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Anti-Abortionist At Large: How To Argue Abortion Intelligently And Live To Tell About It is my autobiographical account of almost four decades of publicly speaking against, and debating on, induced abortion before radio and television audiences as well as community groups and on college campuses. Because much of this narrative unfolds in the context of my association with pro-life groups, the book is unavoidably also an anecdotal history of the pro-life movement in America, a movement that parallels in importance the anti-slavery movement of the 19th century. The book is equally a manual for debating against abortion. This, too, was an inevitable consequence of telling his story. My purpose in writing it, in the first place, was to share my experiences of speaking out on what has to be the most controversial topic of the past few decades. I've arranged the chapters the following way:

Chapter One, "Nobody's Ever Accused Me of Being Brilliant," offers three vignettes of my entry into the public debate on abortion, the first, a lecture before a class of troubled teenagers, the second, a guest appearance on a popular radio talk show in the San Francisco Bay Area, and the third, a debate on the University of San Francisco campus against a nationally prominent feminist philosopher. It would be a massive understatement to characterize the three events as "a learning experience".

Chapter Two, "Fighting Smog With a Crowbar," tells the story of the beginning of the national debate on abortion, as I saw it from my perch in the San Francisco Bay Area. Community groups and high school classes increasingly invited me, then a young assistant professor fresh out of graduate school, to address them on the topic of legalized abortion. As the debate progessed, we formed pro-life groups, like United For Life in San Francisco, to provide a register of scientists, philosophers, and lawyers who would be available to speak in public to counter the arguments pro-abortion groups like NOW and NARAL. The chapter gives an insight into the creation of California's first liberal abortion law, the "Therapeutic Abortion Act," in 1968 and tells of the demoralization the pro-life supporters suffered with the U.S. Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision in 1973.

Chapter Three, "The Man Who Wouldn't Have An Abortion," discusses my conversations with women who have had abortions and points to the "sexual revolution" as the reason for large number of legal abortions performed yearly in the United States. Chapter Four, "Bad Companions," evaluates the charge that the pro-life movement encourages violence against abortionists and their staff. The chapter leads into the evaluation with a discussion of the "boors and jerks" I"ve met in the pro-life organizations. Also discussed is the selective attitude society displays towards violence when large organizations and prominent figures see no inconsistency in condemning the death penalty or sending our troops to fight in Viet Nam, but, at the same time, turning a blind eye toward the wholesale killing of the unborn. My conclusion is that the violence that pro-lifers commit against pro-abortionists is verifiably miniscule, though unjustifiable. What is not miniscule and is equally unspeakable is the legacy of Roe v. Wade.

Chapter Five, "The Hidden Child," starts the "how-to" part of the book. There I present my experiences on the debate podium, mostly before students in a class of 700 at the University of California in Berkley. The directors of the program that sponsors the course have invited me to debate abortion every semester for 15 years now. "The Hidden Child" refers to my persistent experience of debate opponents who dodge questions like, "Is the fetus a human being?" and "Does induced abortion kill a human being?," as if these questions were fatal communicable diseases. I've seen my task in debate as that of staying doggedly on those questions despite all the distractions and dodges that my opponents and members of the audience use. In the course of showing the readers this dodge, I exemplify by actual experiences what I've learned are the do's and don't's of debating a hot-button topic like abortion. These rules-of-the-road extend from avoiding too much logic to attending to the way you dress for the occasion.

Chapter Six, "Rescuing the Hidden Child," presents the acutal argument I use in debate against abortion and my responses to objections that are leveled against it. It's an argument that I've sharpened over the past thirty-six years. Rather than trying to prove that the fetus is a human being or person from the moment of conception, I take the weaker position and argue that all the evidence mandates the conclusion that the fetus is probably a human being. Therefore the diliberate killing of unborn implies a willingness to kill an innocent human being. I then proceed to argue that legalized induced abortion violates the right to life and thus strikes at the very heart of the democratic charter.

Chapter Seven, "He's Not a Physician?," is a continuation of the claim I make in Chapter Five that pro-abortionists dodge the question of the status of the fetus. The chapter's title comes from the strident response an opponent from Planned Parenthood made about me when I accepted a request from a student in the audience to explain what "parial-birth abortion" is. I unfold the procedure, step by step, to show just how grisly the procedure is, pointing out that the acceptance of induced abortion, even at the early stages of gestation -- especially with such justifications as "Having the baby will ruin the girl's life," implies that it is all right deliberately to kill innocent human beings at any stage of life. Partial-birth abortion may repel the pro-abortionists as it does us. Why then, don't they condemn it? I believe their silence comes from the realization that, since human life is a continuum from conception until death, making abortion illegal during its later stages could lead to making it illegal at its earlier stages.

