I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.
Phillips Brooks.
Anti-Life Philosophy.
Anti-choice people have no right whatsoever to confront any woman who
has made the decision to terminate her pregnancy. She has made up her
mind, and any attempt to dissuade her is pure harassment.
Besides, picketing, sit-ins, and so-called 'sidewalk counseling' lead
directly to clinic bombings, assaults, vandalism, and other acts of
terrorism by the less stable members of the anti-choice movement.
Introduction.
War hath no fury like a non-combatant.
British writer C.E. Montague.[1]
Christians are commanded by Proverbs 24: 11-12 to rescue those
being dragged to their deaths. True followers of Christ literally have
no choice in the matter.
There are several primary means to do this through what pro-life
activists call 'non-violent direct action.'
Direct action involves any activity that will act directly to take
money away from the abortionists and their toadies. Direct action is
also identified by its necessary face-to-face contact with women who are
considering hiring an abortionist to kill their children.
By contrast, indirect action supports direct action by making the job
of the frontline troops easier or by making the job of the abortionists
more difficult or unpleasant. Indirect action does not require
face-to-face contact with women considering abortion.
The four types of direct action described in this chapter are;
rescue missions
sidewalk counseling
picketing
crisis pregnancy center (CPC) work
The idea behind direct action, and particularly rescue missions, is
that writing and legislative action may very well preserve the lives of
babies not yet conceived at some undefined time in the future, but
direct action may save those scheduled to die RIGHT NOW!
Direct action has a long and honorable history all over the world,
but the anti-life movements believe that such action is purely their
domain. They want to reserve sit-ins and picketing exclusively to
themselves. They despise it when their own tactics are used effectively
against them, and hypocritically label such actions
"terrorism" and "harassment."
But this condemnation alone certainly should not deter pro-life
activists from saving human lives.
FRONTLINE ACTIVITY: Rescue Missions.
Faith without works is as dead as a body without breath.
James 2:13.
The Purposes of Rescue.
Rescue missions not only save babies and their mothers from abortion,
they create a firestorm of publicity that the pro-abortion people can't
put out with their best efforts.
Operation Rescue, Rescue America, and Rescue Outreach leaders know
that the longer the issue is kept before the eyes of the public, the
less comfortable the 'muddled middle' (and the pro-abortionists) are
with it. Discomfort breeds thought, thought leads to conversion, and
conversion brings action!
In just four years (1988 to 1991), more than 75,000 people risked
arrest and saved more than 400 lives at a thousand separate rescues.
Large operations involving more than 1,000 rescuers took place in
several large cities, including Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, New York, and
Atlanta.
Just as importantly, Operation Rescue has served as a stimulant for
the entire pro-life movement.
Making the Leap.
Organizing and/or participating in a rescue is a great leap of faith,
because pro-lifers open themselves up to arrest, jail, and lawsuits.
Still, anything the biophobes can do to rescuers is trivial indeed
compared to what they do to the babies. If there is an abortion mill in
your area that has not experienced several rescues, something is wrong
with your area churches!
One aspect of rescuing we almost always forget is the suffering of
families when a husband or wife must spend a month or more in jail. It
is our duty to reach out to these families and assist them through times
of need, particularly when a husband or wife loses a job that the family
needs for support.
If pro-lifers can make the trial easier for the families of rescuers,
they will be able to continue their inspiring activities longer. As
Richard Wurnbrand says in his classic book Tortured for Christ,
"I tremble for Western Christians who don't help their persecuted
brethren."[2]
For more complete information on rescue missions, see Chapter 81 of
Volume II.
FRONTLINE ACTIVITY: Sidewalk Counseling.
Sidewalk counseling is a tactic that can bring down the whole
structure of legalized abortion.
Notre Dame Law Professor Charles Rice.
A Parable.
As the old man took his customary early morning stroll along the
beach, he noticed a young girl picking up starfish and tossing them back
into the sea. He eventually caught up with the girl and asked her why
she was doing this.
She answered that the stranded starfish would dry out and die in the
sun if they were left where they were. The old man said, "But the
beach goes on for miles. There must be millions of stranded starfish.
How can your effort make any difference?"
The little girl gazed briefly at the starfish in her hand before
tossing it to safety in the waves. "It makes a difference to this
one," she answered.
The Purpose of Sidewalk Counseling.
Sidewalk counseling is a last minute intervention with women who have
made appointments to kill their children or who have had pregnancy tests
and may be considering abortion.
