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August 2003

August 2003

--Broadcast Show #1 –

·        Notebook (Dzintra Tuttle and Mark Crutcher)

1.       Operation Save America held week of activism in Charlotte, NC July 13-19.

A.      Week of picketing, proclaiming gospel, and urging other Christians to get involved in pro-life activism

B.      Signed Emancipation Proclamation for the Unborn.

C.      Held Ecclesiastical Court in Front of Court Building to bring awareness about bad judicial decisions

(1)     Held court in contempt of God and Guilty of High Treason against the people.

(2)     Flip Benham arrested and spent day and a half in jail for breaking fire code.

D.      Law enforcement trying to keep Christians “in the closet, in their churches.”

2.       Pampered Chef & Brookshire-Hathaway removed from Life Decisions International Boycott list after dropping all corporate contributions.

3.       Florida Court rules that mentally challenged woman is allowed to have her baby.

A.      Gov. Jeb Bush was attempting to get guardian ad litem for woman to protect fetus.

B.      Guardian for woman decided that pregnancy is not problem, has decided against an abortion.

4.       Senator Barbara Boxer adds amendment to the Foreign Aid Bill that would allow funding for Family Planning Organizations who support abortion.

A.      This would overturn Mexico City Policy currently prohibiting funding these organizations.

B.      Amendment passed 53-47 with significant support from pro-abortion Republicans.

C.      More evidence that rhetoric of “choice” is a lie.

·        Michael Hirsch on Paul Hill (with Mark Crutcher)

1.       State of Florida has set date for Paul Hill’s Execution.

2.       Paul Hill never really got a fair trial.

A.      Mr. Hirsch had been asked by Hill to represent him at trial, the judge refused to allow Mr. Hirsch to represent Paul Hill

B.      Paul Hill was forced to represent himself at the initial trial (Mr. Hirsch did represent him in front of Florida Supreme Court)

C.      Judge refused to admit Mr. Hirsch to practice pro hac vice because he was not licensed in Florida

(1)     Mr. Hirsch has practiced in over thirty other jurisdictions and is licensed in three other jurisdictions.

(2)     Judge did allow Mr. Hill to represent himself, even though he is not licensed in Florida either.

D.      Paul Hill was prepared to argue defense of justification; not allowed by judge to make such an argument.

(1)     Was not allowed to talk about Florida law that allowed for justified defense

(2)     Was not allowed to allude to child killing, murder or abortion as wrong

E.      In addition, prosecutor made sure that anyone with a religious conviction was not in potential jury pool.

F.      No other subject where defendant would not be allowed to explain why he committed the crime.

G.     Paul Hill stood mute in the courtroom, not because he had nothing to say, but because judge had gagged him.

·        Uncommon Sense – Mark Crutcher

1.       Elementary school children being required to care for a bag of flour like a newborn baby

A.      This is an attempt to show the children how difficult raising a child is in order to convince them to wait until they are adults to get pregnant.

B.      Seems like a good idea, but it is not.

(1)     Even a married adult woman, trying to get pregnant would not want to carry a bag of flour for a week.

(2)     Experiment leaves out the unbounded love a mother feels for her child.

C.      Suggests to vulnerable children at a delicate age that they were once bags of flour that ruined their parent’s lives.

(1)     Reinforces societal attitude that children aren’t treasures to be cherished, but burdens to be endured.

(2)     12 year-old girl told newspaper reporter that she had always planned on having kids until participating in this program.

D.      Message is not that they shouldn’t get pregnant, but that they shouldn’t have babies.

·        Michael Hirsch on Paul Hill (with Mark Crutcher)

1.       Speculation that Bill Clinton and Janet Reno in contact with authorities in Florida over this case.

A.      When Government has show trial, they have to win.

B.      Needed to ensure that there was no way to have a hung jury.

(1)     Only one juror had to buy Paul Hill’s argument to create hung jury.

C.      Ramifications would be immense if the government had lost this trial.

2.       Paul Hill trial a good example of why death penalty is dangerous

3.       Every citizen entitled to a trial, Paul Hill did not get one, and he will be executed.

4.       Deep sympathy should be felt for Paul Hill’s family.

5.       Judge in Hill case has less respect for law and constitution than any criminal he has tried.

 

-- Broadcast Show #2 –

·        Notebook (Dzintra Tuttle and Mark Crutcher)

1.       Supreme Court has allowed decision against pro-lifers to stand.

A.      American Coalition of Life Activists produced posters listing known abortionists.

B.      Abortionists claimed to fear for their lives.

C.      Protesters concerned with other issues, such as civil rights, labor, etc. have had court rulings upholding their rights to list “evil” practitioners as free speech. 

D.      Its only because these people were pro-lifers that the courts ruled that way.

E.      Pro-lifers ordered to pay over $100,000 in damages.  Appeals court has said the amount should be reduced 

2.       Abortionist Matthew Kachinas convicted of battery

A.      Kachinas confronted pro-lifer, threatened her life and head-butted her in front of many witnesses.

B.      Kachinas required to undergo psychiatric treatment, anger management, fined $1,000 and given one-year probation.

3.       In China, “researchers” have kept alive a fetal heart for 35 days.

A.      Scientists took heart from fifty-two day old baby who was aborted.

B.      Shows humanity of baby and inhumanity of scientists.

C.      This is where embryonic research in the US is headed

4.       In Troy, NY, Sean Brown attacked his girlfriend, stabbing her in the abdomen to attempt to kill the fetus.

A.      Both mother and child treated and appear to be healthy.

B.      None of the “women’s rights” groups have spoken out against this.

5.       Woman forced by a judge to take birth control.

A.      Woman convicted of driving under the influence of drugs.

B.      Ordered by judge to undergo drug treatment and furnish proof that she was on birth control.  Judge told her “You’re going to stop having children you can’t take care of.” 

C.      Woman claims birth control pills make her ill.

6.       California passed law saying hospitals that are sold or leased cannot control practices offered by new management.

A.      Keeps Catholic hospitals from selling only under agreement that abortions will not be performed.

·        Ed Zielinski on legal risks to clinic workers (with Mark Crutcher)

1.        “Nuremberg defense” – I was told to do it – is not a viable defense for criminal activity by abortion clinic employees.

2.       Shredding documents, health code violations, fraudulent book keeping, falsifying information, tax fraud are common crimes that abortion clinic employees are asked to commit.

3.       No one is “forcing” an employee to do these crimes, even if they were told to commit them by their employer.

A.      One abortionist that went to Federal prison literally had two sets of books; his bookkeeper turned him in.

4.       Insurance and tax fraud is occurring in many clinics.

A.      Employees asked to prepare fraudulent doc

 
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