July Newsgram, 1995

Monthly Issues

NEW FORMAT AND RENEWED FAITH IN PRAYER AND LOVE

By Katherine Sabelko

You will notice that the format for the Newsgram has changed for this issue. Many of our standard columns and areas of interest are not in this issue. As always, we believe experimentation and change in the format is fun, interesting and a way of growth.

We will return to the normal format for the next issue. In this issue, as in all our publications, we present the latest information in the fight against abortion.

As I was preparing this Newsgram, one of our loyal prayer-people called in to give me an update on the abortion mill where he had been praying for the women inside to change their minds. Joe was praying at Abortion Services. 3549 E. Cambridge, Phoenix, where Robert Tamis kills babies. Tamis is referred to as a fertility specialist, but kills preborn babies in a small, run-down- looking gray house every Tuesday and Saturday.

Mary Wolfe takes an eight-foot Image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, which is displayed near the driveway of the mill. Another woman counsels those arriving for abortions as Mary and Joe pray the rosary.

As we give you Joe's report, we remind you that Tamis kills preborn babies through the 20th week, so many women entering the building are obviously pregnant. Joe reported that a couple who had entered the mill came back out, within a half-hour. Though the woman was crying, it was obvious, she was still carrying her child.

Another woman left the mill, but was in such bad shape she had to be helped to her vehicle. Abortion kills the baby and wounds the mother, always spiritually, and sometimes physically. One other incident caught Joe's attention. An older woman and one who was probably her daughter had entered the mill. They also came out sooner than normal,and it was obvious that the girl had not gone through with an abortion. Her slacks were damp on the seat. We could only guess what had happened, but we do know something went wrong before she could have her baby aborted.

These are not sensational stories, but the real world. Did praying the rosary, with love and concern for the women and babies, stop the death sentence? Was it the Image of Our Lady of Guadalupe being present, Patroness of the Unborn? We will never know. We do know that every time people witness to these women, in prayer and love, God's gentle hand will touch them.

IN THE NEWS

Pro-lifers continually hear the argument that abortion is not the most important issue in today's world. When the horror of abortion is raised in general discussions, usually the pro-lifer is immediately classified as a "one-issue" person.

As a rebuttle, we present just a few items that pop up in the American print media. As you are aware, it would be impossible to subscribe to every paper and magazine to research them for life-issue topics. We do present to you just a sampling.

Perhaps you will find it helpful to present this small sampling to your next "one-issue" challenger, hopefully showing the person that abortion IS THE ISSUE in America today!

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Omaha-World-Herald reported on 7/11/95, that the 8th Court of Appeals refused to hear a lawsuit by a woman who was suing U.S. West Communications because she was ordered to remove a pro-life button at work. The words on the button said "Stop Abortion, They're Forgetting Someone."

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The American Medical Journal , May 24/31 reported that the American Medical Association (AMA) has issued an opinion that "it is ethically acceptable to transplant the organs of anencephic neoates even before the neonates die, as long as there is parental consent and certain other safeguards are followed." [One can easily imagine Unio, South Carolina's Susan Smith, giving parental approval for such a procedure, But, other parents? Led on by the AMA?]

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The Toledo Blade, in Ohio, reported July 4, that the Ohio governor has been presented with a pro-life bill. The bill, restricting late-term abortions, passed smoothly through the Ohio House and Senate. Reports say they expect the governor to sign it. If signed, this law would make it illegal to abort a child past the point of fetal viability.

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The Washington Times Weekly, June 26-July 2, carried an article by Paul Bedard concerning Clinton's reaction to the failed Foster nomination. His report covers the sickening attitude of the White House "Angry that his nominee couldn't muster the needed supermajority to stop a filibuster, Mr. Clinton said 'a small minority are using this nomination to dictate a litmus test to the rest of America. That is wrong.'

"The President went before reporters to charge that Republican opponents of the Nashville doctor 'are in the grip of people who don't question my right to choose him, but question American women's right to choose.' "

[His anger was also very apparent on the national TV news coverage of the statement. I could almost envision blood-dripping fangs glistening in his mouth.]

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In Washington, D.C. Mother Teresa dedicated a shelter for women and their newborns. The Arizona Republic reported 6/20/95 that Hillary Clinton joined her in the dedication. Mother Teresa hopes that the shelter will help lessen abortions. Unbelievably, Hillary is reported to have pleaded for people to adopt more children. Adoption is not the problem. The problem is that Hillary's bunch is killing the babies before we have a chance to adopt them!

