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5 APPLICATION If the quotes from Chapter I prove anything, it is that the pro-aborts have long known that the access battle is ours to win. Meanwhile, most pro-lifers have apparently been unaware that this battle was even going on. While on the surface our political, educational, and street activist efforts were meeting with only limited and spotty success, beneath the surface these activities were slowly chipping away at the foundations of the abortion Industry. But make no mistake about it, the access battle could still be lost. By definition, any battle that is yours to win is also yours to lose. Right now, the American abortion industry is frantically trying to solve the access issue, and if we don't aggressively respond, they will succeed. We cannot allow that to happen. The time has come to move the battle to limit access from an unintended consequence to a stated mission. It is no exaggeration to say that this is a defining moment in the abortion struggle. On the day we win the access battle, the Possibility of an all-inclusive Human Life Amendment is a reality. If that day never comes, the legalized slaughter of the unborn and their moms is a permanent part of American life. Life Dynamics offers many products and services with which to fight the access battle. Generally, they are designed to impact the medical community and the legal community. In addition to the strategic importance of this approach, it seems appropriate to target doctors and lawyers since it was nine lawyers on the Supreme Court who legalized abortion, and it is doctors who carry out that decision. Our goal is to (a) educate the medical community about the realities of being an abortionist, (b) educate and support attorneys in how to effectively pursue and litigate abortion malpractice cases, and (c) educate women who are injured in abortions about their legal rights. THE MEDICAL COMMUNITY By working in the medical community, we hope to choke off the supply of new doctors coming into the pool of abortion providers. We do that by educating doctors and medical students about the nature and depth of the stigma that attaches to those who become abortionists. The vehicle we use to deliver this message is direct mail. When properly designed, direct mail campaigns are targeted to specific audiences, perfectly legal, proven effective, and impossible for the other side to stop. Additionally, they are relatively inexpensive and can be accomplished by very few people who may, if they wish, remain anonymous. Depending on the specific goal, direct mail pieces are sent to the general public, doctors' offices, students or professors at medical schools, and hospitals. The rhetoric used in our direct mail campaign almost always comes directly from the mouths of those in the abortion industry. Many pro-abortion writers are astonishingly candid about the distasteful nature of being an abortionist, and much of our direct mail rhetoric is taken right out of material they publish. Additionally, we use information originating in closed abortion industry meetings or from internal documents circulated within the abortion industry. This data is obtained through either our own surveillance and infiltration efforts, or from spies inside the abortion industry who work for Life Dynamics. Whatever the source, and regardless of the target audience, the themes of our direct mail pieces are consistent:
THE LEGAL COMMUNITY At the same time that our direct mail program is discouraging doctors and medical students from becoming abortionists, our efforts within the legal community are helping to reduce the number of existing abortionists. We do this through malpractice litigation. The Life Dynamics abortion malpractice program (ABMAL) provides attorneys with the litigation support services they need to be successful in malpractice cases brought against abortionists. Through this program, the poor medical skills and lack of ethics that drive doctors into the abortion business in the first place are used to push them back out again. Unfortunately, the abortion industry constantly supplies us with the ammunition we need to carry out this program. I say unfortunately because we must never forget that every time we are able to use a malpractice case to take out an abortionist, it means a woman is either gravely injured, sexually assaulted, or dead. We began the ABMAL program by researching several hundred previous abortion malpractice cases looking for ways to make future cases more successful. We then used that research to create the tools arid services necessary to support attorneys representing abortion injured clients. Today, our network has grown to over 700 attorneys representing all Fifty states. We are currently active in almost 100 abortion-injury cases, including 1 3 which involve the death of the woman who was having the abortion. All Life Dynamics ABMAL services are free of charge to both attorney and client, and we do not financially participate in any settlements or awards stemming from any of these cases. Among the many litigation support services we have are:
We have many more exciting ABMAL programs on the drawing board, and will introduce them as time and financing allow. One initiative we envision is the creation of a super-fund from which abortion-injured women can finance their cases. At the start, this would be very expensive, but it could eventually become self-sustaining. We are constantly finding that abortion injured women are unable to pursue legal action because of the outlandish cost of litigation. In fact, we have never had a client with the ability to finance her own case. As a result, these cases are always taken by the attorney on a contingency basis or they're not taken at all. Many times, the attorney doesn't have the necessary funds, or calculates that the chances of recovering his investment in the case don't justify his financial risk. In those Instances, the woman will be unable to seek compensation for her injuries. This super-fund would solve that problem while sending a panic-stricken abortion industry into full retreat. Needless to say, we are extremely proud of our ABMAL program. If you listen to the rhetoric coming out of the abortion industry today, you