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"I am personally responsible for 75,000 abortions. This legitimises my credentials to speak to you with some authority on the issue. I was one of the founders of the National Association for the Repeal of the Abortion Laws (NARAL) in the U.S. in 1968. A truthful poll of opinion then would have found that most Americans were againstpermissive abortion. Yet within five years we had convinced the U.S. Supreme Court to issue the decision which legalised abortion throughout America in 1973 and produced virtual abortion on demand up to birth. How did we do this? It is important to understandthe...

Sioux Falls, Sep 24, 2008 / 12:47 am (CNA).- Pro-life activists in South Dakota have launched a television ad featuring Dr. Bernard Nathanson, one of the founding members of NARAL, who calls on South Dakotans to vote to ban the use of “abortion as birth control.”   In a TV ad supporting Measure 11 in South Dakota, Dr. Nathanson explains that he and his colleagues who founded NARAL created it to “export our pro-abortion mentality across the land.” He also reveals that, “One of our strategies, in order to mislead the American people, was to deny what we knew to be...

Bernard Nathanson, M.D., was formerly the director of a large abortion clinic in New York City and personally performed thousands of abortions. He also co-founded NARAL (the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League). In the late 1970s, however, Dr. Nathanson had a change of heart and became a staunch opponent of abortion. He is creator of the pro-life video The Silent Scream and author of the book The Hand of God: A Journey from Death to Life by the Abortion Doctor Who Changed His Mind. Dr. Nathanson continues to be a voice for the pro-life movement through speaking...

Toronto Sun Columnist Trots out Usual Phony Abortion Slogans in Attack on Catholic Church Silent No More Awareness spokesman dispute columnist's support for Amnesty International By Hilary White TORONTO, August 22, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - It appears that the campaigners for legalised abortion did their work well back in the 1970's when they invented a set of standard propaganda slogans to be disseminated through the media. For forty years, the same five or six grossly false assertions, familiar to pro-life people everywhere, have manipulated the discussion on abortion and all related issues. These slogans are so solidly entrenched in the public...

Washington, D.C. and New York City have shaped the man who became Fr. C. John McCloskey III when he was ordained in Rome in 1982. "I'm not an angry man," he assures, but neither is he cowed by the media or academe. He's armed and dangerous. Armed with the Catholic faith, and dangerous to the enemies of that faith., and a way to salvation for men and women who are seeking Christ. "Priests are warriors for Jesus Christ," he says. "They are the Navy Seals, the Army Rangers, and the Green Berets of the Catholic Church, and I'm proud to...

by Dr David van Gend As senior Government figures state their view that there are too many abortions, especially late abortions, and pro-choice voices raise the spectre of backyard deaths if abortions are restricted by law, it is time, says Dr David van Gend, to correct the historical and clinical misconceptions surrounding the "myth" of the backyard butcher. There is no denying the power of the "No coat-hangers" cry raised by abortion pressure-groups in response to recent public statements by politicians, but it is the power of emotional blackmail. It says to citizens, if you put any limits at all...

<p>LET ME BEGIN with a line from that famous social commentator, Homer Simpson: "Facts are meaningless; you can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true! Facts, schmacks." Homer first uttered that creed in 1997, but his quirky skepticism about the schmacks of facts is now the norm.</p>

WHISTLEBLOWER MAGAZINE Ex-abortionists expose America's greatest scandal Doctors, staffers tell electrifying story of corruption, greed, betrayal, death Posted: January 2, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com "Safe and legal abortion is every woman's right." That's what Americans have been told since the Supreme Court's momentous Roe v. Wade decision – 30 years ago this month – that opened up the floodgates of abortion in the U.S.A. But behind the slick marketing campaign, beyond the slogans and public posturing of abortion-rights activists, is what can only be described as the wretched reality of the abortion industry. Human babies, at or...

<p>FAIRFIELD -- Bill Simon used much of his dwindling time on the campaign trail Friday to resurrect allegations about Gov. Gray Davis' fund-raising activities from more than a decade ago.</p> <p>After a campaign rally inside the colorful Jelly Belly candy factory, the Republican candidate demanded that Davis answer 14-year-old charges that as an assemblyman running for state controller he used legislative employees and resources to raise campaign money.</p>

Gov. Gray Davis' pay for play fundraising scandal continues to metastasize, with new reports of official corruption impacting hard on his reelection chances against GOP challenger Bill Simon. News reports detail letters submitted to prosecutors in 1993, kept under wraps until this week, containing allegations that implicate then-State Controller Gray Davis in multiple schemes to trade official favors for campaign cash. In a 1993 letter released Wednesday by U.S. District Court Judge Lawrence Karlton, an attorney for Davis accuser Mark Nathanson alleges, "a number of instances where Gray Davis approached Mr. Nathanson, who was then a member of the California...

