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Broadcast Show #1 --
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Notebook
(Dzintra Tuttle and Mark Crutcher)
1.
Texas
Legislature signs key pro-life legislation.
A.
24
hour waiting period and Right to Know legislation
(1)
Texas one of first states to include link
between abortion and breast cancer in informed consent legislation.
B.
Also
prohibited state funds from going to any organization that provides abortion;
Planned Parenthood to loose 13 million dollars.
2.
Missouri legislature cut family planning
budget by 5.1 million.
A.
This
follows a similar cut to budget last year
B.
Across
the country, Planned Parenthood appears to be on the run.
3.
In
Georgia, Charles Rossman on the run after being charged with third trimester
abortion.
4.
Ohio
Health Department attempting to close Martin Haskell’s clinic in Kettering, Ohio.
A.
Haskell
does not have transfer agreement with hospital as he is required to.
B.
Federal
Judge has issued a restraining order to keep his clinic from closing.
C. Pro-lifer’s holding prayer vigil in early August in front of Haskell’s
clinic.
5.
US
House has passed partial Birth Abortion ban by 2/3 margin
A.
Bill
going to conference; Senate version has language stating that Roe v. Wade
should be the law of the land; This will be key issue in conference.
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Ed
Zielinski, Life Dynamics’ General Counsel, on Child Predator Project Update
(with Mark Crutcher).
1.
In
Torrance, CA, Pat Arneson has gotten the school board to drop Planned Parenthood.
A.
Pat
used Life Dynamics information to convince school board of legal liability.
2.
Los
Angeles Police Department has begun to investigate whether abortion clinics are
reporting statutory rape.
A.
Pro-lifers
writing letters to the police department and key evidence in a suit brought by
Rich Ackerman against Planned Parenthood has convinced the Chief of Police to
have an investigator look into Planned Parenthood.
3.
These
developments came about by simply using the strategies and information that
Life Dynamics has already provided the public.
4.
Attorney
General Phil Kline in Kansas has
issued an opinion stating that abortion clinics must report evidence of abuse
of a child.
A.
Abortionists
and pro-abortion advocates arguing vehemently that this is state interference
in abortion; Kline’s office firm that this is about child abuse, not abortion.
B.
Abortionists
are admitting they violate they law and intend to keep violating the law.
5.
Pro-aborts
irate at laws charging feticide in Lacy Peterson case, even though there is an
exemption for abortion.
A.
Pro-aborts
afraid of public viewing feticide as criminal conduct.
B.
These
feticide statutes have exceptions that mirror language in other laws that
identify accessories crimes.
C.
Many
girls call Life Dynamics claiming they were forced to have abortions against
their will
(1)
If
the girl didn’t aid, abet, solicit or consent to an abortion, the feticide
statutes define this as murder.
(2)
A
large number of abortions occur without the women’s consent.
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Uncommon
Sense – Mark Crutcher
1.
Pro-life
movement is better off with many different groups, rather than one national
group.
A.
Many
groups means the abortion industry always under attack from different
directions with different strategies.
B.
One
group makes the pro-lifers an easier target for pro-aborts to attack.
C.
This
battle is going to be won community by community.
(1)
Moving
the battle to the national scene gives pro-abortion groups the advantage.
2.
Why
do we call people who are in favor of legalized abortion, “pro-abortion” rather
than “pro-choice”
A.
“Pro-choice”
is a hypocritical and inaccurate term
(1)
Three
human beings are involved in a pregnancy; mom, dad and baby; pro-abortion
advocates advocate choice only for one of them, and only some of the time
(a)
Many
women, especially minors, report feeling forced into an abortion.
(2)
Pro-abortion
advocates believe the government should be able to force taxpayers pay for
abortions.
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Mona
Passignano on abortion industry’s opinion of men (with Mark Crutcher)
1.
Quotes
from abortion counselors from 1991 National Abortion Federation Conference.
A.
Consider
men to be “the sperm donator.”
B.
State
that men don’t need counseling because they are jerks.
(1)
Counselor
found it uplifting to watch men break down and cry.
C.
Women
shouldn’t have to worry about taking care of men; women get abortion legal then
men expect to get something from this.
(1)
It
was men, not women, who legalized abortion.
(2)
Men
benefit more than women do from free, accessible abortion.
D.
Admit
they don’t think highly of men, women are oppressed by men, men are unbearable,
men don’t offer women anything.
E.
As
a field, abortion industry admits being angry at men and like to tell men they
have nothing to do with abortion.
2.
Abortion
industry dominated by lesbians who want all women to hate men.
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Broadcast Show #2 --
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Notebook
(Dzintra Tuttle and Mark Crutcher)
1.
Editor
of Los Angeles Times issues memo criticizing pro-abortion bias in his paper.
2.
Harvard
study shows that 73% of college students in favor of some kind of restrictions
on abortion.
3.
Gallup issues opinion survey on abortion
attitudes
A.
Similar
to last year: 48% pro-choice, 45% pro-life
(1)
Vast
majority of Americans believe abortion should be legal only in cases of rape,
incest, or health of mother. These make up only 3-5% of all abortions.
(2)
Women
are more pro-life than men. 56% of women think abortion is universally wrong,
while only 49% of men think it is universally wrong.
4.
Newsweek
issued study showing 58% of Americans believe that life begins at
fertilization.
5.
Medical
Science Monitor publishes David Reardon’s study showing 65% increase in
clinical depression among women who have had abortions as compared to women who
carried to term.
A.
Abortion
under-reported in this study, probably had much greater impact than study
shows.
B.
Life
Dynamics deals with many post-abortive women who suffer from depression.
6.
Planned
Parenthood in Houston takes pictures of protestors at
fundraiser event.
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Mona
Passignano on Third Trimester Abortion (with Mark Crutcher)
1.
Mona
went undercover to portray woman 21 weeks pregnant seeking totally elective
abortion.
A.
Had
no trouble finding people willing to perform the abortion.
(1)
Only
one clinic tried to talk her out of it.
B.
Elective
late-term abortions advertised on the web
(1)
George
Tiller advertises late-term abortion in every state.
2.
Quote
from Martin Haskell at 1998 National Abortion Conference
A.
Describes
ultrasound of late term pregnancy
(1)
Finds
head, lower extremities, spinal column, position of fetus
(2)
Explains
grasping the foot, pulling fetus towards birth canal
B.
Describes
performing a partial-birth abortion.
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Uncommon
Sense – Mark Crutcher
1.
Congress
has never passed legislation to meaningfully stop abortion because pro-lifers
define politicians as “pro-life” or “pro-abortion” based on what they say,
rather than what they do.
A.
Pro-lifers
need to pay attention to what candidates have done to actually try to stop
abortion.
B.
In
politics, you only get what you demand and pro-lifers have not demanded action
from politicians.
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