby Hope by medical staff, apparently lived for about three hours as an emergency room technician rocked and sang to her. Physicians ruled that the baby's lungs were not developed enough to support life or to permit them to respirate her. 'It certainly underscores the need to pass partial-birth abortion laws immediately,' said Lori Viars, president of the group. 'The tragedy here is that no laws were broken.' ..."

Zenit News 4/19/99 Zenit News Freeper ex-snook "...In fact, because of the above policy, two NGOs -- Oxfam and Save the Children -- which are not even Catholic, decided to stop working with the U.N. on this matter, after they witnessed, for themselves, the disasters it provoked. Cascioli came to a harsh conclusion: "the true objective of the reproductive health services in the refugee camps is the coercive control of a population they do not want to see increase. There is a surreptitious racism in this logic, confirmed by the fact that the one which supports these U.N. programs, including in Kosovo, -- with money and personnel -- is the International Planned Parenthood Federation, the powerful organization which is the heir to the eugenic movement of the beginning of the century for which the 'selection of the race' continues to be a task of society."..."

LifeSite Daily News 4/19/99 "...The Canadian branch of the pro-abortion group "Catholics For a Free Choice" (CFFC) has joined ranks with its international counterpart in a campaign to strip the Vatican of its voting status at the UN. The organization's agenda, however, is being resisted by faithful Catholics, pro-life groups and non-Catholic Christian leaders..... CFFC is a very low membership front group for a number of powerful anti-Catholic U.S. foundations that vehemently oppose the Catholic Church's international influence on population-related and moral issues. Through CFFC, the Rockefeller, Ford and Playboy Foundations and International Planned Parenthood, have been attempting to spread confusion about the church's position on these issues and to undermine the credibility and authority of legitimate, faithful church leaders and institutions...."

Newsday.com, AP wire, regional 4/24/99 "... Raising further concerns about violence, a Rochester man was arrested Wednesday after pointing an imaginary rifle at a crowd of demonstrators. Police later found rifles, knives and ammunition in the back seat of 34-year-old James Krentel's car. Police said the Rochester man told them he thought abortion should be legal and was irked by the anti-abortion protesters who had traveled to Rochester. Krentel was arraigned Thursday on three misdemeanor counts of harassment...."

Orlando Sentinel 4/27/99 Charley Reese Freeper Cincinatus "...Today, killing is often presented in a flippant, emotionless manner as if the death of a human being was inconsequential. In many films, the so-called hero kills a man, cracks a joke; kills a man, cracks a joke; etc. Violent video games preach the same message: Killing is OK, even amusing. The federal government that legalizes abortion and prefers bombs to talks reinforces the message of the entertainment industry...."

EWTN News Brief 5/14/99 "...A House subcommittee on Thursday passed two amendments to the 2000 defense appropriations bill that would repeal the longstanding ban on abortion services at overseas military bases. The first amendment, sponsored by Rep. Steven Kuykendall, R-California, and passed by a vote of 11-7, introduces exceptions to the ban on public-funded abortion in cases of rape and incest. The second amendment was introduced by Rep. Loretta Sanchez, D-California, and would repeal a ban on privately-funded abortions. In 1996, Sanchez won the Orange County, California, House seat held by noted pro-life Republican Bob Dornan....."

Outrider 5/19/99 Freeper Thanatos Garry Wills "...An important new poll taken by USA Today/CNN shows that there has been a shift in the balance between those who are pro-life and those who are pro-choice. Those defending a woman's choice have declined from 56 percent in 1996 to 48 percent now. This still leaves the pro-choice people six points higher than those who are pro-life (42 percent, up from 36 in 1996). The change is attributed to the opposition to late abortions that has been spurred by conservatives who call it a "partial-birth" procedure. In a sense this confirms the people who expected that procedure to make people change their minds on abortion itself. But it will be dangerous for conservatives to pin their electoral hopes on this shift...."

EWTN 5/24/99 Freeper marshmallow "...A Clinton administration bioethics advisory panel will call for Congress to end its four-year-old ban on the use of federal funds in research using embryonic unborn children...."

http://www.ConservativeNews.org 5/25/99 Justin Torres "... The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), alarmed that falling birth rates in Pakistan will mean smaller and smaller groups of young people to support a rapidly aging population, has issued a call for increased abortion and contraception services for the young in the Asian nation.

In Pakistan, for the first time, reports UNFPA, the age cohort of one to four years old is smaller than the cohort of five to nine year olds-both in absolute numbers and as a percentage of the population..... Judie Brown of the American Life League (ALL), noting UNFPA's consistent support of no-growth population policies, asked, "Why would it be surprising that the very countries, like Pakistan, that have been the target of UNFPA's consistent demand for fewer children, would now be the very ones facing projections of an aging population?" Austin Ruse, director of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, a conservative NGO, said that fear of a population boom and what he termed an "anti-natal attitude" is behind calls for increased reproductive services in Pakistan and worldwide. "The world is now seeing the largest cohort of adolescents in history-about a billion-and this has UNFPA up in arms," Ruse told CNS..."

EWTN 5/27/99 CWNews.com "... A report by two pro-family groups on Thursday said the United Nations' Population Fund (UNFPA) may be violating the human rights of Kosovar refugees and endangering their health through its campaign to provide them with abortion and birth control. The Population Research Institute (PRI) and Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute (CAFHRI) reported that shipments of UNFPA's "reproductive health kits" have bumped basic medical supplies and even food from supply convoys to refugee camps...."

ZENIT News Agency 6/4/99 "....Between 1994 and 1998, the number of children saved from abortion in Italy increased significantly. Those saved with the help of the 100 Italian Centers of Aid to Life rose from 1,539 to 2,862 -- an increase of 86%. The number of women helped in these Centers increased from 6,554 to 10,402, an increase of 59%. Expressed in other figures, the number of children increased by 47% for women who received assistance. The Life Centers give the mothers every possible assistance: diapers, clothes, powdered milk, payment of water, electric and rent bills, medical care, and help in finding a home or employment. The Life Centers' work often fills the voids left by other public organizations....."

Original Sources 6/4/99 "...Deborah Zimmerman spent the day her daughter was born drinking at a bar. By the end of the day, her blood-alcohol level had reached 3.0 percent, more than three times the DUI limit of .08 in Georgia. Later, at the hospital where she gave birth, Zimmerman allegedly told a nurse that "I'm going to kill this thing because I don't want it anyway." Miraculously, her baby daughter survived, but was born with a blood alcohol level of .199 percent, twice the legal limit in Wisconsin. As a former prosecutor, I have no difficulty recognizing Zimmerman's actions for what they are. If the facts have been reported accurately, Zimmerman is guilty of attempted murder. Apparently, the State of Wisconsin agrees, because it charged her with first-degree intentional homicide and first-degree reckless injury. Unfortunately, a State Appeals Court in Wisconsin didn't see things the same way. In a highly publicized ruling, the court held that "[t]he term 'human being' was not intended to refer to an unborn child, and Deborah's prenatal conduct does not constitute attempted first-degree intentional homicide and first-degree reckless injury."..."

UPI 6/10/99 "... The owner of a controversial anti-abortion Web site has filed a $251 million lawsuit in Georgia against an Internet provider for closing down his Christian Gallery Web site. Neal Horsely of Carrollton, Ga., is asking (Thursday) for $1 million for breach of contract and $250 million in punitive damages, claiming Mindspring Enterprises made a "fundamental legal error" when it shut down his anti-abortion site and destroyed his electronic mail...."

EWTN Feature Story: www.ewtn.com 6/11/99 "...(Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute.) A few weeks ago International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) called for the elimination of the Vatican from its seat as an Observer Mission to the United Nations. IPPF accused the Vatican of having a 'broader political agenda' in its criticism of "emergency contraceptive" supplies IPPF and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) have shipped to the Kosovar women living in Albanian and Macedonian refugee camps. IPPF accused the Vatican of lying in their assertion that the "morning after pill" was tantamount to abortion. * Considered an "apex NGO," IPPF is one of the most important and powerful NGOs in the UN system. IPPF both carries out UN programs on the ground, and also maintains a leading policy-making role at UN headquarters. IPPF is an umbrella organization that directly links "family planning associations" in more than 150 countries. IPPF promotes what many consider to be the most advanced notions of sexual and reproductive health, including abortion on demand for all age groups, including children. * A major goal of IPPF is to change national laws regarding abortion and other "reproductive health services." IPPF says they intend to "increase the right of access to safe, legal abortion" and to "campaign for policy and legislative change to remove restrictions against safe abortion." More than 100 nations have some restrictions on abortion, each of them presumably are targets of IPPF action. * Also potentially troubling to the more conservative diplomats from the developing world is IPPF's promotion of sexual practices for teens and children. IPPF runs a website for adolescents in which various kinds of sexual practices are encouraged, including 'mutual masturbation, oral and anal sex.' The website calls 'casual sex' 'exhilarating and entertaining.' ...."

