file: /pub/resources/text/ProLife.News/1992: pln-0209.txt --------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Life Communications - Volume 2, No. 9 May, 1992 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This newsletter is intended to provide articles and news information to those interested in Pro-Life Issues. Questions to readers and articles for submissions are strongly encouraged. All submissions should be sent to the editor, Steve (frezza@ee.pitt.edu). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- (1) WILL MEDIA IGNORE OKLAHOMA BABY-DUMPING? Oklahoma state official are conducting a complete investigation into the dumping and burning of 173 preborn babies in a field near Shaw- nee. Pottawatomie County District Attorney Miles Zimmerman said he was outraged by the case and promised to file charges as soon a the investigation was concluded. A local hospital official stated the babies must have come from someone performing abortions outside a medical facility. Of the human remains examined so far, none were more than 20 weeks old--just four weeks short of the state's definition of viability. The partially burned bodies were found by two fishermen investigating a strange odor. Pro-life activists are challenging the major media to investigate this grisly incident as well. "Dumpings and illegal disposal of human remains is becoming rampant," asserted Mrs. Judie Brown, president of American Life League. "It is time to call on the media to create the awareness necessary to restore respect for human remains, and to create the pressure necessary to allow enforcement of the laws already on the books." It is suggested that pro-lifers contact the following network programs with their requests for an investigation: 20/20 48 Hours A Current Affair Senior Editor Donna Dees, Press Rep. Isabel Fernandez, ABC TV CBS TV Field PD, WNYN TV 157 Columbus Ave., 524 W. 57th Street 205 East 67th Street New York, NY 10023 New York, NY 10019 New York, NY 10021 212 456-2020 212 975-4296 212 452-3500 Fax 212 887-2969 Fax 212 975-7133 Fax 212 897-8656 60 Minutes All Things Considered Geraldo Phill Schellfer, Ellen Weiss C.C. Dyer, Producer Sr. Producer, CBS TV National Public Radio Investigative News 524 W. 57th Street 2025 M Street, NW 311 W. 43d Street New York, NY 10019 Washington, DC 20036 New York, NY 10036 212 975-2831 202 822-2110 212 265-8520 Fax 202 822-2203 Fax 212 581-8196 Hard Copy MacNeil/Lehrer News Hr Nightline Dave Browde, Producer c/o Lester Crystel, Tracy Day, Fox TV Network, 23rd Fl Contact Chief Booker 15 Columbus Circle 356 W. 58th St, 4th Fl 47 W. 66th Street New York, NY 10023 New York, NY 10019 New York, NY 10023 212 373-7600 212 560-3037 212 887-4995 Fax 212 581-7353 Fax 212 581-7353 Paul Harvey News Prime Time Live ABC Radio Network Kim Spencer/Coordinating Producer Host/Producer ABC TV 333 N. Michigan Ave. 147 Columbus Avenue Chicago, IL 60601 New York, NY 10023 312 899-4085 212 456-1600 Fax 312 899-4088 Fax 212 456-1246 - Marty Helgesen ----------------------------------------------------------------------- (2) PRO-LIFE BOYCOTTS: DO THEY WORK? According to the March-April '92 newsletter of the Couple-to-Couple League, The following corporations are no longer donors to Planned Parenthood: Nutri/System, Inc. Marshall and Illsley Bank Metropolitan Life National Cash Register (NCR) Oshkosh B'Gosh Rockwell International State Farm Mutual Valley National Corp. Weyerhauser Other corporations who have joined the list of PP corporate sponsors: Johnson & Johnson (Tylenol, baby products, Band-Aid, also mfgs. Ortho birth-control pills Norwest Corp. (Banking and finance) Pioneer Hybrid (Seed Corn) Letter writers were sometimes told that the corporation had not provided funds to support PP's abortion business, but to support some nice-sounding neighborhood project for teenagers. A timely question: would that same corporation provide support if the same project were sponsored by the Ku Klux Klan? Planned Parenthood is known to be the nations greatest advocate of the evil of abortion, and it is probably the nation's foremost facilitator of teenage fornication with its clinics and provocative sex-education programs. Is there a worse organization in the country? ... It seems that one of our jobs in practical pro-life work is to help responsible people in corporations to understand that PP is even more notorious than the KKK. Does economic pressure work? There is no question that economic pressures have helped some corporate leaders to understand that it is not in the best interests of the company to contribute to PP. Letters have had a powerful impact. "The pro-life movement will succeed to the extent that pro-life people are willing to be inconvenienced." so says Douglas R. Scott, author of _Inside Planned Parenthood_. How right he is, especially when you look at the products of some of these companies: GENERAL MILLS: Cheerios, Wheaties, Betty Crocker, Gold Medal, Nature Valley, Bisquick, Yoplait, Gortons frozen fish, Red Lobster and Olive Garden restaurants. GRAND METROPOLITAN: Pillsbury, Burger King, Green Giant, Totino's, Jeno's, Alpo, and Haagen-Dazs. H. J. HEINZ: Ketchup, baby food, Chico San, Ore-Ida, Weight Watchers products, Shady Maple Farms, Starkist, Meaty Bone, Amore, and Nine Lives. Of responses received [by CCL], those from BP America seemed the most arrogant. BP remains proud of its contributions to PP, and readily acknowledges the loss of a valued customer if you disagree with such a policy. