·        Notebook

1.       The abortion clinic, Dayton Women’s Center in Dayton, Ohio is closing. This comes after a woman died there in October 2000 and after the clinic failed to pass the state’s health inspection.

2.       Pro-life protesters at Comprehensive Health Services for Women in Overland Park, Kansas were threatened by a man brandishing a pistol. Local law enforcement is investigating. Over the New Year’s Eve holiday, someone shot 25 rounds into that same clinic which was unoccupied at the time. The FBI is investigating that crime.

3.       A Connecticut man, Edwin Sandoval found guilty on 7 felony counts because he gave a woman the abortion-inducing drug, misoprostol, without her knowledge or consent.

4.       In New York, physician Stephen Pack pled guilty to injecting his girlfriend with the abortifacient drug, methotrexate, to cause her to abort their child. Despite the drug, the girlfriend, Joy Schepis, has given birth to a health baby boy.

5.       Testimony given in the Ohio legislature concerning a ban on partial-birth abortion: Abortionists are now saying that even in first trimester abortions, the “fetus” is not always dead before it exits the woman’s body. Some doctors testified to seeing intact fetuses, whose hearts were still beating, even in the specimen jar.

6.       Certain medical schools are using coercion and threats to increased the number of students who will be trained in abortion.

7.       Life Talk will now be aired weekly on Cornerstone Television beginning February 9, 2001.

8.       Studies have shown that Catholic women are just as likely to have an abortion as women in the general population. Evangelicals were almost as likely.

 

·        Political Scene – guest, Colleen Parro, President of the Republican National Coalition for Life

1.       The early days of the Bush Administration.

2.       Candidate Bush v. President Bush.

3.       Which pro-life initiatives he supports.

4.       Appointees and their positions on abortion.

5.       Exceptions that are allowed in the abortion issue.

6.       The role of the First Lady.

7.       Abortion problems will not be solved in Washington D.C.

8.       The local level is the key.

 

·        An Abortion Experience – guest, Cherie Driggs 

1.       She had an abortion after she got married. Had no feelings about abortion one way or the other.

2.       Her husband was unaware of the abortion for 10 years.

3.       Several years after the abortion, she saw a presentation on fetal development, and for the first time, the reality of what had happened when she aborted set in.

4.       She now does PACE which is counseling for post-abortive women.