The Wall Street Journal 6/22/1999 Leslie Lenkowsky "...Groups favoring abortion rights have petitioned the IRS to withdraw the Catholic Church's tax exemption because of its endorsement of antiabortion candidates. Black churches have reportedly been warned that opening their pulpits to candidates might jeopardize their exemptions. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee has also been the object of complaints, including a lawsuit brought by former U.S. government officials, that it devoted more of its resources to backing candidates than the IRS allowed. Environmental groups have been particularly active campaigners. The League of Conservation Voters widely advertises its "dirty dozen" list of congressmen whose voting records it deemed unacceptable. The league keeps a "scorecard" indicating which of them are defeated. Because the IRS's decisions are confidential, we don't know what led it to rule against the Christian Coalition. It's possible but unlikely that politics played a role. (The congressional Joint Committee on Taxation is completing a report on allegations of political bias in the IRS's auditing of conservative political groups, which should indicate whether there is a problem in the agency.) ...."

NBC Chicago Online 6/25/99 Charlie Wojciechowski "...Francis Cardinal George is expected to lead nearly 900 people in a prayerful protest outside a Humboldt Park abortion clinic on Saturday. Following the dedication of the newly-renovated St. Sylvester's Church, Cardinal George will lead a procession to a Fullerton Avenue clinic that performs abortions. There, he will lead a silent prayer vigil. "We believe prayer can help change people's lives, open up new opportunities and new ways of thinking about problems, and help people choose life," said Nora O'Callaghan, a spokeswoman for the Archdiocese of Chicago's Respect Life office...."

Fox Newswire 6/30/99 "...The House Wednesday easily passed a bill that would make it a crime for anyone other than a parent to take a teen-age girl across state lines for an abortion. The vote was 270-159. The House passed the bill by a slightly bigger 276-150 margin last year. A Senate panel approved it but the full Senate never took it up, despite Majority Leader Trent Lott's support. The Senate has not yet taken action this year...."

EWTN News 6/30/99 "...A special United Nations General Assembly meeting on population issues, including abortion, contraception, and teen sex, began on Wednesday, after UN officials reportedly tried to set up a split between Catholic and Muslim nations on the topic. The Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute said this week that senior UN sources told them that Dr. Nafis Sadik, director of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), pressured the heads of six Muslim delegations in a late-night meeting during the preparatory conference in March. Sadik was said to have charged the Muslim diplomats with working closely with the Vatican and Christian organizations, and the Muslim delegates apparently reacted with anger. At this week's special session that began Wednesday and ends Friday, the G-77 developing countries and the industrialized Western nations were set for a showdown on population issues. After pro-life groups at the March meeting were successful in defending parental authority and defeating abortion and contraceptive measures, Sadik encourage a number of pro-abortion groups to apply for participation in this week's meeting to offset them....."

Associated Press 7/20/99 David Briscoe "…In a rare rejection of anti-abortion tactics, the House agreed today to fund U.N. population programs and cleared the way for a $2.4 billion bill aimed primarily at fortifying U.S. embassies against terrorist attack….. Congress last year rejected any money for the U.N. agency, which supports family-planning programs around the world…."

AP 7/26/99 "...With a majority of lawmakers opposing abortion, several limits on abortion that have come up in the state legislature this year have plenty of support. Abortion opponents are proud of the success of their movement,while a national pro-choice group gives Michigan an F for the limits it has adopted. The National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League ranks Michigan 42 out of the 50 states and the District of Columbia for abortion access..."

AP 7/30/99 David Briscoe "...Risking another clash with the Clinton administration over abortion and U.S. spending abroad, the House opened debate late Thursday on a $12.6 billion foreign aid bill. The legislation pushed by Republican appropriators had the tentative support of Democrats, despite their loud complaints about $1.9 billion in slashes from President Clinton's proposals. But major battles were expected to take place after House passage when the bill goes to a House-Senate conference committee. One would be over funding levels and another over an amendment, approved 228-200 Thursday, to prohibit U.S. aid to organizations that use privately raised funds to lobby in favor of liberalized abortion laws...."

HUMAN EVENTS 7/25/99 ANN COULTER "...Answer me this: If the right-to-life position on abortion is such a loser at the polls, why are liberals so terrified that the Court will overrule Roe v. Wade? All that happens when Roe is overruled is that abortion laws will be decided by popular election rather than judicial fiat. (And half the country can stop pretending to see something that doesn't exist, which has got to be a relief even to the most fanatical abortion supporter.) .... This is the sort of logical lunacy that emerges in any topic vaguely touching on abortion, or -- in the favored parlance of the lunatics -- "choice." The whole abortion dialogue -- especially on the make-believe constitutional right there to -- is like listening to Clinton explain his relationship with Monica...."

Christian Coalition 8/7/99 "...Here's a quote from Christian Coalition: If you actively support the protection of the unborn, take time to thank Wal-Mart for their courageous corporate stand against Planned Parenthood. A recent company policy from Wal-Mart says their pharmacists are not to stock , order or dispense PREVEN (the morning-after pill which can cause abortions ). This policy came out in fall, 98 & Planned Parenthood is applying pressure to get them to change their policy...."

http://www.eagleforum.org/column/1999/aug99/99-08-04.html 8/4/99 Phyllis Schlafly "...NEA resolutions support public school sex education that is "sequential, pre-K through 12" (i.e., for 14 years) and "comprehensive" (i.e., covering all types of sex including "diversity of sexual orientation" and "universal precautions," i.e., demonstrations of devices and explicit descriptions of all sex practices that do not result in a live baby). This means teaching sex ed without regard for moral principles, children's natural modesty about sex, the child's latency period, or parental wishes. NEA resolutions endorse school-based clinics available to "every" child (i.e., without exception) on a "confidential" basis (i.e., without parental knowledge). The NEA wants these school clinics to provide "services" (i.e., diagnosis, "intervention," and treatment), "birth control" (with demonstrations), and "referrals" (i.e., to abortion clinics). The NEA resolutions strongly endorse an abundance of counseling and "psychological programs" in the public schools. School counseling means psychological testing and treatment by non-licensed psychologists, all "confidential" (i.e., without parental consent) NEA resolutions repeatedly affirm that some courses and concepts must be "integrated" into, or made "an integral part" of, classroom teaching. This integration doesn't have anything to do with race; it means concealing controversial counseling and teaching (such as instruction in "safe-sex" devices, AIDS education, and suicide education) within various courses so parents can't discover it, object to it, or remove their children from it. The terms "sexual orientation" and "diversity," which is a code word for the same thing, are used in more than a dozen resolutions. They make it clear that the NEA endorses teaching the gay/lesbian agenda in curricula, textbooks, activities, training programs, and classroom presentations of role models. ..."

Front Page 8/13/99 Chris Weinkopf "...Jesse Jackson's Rainbow-PUSH Coalition, which routinely attacks corporations for hiring too few minorities, seems similarly nonplused about the suggestion. A spokesman high-mindedly answered that he wants to "see the study," which has been summarized in the Chicago Tribune but is not yet published, before commenting on its conclusion-that aborting indigent and minority babies makes the world a safer place. Representatives at the Congressional Black Caucus and the American Civil Liberties Union have yet to utter a peep, or return this writer's phone calls. The report, "Legalized Abortion and Crime," by University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt and Stanford sociologist John Donohue III, notes that nationwide, the number of abortions skyrocketed after the passage of Roe v. Wade in 1973. Crime, on the other hand, began to taper off eighteen years later, in 1991, when the first aborted babies would have entered the most crime-prone age group. Where there were many abortions, police reported fewer robberies, rapes, and murders two decades later. From that correlation, the scholars infer causality. They reason that since an inordinate number of abortion-obtaining mothers are unwed, poor, or ethnic minorities, their children, if born, are more likely to become violent criminals. The logic is dubious; the implications are downright frightening....The study's authors, and those who have embraced its findings, insist that they do not endorse the idea of abortion as crime control, but their words speak louder than their denials. Cory Richards, vice president of the Alan Guttmacher Institute, tells the Tribune that the study "is not an argument for abortion per se. [It] is an argument for women not being forced to have children that they don't want to have." But were "choice" all that is at stake, there would be no need to talk about national crime statistics. Implicit in the study is the suggestion that the country is better off for having permitted some 34 million abortions of demographically undesirable people. As Richard Posner, chief judge of the Seventh U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago, claims, "unwanted children are quite likely not to turn out to be the best citizens." Or, as one of the study's authors puts it, "Abortion provides a way for the would-be mothers of those kids who are going to lead really rough lives to avoid bringing them into the world." That sounds a lot like an argument for abortion......There are too many other factors-the rise and fall of the welfare culture, the burgeoning prison population, stricter methods of law enforcement-to determine conclusively why crime went up in the 1970s and down in the 1990s. Abortion probably has removed some sinners from the nation's ranks; it has surely taken some saints, too. That's all a matter of speculation, because 34 million Americans were deemed "unwanted" well before their time. "This idea of culling before birth," a Planned Parenthood spokesperson candidly confessed, "seems a little creepy." It's strange to hear an abortion proponent admit as much, while activists who claim to fight for the civil rights of minorities remain silent. The "unwanted" designation says more about those who apply it than those who are so defined. That America has dealt with 34 million lives so brutally is itself a crime-one that Professors Levitt and Donohue neglected to include in their tally..."

