Capitol Ideas/Operation Rescue
Bethell, Tom
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...Colby carried a package la-Vice President George Bush, then they sit-in about 200 people met at the About a hundred people immediately beled Kendall Curity and another would have voted for Dukakis even church...
...tributes articles on the subject to the shouting incessantly at the top of their would put their energies into something It is worth noting that Operation Res- Wanderer...
...He told me the police would have been far rougher if these had been "peace" protesters trying to shut down a military base.ministers and priests...
...A few days before the nationwide Operation Rescue at the end of October, about 7,000 people had been arrested at sit-ins around the country this year, more than double the total for the previous twelve years combined...
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...Ron Maxson, who works for Operation Rescue in San Francisco, said that he thought there were more American clergymen in U.S...
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...Although the death peddlers claim they eventually opened that afternoon, they did not answer the phone throughout the day...
...Norman Weslin, nonetheless did say Mass with bread and wine smuggled in...
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...Weslin was thrown into solitary confinement...
...She was obviously uncombe happy to rejoin it if only its presiden- for the anti-abortion cause and con- hour there were about twenty of them, fortable: on the defensive...
...Among them was Anglican Catholic Bishop James 0. Mote of Denver, who spent a week in an Atlanta prison...
...He had come immediately, on the double, to help the abortion cause...
...There was something shocking about her comparative lack of interest in those warring over her...
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...This is like something you'd hear out of the Soviet Union," said Julie Loesch, who is with Operation Rescue in Atlanta...
...He recently said that the country is being "corrupted" by abortion...
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...In Atlanta, by contrast, where about 500 Operation Rescue participants were arrested in the first week of October, there were many complaints of police brutality, and according to Mary Meehan, whose coverage of the protests for the National Catholic Register has been among the best, "lawyers are gathering evidence for a federal lawsuit against Atlanta authorities, charging them with civil rights violations in their October 4 treatments of O.R...
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...They must have been up sumably had to be called at home...
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...There have been praiseworthy exceptions, notably Auxiliary Bishop Austin Vaughan of New York, who has been arrested several times at Operation Rescue sit-ins...
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...We have good reason to believe that the women entering the mill after the rescuers were removed were posing as clients...
...She just sat there puffing on a cigarette and refused to listen to a sidewalk counselor trying to talk her out of having a "procedure...
...Those who oppose abortion (the cardinal has illogically insisted) should also opposenuclear weapons, capital punishment, poverty, and what Catholic writer James Hitchcock has called a "seemingly quite elastic list of other issues...
...I still mourn the death of my unborn baby," it read...
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...I asked her though they disagreed with him on the next day were given instructions as Psalters had been distributed the night how many abortions were scheduled everything else—taxes, strategic defense, to what to wear, what I.D...
...One sat nonchalantly on the hood of a parked automobile fifty yards or so from the demonstration, looking with moderate indifference towards the two factions battling for her mind and soul, one group singing and praying, the other by now screaming with awesome ferocity...
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...Columnist George Will has stated "I go through a book a week using time otherwise wasted in taxis, shaving, or walking...
...Bernadin was even quoted in the Village Voice as repudiating Archbishop John O'Connor's 1984 statement that Catholics could hardly in good conscience vote for a pro-abortion politician (such as Geraldine Ferraro...
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...And so the leadership of the anti-abortion movement passed, by default, into other hands, primarily now evangelical Christians who may in some respect lack sophistication but whose great merit is that 'See You Reject Them You Reject Me: The Prison Letters of Joan Andrews, published in 1988 by Trinity Communications, Manassas, Virginia...
...According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, 31.4 percent of women having abortions in the U.S...
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...Those planning to be arrested sat down and blockaded the entrance...
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...Jeff White of Operation Rescue later wrote: "Four women and their unborn children were escorted to alternative pregnancy centers...
...and this much I can say: For them abor- ahead of the protesters and keep it open...
...About ten percent are paid for by in the movement whose natural home of Arthur J. Brew, a retired CIA man with their placards and banners...
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...The worst offender has been Cardinal Joseph Bernadin of Chicago, whose statements urging a "consistent ethic of life" have actually undermined the pro-life movement...
...The first two women who showed up that morning for "procedures," the euphemism for abortions now preferred by abortionists (who prefer to be called doctors), were black, and they were the only clinic clients I saw...
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...When last heard of he was still there...
...He was wearing a button that read: "Another Jew For Jesse...
...I can illegal, lest football huddles and surprise ning to arrive at the site along with the seemed to be taking their time...
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...He told me that religious services were not permitted inside, but that a Catholic priest, Fr...
...No doubt most pro-lifers sup- abortion demonstrators shrieked insults open for another half hour...
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...But we turned (How much money do these people tion is the only issue, politically speak- The Operation Rescue I attended was off at Daly City, just south of San Fran- make, by the way...
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...A good number of protesters at Daly City were Catholics, among them two priests from San Francisco...
...The black woman, who may not have been more than 18 years old, took another puff on her cigarette and said she was "pissed off...
...No abortionist was seen either entering or leaving the mill...
...Perhaps she had planned a shopping spree after her abortion, and now that would have to be postponed...
...She refused to give her name...
...Which shows what a little leadership will do...
...How much do aboring...
...The harridans howled: "RACISTS, SEXISM, ANTI-GAY, BORN-AGAIN BIGOTS, GO AWAY...
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...There they would phone their was a Saturday morning—most aborso may find it difficult to grasp the in- tion Rescue has found that the identity friends, ensuring the presence of a tions are apparently scheduled on tensity and power of the abortion issue of the abortion clinic targeted for block- counter-demonstration...
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...Eventually 135 protestors were carried away by San Mateo police and the Daly City clinic opened for business by about noon...
...The purpose of the exercise is at 5 a.m., having bellowed themselves pro-life forces were ten-deep in front of fault lines in our society...
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...A woman with a placard around her neck walked by...
...One must add the word ing the evening before...
...paddy man) from Binghamton, N.Y., who THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR DECEMBER 1988 11 founded Operation Rescue a year ago...
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...The effect of Bernadin's attempt to blend a leftist agenda into the anti-abortion cause under the rubric of "life issues" has been to confuse Catholics, help the Democrats, and, no doubt, lend a measure of aid and comfort to abortionists across the land...
...Alexandria, VA 22314 L 12 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR DECEMBER 1988 blacks account for 40 percent of Atlanta's abortions...
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...According to participants I have spoken to, press reports have downplayed the number of clergymen arrested...
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...But if police know the target on going past exit after exit, and I director of the clinic, fashionably anti-abortion activists in San Francisco beforehand they can arrive in force assumed the target was an abortion dressed, showed up with two assistants...
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...Her attitude suggested that she was merely irritated that the demonstration would delay her schedule for the day...
...These are questions one sought their vote by taking a more per- church in San Jose, fifty miles south of off outside a Planned Parenthood clinic never sees addressed by the news suasively pro-life stance than that of San Francisco...
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...Joan Andrews, who two years ago was sentenced to five years in prison for attempting (unsuccessfully) to unplug a machine used to suck fetuses from their mothers' wombs, and was only in the last month released from a Florida prison, wrote to Richard Cowden-Guido a propos the 1973 Supreme Court decision overturning state antiabortion laws: "I awaited the uprisingof the Catholic Church...
Vol. 21 • December 1988 • No. 12