Explosive charges that California's prolific fundraiser Governor Gray Davis used his official position to get contributions from developers have surfaced after years of being hidden by court order. Although Davis has heatedly denied the allegations, leveled against him by a convicted felon seeking leniency in his sentencing, his Republican opponent Bill Simon is demanding that the governor produce certain documents relating to the charges. Two letters sent by his attorneys to federal prosecutors on behalf of Mark L. Nathanson have been under seal since Nathanson's 1993 conviction. The Sacramento Bee has long sought release of the letters and the U.S....

California Governor Gray Davis has been stung by the Bee – the Sacramento Bee that is. Explosive accusations that California’s Governor Gray Davis tried to collect contributions from developers in return for official help have emerged less than a week before next Tuesday’s election thanks to a two-year long battle by the Bee to get documents containing the allegations made public . While Davis’s campaign vigorously denies the charges, and Davis demands that his opponent Bill Simon get out of the race for jumping on the story, release of two letters and media probing has revealed that there is at...

<p>A federal district judge in Sacramento yesterday ordered the release of letters implicating California Gov. Gray Davis in a racketeering scandal.</p> <p>The release of letters in the decade-old case could be a blow to the Democrat's re-election campaign against Republican challenger Bill Simon.</p>

<p>SACRAMENTO - A former California coastal commissioner enlisted friends, including San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown and Hollywood celebrities, in a failed bid last spring to regain his real estate broker's license -- nine years after he was convicted in a sweeping political corruption scandal.</p>

<p>He won't discuss claims by attorneys for an ex-coastal commissioner.</p> <p>OAKLAND -- Gov. Gray Davis, responding to newly released letters that claim he and a disgraced former California coastal commissioner discussed soliciting contributions from developers seeking state approval to build along the coast, Tuesday dismissed the allegations as groundless.</p>

<p>With just a week remaining before the election, there's no doubt that Democratic Gov. Gray Davis still enjoys a substantial, if not overwhelming, lead over Republican challenger Bill Simon and that Davis will be re-elected unless something dramatic occurs.</p> <p>Simon pins his fleeting hopes for victory on persuading the still-undecided voters to follow through on their obvious concerns about Davis' performance and character -- particularly the widespread belief that he has been a "pay to play" governor who extracts huge sums of campaign money from special interests.</p>

Nearly 10 years after they were first leveled, accusations against Gov. Gray Davis were unsealed Monday. They portray him as aggressively pushing for coastal projects so he could pursue contributions from developers and others seeking permits. The accusations, which the governor and his supporters have consistently denied, were never investigated after being provided to Sacramento federal prosecutors by a convicted felon starting in 1993. "The governor is not going to have an argument with a convicted felon and admitted perjurer," Davis political consultant Garry South said. "The charges are false." Prosecutors have said that the alleged actions by Davis, even...

MORE TROUBLE FOR THE GRAYSTER... Papers cleared by U.S. Supreme Court for release are unlikely to dispel the fragrance of corruption around Governor Gray Davis. A convicted felon formerly with the Coastal Commission asserts that Davis extorted campaign contributions from those seeking permits in coastal zones: In the letters, the lawyers claimed [Mark] Nathanson was Davis' longtime friend and fund-raiser and described a series of meetings in a local restaurant concerning the alleged permits-for-donations scheme. When they met, Davis would ask Nathanson to bring him lists of "names of persons that Mark had previously helped with Coastal Commission matters," as...

Calif. Gov. Davis Stumps at Rally Sunday October 20, 2002 5:20 AM GARDENA, Calif. (AP) - Gov. Gray Davis turned Saturday to one of the Democrats' most reliable allies for support, warning a union rally that Republican Bill Simon is a threat to organized labor and exhorting members to get out the vote. ``All the good work we have done and all the progress we have made is at risk, because my opponent does not agree with what we've done,'' Davis said at a labor rally and barbecue in Gardena, 15 miles south of Los Angeles. Simon was campaigning 30...

<p>In a ruling that could embarrass Gov. Gray Davis in the final days of his re-election campaign, the U.S. Supreme Court has cleared the way for the release of a corrupt state official's secret assertions about a decade-old bribery scandal at the California Coastal Commission.</p>