Edmonton Sun 8/15/99 Ted Byfield "...The abortion debate is closed, declared the political experts back in 1991. Minds are made up, they said. There's no point debating it because nobody is going to change his position. Today, eight years later, minds apparently have changed and are still changing - in the United States, anyway. In 1995, Gallup found only 33% of Americans declaring themselves "pro-life." Last year Gallup found the pro-life figure running at 48%. This year a feminist group called the Centre for Gender Equity announced in some alarm that 53% of American women now favour banning abortions, either altogether or permitting them only in cases of incest, rape or where the mother's life is in danger, exceptions that'd still leave 95% of abortions outlawed. This concurred with national polls being conducted for pro-life groups, except one in Wisconsin this month which found that 66% would prohibit abortion except in such dire cases...."

AP 8/16/99 "…A couple is suing their daughter's school guidance counselor for advising the 17-year-old to get a secret abortion and telling her, "Someday you'll look back on this and laugh.'' The federal lawsuit, filed Monday, also accuses counselor William Hickey of cashing checks from the girl's boyfriend using school district bank accounts, lying to teachers so the girl could miss school and drawing her a map so she could drive to the clinic in New Jersey. …"

The Arizona Republic 8/27/99 Karina Bland Chris Moeser "…A Phoenix judge is reconsidering his order to let a 14-year-old girl have a late-term abortion after child welfare officials questioned her competency. The court is expected to decide today whether the girl can go out of state to terminate the pregnancy as planned, sources told The Arizona Republic. At a closed hearing Thursday, Judge William Sargeant of Maricopa County Superior Court was handed a new report suggesting the girl is not competent to decide for herself whether to have an abortion, sources said. …. "

Associated Press 8/25/99 "…A judge has ordered state child welfare officials to take a 14-year-old girl who is 23 weeks pregnant out of the state for an abortion banned in Arizona. The abortion order was issued this month by Judge William Sargeant of Maricopa County Superior Court, The Arizona Republic reported today. The newspaper said Sargeant couldn't be reached for comment. The abortion must be performed outside Arizona because a new state law has essentially eliminated abortions in most cases after 20 weeks of pregnancy. …"

The Arizona Republic 8/26/99 Chris Moeser Karine Bland "…Gov. Jane Hull on Wednesday defended her decision to let a teenager who is 23 weeks pregnant be sent out of state for an abortion, saying it's in the child's best interests to resolve the matter quickly. Hull also disputed critics' claims that the abortion violates Arizona law and stressed that the 14-year-old herself chose the procedure after reviewing all her options. The decision created an uproar among abortion foes, who flooded radio talk shows and lawmakers' offices with outraged calls. House Speaker Jeff Groscost, R-Mesa, and other legislators continued to criticize Hull's decision Wednesday. But the governor refused demands to appeal the court order, issued Friday, requiring officials to take the girl to a state where abortions are performed after 20 weeks of pregnancy. Abortions are not currently performed in Arizona after 20 weeks…."

AccessArizona 8/29/99 AP "….The Arizona Supreme Court on Sunday opened the way for a 14-year-old foster girl to receive a late-term abortion. The high court voted 3-2 to overturn a state appeals judge's ruling Saturday that blocked the girl from heading to Kansas to abort her 24-week-old fetus, said John MacDonald, the supreme court's spokesman. No Arizona clinics currently provide abortions after 20 weeks. The court's chief justice and vice chief justice dissented, and would later explain their reasoning, MacDonald said…..Officials said the girl should be required to see a doctor to determine whether her fetus can survive outside the womb. They also questioned her competency…."

The Providence Journal 8/31/99 Karen Lee Ziner "…Capping a two-year struggle that ricocheted between the General Assembly and the U.S. District Court, a federal judge yesterday struck down the state's attempt to ban so-called partial-birth abortion as unconstitutional. In a 65-page decision that permanently enjoins the state from enforcing tha ban, Chief U.S. District Judge Ronald R. Lagueux sided with the plaintiffs -- the Rhode Island Medical Society, Drs. Pablo Rodriguez and Benjamin S. Vogel, and Planned Parenthood of Rhode Island, against the defendants, Atty. Gen. Sheldon Whitehouse and Governor Almond. "Put simply, the Legislature did not write into law what the defendants now claim that it intended," Lagueux wrote. "No reasonable reading of the Act matches what the defendants see there." …."

World Net Daily 9/1/99 Stephan Archer "…."Most levels of government, including the judicial branch, are heavily populated with people that are committed to abortion," says Attorney Tom Condit of Cincinnati. "Even a high percentage of people who claim to be pro-life in government actually do very little for the pro-life movement and do a lot to facilitate abortion." Condit spoke these words candidly to WorldNetDaily after the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a ruling made by Magistrate Karen Klein in the district court for the City of Fargo, N.D., late in July. Condit said this was the third favorable ruling towards pro-lifers by Klein that had been overturned by the Eighth Circuit. The case was initially brought before Judge Klein in 1993 following the arrest of Gilbert Copper and Adele Norberg on Aug. 20, 1991, for picketing in front of the home of Lynn Gifford, then a spokesperson for a Fargo abortion clinic….. "She's now three for three in getting reversed by the Eighth Circuit," said Condit of Klein's rulings. "What does that tell us? It's abortion jurisprudence. Justice Scalia on the (U.S.) Supreme Court had written in one of his opinions and Justice O'Connor -- back in the '80s -- had written in one of her opinions that there's no legal rules that appear to be safe when we take abortion cases. ... The First Amendment is violated every time we take a pro-life case." …."

New York Post 9/5/99 Rod Dreher "…IF the sickos in Arkansas accused of kicking Shawana Pace's pregnant belly until her 9-month-old unborn child died are convicted, they should spend the rest of their lives as part of a jailhouse harem. Pace begged her three attackers to let her baby live. But, according to Little Rock police, one of the masked killers said, "F--- you! Your baby is dying tonight." Pace lost the child at the hospital. Days later, police arrested three brothers, who have reportedly confessed to the deed, and said Shawana's boyfriend, Erik Bullock, paid them to do it. Cops then arrested Bullock. All four face capital-murder charges in the unborn child's death. This is thanks to the state's new law allowing prosecutors to charge assailants with murder if an unborn child 12 weeks or older is killed as a result of a violent crime. "The law came just in the nick of time," deputy prosecuting attorney Melody Piazza told reporters. "If we didn't have this statute at this time, we would be questioning whether or not the fetus is a person." But: if on that hateful day, Shawana had decided to end her pregnancy and had found a doctor willing to perform a late-term abortion, the baby would have died just as violently - and the law would have been silent…..The child's name, by the way, was Heaven…."

San Diego Union-Tribune 9/5/99 Louise Palmer "…The percentage of young women who believe abortion should be legal has dropped every year for nine years, setting off alarm bells in the graying leadership of the abortion rights movement. Support has softened in the very group that historically has powered the movement, from a high of 65.5 percent approval in 1989 to 49.5 percent in 1998, according to an annual study by UCLA of more than 350,000 students entering colleges nationwide. This statistical free fall has spurred a series of advertising, education, and recruiting campaigns across the nation aimed at young women who, abortion rights advocates say, have no sense of a world without access to legal abortion and birth control. The Pro-Choice Public Education Project, for instance, is running an edgy, in-your-face ad campaign using provocative images to get the "post-Roe generation" -- those born after the Supreme Court's Roe vs. Wade decision legalized abortion in 1973 -- thinking and talking…."