The task of the sidewalk counselor is to offer the truth to these
women in the form of information on resources that may help them through
a crisis pregnancy, and by offering facts about fetal development that
will certainly not be provided inside the clinic.
Sidewalk counseling is a completely legal activity that has saved
more lives than any other direct-action pro-life activity including
rescue missions. It is no exaggeration to say that consistent sidewalk
counseling has saved at least 100,000 preborn babies from a
horrible death. There is no feeling in the world that compares to
holding a little newborn in your own hands that would have died if not
for your efforts.
According to Proverbs 24:11, it is within our power, with God's help,
to save the lives of many unborn babies and to help women make the right
choice for them and for the children they are carrying. Someone must
be there to help by offering loving alternatives. We cannot simply
say "NO!" to their actions while closing our hearts and lives
to those who are in desperate need.
It is not difficult to organize five or ten people to become a
consistent sidewalk counseling presence outside a particular clinic.
Although this activity is perfectly legal, the pro-aborts will attempt
to convince counselors that it is not, and counseling is not for
everyone. But it can be a superb ministry for those persons who want to
save babies, but who are not yet ready to risk arrest for one reason or
another.
Because sidewalk counseling is so effective, the abortion pushers
will try any tactic to stop it. Clinic personnel routinely label
counselors "harassers" and "terrorists," take their
pictures constantly, and even call the police occasionally, but it is
still legal in the vast majority of our cities to talk to a woman or man
you have never seen before.
A Last Chance for the Baby.
Sidewalk counseling is entirely different from picketing. Picketing
is intended to call attention to the clinic's activities by marshalling
groups of people with signs and banners. On these occasions, clinic
escorts are usually present, and the resulting atmosphere of
confrontation makes counseling more difficult. Picketing may detract
from counseling because picketers are usually perceived as being
"judgmental" by abortion clients, and so they tend to hurry by
and not expect picketers to be their friends or care for them.
By contrast, sidewalk counseling in the absence of other activity on
the sidewalk is usually quiet, and allows counselors to concentrate
solely on giving babies one last chance to live.
Sidewalk counseling is an entirely legal activity, despite
pro-abortion groups officially labeling it "harassment" and
attempting to make it illegal with injunctions. Every sidewalk counselor
should read and become familiar with the concepts presented in Thomas
Monaghan's "Sidewalk Counseling: A First Amendment Right," a
12-page booklet published by Free Speech Advocates, New Hope, Kentucky
40051. The price is one dollar.
One invaluable aid for the counselor is the 12-week "Precious
Preborn" baby model from the Christian Womanity Educational Fund,
1700 Oak Park Boulevard, Room C-4, Pleasant Hill, California 94523,
telephone: (415) 943-6424. These high-quality, lifelike models of a
little preborn sucking his thumb have a tremendous impact on women who
are intent on killing their children.
Sidewalk Counselor Training.
Sidewalk counseling, although it sounds simple to do, requires
knowledge, courage, and common sense.
It is a rare person indeed who can walk right out onto the sidewalk
and begin counseling effectively without training. The three-step
training program described below allows new counselors to take advantage
of the experience of veterans and allows them to be better prepared for
saving babies.
Step 1: Reading and Prayer Preparation. Become familiar with
fetal development, clinic schedules, local resources, and sidewalk
counseling tactics. Pray about the role God is calling you to play.
Step 2: Practice and Questions. Play-act with experienced
counselors at some location away from the clinic, not under pressure,
or at the clinic when it is closed. Become familiar with clinic staff
and the types of clients they 'serve.'
Step 3: Actual Counseling. Sidewalk counsel with experienced
counselors until you feel prepared to counsel independently, or with
another new counselor.
We must remember that every man and woman entering the abortion mill
is a unique individual with very different problems and backgrounds. The
same is true of every sidewalk counselor that stands outside the mill
pleading for their babies' lives. The love of Jesus for all of His
creations is infinite, and it should not surprise us that we will
reflect this love in different ways to the clients of the clinic, in
keeping with our own unique personalities.
Truth Teams.
One activity that combines important aspects of both rescue missions
and sidewalk counseling is the "truth team" tactic.
This is essentially a two-person team counseling inside the
clinic. The team has set up an appointment (or just enters in an
impromptu manner) and may take literature from an outside pro-life
sidewalk counselor and begin to discuss it inside so that other clients
can hear the conversation. Truth teams can do a lot of good inside the
clinic if the couple has courage and imagination.
