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Life Communications - Volume 2, No. 2		      January, 1992
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This newsletter is intended to provide articles and news information
to those interested in Pro-Life Issues.  Questions to readers and
articles for submissions are strongly encouraged.  All submissions
should be sent to the editor, Steve (frezza@ee.pitt.edu).
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(1)		WHO DECIDES?

Planned Parenthood spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in 1989 to
find out what marketing would allow them to combat the anti-
abortionists in winning the legislatures that will control the
legality of it main trade.  The result was this phrase:

		"Who decides, the woman or the government?"  

The marketeer's answer: Change the question.  Make your option sound
as American as apple-pie, and you'll win.  How many times have we
heard phrases like this?  "Its a woman's right!"  or "I'm pro-choice!"
Its been working;  more people believe it.

Every time the question is rephrased, couched in their terms, we
loose; another vote goes to the continuance of the slaughter in the
abortion mills; another person is permitted to walk out of a 'clinic,'
to face post-abortion syndrome.  Another child dies.

So don't let it slip by; whenever someone claims to be 'pro-choice'
always insist on what the choice IS: a dead baby.  What are the
numbers?  1/3 of all women who enter an abortuary come out dead?  When
they talk about women's equality with men, abortion still has them far
behind: Nearly all of the men that go in come out dead.  

The reality of abortion seems hidden from many - and is evaded in the
notion of choice;  Anyone who believes that a woman has "The right to
choose abortion" is stating that a woman has the right to kill;

		So who decides who dies? 


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(2)		A LETTER FROM THE FUTURE

This letter was composed by a pro-life writer and has been distributed
by pro-life agencies throughout the nation in recent years.  The
letter is dated Jan. 22, 2023 (the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade).
					 -Robert Baker
Dear Mom:

Can you believe it's 2023 already?  I'm still writing 22 on nearly
everything.  Seems like yesterday I was sitting in the first grade
celebrating the century change!

I know we haven't really chatted since Christmas.  Sorry.  Anyway, I
have some difficult news and I really didn't want to call and talk
face-to-face.  Ted's had a promotion, and I should be up for a hefty
raise this year if I keep putting in those crazy hours.  You know how
I work at it.  Yes, we're still struggling with the bills.

Timmy's been "OK" at kindergarten, although he complains about going.
But then he wasn't happy about day care either, so what can I do?
He's been a real problem, Mom.  He's a good kid, but quite honestly
he's an unfair burden at this time in our lives.  Ted and I have
talked this through and through and finally made a choice.  Plenty of
other families have made it and are much better off.
  
Our pastor is supportive and says hard decisions sometimes are
necessary.  The family is a "system," and the demands of one member
shouldn't be allowed to ruin the whole.  He told us to be prayerful,
consider ALL the factors and do what is right to make the family work.
He says that even though he probably wouldn't do it himself, the
decision really is ours.  He was kind enough to refer us to a
children's clinic near here, so at least that part's easy.

I'm not an uncaring mother.  I do feel sorry for the little guy.  I
think he overheard Ted and me talking about "it" the other night.  I
turned around and saw him standing at the bottom step in his pj's and
the little bear you gave him under his arm and his eyes sort of
welling up.

Mom, the way he looked at me just about broke my heart.  But I
honestly believe this is better for Timmy, too.  It's not fair to
force him to live in a family that can't give him the time and
attention he deserves.  And PLEASE don't give me the kind of grief
Grandma gave you over your abortions.  It is the same thing, you know.

We've told him he's just going in for a vaccination.  Anyway, they say
the termination procedure is painless.  I guess it's just as well you
haven't seen that much of him.  Love to Dad.

                                                            Jane

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In an effort to illustrate that this is not such an isolated idea,
some pro-death people have proposed the notion of a certain level of
cognition as defining personhood, where only such legal persons
deserve protection under the law; In this sense, children up to about
the age of five, and anyone who becomes senile or stricken with
Altheimer's disease would be 'disqualified' as persons.
							- Steve
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(3)	    CORPORATE CONTRIBUTORS TO PLANNED PARENTHOOD

Do you buy the products of--or even own stock in--a company that
contribute to Planned Parenthood or other pro-abortion organizations?
The following is a list, compiled by the Christian Action Council, of
major corporations which to date have been determined to be financial
supporters of Planned Parenthood and its affiliates:

     Aetna Life & Casualty Insurance       
     Alcoa Corporation
     American Express Company              
     B.P. America
     Cargill, Inc.	
     Chase Manhattan Corporation
     Chemical Banking Corporation
     CIGNA Corporation
     Citicorp/Citibank	
     Cummins Engine
     Enron Corporation	
     GATX Corporation
     General Mills Company
     Grand Metropolitan
     Honeywell Inc
     Hospital Corp. of America
     Johnson Controls, Inc.	
     J.P. Morgan & Company
     Lincoln Electric	
     Lincoln National Corporation
     The Lubrizol Corporation	               
     Manufacturers Hanover Corp.
     Mead Corporation
     Nationwide Insurance
     the New York Times Company
     the Northern Trust Company
     Nutri/System Inc.	
     Patagonia
     Pacific Mutual/Pacific Financial
     Peter Kiewit & Sons Inc.
     Phelps Dodge Inc.	
     Pittway Corporation	        
     PPG Industries, Inc.
     The Prudential
     Scott Paper Company
     Steelcase Inc.
     Subaru of America	
     Syntex Corporation
     Tandy Corporation	
     U.S. West
     Whirlpool Corporation