plainly see that nothing terrifies them more than this effort. The reason is simple: they know just how vulnerable they are to it, because they know just how bad their doctors are. They also realize that the only way to insulate themselves from this effort is to stop committing malpractice. The problem is, they can't do that. Even some pro-aborts lament the fact that the overwhelming majority of doctors they can hire-the losers and washouts of medicine-are simply incapable of performing abortions without committing malpractice. If you think this approach isn't making some people a little nervous, listen up: OBSERVATIONS "' neither his gun nor his bullet-proof vest can protect [abortionist] Brian Finkel against the latest weapon in the war over abortion, the malpractice lawsuit." ABC World News Tonight, March 28, 1995 "… the most resounding complaint I've heard in the last three months or four months, or probably going back over a year and a half now, is that you’re being inundated with medical malpractice claims and that some of them are a result of both the Life Dynamics situation and other efforts that follow closely on harassment and intimidation that you’ve been facing for some time ... what we have found out about Life Dynamics is they’re smart." Katherine Kolbert, Attorney, The Center
for Reproductive Law & Policy "I’m presently an attorney, but I’ve been with the Feminist Women’s Health Centers for many years, and then with National Abortion Federation. Watching this [Life Dynamics ABMAL] commercial made me realize that our worst fears-our Achille’s heel is being struck." Carol Downer, Attorney National Abortion
"No matter how many wins we have on the books in terms of the rights of choice, if doctors are not showing up to deliver those services, we have nothing. And if this [Life Dynamics ABN"L] campaign continues to chill doctors from entering the profession or is so onerous for doctors and expensive for doctors that it forces them out of the profession, then the opponents have won." Deborah Kelly, Attorney National Abortion
Federation Legal Cleiringhouse "… anti-choice agitators have come up with a new way to prevent women from terminating pregnancies. And this time they just might win. [The Life Dynamics ABMAL campaign] is so simple it’s frightening. Since they will never get rid of the demand for abortion, they have decided to go after the supply. No doctors, no abortions ... This Insidious plan may be the most dangerous threat women have yet faced in their battle for reproductive freedom ... there is something about Life Dynamics that warns you to take them seriously." Pamela White. Abortion Advocate, "I am very worried about [the Life Dynamics ABMAL campaign] when you look at it in the context of a range of efforts that this same group is doing, The doctors that we represent, the doctors who are performing abortions today, are under siege." Katherine Kolbert,Attorney, "… I have begun to wonder if it’s worth it. You get hit about the head with a two-by-four long enough and you finally say, ouch, that hurts ... the problem is, even If they lose, they win ... I’m paying $25,000 a year for insurance now, and I’m not allowed to practice out of state, all because of this developing art form of legal misconduct." Brian Finkel, Abortionist, "They are trying to harass us out of business ... It’s like water dripping on a rock: Eventually the rock will dissolve." Gloria Feldt, President Planned Parenthood Federation of America The Arizona Republic, January 10, 1995 (commenting on abortion malpractice suits) "It’s very frustrating, You can’t stop someone from filing a lawsuit. That’s the democratic process. We have been talking to attorneys until we’re blue in the face about it. No matter what you have in your informed consent [document], It wouldn’t stop the suits." Ron Fitzsimmons, Director "They don’t care if they win the lawsuit, all they want to do is sue the physician so that the physician is either financially or emotionally bankrupt and he’ll stop doing the procedures." Brian Finkel, Abortionist "A new weapon may prove more successful In decreasing the number of abortion providers than the ongoing threat of violence: the malpractice suit ... Every time a case is filed, meritorious or not, the process is draining, both emotionally and financially." American Medical News, February 6, 1995 "… malpractice is now the latest battle in the twenty year war over legal abortion." CBS Evening News, December 1, 1993 "We’ve hit a brick wall Janet Benshoof, President Center for Reproductive Law & Policy American Medical News, February 6, 1995 (commenting on abortion malpractice suits) ‘[Life Dynamics is] trying to stir up the medical community, they are trying to stir up the legal community, to outlaw, in effect, a woman’s right to choose." Marilyn Bennett, Director Horizon Health
Center, "I am convinced that [Life Dynamics] is now the most dangerous [pro-life] group. Not in terms of violence and life threats but in affecting clinic -access. " Dallas Blanchard, Abortion Advocate, "LDI’s emergence has many abortion-rights supporters worried." Time, March 1995 "I think that we cannot underestimate the determination of Life Dynamics to destroy us and they have found an exceedingly dangerous tool." Warren Hern, Abortionist National Abortion
Federation ` "Mark Crutcher is the most dangerous anti-abortionist in America ... I can’t Impress upon any of you how seriously you need to take this organization ... they’ve put out an incredible amount of very professional material ... the attorney who shared the [Life Dynamics ABMALI materials with me said, ‘if I was an abortion provider I would be scared speechless!"’ Janie Bush, Director The Choice Foundation, Dallas, TX, National Abortion Federation Annual Meeting Cincinnati, OH, April 1994 "Life Dynamics is the scariest and the nastiest anti-choice group around." Kate Reinisch, Director of Public Affairs Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains Colorado Daily, October 24. 1993 "I’ve got to hand it to Life Dynamics. They’re onto something very disturbing, and I don’t know what we do about it." Ron Fitzsimmons, Director National Coalition of Abortion Provider- New Times, December 8-14, 1994 (commenting on the ABMAL campaign) |
