Carhart asks Bush to fight 'religious terrorists'

The Bellevue doctor who successfully challenged Nebraska's ban on so-called partial birth abortions has asked President George W. Bush to help battle domestic terrorism directed against abortion providers.

"I wish to both applaud and thank you for your response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon," Dr. LeRoy Carhart said in the letter, which was sent Wednesday. "Can you help the nation's abortion providers and their staffs who have been the victims of repeated acts of fringe, radical religious terrorists during the past 25 years?"

He told Bush that the fight against abortion foes who use violence is just as important as the battle against international terrorism.

"They have burnt and bombed our homes and businesses . . . they have murdered our unarmed men and women," he said. "Terrorism is terrorism. Terrorists are terrorists."

Abortion providers and their staffs have been the victims of violence across the country since the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 Roe vs. Wade ruling that said women have a constitutional right to end their pregnancies.

At least eight abortion doctors have been killed or wounded in shootings in the United States since 1993. Scores of abortion clinic workers also have been injured in attacks.

Carhart blames a 1991 fire that destroyed his home on abortion foes, although it has never been proved.

Bob Blank, president of Nebraskans United for Life, decried Carhart's statements.

"LeRoy Carhart is the one who has murdered 35,000 to 40,000-plus babies by performing abortions," he said. "For him to infer that . . . pro-lifers throughout Nebraska and the United States are terrorists is an insult."

Because of Carhart's challenge, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Nebraska's ban on partial birth abortions last year, ruling that the law was an "undue burden" on women's rights.

Carhart recently agreed to drop a lawsuit against the University of Nebraska after he was reinstated to a volunteer faculty position at the school's medical center.

The lawsuit alleged the university terminated his position because of political pressure following reports that he supplied tissue from aborted fetuses to the school for use in medical research.

"I think you are right, Pappy. Although I do not agree with any who go around killing abortion doctors, I think sometimes they are killed by pro abortion people, to blame it on the pro life movement. It would not surprise me in the slightest."

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"Abortionist Lynn D. Weller of Kansas City was shot to death in his home in September, 1973 by two masked gunmen, hired by rival abortionist Dr. William Carlos, who was angry that Weller was having an affair with his ex-wife."

"What Buffalo-area readers won't find in their pro-abortion, pro-pornography, pro-homosexual, pro-population control newspaper owned by multibillionaire Warren Buffet is the truth that abortionists are often cut down by their competitors, by hit men demanding a cut of their cash earnings, and even by their victims.

At the time of his death, Chicago abortion clinic owner Kenny "The Creep" Yellen was in debt $1 million, was being investigated for the arson of a second abortion clinic he owned, was being investigated for the "mysterious deaths" of several women who had abortions at his mills, was gambling away his enormous earnings, and was living in fear that a rival abortion profiteer was planning to eliminate him.

One of Yellen's clinics, the Women's Medical Facility, was shut down by the Chicago Board of Health after it was determined that the mill was operating without a license and its staff was performing abortions on women who were not pregnant.

Yellen, stated The Chicago Sun-Times in a report on his death (Nov. 4th, 1979), was also sued for impersonating a doctor, medical malpractice, performing illegal abortions, reckless conduct and theft by deception, and battery for squeezing a woman's breasts during an "examination."

There wasn't much public wailing in the abortion establishment when Yellen was murdered, but when George Wayne Patterson was killed outside an adult porn theater he'd been frequenting regularly for years, abortion advocates immediately charged that he was the victim of a pro-life hit.

But as the facts emerged after the August 20th, 1993 slaying, press interest evaporated. Patterson, who owned four abortion mills, in Pensacola and Ft. Walton Beach in Florida, and in Bay City and Mobile in Alabama, was shown to be not only addicted to pornography and gambling, but was deeply in debt. He was also the defendant in several lawsuits: two by the families of women who died after he attempted abortions on them, the other for a botched abortion."

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