National Help Hotlines.
Counselors may encounter a woman who has traveled from hundreds of
miles away to the clinic in order to preserve her anonymity or obtain a
late-term abortion. In this case, the counselors may want to call an
out-of-state crisis line for information on help in her area. There are
over 200 pregnancy hotlines in the United States. If a counselor knows
someone in another city who needs pro-life help with an unwanted
pregnancy, he may call one of the following national toll-free Pregnancy
Hotline numbers for information on a CPC in his town:
1-800-238-4269 1-800-368-3336
1-800-344-7211 1-800-535-9947
FRONTLINE ACTIVITY: Picketing.
Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
Thomas Carlyle.
The Purpose of Picketing.
The primary purpose of picketing is to call public attention to the
slaughter going on inside local abortuaries. Pro-life activists are now
also picketing outside hospitals that are euthanizing their patients.
The great thing about picketing is that it is legal, anyone can do
it, and it has enormous impact especially on a place or person who
has not been picketed before!
Picketing should always be accompanied by informational
leafletting (otherwise, how will people know why you are there?), and
can be done;
at your local abortuaries;
at hospitals and multiple-purpose clinics that do abortions (make
certain
that the offending 'doctor(s)' names are very prominent on your
signs);
at the homes of abortionists (check local ordinances first
abortophiles love
their privacy and are trying to make such tactics illegal);
at pro-abortion fundraisers and other events;
in front of schools being considered for sex clinics;
in front of businesses that openly support abortion;
anywhere that you think informational picketing will further the
pro-life
Cause. This can be on a street corner or square, in front of a
pro-abortion
'church,' in front of a courthouse where rescuers are being
tried, or at a city
council meeting.
Don't Be Fooled ...
Don't be fooled into thinking that the clinics respect the right of
pro-lifers to picket. They always say that they want to "balance
the rights of the clinic and the protestor," but what they really
want to do is eliminate all visible opposition.
For example, Bill Baird, a Hempstead, New York abortionist, said in
the Spring 1989 issue of Women and Revolution that "I have
been calling for a 500-foot quiet zone by every single clinic. I don't
think that people have a right to demonstrate in front of clinics. The
analogy that I use is the Soviet embassy. You cannot picket within 500
feet."
While pro-abortionists snivel about their rights and the 'rights of
women,' they will do all they can to take our rights away.
Manuals distributed by clinics even instruct their escorts in how to
deprive pro-lifers of their rights. For example, the March 1989 manual
"Clinic Defense: A Model," written by the Bay Area Coalition
Against Operation Rescue (BACAOR), says; "As OR [Operation Rescue]
has shifted to picketing more than blockading, we've learned that we
can't relax and let them "just" picket. It's critical to keep
pushing, to not lend any legitimacy to their harassment of women on any
level. As much as we can, we are drawing lines, saying no, you can not
picket on the sidewalk in front of the clinic; this is our territory. Go
across the street, go away, go wherever but as far away from the clients
as is possible to assert. Even if the sidewalk is "public,"
we've had success at putting enough of us out, early enough, to
basically bully the OR's into staying across the street ... Remember, we
are under no obligation to be polite to these people ... They have
already broken Miss Manners code by being at the clinic at all ...
Confining our behavior toward OR to the legal realm has distinct
limitations."
These and other pro-abortion quotes show us that picketing is
extremely effective and embarrassing to the baby-killers. All they want
is to be left alone to kill in peace and privacy. Picketing tears away
this treasured anonymity.
Signs.
One often-neglected aspect of picketing is the proper design of
placards. Nothing is more discouraging than having a flimsy sign fall
apart in the rain or wind.
The general rule is to use just a few short words to make a single
point in letters large enough to be seen from a considerable distance.
Some ideas for signs are shown below.
IDEAS FOR PICKET SIGNS
BE A HERO, SAVE A WHALE SAVE A BABY, GO TO JAIL
ONLY BIG BABIES ARE PRO-CHOICE!!
ABORTION STILLS A HUMAN HEART
PRO-CHOICE = PRO-DEATH
MOMMY: WHAT ABOUT MY CHOICE??
RIGHT TO CHOOSE, THAT'S A LIE! BABIES DON'T CHOOSE TO
DIE!
HONK IF U HATE ABORTION
ABORTION NOW, EUTHANASIA NEXT! STAY HEALTHY!!