NewsMax.com 9/10/99 Mona Charen "….Everyone has heard by now of the study purporting to show that legalized abortion has been at least partly responsible for the drop in crime we have been experiencing nationwide. Initial reaction ranged from cautious (from those who believe it) to contemptuous (from those who don't). Could it be, many wondered, that Steve Levitt of the University of Chicago and John Donohue III of Stanford are recommending prenatal capital punishment? If we can take them at their word, they were simply searching for truth. The question is: Does the study illuminate the drop in crime, or simply play upon unspoken prejudices in the minds of most educated people? Steve Sailer makes an extremely persuasive case in the online magazine Slate (the liveliest site on the Internet) that the study is quite flawed. Levitt and Donohue began with a postulate: 1) that legalized abortion results, by definition, in fewer unwanted babies being born, and 2) that since unwanted children are more likely to grow up to be criminals than others -- an assumption bolstered by plenty of data -- then abortion should lead to lower crime rates. They tested this hypothesis by examining crime rates in the years after Roe vs. Wade became law. Eighteen years after Roe, they conclude, crime began to drop. Moreover, in the five states that legalized abortion in 1970, three years before Roe, crime rates began to fall three years earlier. Levitt and Donohue further found that those states that had high abortion rates in the mid-1970s experienced greater decreases in crime in the 1990s than states that had low abortion rates in the 1970s. Not so fast, says Sailer, businessman, gadfly and intellectual jack-of-all-trades. If Levitt and Donohue are correct, the kids who managed to get born despite legalized abortion should have been more law-abiding than previous generations. Instead, they launched the greatest youth crime spree in American history. According to FBI statistics, the murder rate for 1993's crop of 14- to 17-year-olds (who were born in the freely available abortion years of 1975 to 1979) was 3.6 times that of the children born between 1966 and 1970 (pre-Roe). If abortion reduces crime, Sailer continues, then the lower crime rates should have shown up first among the youngest (the wanted babies). But instead, the crime rate drop began among those ages 35 to 49. The 800-pound gorilla that Levitt and Donohue ignore, Sailer insists, is the crack epidemic that transformed urban neighborhoods in the 1980s. Looking at black males born between 1975 and 1979, Sailer notes that their youth murder rate grew 5.1 times. And although black women have abortions at three times the rate of white women, the black juvenile murder rate grew relative to the white rate, from five times worse in 1984 to 11 times worse in 1993. …."

AP 9/15/99 "….A violent attack that results in the injury or the death of a pregnant woman's fetus could mean an additional conviction and sentence for the attacker under legislation awaiting a vote in the House. Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee outvoted Democrats 14-11 to approve the bill despite warnings from Democrats that it eventually could weaken Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion. Eleven states already have similar laws, and this would be the first such law at the federal level. Federal law should recognize ``that an unborn child is not a nothing,'' committee Chairman Henry Hyde, R-Ill., said during committee debate. He called the fetus a ``tiny, living member of the human family.'' ……Graham said the bill had nothing to do with abortion. The bill's language specifically prohibits its application to abortions, he said, and it would not permit a woman to be prosecuted for taking any action - legal or illegal - related to the unborn child, he said. It also would not apply in cases where a fetus is harmed in the course of medical treatment, he said. ``This is about holding criminals accountable for their actions,'' Graham said…."

WorldNetDaily 9/15/99 Stephan Archer "…. A group of black pastors in New Jersey yesterday announced plans to march from Newark, N.J., to Washington, D.C., on behalf of the 1,452 black children aborted each day in the United States. …..During the interdenominational march, people will be carrying signs with the title "Genocide Awareness Project." These signs, which Hunter described as "graphic," will show the connection between the evil that happened in the past -- such as the Holocaust and the lynching of blacks -- with abortion. ….."This march is a civil rights march," said Owens. "We're organizing this march to tell our black brothers and sisters we have been duped into destroying ourselves. Even though we make up 12 percent of the population, we supply 33 percent of the abortion industry's business. We have fallen prey to the Margaret Sangers of the world."

New York Times 9/14/99 AP "…An assailant convicted of attacking a pregnant woman could receive an additional conviction and sentence if the fetus is injured or killed under a bill the House Judiciary Committee approved Tuesday and sent to the full House for a vote. Federal law should recognize ``that an unborn child is not a nothing,'' said committee Chairman Henry Hyde, R-Ill. Republicans outvoted Democrats 14-11 to approve the bill. ``A pregnant woman is two special persons,'' Hyde said, calling the fetus a ``tiny, living member of the human family. ... It is not a vegetable; it is not an animal; it is not a mineral.'' ``Most Americans will support this because it puts people in jail who attack pregnant women and destroy or harm their child,'' said Rep. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., author of the bill…..``This is a very clever proposal on the part of the gentleman from South Carolina,'' said Michigan Rep. John Conyers, the committee's highest ranking Democrat. ``This bill is another transparent attempt to score points in the perennial abortion debate.'' …"

St. Louis Post Dispatch 9/16/99 Scott Charton "….Missouri senators outlawed infanticide on Thursday, completing a historic override of Gov. Mel Carnahan's veto of legislation targeting a late-term abortion procedure. The Senate's 27-7 vote came a day after the Missouri House voted 127-34 to bestow new life on House Bill 427, which Carnahan called unconstitutional and a bid to criminalize many now-legal abortions. Critics of the bill said federal courts would be asked, perhaps as early as Friday, to put the law on hold pending a legal challenge….."

The New York Times 9/17/99 Jim Yardley "…To a large degree, Ashbrook remains a puzzle to investigators. At least publicly, Acting Police Chief Ralph Mendoza of Fort Worth and other officials said they were not certain of his motives. ….. Chief Mendoza said Ashbrook screamed insults about "the Baptist religion" during the shooting, but investigators had not yet discerned his motives. Ashbrook did not leave a suicide note or any written evidence of his intentions, the chief said. Ashbrook lived several miles from Wedgwood Baptist, and members of the church had no idea why he chose them as a target. "He was saying, 'Your religion is nothing, it's not worth anything, it means nothing,' " said Mary Beth Talley, 17, who was wounded in the attack. ….."

New York Post 9/17/99 Rod Dreher "…. We shouldn't be surprised that Reno and other elites have trouble mustering up much outrage over the mounting body count resulting from anti-Christian hatred. The number of Christians killed this year alone by fanatic gunmen greatly exceeds the number of abortion providers or gays murdered by right-wing haters. But one waits in vain for the federal task force or blue-ribbon government panel looking into the root cause of these bloody pogroms. One grows old waiting for a "Nightline" town meeting about the way Christians are routinely demonized by the news and entertainment media. To so many media figures, Christians - specifically evangelicals, orthodox Catholics and others who believe in traditional Judeo-Christian moral teaching - are not victims, but victimizers. They are so used to casting Southern Baptists and fellow travelers as buffoons and bigots that they find it hard to imagine them as anything but……If Larry Gene Ashbrook, guns blazing, had walked into a synagogue, a gay bar, an abortion clinic or even a black church service, there is no doubt what the government, cultural and media elite's reaction would be…."

The Sunday Times (UK) 9/18/99 Tom Rhodes ".... THE Federal Bureau of Investigation is studying claims by a white supremacy expert that the gunman who murdered seven worshippers at a Baptist church in Texas last week belonged to one of America's most radical domestic terrorist groups. Larry Ashbrook, 47, is said to have been a long-time disciple of the Phineas Priesthood, the paramilitary arm of Christian Identity, a racist group that has declared war on Jews and black people. The "priests" proudly boast that they are America's IRA....... Only later did it emerge, from conversations with informants inside Christian Identity, that there may indeed have been method to his madness. The hate group was said to be furious with local Baptist leaders for trying to encourage Jews to join their congregation. The Baptist church in Fort Worth was praying for Jewish conversions during the holy days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. John Craig, a leading authority on radical groups in America, says he interviewed Ashbrook three years ago during research for his acclaimed book on extremists, Soldiers of God: White Supremacists and Their Holy War for America. Ashbrook, a former navy recruit, told him he had taken up the priesthood's cause...... Contacts within Christian Identity confirmed that Ashbrook was the culprit and that he had remained an active member of the movement, Craig said. According to Craig, Christian Identity leaders immediately issued a call to arms after the Texas Baptist convention advertised its intention to recruit Jews two weeks ago. A group that denounced Jews could not tolerate the notion that they would be accepted into the bosom of Christ, viewing the initiative as an act of apostasy, Craig said. "My concern now is there are other members out there, and they feed off one another's actions." ...... Eric Rudolph, an abortion clinic bomber who is also suspected of the 1996 Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, is the poster child of the movement. It includes Buford Furrow, who shot children at a Jewish child-care centre in Los Angeles last month, Paul Hill, an anti-abortion activist convicted of killing a doctor in Florida, and Byron de la Beckwith, who assassinated Medger Evers, the 1960s civil rights activist.....Although no evidence had been found at his home to prove any connection to the Phineas Priesthood, police said that both the FBI and local enforcement officers were investigating Craig's evidence....."

