Salvi Saved Lives

The following reports appeared in Capitol Area Christian News (Spring, 1996).

It is not evident in the AP picture spread across the land the day after the jury convicted him of murder on 18 March. That picture shows the brother of slain childslaughter accomplice Shannon Lowney displaying a picture of his sister.

There were no pictures of the babies slaughtered by Miss Lowney’s co-workers. And there were no pictures of infant Vivian Gaines or her grateful mother, Deborah (See the Patriot-Ledger of Quince, 30 Dec., 1995). Miss Gaines had fled the abortuary under Salvi’s fire, changing her mind about the right to choose murder.

There was other good news in New England following the Salvi event. ACLA northeast regional director Steven Mears was outside the Concord Feminist Health Center in New Hampshire the morning of the Salvi event. Within an hour of the shooting, at approximately 10 a.m., Abortionist Stanton Goldstein walked out of the door quitting his practice. Eight customers also walked out.

The abortuary in Greenland closed immediately after the shooting and announced it would remain so until 5 January.

Channel 9 News in Manchester reported on 31 December that a doctor in Yarmouth, Maine, who had formerly committed abortions in Portsmouth, NH, was announcing that since taking leave of aborting children he had been teaching Ob/Gyn students and advising them against becoming abortionists.

Don Spitz, non grata –

As the trial of John Salvi was getting underway, Massachusetts Citizens for Life, Inc. et al wanted to be sure and purge themselves of any defilement they might suffer from associations with apologists of Salvi’s embarrassing deed. Accordingly, four leaders of local groups sent a letter to Mr. Spitz telling him he was not welcome in the state of Massachusetts. President Madeline McComish along with Barbara Thorp, Director of Pro-Life Office of the Archdiocese of Boston and two other vassals of lesser local right-to-life groups signed a note, dated 25 January, 1996: “We have been informed that you are intending to come to Massachusetts for the John Salvi trial. Your public statements on the acceptability of violence do not represent the views of the pro-life movement – rather they are counter to everything that the pro-life movement represents. At this very difficult time, you are not welcome in Massachusetts.”