THEY CRY WHEN YOU CUT THEIR LEGS OFF
I'M PRO-LIFE, AND I DO A LOT MORE THAN JUST VOTE!>
REAL FEMINISTS DON'T KILL THEIR KIDS
DR. ***** KILLS LIVING UNBORN BABIES
YOUR UNBORN BABY HAS A HEARTBEAT
BE A LIFESAVER! JOIN US NOW!
GOODBYE, MOMMY, I LOVE YOU!
ABORTION IS RACIAL GENOCIDE!
IF FEMINISTS HAD BRAINS, LOBOTOMY WOULD BE A
SACRAMENT!
For sign material, go to a graphics arts store and get a black
28" x 44" matte board and a package of white or yellow 4"
or 6" Chartpak press-on letters (white or yellow letters on a
jet-black background have proven to be the most sharply visible
combination of colors). After you have placed your letters, use black
electrician's tape to put a backing on the sign. The best backing for a
sign that will be propped up, rather than held on a stick, is 1/4"
thick pegboard, cut to fit the size of your sign. For a lighter-weight
sign, use foamcore posterboard (available at art supply stores).
Finally, cover the entire sign front and back with clear contact
acetate (this is available in 12" or 15" rolls in the shelving
section of most hardware stores). Go over all the edges of the sign with
another layer of electrician's tape, and pad the corners with several
layers of tape.
You now have a sign that will withstand any weather and will last
through at least five years of heavy use. The total cost of the 28"
X 44" sign should be about $15.
Banners.
Banners are even more eyecatching than signs, because they are
unusual, larger, and have even greater visual impact. Two or three
banners also greatly magnify the apparent size of your group. Six people
holding three banners are equivalent in visual impact to thirty people
with standard picket signs.
Obtain a 2' X 12' piece (or other desired size) of solid-color vinyl
tablecloth material. Sew loops into the upper and lower borders of this
material. Slide a 1" diameter wooden dowel through the loops so
that two persons can hold them. Sew a border into the other two edges to
prevent them from becoming frayed and worn. Outline the desired message
in pencil and, using latex-based house paint, fill in your message using
a foam brush.
Your completed banner, complete with dowels purchased from any
hardware store, will cost about $15. In addition to being more visible,
an advantage of a banner is that it can be rolled up and smuggled into
anti-life conferences or meetings.
The Counterpicket.
There is nothing more aggravating to abortophiles than to have a
handful of pro-lifers appear and steal half of their press. Small
numbers have impact in a two-sided issue, and counterdemonstrating is
probably the most efficient use of pro-life time in terms of getting our
message across to the public.
Your few people may want to march with the pro-aborts, or even at the
head of their parade, if such is possible. If the baby-killers are
having a rally, stand on the street corners with your signs and banners,
so passersby get the impression that all of the people in the area
holding signs are pro-life.
Be careful at pro-abort events, and watch each other's backs.
Pro-aborts are cowardly through and through, and it is not at all
unusual for them to kick pro-lifers and run away into the crowd. They
will also try to 'block' your message by holding their signs up in front
of yours. The answer to this tactic is simple: use six-foot long
one-inch dowels to hold your signs high!
FRONTLINE ACTIVITY: Crisis Pregnancy Centers.
Among the thousands of tiny things growing up all over the land,
some of them under my very wing watched and tended, unwatched and
untended, loved, unloved, protected from danger, thrust into
temptation among them somewhere is the child who will write the novel
that will stir men's hearts to nobler issues and incite them to better
deeds.
There is the child who will paint the greatest picture or carve the
greatest statue of the age; another who will deliver his country in an
hour of peril; another who will give his life for a great principle;
and another, who will live continually on the heights of moral being,
and, dying, draw men after him.
It may be that I shall preserve one of these children to the race.
It is a peg big enough on which to hang a hope, for every child born
into the world is a new incarnate thought of God, an ever fresh and
radiant possibility.
Kate Douglas Wiggin, "Somewhere the Child."
While pro-abortionists whine that pro-life activists don't care for
the women, we have more than 75,000 volunteers quietly working in more
than 2,000 Crisis Pregnancy Centers all across the nation.
This work is criticized not only by the pro-abortionists, but by some
pro-lifers who consider themselves above such 'rear-echelon' work. But
the CPCs save tens of thousands of mothers and babies from abortion
every year, many of them diverted from abortion mills by rescuers and
sidewalk counselors.