     Bristol Myers Squibb Company--includes:  Bufferin, Exedrin,
        Four-Way Nasal Spray, Vitalis, Windex, Drano, Vanish, Clairol
     Dayton Hudson Company--includes:  Hudson, Target, Mervyns,
        Lechmere, and Marshal Field stores
     Warner-Lambert Company--includes:  Listerine, Anusol, Tucks,
        Efferdent, Rolaids, Remegel, Lubriderm, Benylin, Sinutab,
        Trident, Dentyne, Freshen-Up, Certs, Clorets, Schick razers
        and blades

Financial Professionals for Life, the organization of pro-life
stockbrokers, bankers and insurers, has determined that the following
additional companies also provide funding to Planned Parenthood:

     Badger Meter        
     Bank of Boston       	
     Consolidated Paper
     Harley Davidson
     Harnischfeger
     Huffy Corporation
     Marshall & Illsley Bank
     Metropolitan Life
     National Cash Register Corporation
     Oilgear Company
     Oshkosh B'Gosh
     Quaker Oats	
     Rockwell International
     State Farm Mutual
     Sunstrand Corporation
     Valley National Corp.
     Weyenberg Show (WEYCO)
     Weyerhauser
     Wicor
     Pillsbury--includes Haagen-Dazs icecream

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          	      So what can you do?

  1.  Stop supporting these companies.  Don't buy their products;
      don't use their services.
  2.  To make step #1 especially effective, write the company a short, 
      one-paragraph letter explaining you will no longer do business 
      with them because they support Planned Parenthood.
  3.  Share this list with friends and relatives.

        What if you own stock in one of these companies?

DON'T automatically sell it; stockholders have clout.  Many have
been successful in stopping the contributions by accusing the company
of "fiduciary irresponsibility"--contributing to Planned Parenthood
causes bad will in the community which hurts the company's image and
threatens a loss of sales or business.

This can be effective; 17 major corporations have ceased contributing
to Planned Parenthood!  [ Remember AT&T? ]

Everyone: If you decide to boycott these companies' produces and
services, please write them to let them know.  Also, if someone has
free time to collect a list of contacts and/or address for the above
companies - please share that information with us so that we may write
them also!  Thanks!
							-Tim Rapp
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(4)		THE OTHER SIDE - FIRE FOR EFFECT

A not-so recent "Time" magazine article claimed that "...about 6
million unwanted pregnancies occur in the U.S. each year" (Feb. 26,
1990, p.44).  Since there are/were about 4 million live births in the
U.S. yearly, and 1.6 million abortions, that means that by Time's
figures, every pregnancy in the country is/was "unwanted" at least
once.

This is just another example of how the media reports for the effect,
rather than accuracy.

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(5)		March for Life Followup:

I suggest that every American pro-lifer send a letter to President
Bush thanking him for his speech to the March for Life.  Some
pro-abortion Republicans are campaigning to have the Republican Party
drop its pro-life plank from its platform and to have President Bush
back off from his pro-life position.  It is vitally important the
President Bush and the leaders of the Republican Party see the extent
of the pro-life support they would be throwing away by any such
sellout.

As you can see, this is a time-sensitive encouragement.  If the
letters are written now they will be accepted.  If they are written a
week or so from now they will be seen as part of an organized
campaign, and have little impact.  [Please Write!!]
						-Marty Helgesen
				
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Quote Of the Month:

    "Advances in science and technology continue to provide evidence
that the child in the developing in the mother's womb is a distinct,
living individual who bears all the basic attributes of human
personality."

	- President George Bush, in his proclaimation of 
	  `National Sanctity of Human Life Day' - 19 January, 1992.


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| Credits:			       |
| 1-  This is a brief summary of a talk given by Dr. Jack Willkie     |
|     at the presentation banquet of American Collegians for Life on  |
|     19 January, 1992.                                               |
| 2-  This was submitted by reader Rob Chesnavich 	       |
| 3-  Taken from CCL (Couple to Couple League) "Family Foundations"   |
|     Vol. XVII, #3.  CCL is a non-sectarian nationwide promoter of   |
|     Natural Family Planning (NFP).  For more information, they can  |
|     be contacted at P.O. Box 111184 Cincinnati, Ohio  45211 or by   |
|     phone at (513) 661-7612.	       |
| 4-  From "Family Foundations" XVII, n6, p3 article quoting the      |
|     "Population Research Institute Review (Jan-Feb '91)	       |
|QOM- from his prclaimation dated 20 December, 1991, as quoted from   |
|     the "Arlington Catholic Herald", 16 Jan. 1992 p 19.             |
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Anyone desiring information on specific prolife groups, literature,
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