Return-Path: = = = = = = = = = = = = = "The Far Right, Speaking for Themselves" Birth Control ------------- To be against abortion and not against contraception - it makes no sense because both of them are the same mentality. -- Nancy O'Brien, Anti-Choice Activist, Introducing Joan Andrews, March 11, 1989 Meanwhile, let it be clear what we do: we fight contraception- sterilization-abortion on six continents... -- Fr. Paul Marx, President, Human Life International, In his brochure, HUMAN LIFE INTERNATIONAL EXPLAINED I don't think Christians should use birth control. You consummate your marriage as often as you like - and if you have babies, you have babies... -- Randall Terry, Executive Director, Operation Rescue, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, June 26, 1988 ...once contraception is accepted and the purposes of sex are separated from procreation and marriage, sterilization and abortion become acceptable, and then infanticide, the precursor of outright euthanasia. Furthermore, homosexuality and unnatural sexual activities become "natural and normal," the venereal diseases get out of control, divorce and illegitimacy rates mount, and the family swiftly disintegrates. -- Valerie Riches, Anti Family-Planning Educator, In her brochure, CONTRACEPTION'S LEGACY The so-called Christian world is contracepting itself out of existence. -- Fr. L. Kieffer, HLI REPORTS, August 1989 ...the Pro-Life Action League opposes *all* forms of contraception... -- Joseph Scheidler, Executive Director, Pro-Life Action League, THE WANDERER, August 10, 1989 We are totally opposed to abortion under any circumstances. We are also opposed to abortifacient drugs and chemicals like the Pill and the IUD, and we are also opposed to all forms of birth control with the exception of natural family planning. -- Judie Brown, President, American Life League, Population Institute advertisement, "How Dense Can We Get?" THE NEW YORK TIMES, October 6, 1985 I would never give artificial birth control to an unmarried person... -- Judie Brown, "NIGHTLINE" July 21, 1989 .. Griswold v. Connecticut first established and guaranteed the "right of privacy" in the conjugal act. Sexual love, however, in a most profound way is anything but "private." Its very purpose is to break the bonds of privacy by physical consummation of an unreserved gift of self. The contraceptive, however, denies the meaning of marital love by falsifying its bodily expression. Love is no longer unreserved; something is held back. "I cannot love all of you," the contraceptive says, "because I cannot love all that might be created by you." -- Edmund Miller, Anti-Abortion Commentator, FIDELITY, October 1989 Sexuality Education ------------------- Resist, expose, or stop immediately every public school or group sex education program, no matter what it is called or how it is diffused into the curriculum. -- Fr. Paul Marx, In his brochure, FROM CONTRACEPTION TO ABORTION Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortion. -- Phyllis Schlafly, President, Eagle Forum, HUMAN EVENTS, May 18, 1985 "Self-esteem" [has been] promoted over and over again as the new panaccea, along with teaching "responsibility." However, parents must remember that "self-esteem" is a double-edged sword. While it may be true that a child needs a great deal of self-confidence to reject undesirable peer influence, it will, at the same time, require a defiantly self-confident child to have the courage to violate his or her family values and/or Judeo-Christian heritage, and engage in the "responsible" promiscuity being promoted by the liberal sex educators. -- Margo Szews, Anti-Choice Educator, A.L.L. ABOUT ISSUES, June - July 1989 It's very healthy for a young girl to be deterred from promiscuity by fear of contracting a painful, incurable diseasse, or cervical cancer, or sterility, or the likelihood of giving birth to a dead, blind or brain-damaged baby even ten years later when she may be happily married. -- Phyllis Schlaffly, PHYLLIS SCHLAFFLY REPORT, June 9, 1981 One of the most devastating enemies of the family is radical sex education in the public school. It is more explicit than necessary for the good of the child. Too much sex education too soon causes undue curiosity and obsession with sex. -- Beverly LaHaye, Concerned Women for America, April 1981 What masquerades as sex education is not education at all. It is selective propaganda which artificially encourages children to participate in adult sex, while it censors out the facts of life about the unhappy consequences. It is robbing children of their childhood. -- Phyllis Schlaffly, PHYLLIS SCHLAFFLY REPORT, "What's Wrong With Sex Education?" February 1981 Sexuality --------- Christians maintain a higher enjoyment level in the intimacy of their love life than the population in general. -- Beverly LaHaye, In her book, THE ACT OF MARRIAGE, THE BEAUTY OF SEXUAL LOVE, 1976 There is absolutely nothing loving about sex... Lust is as destructive of love inside of marriage as it is outside. -- Fr. John H. McGoey, Anti-Family Planning Educator, Human Life International Symposium on Human Sexuality, April 25, 1986 Feminism -------- For those of you who