A pro-lifer who has a knack for talking to people in a crisis
situation, and who is empathetic, may consider looking up a local CPC in
the Yellow Pages under "Abortion Alternatives" and
volunteering. The volunteer will probably be required to attend a
training course, but will learn a lot.
If no CPC exists in your town, you might contact a local pastor for
support and begin recruiting pro-life friends as staff members. A CPC
need not be a well-stocked two-story house on church grounds; it could
be an informal network of activists who are willing to help women in a
crisis situation. These women, in many cases, really don't want to abort
but are being directly or indirectly forced into doing so.
Some ideas for helping women that may be related to the CPC;
establish a 'fund' of baby furniture, clothing, food, maternity
needs, and
other necessary items;
compile a list of pro-life doctors who will do medical exams,
deliveries, and
even laminaria removal on a volunteer or cut-rate basis;
a delivery alone, especially for a teenaged girl, is an
overwhelming
experience. Perhaps you could find Lamaze volunteers to
accompany lone
women through their delivery. This is an incredibly
rewarding ministry.
establish a network of shepherding homes.
For more information on the background and history of CPCs, see
Chapter 47 of Volume II, "Crisis Pregnancy Centers."
References: Pro-Life Frontline Strategy.
[1] British writer C.E. Montague, quoted in Jonathon Green. The
Cynic's Lexicon. New York: St. Martin's Press. 1984, 220 pages.
[2] Richard Wurmbrand. Tortured for Christ. Glendale,
California: Diane Books, 1967. Page 15.
Further Reading: Pro-Life Frontline Strategy.
Jay E. Adams. Competent to Counsel.
Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company, Phillipsburg, New
Jersey. 1978, 286 pages. The details of and Scriptural basis of
Nouthetic and Rogerian counseling. This book is aimed primarily towards
the pastor, but its theoretical discussions will be of use to the
experienced sidewalk counselor.
ALL About Issues.
This is a glossy, 60-page monthly pro-life newspaper published by
Judie Brown's American Life Lobby. It is an excellent compendium of news
briefs on pro-life activities (mainly pickets and rescues) all over the
country, and includes brief commentaries on various subjects, including
ALL's favorite target, Planned Parenthood. For information, write to
American Life League, Post Office Box 1350, Stafford, Virginia, 22555.
Telephone: (703) 659-4171.
American Civil Liberties Union. Defending the Right to Choose.
This 65-page booklet, published by the fanatically pro-abortion
ACLU, is essential for any pro-life organizer's library. It describes in
detail the tactics that pro-aborts and clinics may use to defend against
picketing and rescue missions, and also describes the limits of the
rights of protesters. It is, in fact, a blueprint for pro-abortion
defensive strategy. If you obtain only one book on street activism, this
must be the one, because by knowing your enemy's tactics and strategy,
you can avoid being taken by surprise, and you can better plan your own
activities. You can pick up a copy from your local ACLU office.
Joan Andrews. You Reject Them, You Reject Me.
223 pages. Order from Our Lady's Book Service, Nazareth Homestead,
R.D. 1, Box 258, Constable, New York 12926, telephone: 1-800-263-8160.
Joan Andrews, one of the leaders of the Rescue movement, spent nearly
three years in prison (mostly in solitary confinement) for the 'crime'
of damaging an abortion suction machine. This book is an autobiography
and a chronicle of the Rescue movement and its motivations, written in
the form of letters from prison.
Catholics United for Life.
CUL issues this untitled 4-page aperiodic newsletter about once every
six weeks. It deals primarily with the methods and spirituality
surrounding sidewalk counseling. Write to Catholics United for Life, New
Hope, Kentucky 40052.
John Cavanaugh-O'Keefe. No Cheap Solutions.
Paperback. Order from: Life Issues Bookshelf, Sun Life, Thaxton,
Virginia 24174, telephone: (703) 586-4898. Shows how non-violent direct
action (rescues, picketing, and sidewalk counseling) fulfills the
command given us by God in Proverbs 24:11-12 ("Rescue those being
dragged to the slaughter").
John Cavanaugh-O'Keefe. "Non-Violence is an Adverb."
Pro-Life Nonviolent Action Project, Post Office Box 2193,
Gaithersburg, Maryland 20879. This pamphlet explains in detail why it is
insufficient for concerned pro-lifers to just write letters and sit home
and pray.
Jerry Falwell. If I Should Die Before I Wake.