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Suzanna Fields' column in Washington Times Weekly, 7/3-9/95, referred to the same presentation of the shelter, noting that Mrs. Marion Barry, wife of the Mayor of the District of Columbia, was also in attendance. Fields pointed out, "The first lady supports abortion rights -- her husband says he'll make this the issue of '96 -- and Mr. Barry presides over a city where there are more abortions than live births, but it was easy for the three of them to agree that the shelter, purchased for the Roman Catholic Church by an anonymous donor, is a wonderful gift of life to the eight mothers, and their babies, who will live there until the babies are adopted."

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Letters To The Editor, Washington Times Weekly, 6/5-11/95 by Norma Truman commended Sen. Dole "for leaving a church that has morally fallen from their stand for what the church was created for." The writer went on to comment on the state of christianity today in America: "What God is saying to His people in the churches of today is as much as He loves He rebukes and chastens and He also says to be zealous therefore and repent. It is evident that God is calling the people in all churches to repent and return to Him."

* Though we understand why the author praised Sen Dole in this situation, I wonder what she would have said if she knew Sen. Dole, self-professed pro-lifer, has some of Arizona's biggest pro-abortion and pro-homosexual advocates as his campaign leaders for Arizona Grant Woods and Barry Goldwater!

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In a column in The St. Cloud Visitor, 6/29/95 Father Thomas Knoblach addresses the issue of the question of the life of the mother over the life of the preborn child. "As we saw, the pope clearly teaches that the direct and voluntary killing of an innocent human being is always immoral. This principle is now applied to the 'particularly serious and deplorable crime' of procured abortion. Not all see abortion in this light: "the acceptance of abortion in the popular mind, in behavior and even in law itself, is a telling sign of an extremely dangerous crisis in the moral sense....We need now more than ever to have the courage to look the truth in the eye and to call things by their proper name." The pope states that in abortion "we are dealing with murder."

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Barbara Streisand is still on top of the boycotted pro-abortion people list. Her lowest point of her career was when, during her recent musical special, she had the following words flashing across a huge screen behind her, "Keep Abortion Legal."

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Catholic News Service reported that the National Conference of Catholic Bishops had abortion and euthanasia on the top of their list of concerns. They issued a 29-page statement, Faithful For Life. The St. Cloud Visitor, June 29, 1995 reported , "The statement compares legal abortion and proposals of legal enthanasia in America to the nation's former denial of human rights to blacks in slavery. It also compares them to this century's Nazi campaigns to exterminate Jews, Slavs, Gypsies and the mentally ill on the basis of theories that classified those groups as "subhuman."

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Dr. Michael Rock, M.D. wrote to the Catholic Diocese of Phoenix' Catholic publication. This was printed in the "Letters To The Editor," in The Catholic Sun, 7/15/95, "Regarding abortion, the pope uses the analogy of Cain and Abel. God asked Cain after the killing of his brother, "What have you done?" and God asks us the same question regarding the legalization and toleration of abortion in our culture. He encourages all who continue to resist it. Physicans are encouraged by the papal support of the "still relevant Hippocratic Oath" which condemns abortion, suicide, and assisted suicide. The Gospel of Life tells us that amniocentesis is licit only when the results may be helpful in treating the individual baby in utero; and should not be used to identify and abort handicapped infants."

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Business Week covered the disadvantages of running an abortion mill in the May 4, 1995 issue. Sara Eckel reported, "The Long Island, N.Y., landlord who is trying to evict his abortion clinic tenant says he is pro-choice. He is sympathetic to the reproductive rights movement; he just doesn't want to have anything to do with it. He believes a woman should have a right to choose, so long as she exercises that right far, far away from his property."

Eckel continued, describing an incident of the use of butyric acid at an abortion mill in Port St. Lucie, FL. Eckel explained some of the problems that baby killers face in renting space for the death houses. "Though state courts have consistently ruled for abortion providers, most of the time, as with the Port St. Lucie fiasco, the provider never takes it to court. Providers will decide it's not worth it to stay where they are not wanted. If the building is sold, the new owner may refuse to reinstate the lease for a purpose that's hard to challenge, such as the Cedar Rapids, Iowa owner who said that he wanted to expand his own business into the existing clinic's space."