don't know, you know [sic] that after about three or four years of concern on this issue the board of the National Right to Life Committee voted to oppose ERA. -- Dr. John Willke, President, National Right to Life Committee, "Weekend" January 27, 1979 Morality -------- For those who say I can't impose my morality on others, I say just watch me. -- Joseph Scheidler, Executive Director, Pro-Life Action League, PRO-LIFE ACTION NEWS, August 8, 1989 If only the Catholics would stick together and live up to their Faith [as regards birth control], they could control the world and the world's morality. -- Dr. Claude Newbury, Director, HLI Johannesburg, HLI SPECIAL REPORT, No. 62 Poverty ------- To me, one of the most exciting things in the world is being poor, and survival, such an exciting challenge. -- Thomas S. Monaghan, Founder, Domino's Pizza and Legatus, NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER, March 23, 1990 Incest, Rape ------------ Sex education classes in our public schools are promoting incest. -- Rev. Jimmy Swaggart, "Jimmy Swaggart Hour" August 19, 1984 Inbreeding is how we get championship horses. -- Carl Gunter, State Representative, Louisiana, Remarks supporting anti-abortion legislation, June 27, 1990 I don't think we should punish the criminal [a rapist] by killing his child. -- Dr. John Willke, "Searche for Common Ground" Taped for Television April 1989 AIDS ---- I see a divine hand in this AIDS thing. -- Dr. John Willke, "Planned Parenthood and Sex Clinics" Fundraising Audiotape Mailout for Dr. James C Dobson's "Focus on the Family" Late winter 1987 Indeed, to quarantine a person with AIDS or the AIDS virus does entail a loss, in the short run, of human freedom. Agreed. But the idea of human freedom isn't now, and never has been, absolute. Besides, in the long run, as I have noted, all people with AIDS die. -- John Lofton, Anti-Choice Columnist, THE WASHINGTON TIMES, March 31, 1989 Abortion -------- You can't stop abortion without fighting contraception: it is the gateway to abortion. Not one of the 81 countries I've worked in has nice "clean" contraception without abortion - not one. Once there's contraception - separating sexual activity from procreation and teaching people to use each other's bodies for selfish pleasure - abortion is always used as a backup. -- Fr. Paul Marx, PRO-LIFE/FAMILY CATALOG, 1991 There is no difference between killing a four-year-old child and aborting a pre-born 3-month old [fetus]. -- Randall Terry, In his film, "Higher Laws" Anti-Abortion Pregnancy Counseling Centers ------------------------------------------ Never counsel for contraception or refer to agencies making contraceptives available. Some volunteers may feel it is the lesser of two evils, reasoning that if the girl is going to be sexually active anyway, why not at least help her from getting pregnant with contraceptives. This type of thinking is not only inaccurate but unacceptable and against the general pro-life philosophy, and Christian principles. -- Robert J. Pearson, President, The Pearson Foundation, In his guidebook, HOW TO START AND OPERATE A PRO-LIFE OUT- REACH PREGNANCY SERVICE CENTER, 1984 Clinic Harassment ----------------- For instance, several years ago we tracked down a twelve-year-old girl who was going to have an abortion so that we could talk her out of it. Talking a woman out of having an abortion is not news. But tracking her down using a private detective is. -- Joseph Scheidler, CLOSED: 99 WAYS TO STOP ABORTION, 1985 Clinic Violence --------------- Destroying property is sometimes a good way to save lives. -- Mary Meehan, Anti-Choice Columnist, THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC REGISTER, October 12, 1986 If we fail to make non-violent action a real, viable, obviously strong possibility... then I think we're going to drift into guerilla warfare. -- John Cavanaugh-O'Keefe, Director, Prolife Nonviolent Action Project, NATIONAL CATHOLIC REGISTER, January 4, 1987 I am not a pacafist, I celebrate the Fourth of July and all that means, which was guns and bullets to get freedom. -- Randall Terry, ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER, March 20, 1989 Whoever did this [planted a pipe bomb at the Margaret Sanger Center] is a hero. I think they are heroes. The Bible commands us to rescue those being dragged to death. -- Nancy O'Brien, Co-Director, Project Jericho, "Channel 9 News" WCTO-TV, February 23, 1987 Nat Goldstein and Jim Simmons in Florida, Curtis Beseda out west who has destroyed abortion clinics, these men are looked up to by my arm of the movement as the foremost heroes of the movement... -- James J. Candit, Jr., Cincinnatus Party's perennial candidate for city council, "Mike Cuthbert Show" WCKY-AM January 22, 1987 ### -- When a man loves a woman, he supports her right to choose. _____ __ __ Pro-woman, / -=* Jay T Stein *=- | | | \ / Pro-family, / | | in | | | Pro-child, < Internet: judi@wam.umd.edu |__| | |__/ \__ PRO-CHOICE. \ GEnie: J.STEIN18 \ "Being pro-abortion is a self-correcting problem! ;-)" -- Suzanne Forgach "Satan invented sex." -- c.u.l. protester "[Pro-choicers] will wind up exterminating themselves." -- Mike Schwartz