I end the book with Chapter Eight, "The Kiss of the Vampire." Its speculative character sets it apart from the earlier autobiographical chapters. It interprets the abortion culture as a manifestation of the vampire myth: just as the vampire sustains his or her life by draining the victim of life, so one consequence of the abortion culture - fetal tissue tranplants, embryo stem-cells for cloning, etc. - invite the destruction of unborn to improve the health and vitality of adults..
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'Something big, something really big is coming', the leader of extremist group Rescue America warns reporter Jerry Reiter. It is the first hint of new terror to come in Pensacola, Florida-already 'ground zero' for the nation's Culture War. As Reiter goes there to cover the murder trial of the first doctor slain in the holy war over abortion, he meets radicals from the Ku Klux Klan, Operation Rescue, and a militia man with duffel bags filled with semiautomatic weapons. Each person Reiter interviews offers up a different part of a frightening puzzle pointing to a plot with the potential to be the nation's worst act of domestic terrorism. The trail of blood that Reiter uncovers both takes him back to the mysterious circumstances of the first slaying, and down a road that will eventually lead him to become a reluctant informant for the FBI. With help from the FBI he will later witness a merger between militias and militant anti-abortionists that will send chills down your spine. Reiter's own life is changed forever by his experiences in the nation's culture war and his subsequent role as a leader in a movement called 'The Common Ground Network for Life and Choice'. Where he comes out at the end of the journey will surprise both pro-life and pro-choice people. Reiter, a founding member and activist in the Christian Coalition, shows that there are shockingly close (albeit indirect) ties between radicals and respectable conservatives, including such national figures as Pat Robertson, Pat Buchanan and the 'compassionate conservative' philosophy of George W. Bush. For instance, the legal defence for anti-abortion assassin Paul Hill is provided by an attorney working full-time in Robertson's legal machine, the ACLJ, the religious right's version of the ACLU. And by the end of the book, the reader will know where the religious right went wrong..
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Targets of Hatred charts the development of the anti-abortion movement in North America Beginning in the years preceding the 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision that legalized abortion, the book examines the roles played by the Catholic Church, Fundamentalist Protestants, and Republican and Democratic parties, and assesses points of overlap and divergence. The voices of more than 190 providers in the United States and Canada-clinic owners, doctors, nurses, technicians, and their families-give readers an in-depth look at what it means to work in a field in which arson, bombings, harassment, and killing are routine. Filled with dramatic, eye-witness accounts of anti-abortion terrorism, the book demonstrates law enforcement's failure to stem the violence and is a call to arms for concerned individuals..
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Bowers argues that, when correctly interpreted and applied, the Constitution and the theory of liberty on which it is based require government to reject the conventional pro-choice and anti-abortion perspectives as too extreme and incomplete. Instead, this book sets forth a position that government is constitutionally obligated to approach abortion policy from a middle perspective. Relying on a jurisprudence of original theory, Pro-Choice and Anti-Abortion forcefully asserts that government is constitutionally constrained to formulate abortion policy that is at once pro-choice and anti-abortion. In so arguing, this book walks readers through this constitutionally mandated middle position by introducing them to the liberal teachings of John Locke that were so influential to the framers of the Constitution and by applying this political theory to the major issues of the abortion controversy--including the individual liberty interest in the abortion decision, minors and abortions, the liberty interest of the fetal-being, and the Freedom of Choice Act..
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The True Story of Anti-Abortion Killer James Kopp

Sniper opens in October 1998 near Buffalo, NY. A man is alone in the dark in a forest. He clutches an assault rifle and is thinking about his mission "You can cut holes in the fences around the death camps," he thinks. "A trickle of relief in the abortion holocaust. It is your duty to do it." He nestles the rifle into his shoulder and shoots at  his target through the back window of a house, then flees. Barnett Sepia, a doctor who provides abortions, is fatally wounded.

The shooter is James Kopp, the son of a Marine, who came to embrace the pro-life cause and ultimately the notion of "justifiable homicide: against abortion providers. Kopp fancies himself a lone wolf in the movement; a celibate man driven to "defend the unborn." He is nicknamed "Atomic Dog" in the movement and helps orchestrate assaults on abortion clinics. As the story unfolds, he becomes the central figure in an international manhunt for multiple shootings in Canada. On the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted list, Kopp flees to Mexico, Ireland, and France. Award-winning journalist Jon wells followed Kopp's footsteps, traveled to his hometown, and interviewed investigators in the U.S., Canada, Ireland, and France to tell this gripping detective story and dark psychological drama..
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Title: IRS revokes tax status of far-right anti-abortion group.(PEOPLE & EVENTS)(Internal Revenue Service)(Operation Rescue West)
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication:Church & State (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 59 Issue: 10 Page: 17(2)

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