[It is worth noting that when an abortuary is forced to move, babies may be saved. They have to turn off their baby-killing suction machines, incur the cost of moving, signing new leases, ordering new stationery, new phone lines and wait for the pro-lifers to find and expose them again.]

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A bill is being developed in the House Judiciary Committee, led by Rep. Henry Hyde, to ban the "partial-birth abortion" procedure. This procedure was highlighted on C-Span during the discussion of Foster by Rep Robert Smith. Rep. Smith used a small doll to illustrate the "partial-birth abortion" or more commonly referred to by pro-lifers as the D&X procedure.

Pro-abortion advocates have presented several amendments to counteract the bill. The jist of the proposed amendments to exempt, the ban "for the health of the woman." It is the pro-aborts' same old song but still deadly for the child.

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Abortion Report covered a story in The Atlanta Constitution, reporting on an interview with Newt Gingrich on the topic of banning partial-birth abortions. Mr. Gingrich stated, "On abortion, there's an overwhelming majority in favor of some restrictions. The first bill will be a ban on abortions in the ninth month, or eighth month...The witnesses they have and the stuff they are going to lay out is pretty grotesque. I think it is going to be very hard for the left to explain why it's unreasonable to kill children at eight-and-a-half months."

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American Life League reported on Germany's changing stance on the abortion issue. They reported that East Germany had allowed unlimited access to abortion but that West Germany had severe restrictions. It has been announced that the united Germany will attempt to draft legislation that with create a compromise of the differing positions.

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The New American, 6/26/95 reported that at a pro-abortion rally near Vancouver, leaflets were handed out with material such as, "The Bible should be banned as hate literature. It advocates genocide against gays, it cherishes racism and is openly male supremacist... A good Christian education is an unconscionable form of child abuse." The article continued, "The stated purpose of the rally was to criticize Catholic leaders for their supposed indifference to violence against abortionists. Predictably, the event was a carnival of anti-Catholic hatred.

"The Vancourer protest followed an even more aggressive anti-Catholic display in Montreal. Human Life International (HLI), a Maryland-based pro-life group, held its annual conference in Montreal in early April. On April 19th, conference attendees assembled in Montreal's Notre Dame Basilica for a Mass, only to be set upon by a 3,000-person mob of pro-abortion activists.

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Abortion Report, 6/29/95 reports the following: "The International family-planning provision, which was to withhold funding to family-planning agencies in other foreign countries, was passed in the House on a 243-187 vote. The provision was approved as an amendment to the bill which applied to foreign operations. The bill considers and allows for abortions in cases of rape and incest and in the case of the mother's life being in danger."

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Newsweek, 7/17/95 carried a full page story on Pope John Paul II on the topic of the Church's response to women's issues. One excerpt from the article by Kenneth Woodward covers abortion, "But the pope is not about to sign up with the National Organization for Women. He praises ' those women who with heroic love for the child they have conceived, proceed with a pregnancy resulting from the injustice of rape."

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William Cheshire's column in The Arizona Republic, 7/4/95 exposes some abortion facts. "In Arizona, according to a 1993 report of the Arizona Center for Health Statistics, 204 abortions occurred for every 1,000 live births, which works out to a little more than 20 percent.

" 'The womb has become a place of savagery,' Michele Johnson in Arizona Review writes. In no other neighborhood is the annual death rate 20 percent.'"The good news is that this was the lowest percentage of abortions in the state since 1979, which suggests that an increasing number of Arizona women, rejecting the 'my body' solipism, recognize 'social' abortion as the serious and destructive procedure that inevitably it is."

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The Wall Street Journal, 5/26/95 reported that due to the new Congress, now led by the GOP, that abortion access will be targeted. Battle over the funding of abortion has risen to the surface. A house committee has voted to ban abortions at military hospitals. Serious discussion has been raised on stopping funding money to family-planning groups who provide abortions.

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The Wanderer reported 7/13/95 how sidewalk counselors are portrayed unjustly as violent. "Four-foot 11-inch Carmen Vazquez, 44, of West Haven is one of three Connecticut pro-lifers named in a lawsuit filed by state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and charged with terrorizing abortion-seekers at the Summit Women's Clinic in Bridgeport.

