Conservatives and Prolifers

CACN, Winter, 1998

Conservatives and Prolifers

Mark Crutcher’s Lime 5 is a devastating account of the both the damage and death abortion has caused mothers as well as the abuse of women who seek redress in the court system. In the introduction of the book, Crutcher says: “As president of Life Dynamics, Inc. – an organization that provides litigation support to malpractice attorneys who sue on behalf of women who have been killed, injured, or sexually assaulted during an abortion – I get a view of this issue that not many other people see. The men and women in my office witness, firsthand, the devastation that abortion often wreaks upon the women who have them. And since we also conduct surveilance of the abortion industry, we are allowed a ‘behind-the-scenes’ look at those who perform them.”

This excellent book was written in 1996, but you may not have heard much about it. Strangely, conservative publications and radio programs like The American Spectator, Rush Limbaugh, and Dr. Laura and Christian publications like Robertson’s Christian American or Newhaus’s First Things rejected the ads. USA Today had first agreed to run the ad, but after the check was mailed, they called back and canceled.

Now, the price of running an ad with these operations is not a pittance: A check for $75,000 was returned by USA Today. Rush refused $125,000!

Others happily ran the ads. For example: Crisis, Headway (formerly National Minority Politics), (of course!), National Review, The Washington Times, and. G. Gordon Liddy did not fail, nor did Dobson’s Focus on the Family.

But what do you think establishment Prolife groups did? National Right to Life News?

Right.

Why shun Mr. Crutcher? We don’t know. Was it the offensive cartoon book on abortionists (it was sent to thousands of medical students a few years ago) the general distribution of which, someone opined in USA Today, induced Michael Griffin to shoot David Gunn?

(Yes, it is far-fetched, but anti-abortion speech is responsible for these deeds, don’t you know. And no one wants to be smeared with the “violence” label and be hunted down by J. Waco Reno. Establishment prolifers denounce such rescuers with a due passion and indignation together with droning lamentation over the deceased childslayers.)

This is our hunch, Mark. You are unclean. You must oppose abortion in a more mannerly style, pulling punches. Try to just get along and win people by kinder and gentler means. Order Lime 5, bumper stickers, and other goodies at Life Dynamics, Inc. Box 2226, Denton, TX 76202.