September 2003

--Broadcast Show #1 –

·        Notebook (Dzintra Tuttle and Mark Crutcher)

1.       Abortionist Brian Finkel in Phonenix, Arizona, is in trial for 67 counts of sexual abuse against 35 of his female patients.

2.       In Maricopa County, Arizona, the court of appeals has strengthened the requirements for judicial bypass for minor girls who are trying to get abortions without parental consent.

3.       A federal judge in Ohio is allowing abortionist Martin Haskell to keep his Kettering, Ohio, abortion mill open even though he does not have the required transfer agreement with a local hospital. The state health dept. is determining whether it will appeal the case.

4.       In Erie, Pennsylvania, abortionist Steven Brigham has opened a family planning clinic and plans to offer abortions there in the future. No hospital in the area will sign a transfer agreement with Brigham.

5.       On August 4, the California Life Coalition picketed Hillary Clinton when she was at a bookstore signing her book, “Living History.” Someone broke a pro-lifer’s sign. Someone else spit in a pro-lifer’s face and was arrested. But in the end, pro-lifers were able to have good dialogue with some of the people who were coming to have Hillary sign their copies of her book.

6.       The March of Dimes is covering up the link between abortion and premature birth on its web site. The group is studying why the premature birth rate has risen 27 percent in the past 30 years, which—perhaps not so coincidentally—is the length of time abortion has been legal in the U.S. The Elliot Institute, a pro-life research organization, says 48 medical studies show that one abortion increases the risk of premature delivery in subsequent pregnancies by 100 percent. The March of Dimes used to have a statement on its web site that three or four abortions may increase the chance of premature delivery later on, but has removed that information from the web site.

 

·        Ed Zielinski with Mark Crutcher: Will the Patriot Act save us or enslave us?

1.       U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft is trying to gain public support for the Patriot Act.

2.       NRA, ACLU, Eagle Forum all support the Patriot Act.

3.       “USA Patriot Act” stands for “Uniting and strengthening America by providing appropriate tools required to intercept and obstruct terrorism.” Ed Zielinski says that’s what the federal penal codes are for.

4.       The Patriot Act was passed immediately after the September 11, 2001, attack on America. It’s about 340 pages long and Ed Zielinski says it is one of the most frightening pieces of paper that has ever come out of Washington, D.C.

5.       The biggest reason for the Revolutionary War was to avoid British tyranny. The British had a “general warrant” where officials could search whatever they wanted whenever they wanted. Similarly, the Patriot Act allows a “sneak-and-peek” where law enforcement can go into someone’s premises with a much lower standard for a warrant, look around, and without letting anyone know that they’ve been there, continue to gather information.

6.       The Constitution was written to protect us from the government. We cannot give up liberty for security. President Bush and Attorney General Ashcroft may not intend to use the Patriot Act against pro-lifers, but we’ll have to live with the Patriot Act from now on. And future presidents may use the Patriot Act to investigate pro-lifers as if they are terrorists.

7.       Under Janet Reno, the U.S. Justice Department’s VAPCON project investigated the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and Life Dynamics by tapping the phones and opening the mail. The second Life Dynamics caught them at it and made a public issue of it, it stopped. Janet Reno denied the investigation until a Washington, D.C. think tank got the information through a FOIA [Freedom of Information Act] request and proved there was an investigation. Then Janet Reno had to admit that the Justice Department had used the federal government to go after the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and Life Dynamics as terrorist organizations.

8.       Muslims are afraid that the Patriot Act will target them.

9.       The Constitution is designed to protect our rights as individuals. When legislation such as the Patriot Act is used to circumvent the Constitution, we put our rights in serious danger.

10.   Mark Crutcher asks, “Do you want the Patriot Act in the hands of the government if Hillary Clinton is president?”

 

·        Life Dynamics has released a new audio presentation called “Fire & Ice.” TO ORDER: Go to www.LifeDynamics.com and click on “Products” or call 1-800-800-LIFE. On track one, abortionist Martin Haskell coldly describes to other abortionists at a National Abortion Federation conference what he is doing as he shows them a video of himself killing a child using the partial birth abortion method.  This audio presentation is available on audio cassette or CD. The presentation also contains recordings of people in the abortion industry admitting that abortion is the taking of a child’s life and that virtually all late abortions are done on perfectly healthy moms and perfectly healthy babies for purely elective reasons. Track two of “Fire & Ice” is Dr. Alan Keyes’ Independence Day 2003 speech. While Martin Haskell’s dispassionate killing of an unborn child will make your blood run cold, Alan Keyes’ speech will fire you up.