"Vazquez is a sidewalk counselor who has never been arrested or confronted by police in the six years she has counseled at the mill. "Deathscorts" nonetheless say that she, with the two others named, have assaulted mill escorts 22 times in the past year.

"The protestors will try to get face to face with clients, shouting things like, 'Don't murder your baby,' 'These doctors are killers,' and religious things like 'Jesus loves you,' reported one mill deathscort."

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The Tribune Newspapers, 6/26/95 published a commentary by Maggie Gallagher on the subject of the partial-birth abortion or, as we know it, D&X. She detailed the ban being considered in the House at this time. She went into detail of what a partial-birth abortion is and in conclusion said, "In proposing this painfully modest ban, pro-life forces are asking us: In the rapidly escalating process of defining decency down, is there any line we can draw and say that beyond this point we will not go: This choice - to stab a partially born baby -- we will in common decency renounce?

"Pro-choice spokesmen have given us their answer, and it is no.

"NOW president Patricia Ireland has denounced the bill, while Barbara Bradford of the National Abortion Federation has sent out talking points for pro-abortion activists, including 'Don't apologize; it's a legal procedure.' " 0

THE CHUCKLE

After reading all these excerpts, we need a chuckle, so we reprint this joke from Slick Times, July/August, 1995:

A man died and went to heaven, where he met St. Peter sitting at a desk in the middle of a great hall. On the walls were millions of clocks.

"What are those for?" the newcomer asked.

St. Peter said, "There's one for every living person on Earth, ticking out the days of their lives."

The newcomer noticed that the hands of some of the clocks were moving faster than others. "Why do they move at different speeds,' he asked.

St. Peter said, "Every time you tell a lie, you lose one day of your life."

The Newcomer looked around and then asked, "Do you have one of these for Bill Clinton?"

St. Peter answered: "Sure. It's in the back room. We use it for a ceiling fan."

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Ms. Dodie Londen Chairman Arizona Republican Party 3501 North 24th Street Phoenix, Arizona 85016

Dear Ms. Londen,

Enclosed you will find an open letter that we recently sent to Senator Dole. Since it fairly represents our view toward the Republican Party in general, I have enclosed it for your review.

In sum, until the Republican Party makes life-issues a priority, we will no longer support the status quo. We did not, nor will we pledge support until this happens. Four thousand die every day that there is no action.

Respectfully,
Mr. and Mrs. Chesterton

Encl: To Senator Bob Dole
U.S. Senate PO Box 96473
Washington, DC 20090-6473

Dear Senator Dole,

We have just received your letter. I (Pat) have admired your record of public service since I was a young girl and in the same sorority as your daughter Robin, when we both attended J.E.B. Stuart High School.

Your letter mentions a lot of things that pollsters and strategists think are on the hearts and minds of the American people. Things like "less government ... lower taxes ... balanced budget ... no more federal interference ... real answers to crime ... honest Congressional reform ... an end to unconstitutional racial and gender quotas ... a separate and protected Social Security Trust Fund ... a strong national defense." Your letter uses words like "horrified by the liberal left-wing agenda.". One would expect a direct correlation between the things the American people want and the "horrifying" alternatives proposed by the left-wing agenda. While the things put forth as concerns are just that, they are not horrifying even in the hyperbole capitol of the world.

What is horrifying is the wholesale slaughter of and medical experimentation with human beings on a scale not seen since Hitler's Germany _ in America today _ financed by unwilling taxpayers and encouraged by the elected government.

Your letter, and to a large part the Republican Party, appears to have missed the point. The message of the 1994 elections was: "Stop the violence.". Specifically, the violence of abortion against women and children. As I am sure that you must have noted, the people elected representatives who stood for life and defeated those who did not. I believe that it was unanimous.

Abortion, and its accompanying misery and lifelong grief, has now intimately touched the lives of most Americans. The spirit and example of state-sanctioned murder has polluted our national conscience. We cannot expect better from our children's generation as we grow old and are as defenseless as preborns ourselves.

Please lead the abortion reformation and put an end to the violence that sends the message: "It is okay to kill for the sake of economics and convenience." Until you do, or somebody does, many of us will remain disenfranchised. Because, you see, this is the benchmark issue of our time. The economy has its cyclical upturns and downturns, and, yes, the great correction is obviously inevitable at this point. But it is the scourge of abortion that is draining this country's lifeblood as well as its will to live.

Respectfully,
Mr. and Mrs. Chesterton

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