The Observer 9/19/99 Denis Staunton ".... When Germany's Catholic bishops gather in the southern town of Fulda tomorrow for their autumn meeting, they face a choice over abortion and obedience that could split their church in two. Some are comparing the dispute to a battle over Papal infallibility in 1871 that caused hundreds of thousands of Germans to leave the Church of Rome and call themselves Old Catholics. The row has been sparked by an order last week from Pope John Paul II that pregnancy advice centres run by the church should stop issuing certificates that allow women to have abortions. Some bishops are threatening to defy the Pope. German women may only have abortions if they can prove they sought pregnancy counselling by producing a certificate issued by one of 1,600 pregnancy advice centres. The Catholic Church runs 270 of these centres and Catholic counsellors claim 25 per cent of the women they see decide to continue their pregnancy to full term....."

Ft. Worth Star- Telegram 9/17/99 "...- The jobless loner whose attack at a Fort Worth church killed seven people and led to his suicide was connected to a violent, anti-Semitic group as early as three years ago, according to the Houston Chronicle. Author John Craig told the newspaper in a copyright story for today's editions that shooter Larry Ashbrook boasted of membership in the Phineas Priests, an anti-Semitic group that advocates killing Jews and minorities. "When I heard about the shootings Wednesday night and I heard that the gunman was wearing black and killed himself, I knew it had to be a Phineas Priest," Craig told the newspaper. "I called some people I know in the white supremacist movement, and they told me it was Larry Ashbrook." Police on Thursday said they had not found a link between the 47-year-old Ashbrook and hate groups. But Craig, one of three authors of the book "Soldiers of God, White Supremacists and their Holy War for America", said the 1996 interview had left him convinced. ..... Experts said the group gets its name from an Old Testament Book of Numbers story involving a man named Phineas who kills a mixed-race couple to appease God. Witnesses to the shooting spree at the Wedgwood Baptist Church said Ashbrook spewed obscenities and ridiculed Baptists before opening fire on 150 teen-agers and adults attending a youth rally. He then sat down in a pew and turned the gun on himself. "It all fits too well," said Craig, a former undercover operative and private investigator who lives in Houston. Other Phineas Priest members linked to violence include Buford Furrow, who allegedly shot children in a Los Angeles Jewish day-care center and killed a Filipino-American mailman; fugitive Eric Rudolph, the alleged abortion center bomber also suspected in the 1996 Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta; and a man convicted for a series of Washington state pipe bombings and bank robberies in 1996. ...."

America's Real War 1999 Rabbi Daniel Lapin "....Little by little, year by year, those united behind a secular agenda have succeeded in imposing countless changes on Americans. Had the trend sometimes favored tradition and family and sometimes gone the other way, I doubt that a movement of Christian conservatives would be necessary today. But the trend has been overwhelmingly directed to only one end: It has inexorably shifted American society away from policies friendly to Judeo-Christian tradition. No sooner has one unfriendly change been successfully implemented than the next hostile policy initiative has been launched...... Madalyn Murray O'Hair's [1963 school prayer] victory marked one of these major changes...... In fact her son Bill Murray's autobiography [William J. Murray, My Life Without God (Nashville, Tenn.: Thomas Nelson, 1982] reveals that instead of a loving mother concerned for her son's rights or feelings, she was a violent and cruel woman who merely used her son to advance her goals..... After all, most Americans do not, while denying they are Communists, attempt to emigrate to the Soviet Union. After doing just that and being refused entrance by Russia, O'Hair returned home and began her crusade. As her son recalls, she was incensed upon hearing that he participated in school prayers: "You stupid fool," she said, slapping me hard across the face..... "The only way true freedom can be achieved is through the new socialist man-an entire race that lives for the state. Only when all men know the truth of their animal sameness will we have true freedom. Russia is close but not close enough, or they would have let us in. The CIA probably passed bad information on us. [emphasis added] "...Well, if they'll keep us from going to Russia where there is some freedom, we'll just have to change America. I'll make sure you never say another prayer in school!" On June 17, 1963, in an act of judicial fiat that went against the will of the majority of Americans, the Supreme Court, with only Justice Potter Stewart dissenting, awarded victory to O'Hair and defeat to millions of religious Americans. Perhaps is does not legally make a difference that O'Hair desired the destruction of this country and was a despicable individual. Or that the "hero" of another landmark decision of those years, Larry Flynt, was by his own admission "a scumbag." Or that Norma McCorvey, the true identity of Jane Roe in Roe v. Wade, now admits she was manipulated by others and profoundly regrets her part in the Court's landmark ruling on abortion....."

The Free Lance-Star (Fredericksburg, Va.) 9/20/99 Jim Lakely "….WHEN JAMES BYRD was dragged to his death behind a pickup truck last year in Texas, President Bill Clinton, Attorney General Janet Reno and most of the media denounced it as a terrible "hate crime." When, in that same year, University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard was singled out and killed because he was a homosexual, that was also labeled by our national hand-wringers as a "hate crime." But last week, when a man walked into a Baptist church in Fort Worth, Texas, and calmly assassinated believers, the media—as well as Mr. Clinton and Ms. Reno—scratched their heads in search of a motivation. Strangely, the fact that 47-year-old Larry Gene Ashbrook shouted "What you believe is bull----" while carrying out his evil, bloody rampage didn’t seem to trigger the same wailing about "hate crimes." That is an enlightening revelation…..The justifiable outrage of long-quiet Christians is beginning to surge forth. To quote only New York Post columnist Rod Dreher: "One waits in vain for the federal task force or blue-ribbon government panel looking into the root cause of [this] bloody pogrom. One grows old waiting for a ‘Nightline’ town meeting about the way Christians are routinely demonized by the news and entertainment media." Those are astute observations, as is Mr. Dreher’s point that the number of Christians killed this year by fanatical gunmen far exceeds the number of abortion providers or homosexuals murdered by right-wing crazies. Yet it is only the murder of the latter groups that raises a clamor for more hate- crime legislation. So now our society has come to this: We have sunk to the point where otherwise reasonable people are compiling a list of whose narrow group has been murdered more often. This is the divisive box that opportunistic politicians have opened by tapping certain groups on the shoulder with the sword of justice—a sword that is supposed to protect us all without favor. …."

Fox News 9/22/99 Lori Hinnant "...More than 250 demonstrators protested the first day of classes of a Princeton University professor who says parents should have the right to euthanize newborns with severe handicaps. The protesters - including about 60 people in wheelchairs - surrounded the school's administration building. Fourteen people were arrested when they refused to stop blocking the entrances. Police who guarded the classroom where bioethics professor Peter Singer was teaching said they will continue to do so as long as they feel it was necessary. In his recent books, Singer has said children less than one month old have no human consciousness and do not have the same rights as others. "Killing a defective infant is not morally equivalent to killing a person,'' he has written. "Sometimes it is not wrong at all.'' Marie Tasy, of the anti-abortion group Right to Life, said Singer's views - and their extreme interpretations - prey on the vulnerable. "Human history has shown us where this type of thinking can lead,'' she said. "If Professor Singer's views do not go unchallenged, there is a possibility that they could be adopted by health insurance companies, who are always looking to save dollars.'' ...."

The Asheville (NC) Tribune 9/20/99 William Fortschen "...Its time we faced up to it, killing those who believe in Christ is becoming something of a global sport. I'm writing this on a Thursday, the day after Floyd did his no show, our President flies home to be with his people during the big hurricane, and seven Christians, most of them kids, are murdered inside the sanctuary of their church. The dead kids seem to rank a distant third as far as most of the main stream media is concerned. The other local paper here in Asheville North Carolina ditched the dead Christians on page three. Floyd got the front of the sheet, with three stories. The other story on the front page was about a new chief for the local Cherokee Indians. Going down to the basement I prowled through copies of newspapers dating back several months. The shooting in the Jewish center in LA, an incident where there was a lone fatality at another location, pulled the front page and was still front page news several days later. Columbine was all over the front page for a week. The non-fatal shooting a couple weeks after Columbine at a school near Atlanta got the front page as well..... Seven Christians are murdered in a church. . .that's a no news item for most of the media. You see it just doesn't fit the profile of what they want. If it had been a white gunman mowing down a church filled with another ethnic group, or detonated a bomb while the children are at choir practice, thus demonstrating the so called inherent racism of America, that would be news for years to come. If he had burst into a gay bar, screaming homophobic taunts before opening fire, there'd be non stop live coverage and a protest march to stamp out hatred. If he had shot up an abortion clinic there'd be hell to pay and four hundred FBI agents hot on his trail. If he had done it with an assault rifle, rather than a legally purchased gun, that would have advanced the cause for gun control and then been front page news. If he had been part of a Serbian militia gunning down Moslems, rather than a Moslem militia murdering Catholics in East Timor our fearless President would be sending in the cruise missiles even as I write this. All of the scenarios I suggested above happened. All of them received screaming headlines, tearful reporting, Presidential declarations of outrage, and calls for more laws....."

