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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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Activists speak out against abortions WASHINGTON Anti-abortion activists by the thousands marched with banners and placards in sub-freezing weather yesterday, buoyed by hopes that the new Republican-run Congress will curb the procedure.
Since then, anti abortion activists have stepped up pressure for a fresh plebiscite to confirm the abortion ban, with a number of independent members of parliament threatening to withdraw their vital support for the minority coalition government of Bertie Ahern in the absence of a referendum pledge.
We have also seen an escalation in attacks on abortion clinics spearheaded by Operation Rescue and other anti-choice activists.
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Todd Porter,
Gym Attendent
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After twenty hideous years of over a million abortions performed each year in this county, nobody, Nobody, NOBODY has criticized or questioned the role of heterosexual intercourse or anti-gay heterosexism in those numbers.
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Adam Findley,
Professional Motivator
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Vocal anti-choice advocates claim that most women who have abortions will suffer to some degree from a variant of post-traumatic stress disorder called "post-abortion syndrome," characterized by severe and long-lasting guilt, depression, rage, and social and sexual dysfunction.
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John Carthy,
Gun Shop Sales Assistant
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If an anti-abortion majority on the Supreme Court not only overturns Roe, but declares that life begins at conception or that a fetus has a constitutional right to life, abortion would be a crime in all states.
Anti-abortion groups had been driven out of business by racketeering laws, federal laws protecting clinics and personnel from harassment, state stalking laws, government regulation of pro-life run crisis clinics, and dozens of other inventive uses of legal sanction against their protests.
They would like to explain that being pro-family does not mean favoring parental involvement laws and that being anti-government does not mean opposing public funding of abortions.
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Mark Harris,
Priest
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If this is the case, since we can assume that some women seeking abortions are not particularly religious, anti-choicers would be following God's example by encouraging these women to abort their heathen fetuses.
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Bob Greenberg,
Congressional Candidate
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Anti-abortion activists claim that as long as the "pro-abortion" lobby is funded from the coffers of pharmaceutical giants and medical companies making billions of dollars on contraceptive imports and abortions, the pro-life movement has no hope of gaining influence inside the government's health and education ministries.
An anti-choice Bush nominee (replacing a moderate) could relegate Roe to the history books by providing the crucial fifth vote that determines there is no constitutional protection for abortion and overturns Roe.
Anti-abortion right extremists vow to fight it by targeting the doctors who use it and anti-abortion legislators in Congress are already preparing legislation that would restrict distribution to doctors who already do surgical abortions AND would create a REGISTRY of doctors who can proscribe the drug, ONCE AGAIN looking for a way to target abortion providers for harassment, intimidation, and assassination.
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