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- (3) HERITAGE HOME, SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA Recently on the net there has been a flurry of readers who have been as quick as lightning to deny that they have any moral responsibility at all to help pregnant women and their babies-- that it is enough to be ProLife. I would argue that practicing Christian ProLifers (non-Christians can take a breather, here!) have a demand from our faith to feed the sick, clothe the naked, etc.. You can hardly go two steps in the New Testament without Jesus emphasizing this sort of thing. To this end, there is a wonderful home for pregnant women of limited means in our area [San Jose] called Heritage Home. It is Christian run (weekly Bible study among other things is mandatory). Heritage Home offers a supportive environment with childbirth classes, counseling and more. The kicker is this... my contacts in Planned Parenthood tell me that if a woman of low means wishes to have their child and not kill it, they will refer her to Heritage Home because there is no other comparable secular place! THERE! Isn't that enough to get you-all goaded enough to get out there and help these women? The irony IS something, isn't it... - - - - - - - - - The Story of Heritage Home: - - - - - - - - - - - - - Heritage Home began in October of 1984, as a dream in the hearts of Gary and Diane Carroll. They had a deep concern for women in crisis pregnancy situations and wanted to give mothers an alternative to abortion. The Carroll's first step was to form a non-profit corporation. They then bought a 2-story Victorian house in need of restoration. The Board of Directors was formed in January of 1985, and work began immediately. Local companies (Apple, HP, IBM, and others), agencies of the City Council [San Jose, CA], local churches, and individual volunteers all pitched in to complete the restoration and make donations of equipment and funds. On October 1, 1985 (9 months after the house's purchase) Heritage Home opened its doors. Women started to move in. Thought there was no money for a staff, Kerrilyn McGarraugh was the first to move in to be a house parent. After 6 weeks she gave up her secular job and vowed to use her savings to help Heritage Home. She is here to this day. Two months after Kerrilyn came on board, Stephen Tolliver agreed to act as executive director. He left a secure position in banking and computer service to join Heritage Home. In late 1986 and early 1987, several informal programs were initiated including big sisters, birthing instruction classes, craft classes, shepherding homes, parenting classes, and an adoption support group. At one time, there was even a PregnAerobics class! In 1989, due to the number of residents accepting Christ, a one-on-one discipleship/accountability program was established with the help of Julie Cabrera. In 1990, extension housing became available. In 1991, God blessed Heritage Home with two more counselors from Maranatha Ministries. Individual and group counseling started every other week. Heritage Home is not merely an administrative success: it is fulfilling its mission to meet the needs of women in crisis pregnancies and their unborn babies. It has made a significant impact in the lives of over 370 women passing through its doors since October 1985. Crisis counseling has helped women escape the tragedy of unwanted abortion. Counseling has helped many of the women throw off addictions to drugs and alcohol. Families have been reunited and marriages have taken place. Adoption continues to fill many waiting homes with joy. Pregnant women with physical and mental handicaps have found a place at Heritage Home, after being virtually *turned away* from government institutions. Heritage Home is supported completely by individual donors and churches. It is a formula that works. We need your prayers, donations, and personal involvement to save babies' lives, to bring young mothers to the Lord, and to meet their personal needs (such as food, shelter and clothing). For more information, please write: Heritage Home, 435 N. Third Street, San Jose, CA 95112 or call (408)294-1238. --Dorothy Nelson ----------------------------------------------------------------------- (4) WHAT WORKS - FACTS ARE NOT ENOUGH Certainly it is convincing that pictures and medical information inform the intellect in such an overpowering way that it would be difficult to deny the humanity of the fetus, and thus point out the "wrongness" of abortion. However, we should remember that many people on "the other side," do allow for the humanity of the fetus; They pose the question of abortion as a matter of conflicting rights between two PEOPLE. Faye Wattleton [of PP] has mentioned publicly that she believes the fetus is a human being, not a potential person. She justifies abortion by the argument that the woman's rights are always in a higher realm, so to speak. That is, the fetus cannot assert her rights, but the mother can. My point is this: medical facts and ultrasound pictures can be a great help in convincing people who are perhaps somewhat apathetic about the issue or even perhaps just uninformed. But for the hardened pro-abort much more exacting insight is demanded of the pro-lifer...he or she must necessarily study the philosophical aspects of the issue. Example: Ask your typical pro-abort to define the word "right" and usually without much effort one could knock the foundation out from under them. Unless these people are completely devoid of the faculty of reason, the well-trained pro-lifer will almost always have the more compelling argument... and the pro-abort will know it. - Mark Viz, still here at Cornell... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- (5) AN APPARENT SCAM A letter from American Life League says that some people are receiving solicitations from "Combined Conservative Campaign for Life" which claims it is affiliated with American Life League. This claim is false. The "Combined Conservative Campaign for Life" appears to be a scam. - Marty Helgesen - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Quote Of the Month: "To admire mere choice is to refuse to choose." - G.K. Chesterton's "Orthodoxy" +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Credits: | | 1- From a letter distributed by the American Life League. | | 2- From "Jottings", by John F. Kippley, p. 4 of v XVIII n5 1992 ed | | of CCL "Family Foundations". Couple to Couple League is an | | interfaith, non-profit organization for the promotion of natural| | family planning. PO Box 111184 Cincinnati, OH 45211 USA | |QOM- Many thanks to reader Kevin Hammer | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ Anyone desiring information on specific prolife groups, literature, tapes, or help with problems is encouraged to contact the editor.