 

--Broadcast Show #2 –

·        Notebook (Dzintra Tuttle and Mark Crutcher)

1.       An abortion mill, All Women’s Health Services in Portland, Oregon, has closed citing problems of mounting debt to the tune of $100,000. They couldn’t afford to pay their staff or rent. They owe $80,000 to the U.S. government in back taxes. This abortion mill’s competition undercut their prices. Some time ago, in Kansas, an abortion mill lowered the price of an abortion to $99.95 to run a competing abortion mill out of business.

2.       The Baker (Oregon) Roman Catholic Diocese refused to allow the state’s pro-abortion governor to speak at a fundraiser for the Truman Club, which was to be held at the Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Sun River, Oregon. Pro-lifers threatened to picket the church if the governor was allowed to speak there.

3.       In Calgary, Canada, Bishop Fred Henry said he would deny communion to Prime Minister Chretien, who supports abortion and homosexual behavior.

4.       In the U.S., reports have indicated that abortion is being used as birth control. The abortion industry said this would never happen. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a report saying that in 1999, significant percentages of women were having three or more abortions. In Maryland, 15 percent of the women who had abortions were on at least their third abortion. In New York State, it was 14 percent; in New York City, it was 16 percent; there were no figures for California (a state with a very high abortion rate); and nationwide, 7.5 percent of women who had abortions were on at least their third abortion.

5.       In New York, the Haven Coalition – a network of homes for women to stay in while they are in town to have abortions – has been set up by pro-aborts. Abortion mills call the Haven Coalition for assistance and funds for women to have abortions. Dzintra asks why the abortion mills won’t give these women discounts, if they really want to “help” the women. Mark Crutcher says that the reason women travel to New York for abortions is that their pregnancies are advanced and they are looking for late term abortions, which perhaps they can not get in their states.

6.       In Connecticut, a former Southington High School basketball player accused her former coach, Raymond Acey, of sexually assaulting her, impregnating her, and convincing her to have an abortion in the 1980s. Acey does not deny sexual contact with the student, but says it was consensual. This is an example of how abortion is something that is done to women and girls to benefit and protect sexually irresponsible and sexually predatory males.

 

·        Mona Passignano (Life Dynamics Director of Research) with Mark Crutcher

1.       The abortion industry knows that abortion causes psychological injury to their customers.

2.       Mona looked at seven years worth of audio tapes from National Abortion Federation annual conferences, as well as tapes from Planned Parenthood conferences, to discover how the abortion industry handles the subject of psychological injury resulting from abortion.

3.       Some in the abortion industry say, “Don’t admit that there’s a problem.” Others say, “We have to admit that there’s a problem. Still others say, “There is a problem. Let’s try to solve it.” Mona goes on to explain.

4.       Women don’t call the abortion industry for help when they are suffering psychological injury from an abortion. After all, the abortion industry caused the injury. Instead, women contact pro-life organizations for help, and we in the pro-life movement are the ones who help women who are emotionally shattered pick up the pieces, and clean up after the abortion industry. However, the abortion industry claims to be pro-woman and accuses the pro-lifers of being anti-woman. It is obvious that it is the other way around.

5.       The abortion industry have worked very hard with the American Psychiatric Association and other organizations like that , to make sure that psychiatrists do not see abortion as a trauma-inducing event or a stressor for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. At one time, the psychiatric diagnostic manual listed abortion as a stressor. They have since taken it out, as if abortion is not a traumatic event.

6.       Mark gives an example of abortion causing psychological injury. A young  girl was pressured into having an abortion by her boyfriend. She attempted suicide later in the day that the abortion took place. She was hospitalized in a psychiatric ward, and her psychiatrist refused to listen to her claim that she attempted suicide because of the abortion, and told her she had to have attempted suicide because of another issue.