Texas Straight Talk Ron Paul 9/21/99 "....Leave it to a zealous Congress to sweep away time-honored criminal law in an attempt to make a political constituency happy while actively ignoring the real issue. The House Judiciary Committee voted last week to approve the "Violence to Unborn Children." At its surface, this legislation has some appeal, despite the fact it unconstitutionally creates yet another federal crime. It is important to recall that the Constitution only allows three federal crimes: treason, counterfeiting and piracy. Setting aside those constitutional questions -- which Congress should never do, but regularly does -- it would seem to finally offer some recognition, at the federal level, that the child in the womb is indeed a human being worthy of protection. Backers of the bill say that it will offer legal protection to the fetus from those who attack it; that is, unless the attacker happens to be an abortionist or the mother. That's the part of the bill being kept quiet. This legislation, which is expected to come to House floor for a vote in a matter of weeks, specifically excludes from its jurisdiction violence done to an unborn child by an abortionist. The legislation states that nothing it should be "construed to permit the prosecution ... of any person for conduct relating to an abortion."...."

Washington Post 9/23/99 William Claiborne "....Abortion rights advocates said today they fear that a new Missouri law criminalizing one type of late-term abortion by terming it "infanticide" will be the prototype for a nationwide effort to get around federal court injunctions against late-term abortion bans in other states. Their fears appeared at least partly founded when Missouri state Sen. Ted House (D) said that since last Thursday night, when the bill outlawing what abortion opponents call "partial-birth" abortions briefly went into effect, his office has heard from legislators in a half-dozen states where the procedure had been banned and the bans were blocked in court. House, one of the bill's sponsors, did not name the states, but said, "I've had numerous requests for the bill and there obviously is widespread interest." He said he assumed that the interest stemmed from Missouri's unique approach of not defining the procedure in terms of abortion, but instead prohibiting the killing of an infant by any overt act performed when it is born or partially born. Such an act constitutes the felony crime of infanticide under the new law. "It draws the line between infanticide and abortion. This approach has never been litigated," House said. ..... The law defines a partially born infant as one whose head is outside the mother in a cephalic separation or its navel is visible in a breech delivery. In a partial-birth abortion, a pregnant women's cervix is dilated and after the fetus has partially emerged it is killed by inserting a suction tube into its skull and removing the contents. Including Missouri, 30 states have passed partial-birth abortion bans, and in 21 of them the bans have faced legal challenges. In 18 states, federal courts have blocked them with either permanent injunctions or temporary restraining orders; in one an injunction was stayed pending an appeal, and in two others enforcement of the laws has been limited by federal court order or the state attorney general....."

NYT 9/25/99 "… The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit rendered three crucial rulings on abortion yesterday, striking down as unconstitutional the so-called "partial birth" abortion statutes in Nebraska, Arkansas and Iowa. The language of the Nebraska and Iowa laws was nearly identical to definitions used in the Federal partial-birth abortion ban proposed in Congress. The court found that all three state laws placed an undue burden on abortion rights by outlawing even the procedures most commonly used prior to fetal viability. The rulings show that efforts to undermine abortion rights through the partial-birth ruse will not stand up to onstitutional review. Missouri, which was not a party in the three cases but is in the Eighth Circuit and will be governed by yesterday's rulings, recently enacted an extreme anti-choice law in the guise of a partial-birth abortion ban. Gov. Mel Carnahan showed political courage in vetoing the measure, but the Legislature overrode his veto. The Eighth Circuit decision has now shown that Governor Carnahan was right. …."

CNSnews.com 9/24/99 Jerry Miller "….Sarah Weddington, the Texas attorney, who successfully argued the Roe V Wade case before the U.S. Supreme Court, told CNSNews.com Friday, she considers the upcoming quest for the White House as critical to the long-term future of the court edict, which legalized abortion. Weddington made her comments in an interview with CNSNews.com, prior to a luncheon sponsored by Planned Parenthood of Northern New England. Weddington, who argued the case when she was 27 years old and is now a professor at the University of Texas, told the nearly 200 abortion advocates, the next president is likely to appoint at least two members to the high court, with the anticipated resignation of that many justices, following the presidential election. Weddington said she believes Chief Justice William Renhquist is most likely to retire, while Justice Paul Stevens, diagnosed with prostrate cancer, is probably second in line…..Asked to characterize the long and short-term future of Roe V. Wade, Weddington told CNSNews.com the long-term future depends on the outcome of the presidential election and warned a Republican victory could see the historic verdict overturned……"

New York Times 9/26/99 Steven Holmes "….A federal appeals court ruling striking down bans of a particular late-term abortion procedure represents the first significant legal step that may compel the Supreme Court to determine the constitutionality of laws barring the procedure. A three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down such laws in Arkansas, Iowa and Nebraska, declaring on Friday that the statutes were so broadly written that they also banned common abortion procedures that are used in the second trimester of pregnancy. As a result, the appellate panel said, the laws placed an "undue burden" on a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy. "This is the first circuit after trial to issue a final decision on the partial-birth abortion law," said Janet Benshoof, president of the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy in New York, which sued to overturn the Arkansas, Iowa and Nebraska laws. Laws banning the procedure, in which a fetus is partially extracted from the womb and then killed by the insertion of a tube into the skull and the extraction of the brain, have passed in 28 states and in Congress. President Clinton has vetoed the federal legislation and federal courts have either struck down or stayed implementation of 20 of the state laws……"

The Associated Press, via News Plus 9/23/99 "….The tax-cut veto was President Clinton's 26th. A sampling: …

--Nov. 13, 1995: Clinton vetoed a bill that would have temporarily extended the government's ability to borrow money beyond the debt limit. The veto led to a standoff with Congress over balancing the budget that resulted in a government shutdown…..

-- April 10, 1996: Clinton vetoed a ban on certain late-term abortions. In September, the House voted to override, but the Senate sustained the veto a week later.

-- Oct. 10, 1997: He vetoed another late-term abortion ban. In July 1998, the House voted to override, but the Senate sustained the veto in September.

-- June 20, 1998: Clinton vetoed the D.C. Student Opportunity Scholarship Act, which would have provided vouchers for poor children to attend private or religious schools. ``We must strengthen our public schools, not abandon them,'' the president said. The veto stood.

Oct. 21, 1998: Clinton vetoed legislation to pay $1 billion in delinquent payments to the United Nations because it contained an unrelated provision on abortion. The veto stood. …"

AP Wire 9/24/99 "….A federal appeals court panel today ruled that three states' laws banning late-term abortions are unconstitutional. A three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf's decision last year that said Nebraska's law is so vague that it potentially bans all abortions. The court issued similar rulings for cases out of Arkansas and Iowa. Appeals Court Clerk Michael Gans said the court dealt with all three cases at once because they were so similar. On the Nebraska case, Chief Judge Richard Arnold wrote: ``The difficulty is that the statute covers a great deal more. It would also prohibit, in many circumstances, the most common method of second-trimester abortion. ... Such a prohibition places an undue burden on the right of women to choose whether to have an abortion.'' …."

Reuters 9/24/99 "…. President Clinton and one of his top Republican opponents in Congress engaged in a rare political cease-fire Friday for an event to honor a national increase in adoptions and encourage more of the same. Seated in the front row at the Old Executive Office Building event was Rep. Tom DeLay, a Texas firebrand who was a driving force behind Clinton's impeachment by the House of Representatives last December. The reason for this public display of solidarity between two political enemies: DeLay and his wife Christine are raising two foster children, an 18-year-old daughter and a 17-year-old son who had been abused as youngsters. And the DeLays are active in issues involving children at risk. Mrs. DeLay works for a national organization that volunteers that represents court cases of foster children, Court Appointed Special Advocates……"

NewsMax 9/24/99 Brent Bozell "….The worst report came from Time magazine writer David Van Biema. Oh, he recounted that witnesses said Ashbrook called their beliefs a barnyard expletive, but he didn't really believe them. "That's a version being offered by someone who was there, but it's unconfirmed," he stated. "Yet, even if it is a pious invention, it gives a glimpse of the way some evangelical Christians, children and adults alike, are thinking these days about the string of killings in the U.S. in which they have been victims." A "pious invention?!" Van Biema found no FBI or police evidence of anti-religious feeling: "What no one found was any connection to the Wedgwood church or its congregation." By that ridiculously narrow standard, Ashbrook could have cursed Jesus all he wanted, but that wouldn't constitute anti-religious bigotry, since he didn't mention this singular church. But oh, how the rules change when the situation is reversed! Predictably, Van Biema didn't wait for confirmed evidence when Buffalo abortionist Barrett Slepian was killed last year: "Police were searching for a boxy, white car with Ontario license plates. And they are expecting, most likely, to connect it with an anti-abortion fanatic." The left created the phrase "hate crimes," to elevate homosexuals, primarily, as a special category. Rape and murder a woman, it's a crime. Murder a gay man, it's a "hate crime," for he was murdered for his beliefs. So why, despite mounting evidence from Fort Worth, Paducah and Littleton before that, are Christians not now victims of "hate crimes?" Some media outlets -- such as CBS, CNN, and Time -- apparently believe, to paraphrase Orwell's "Animal Farm," that some "hate crimes" are more equal than others…."