New York: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1986. 218 pages. This unusual
book narrates alternatively the thoughts of "Jennifer," a
young woman contemplating abortion, and Falwell, as he gradually
realizes that rhetoric against abortion is not enough. This thinking has
led Rev. Falwell to establish several crisis pregnancy centers.
Jeannie Hill, R.N. "Sidewalk Counseling Workbook."
Order from Sidewalk Counselors for Life, Post Office Box 5123, Wheat
Ridge, Colorado 80034-5123. Telephone: (303) 238-1687. 1989, 52 pages.
Philip F. Lawler. Operation Rescue: A Challenge to the Nation's
Conscience.
Our Sunday Visitor Publishing Division, 200 Noll Plaza, Huntington,
Indiana 46750. 1992, 153 pages. A general description of the origins of
the rescue movement, profiles of national rescues and leaders, and the
blind spots that the national media and the justice movement have
towards pro-life rescuers.
The Life Advocate.
This monthly publication by Advocates for Life Ministries of
Portland, Oregon, is the best available newsletter on the Rescue
movement. It has a glossy, high-quality cover, articles by rescue
leaders all over the country, and outstanding photographs, including
occasional glossy posters that can be detached and used on picket signs.
For information, write to Advocates for Life Ministries, Post Office Box
13656, Portland, Oregon 97213, telephone: (503) 257-7023. AFLM also has
a local/national hotline at (503) 257-3031.
Father Paul Marx. Confessions of a Pro-Life Missionary.
1988, 353 pages, hardback, softback. Published by Human Life
International, address given below. This is an excellent account of
Father Marx's travels all over the world since he founded HLI in 1981.
It is a firsthand account of his battle against U.S. 'contraceptive
imperialism,' the International Planned Parenthood Federation, and
abortion in dozens of countries. This book is a bound version of four
years of Human Life International's Special Reports. Human Life
International is the most complete source of information on the status
of artificial birth control, abortion, and euthanasia in the world
today. Its annual dues include 17 issues of the HLI newsletter, and for
an additional fee, one can purchase 10 special reports, published about
monthly. Its mailing address is Human Life International, 7845-E Airpark
Road, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20879. Telephone: (301) 670-7884.
Father Paul Marx. The Flying Monk: Still Fighting for Life.
1990, 160 pages. Published by Human Life International, 7845-E
Airpark Road, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20879. Telephone: (301) 670-7884. A
book form of Human Life International Reports numbered 61 to 73.
This third book of a series covers Father Marx' adventures in Ecuador,
India, South Africa, Czechoslovakia, Holland, Nicaragua, and many other
nations.
Lennart Nilsson, M.D. A Child is Born: The Drama of Life Before
Birth.
Dell Publishing Company, 1977. Soft cover or hardbound. This book is
the sidewalk counselor's favorite. It includes riveting and beautiful
color photos of the unborn child, which can be used in a most effective
manner to quickly disprove the clinic escort's lies about fetal
development.
The Pro-Life Action League. "The Pocket-Pac Pro-Life
Presentation."
This invaluable aid to sidewalk counselors consists of eight 3-1/4
inch by 4-1/2 inch glossy color photographs of unborn children. The live
babies are at 6, 8, 12, and 18 weeks, and the photographs show four
victims of suction, D&E, saline, and hysterotomy abortions. These
sets are available from the Pro-Life Action League, Suite 210, 6160
North Cicero Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60646. Price includes postage and
handling.
The Rescuer.
This excellent bimonthly newsletter follows the strategy and
philosophy of the American rescue movement. Subscribe by writing to
Defenders of Life, Post Office Box 320, Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania,
19026.
Joe Scheidler. Closed: 99 Ways to Stop Abortion.
350 pages, sewn softcover. Reviewed by James F. Kappus on page 44 of
the August 1985 issue of ALL About Issues. Order from the
Pro-Life Action League, Suite 210, 6160 North Cicero Avenue, Chicago,
Illinois 60646, from Ignatius Press, 15 Oakland Avenue, Harrison, New
York 10528, or from Keep the Faith, 810 Belmont Avenue, Post Office Box
8261, North Haledon, New Jersey 07508, telephone: (201) 423-5395. This
book, written by the head of Chicago's Pro-Life Action League, is useful
for the street activist. It doesn't map out a complete local or area
strategy, but is instead a conglomeration of tactics that may be used in
specific situations. (c) American Life League BBS - 1-703-659-7111
© American Life League BBS 1-703-659-7111
This is a chapter of the Pro-Life Activist's Encyclopedia,
published by American Life League.
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