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  From:  David (DavidABrown)    9/5/2001 12:08 pm  
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From:  The Pro-Life Infonet http://www.prolifeinfo.org
Reply-To:  Steven Ertelt infonet@prolifeinfo.org
Subject:   Pro-Life Groups Launch "Shake the Nation" Campaign
Source:   Cybercast News Service, New York Times; September 4, 2001

Pro-Life Groups Launch "Shake the Nation" Campaign

Washington, DC -- As members of the U.S. Senate returned to Washington
Tuesday, there was a little something extra in their mailboxes, and it
rattled.

More than two-dozen pro-family and pro-life organizations have joined
together to create the "Shake the Nation Back to Life" campaign. The
signature of the campaign is a baby rattle, with a card attached for
senators. The card states:

"Dear Senator, Please vote to confirm pro-life justices to the U.S.
Supreme Court, and do everything within your power to protect children
from all the brutal methods of abortion."

More than 20,000 of the rattles were mailed or delivered to senators'
offices today in anticipation of a scheduled meeting of the Senate
Judiciary, Administrative Oversight, and the Courts subcommittee entitled,
"The Senate's Role in the Nomination and Confirmation Process: Whose
Burden?"

The Florida pro-family group Center for Reclaiming America is spearheading
the campaign. Janet Folger, the Center's director and former legislative
director of Ohio Right to Life, says the rattles are just the first step
in a comprehensive effort that includes television commercials.

"The launch, the kickoff, and the first media buy, was over $2.2 million,
and the first buy will run in the Washington, DC market," Folger said.
"That portion is over $70,000, which will take us through mid-October."

The first commercial features numerous infants, holding rattles and
pro-life placards, super-imposed into video of the National Mall and other
landmark locations in Washington, D.C. The children are laughing and
smiling until a gavel drops and viewers see a mock newspaper headline
reading, "Supreme Court Okays Abortion." The infants then begin crying,
and the commercial shows their rattles and posters dropping to the ground,
as the children disappear from the screen. The commercial ends with a
voiceover announcer stating, "Tell your Senator to Shake the Nation Back
to Life."

Folger believes the positive nature of the commercials, and the large
number of groups supporting the campaign will influence both President
Bush and members of the Senate.

"This is more than an ad campaign," according to Folger, "there are now 24
national groups - virtually the 'Who's Who' of the pro-life and pro-family
movement that have, for the first time in history joined together to see
children protected again in our lifetime."

Folger says the campaign, particularly its television advertising
component, is not targeted just at President Bush and senators.

"We also need to bring a message to the American people, and let the
American people know the truth regarding abortion," she says. "We know ...
that the more the American people know about abortion, the more pro-life
they become."

Molly White, who had an abortion in 1981, agrees with Folger.

"I was not told any facts about abortion," White says. "I was rushed in,
and then rushed out the back door. And I've suffered 20 years of guilt and
shame, and anger and bitterness." She believes that women only choose
abortion to deal with unplanned pregnancies because of pressure from
others, and because of lack of accurate information.

Kristi Hamrick, a spokesperson for Shake the Nation, acknowledges that the
current climate of the Senate may not be the most conducive to securing
confirmations for pro-life justices, but she says it can be done.

"Republicans have not been in control of the Senate during many other past
nominations that have gone through. Scalia is a good example," Hamrick
recalls. "Democrats were in control of the Senate when he did go through."

While there is no vacancy on the court, three justices -- Chief Justice
William H. Rehnquist and Justices John Paul Stevens and Sandra Day
O'Connor -- are over 70. Many court watchers expect at least one
retirement within the next few years.

The Shake the Nation television commercial is currently airing on the CNN,
FOX, and MSNBC cable outlets, and on local ABC and CBS television
affiliates in the Washington, D.C. market. Folger says a nationwide
purchase of advertising time is one of the options under consideration by
the Shake the Nation coalition.

Gary Bauer, one of the co-sponsors of the campaign, commented, "Our
national conversations about abortion over the last decades have not been
about the truth of abortion -- the pain, the loss, the lies -- but about
the politics of abortion. And even then, too often the story overlooks the
reason for the debate -- the child whose life hangs in the balance and the
mother who thinks she has no options."

Heartbeat International, an association of pregnancy resource centers, has
arranged for at least one collection point in each state, to insure that,
after the rattles have been used to make their political point, they are
ultimately given to newborn babies.

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  From:  David (DavidABrown)    9/12/2001 11:27 pm  
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Subject:   Louisiana Abortion Facility Accused of Illegally Dispensing
Abortion Drug
Source:   Baton Rouge Advocate; September 11, 2001

Louisiana Abortion Facility Accused of Illegally Dispensing Abortion Drug

Baton Rouge, LA -- The Delta Women's Clinic expects to reopen next week at
an office in Baton Rouge but a pro-life advocate has claimed that the
abortion facility, in its previous location, illegally offered chemical
abortion drugs to a woman making a secret videotape.

Attorney Yigal Bander said the abortion business has not distributed
chemical abortion drugs, or any other drugs, illegally.

The abortion facility lost its building in a fire in July and opened
briefly last month at an office where the lease agreement prohibited
abortion procedures. Bander said the abortion business will be able to do
chemical and surgical abortions at its new site.

Pro-life advocate Richard Mahoney said a woman went to the location before
the abortion facility moved and was offered a chemical abortion drug by an
employee. The abortion drug, Mifeprex, is legal, but Mahoney claims the
way the clinic offered it to her is illegal.

The woman used a hidden camera to tape the conversation, Mahoney said.

Mahoney has provided the tape to news outlets and said he plans to give it
to law enforcement officials. However, authorities in the District
Attorney's Office, U.S. Attorney's Office and U.S. Drug Enforcement
Administration said late Monday that they had not seen the tape and were
not familiar with the allegations.

In the videotape, a woman who appears to be an employee discusses the
processes of both chemical and surgical abortions and their side effects.
She offers to give the woman the drugs for a chemical abortion that day,
but says a surgical abortion won't be possible until the clinic gets moved
into its new location.

She says that she won't be in the office over the next day or so, but if
the woman decides she wants the chemical abortion, she can meet the woman
somewhere to give her the medication.

Bander would not respond to questions about the videotape, which he said
was illegally, or at least improperly, obtained. "We don't think it's
worthy of a response," he said, adding that he has recommended some
changes to reduce the possibility of such videotapes being produced in the
future. However, Bander said, "no medications have ever been dispensed at
Delta without a doctor's approval."

Attorney Mike Johnson, who has represented women in malpractice claims
against Delta, said he contacted the state Attorney General's Office about
the videotape and was referred to federal authorities.

He said he also has been in touch with the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration.

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