CBN News 10/5/99 David Snyder ".....The State of Illinois is investigating allegations of improper medical care provided to survivors of live birth abortions at a hospital in suburban Chicago. The live birth abortion method essentially causes premature birth, with the expectation that the baby will be born dead, or die soon thereafter. Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, Illinois has been charged with allowing some survivors of live birth abortions to die without administering adequate medical treatment. Labor/Delivery nurse Jill Stanek says live birth abortion infants are simply provided comfort care. "If a baby was born alive, a premature baby was born alive, an aborted baby was born alive, and we stuck it in a bucket of water to kill it, we would say that's murder. What is really the difference between that and just setting the baby on a counter or even holding the baby until it dies?" In a live birth abortion, doctors induce labor and the mother actually gives birth, sometimes to a living, breathing child. Since the procedure takes place in the second trimester, the baby cannot survive without medical assistance. Stanek alleges the "comfort care" does nothing to help the child survive. In one case, she says she held a little boy 45 minutes before he died. "He weighed about a half pound as I recall. [He had] all fingers, all toes. [He was] just skinny, not ready to be born, very weak, didn't cry. [He] just spent his 45 minutes just...gasping." When no nurse is available, Stanek says the infant is wrapped in a blanket and left in what is referred to as the "Soiled Utility Room." The Illinois Department of Public Health is investigating the charges. CBN News has learned the federal Health Care Financing Administration, which runs Medicare, is interested in the results......Pastor Tim Harlow of nearby Parkview Christian Church led an interdenominational prayer vigil outside the hospital Saturday morning. "This is nothing more than infanticide," he says. "This is clearly murder, as these babies are being born in a hospital that is charged with protecting them and caring for them and this baby is left to die there." Several hundred people gathered in a cold rain to sing hymns and pray for an end to the practice of live birth abortions. Some hospital personnel looked on from inside the hospital......"

FrontPage Magazine 9/29/99 Cleveland Free Times Laua Demarco "....Kopp is the executive director of the Ohio chapter of Feminists for Life of America, a self-described pro-woman, pro-life activist group that, due to their pro-life politics, was rejected from receiving booth space in the Lilith Fair Village, an area where assorted activists and vendors set up tables to inform/enlighten/sell products. In protest, Kopp and two other FFL members took a different approach this day: They bought tickets, put on gags and assumed their position in front of several pro-choice groups' booths. In spite of Lilith Fair's lofty goal of wanting to "raise consciousness about issues that affect women's lives," it's apparent not every viewpoint is permitted. The sight of a gagged woman standing in front of a National Organization for Women booth on a day meant to celebrate the female spirit couldn't make this point any clearer..... The barring of certain women from Lilith reflects issues affecting the whole movement. What does it mean to be a feminist in 1999? Can you censor other women and be a feminist? Is abortion the litmus test for feminism? Are minorities-racial or ideological-welcome? Are younger women welcome? Do they even want to join? Essentially, is there room for all women in the women's movement? ...... This one issue disqualified the group from the Lilith Village. But do FFL's views on abortion also disqualify them from feminism? It's a tough question. Whether or not pro-life and pro-woman are compatible inspires vehement debate in women's groups, nationally and locally. ...... It's hard to miss the hypocrisy of feminists censoring other women like this. Not only do such anti-woman actions buy into the idea that all women must think the same to belong to the girl's club. The logic behind them patronizingly assumes women aren't smart enough to hear all sides on an issue and decide for themselves. This view also fails to take into account recent studies, including one by former Planned Parenthood leader Faye Wattleton's Center for Gender Equity, that have found decreased support for abortion rights among women (Wattleton's group found the number of women supporting restrictions on abortions rose from 45 percent in 1997 to 53 percent in 1999). While this study has been dismissed by women's groups simply as evidence that devout and conservative women are becoming more politically vocal, the implication that the beliefs of these women don't matter as much as those of mainstream feminists doesn't diminish the findings. Obviously, not all women do think the same, nor should they have to. Younger women seem to grasp this idea more readily than their older peers....."

FrontPage Magazine 9/29/99 Cleveland Free Times Laua Demarco "....Clinton also hurt the women's movement in more straightforward ways. Women's groups enamored by his ardent pro-choice politics seem to have made a trade-off with the president, ignoring his actions (policy and personal) on other issues since he gave them this break. But overlooking the fact that the great protector is also a great womanizer-even when that womanizing included an intern putting out for the boss and getting a great job for her efforts-highlighted the hypocrisy in the established women's movement, giving fuel to its detractors and turning off many more thoughtful or moderate women...... And the brutal treatment Paula Jones received at the mouths of many in the women's movement only reinforced its image as elitist. Despite NOW President Patricia Ireland's assertion that their lack of support for Jones was based on her ties to right-wing groups, not her big hair, the message sent to poor women was loud and clear: "trailer trash" not welcome. ....."

Florida Times-Union 10/4/99 "....A state legislature does not have authority to repeal the Bill of Rights, as the U.S. Supreme Court hinted when it agreed to take up an appeal of a Colorado law restricting the speech of pro-life activists. In 1993, that state's Legislature made it illegal to counsel, distribute leaflets or display signs within 8 feet of others without their consent when they are within 100 feet of an abortion clinic. Colorado's courts upheld the law. But the Supreme Court sent the case back for reconsideration, admonishing the lower courts to heed its ruling against floating buffer zones imposed by a judge in a New York abortion clinic case. A state court upheld the law again, saying the Constitution gives legislatures more leeway to limit speech than judges. Not only did that stand the ''balance of powers'' doctrine on its head, it ignored logic. If the justices thought the precedent didn't apply to the Colorado case, they probably wouldn't have told the lower courts to study it. With the state courts defiant, the high court felt compelled to hear the case......"

Boston Herald 10/4/99 David Weber "...." Two bitterly opposed groups of abortion activists squared off at the edge of Boston Common yesterday, but it wasn't much of a fight because one faction largely ignored the other. Members and supporters of Massachusetts Citizens for Life (MCFL) ran a gauntlet formed by about 50 vociferous abortion rights supporters at the corner of Beacon and Charles streets. ``Keep your rosaries off my ovaries,'' the group, composed primarily of young women, shouted at the anti-abortion marchers as they filed by under the watchful eyes of a Boston police contingent....."

Insight 10/1/99 Kelly Patricia O'Meara "....The distribution of fetal body parts to scientists is a million-dollar industry. Researchers claim it's a necessary evil, but others fear that it may encourage some grim abuses. Scientists depend on human body parts for research they believe may yield breakthroughs in a number of diseases, such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, that affect millions of people. But the public largely is unaware of the way the laundry list of body parts for scientific research is filled. Those who oppose using human flesh for research wonder if knowing the gruesome details would make a difference to those who support the practice...... Of more than 50 such requests, or "protocols," submitted by scientists and reviewed for this article, none involved a deceased person more than 24 weeks old -- three weeks older than a fetus who could survive outside the womb. The "whole intact leg" protocol described previously was requested by a scientist who needed four to six "specimens (leg and hip joints) per shipment" from aborted fetuses 22 to 24 weeks old. Because the request called for the dissection to occur within 10 minutes of death, it is not difficult to imagine the required precision and speed of the dissection procedure occurring in a side room of an abortion clinic. . . . The men and women who perform these tasks are called "technicians" and are employed by companies that retrieve body parts, also known as "harvesters," such as the Anatomic Gift Foundation of Laurel, Md., and Opening Lines, headquartered in West Frankfort, Ill. These companies act as middlemen of sorts between the abortion clinic and the scientist. . . . Because the sale of human tissue or body parts is prohibited by federal law, the traffickers have worked out an arrangement to expedite the process from which they all benefit and still remain within current interpretations of the law. For instance, the harvesters receive the fetal material as a "donation" from the abortion clinic. In return, the clinic is paid a "site fee" for rental of lab space where technicians, employed by the harvesters, perform as many dissections as necessary to fill researcher manifests. The harvesters then "donate" the body parts to the researchers and, rather than pay the harvesters for the actual body parts, "donate" the cost of the retrieval (a service) via a formal price list......"

Insight 10/1/99 Kelly Patricia O'Meara ".... Similar sentiments are voiced by Rep. Henry Hyde, an Illinois Republican who is a staunch pro-life advocate. Hyde tells Insight: "I deplore any medical procedure that treats human beings as chattel, as a subject fit for harvesting. The humanity of every fetus should be respected and treated with dignity and not like a laboratory animal." The fact remains, though, that it's legal, and 1.5 million abortions are performed every year in the United States. It's legal, and tens of thousands of body parts from aborted babies are used in scientific research. It's true, too, that our laws provide no human-being status to an unborn baby. But despite this, unborn babies are considered human for the purpose of scientific experimentation." ....."

Chuck Baldwin Live 10/6/99 Freeper SLB "...As American troops liberated those Nazi concentration camps it became obvious the kind of atrocities that had taken place. General George Patton was so nauseated by what his troops had discovered that he required thousands of German citizens to march through those death traps to see for themselves what their government had done. People cried and vomited as they were confronted with the reality of Hitler's madness. Could it be that the American government is carrying out a similar madness? According to a report in the current edition of Insight magazine our government has, in the name of research, authorized the cannibalization (my word, not theirs) of little human babies. The law allowing such a pernicious practice, became effective in 1993 when President Clinton signed the National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act, which lifted the ban on federally funded "research involving transplantation of human fetal tissue for therapeutic purposes." In short, researchers, pharmaceutical companies and universities send "fetal-tissue harvesters" to abortion clinics with a list of desired body parts. The abortion clinic, in turn, provides those body parts from the corpses of the aborted babies. Technically, it is against federal law to sell the body parts. That is no real obstacle, however. The body parts are "donated" by the clinics after receiving a "site fee." Companies that traffic in the body parts of these little babies openly advertise their services. One company boasts that it is their "goal to offer you and your staff the highest quality, most affordable and freshest tissue prepared to you specifications and delivered in the quantities you need when you need it." Their ads go on to say, "Our specimens vary widely in range including but not limited to those listed below: lungs and heart block, spinal column and many more with appropriate discounts that apply if specimen is significantly fragmented." A smorgasbord of human body parts is on the menu, and the customer need only order what he or she wants. Since "fragmented" body parts bring a drastically reduced price, partial-birth abortion is the method of choice for killing the little children. This procedure insures perfectly formed "specimens." The going price for livers, up to 8 weeks old, is $150 with a 30% discount if it is significantly "fragmented." Brains, up to 8 weeks old, are $999, again, with a 30% discount if it is significantly "fragmented." Gonads, $550. Spinal cord, $325. By the year 2002 the cannibalizing of babies is projected to become nearly a $1 billion industry. ...."

Arizona Republic 10/6/99 Victoria Harker "....A federal judge in Tucson has ruled that Arizona statutes prohibiting the use of fetal tissue for medical research are unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge William Browning ruled in favor of a group of plaintiffs, including four people with Parkinson's disease and two Arizona affiliates of Planned Parenthood Inc. Studies have suggested that some fetal-tissue transplantations can produce dopamine and effectively treat Parkinson's, a progressive neurological disorder stemming from a patient's inability to produce dopamine, a substance in the brain that controls voluntary movement. ...... "I'm very disappointed with the federal judge who has chosen to disregard the will of people in Arizona in striking down a constitutional statute," Jakubczyk said. "It is once again an example of how logic is turned on its head when the subject of abortion appears before the court. "The pro-abortion industry is more interested in selling body parts than they are in seeking to cure any disease." ...."

NEW YORK POST 10/5/99 Rod Dreher ".....As a devout Catholic, Baltimore resident Jos Palacio was upset when he heard about the dung-and-porno version of the Virgin Mary on display at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. But when he heard museum director Arnold Lehman was behind the exhibit, he wasn't a bit surprised. "I thought, 'There he goes again,'" said an angry Palacio. Again? Yes. In 1996, when Lehman was director of the Baltimore Museum of Art, he infuriated local Catholics by co-sponsoring, with Johns Hopkins University, a film series on "religious extremism." Lehman's idea of a "religious extremist" apparently includes Mother Teresa of Calcutta. The museum screened a scathing attack on her titled "Hell's Angel," written and narrated by the left-wing English journalist Christopher Hitchens. Calling Mother Teresa a "ghoul," among other niceties, the fili lambasted her as a "reactionary" for speaking out against abortion and birth control. "Hell's Angel" also blasted Mother Teresa for associating with dictators and hitting up other famous figures of dubious moral stature, who gave her money to open AIDS hospices and shelters. It depicted her as a whore for publicity. This scurrilous attack on the Nobel Prize-winning nun took place under the auspices of the taxpayer-supported Baltimore Museum of Art....... During his 17-year tenure in Baltimore, Lehman was accused of gimmickry in an attempt to publicize the city museum. Some complained that by scheduling exhibitions like one on jukeboxes and another highlighting Warner Bros. cartoons, Lehman was drawing public attention to the museum at the expense of its reputation for seriousness. Picasso or Porky Pig? Who cares? Step right up, folks! Well, you can move the Barnum from Baltimore to Brooklyn, and still not exorcise the huckster's spirit. Either Lehman is merely a vulgar showman, or, as Jose Palacio called correctly three years ago, he's also got a serious problem with religious sensitivity. ...."

Creators Syndicate 9/28/99 Linda Bowles "…. Federal Judge Scott Wright in Kansas City, Mo., quickly responded to a frantic appeal from Planned Parenthood, and issued an order preventing the implementation of a law designed to prevent partial-birth abortions. The law, titled the Infant Protection Act, was passed in mid-September, when both houses of the Democrat-controlled Missouri legislature voted to overturn a veto by Democrat Gov. Mel Carnahan. The law applied to abortions not performed in utero, meaning they are performed outside the womb. That's what happens in the heinous and unnecessary form of barbarism called a partial-birth abortion. When all of the baby is out of the birth canal except the head, the abortionist drives scissors into the base of the skull, inserts a suction device, and sucks out the brain. Those who have witnessed this procedure report seeing the baby's tiny hands clenching and unclenching and its tiny feet kicking. This is clearly infanticide. State Sen. Tom House, a Democrat, captured the sentiment of the state legislature with this comment during a television interview: "This kind of brutality should not be tolerated in a civilized society." It is a procedure that is indefensible. Former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop said the following when President Bill Clinton vetoed a similar bill: "Clinton was misled by his medical advisers on what is fact and what is fiction in reference to late-term abortions. Because in no way can I twist my mind to see that the late-term abortion as described -- you know, partial-birth, and then, destruction of the unborn child before the head is born -- is a medical necessity for the mother. It certainly can't be a necessity for the baby. So, I am opposed to ... partial-birth abortions."……"

American Center for Law and Justice 10/99 J A Sekulow "…..Two weeks later, she re-joined her family in Pennsylvania and enrolled in a local high school. She immediately began meeting with one of the school's guidance counselors, William Hickey, to set up her classes and discuss her adjustment to the new school. Lonely and having a hard time making friends, Stephanie asked if there were any Christian clubs on campus like "Fellowship of Christian Athletes" or "Priority One" --both of which she'd been involved with back in Tennessee. "No," he told her, "The school doesn't support religious things." He added that students at her new school really weren't interested in Christian groups or activities. Meanwhile, Hickey was communicating with Stephanie's parents by telephone, answering their questions about their daughter's academic and social adjustments to her new surroundings. Within weeks, Stephanie discovered her pregnancy. Knowing how devastating this news would be to her family, she went into a panic--and turned to Hickey for advice. Her boyfriend, she said, wanted her to abort the baby . . . but abortion went against her own religious convictions, as well as those of her parents. What Hickey did not do, according to Stephanie, was: . . . offer her other options. . . suggest she talk to her parents . . . direct her to counsel with her pastor . . . giver her the number of the local crisis pregnancy clinic . . . or even discuss with her the seriousness of her situation. Instead, Hickey urged her to get a secret abortion, according to the complaint……"

American Center for Law and Justice 10/99 J A Sekulow "….. The following facts are alleged in the Carter's lawsuit against Hickey: * Hickey explained to Stephanie that she could get around Pennsylvania law by having her baby aborted in New Jersey. * He told the frightened girl again and again that abortion was her only option--that having the child would ruin her life. * He allowed Stephanie to use his office phone and make the appointment with the abortionist and to call her boyfriend. * Hickey cashed the checks her boyfriend sent to pay for the abortion out of school funds. * He even offered to get a friend of his--a complete stranger to Stephanie--to drive her to the abortion clinic! ……At Hickey's storng, continuous urging, she finally went in for the abortion. Following his directions, she left the school without her parents' knowledge for a journey of an hour-and-a-half, across state lines, with a girl she hardly knew behind the wheel to experience a major surgical procedure under general anesthesia. The abortion itself left Stephanie in extreme physical pain, with heavy bleeding, nausea, and vomiting….. When the devastated parents went to school to share the story with the principal, he assured them he would investigate. But shortly after the "investigation," he met with the Carters to thell them that while he could understand their dismay, "the school fully supports what Mr. Hickey did." ….."

Electronic Telegraph (UK) 10/13/99 Tom Utley "…..UNTIL this week, I had always thought it very unfair of people