‘Women Blitzed by Pro-Lifers’

In her Feb. 13 Notebook (“Women--Pregnant or Not--Blitzed by Pro-Lifers,” Orange County section), reporter Dianne Klein uses third-hand quotes and opinions from Planned Parenthood about what Randy Adler, pastor of Stone Mountain Church, supposedly said as one of the speakers at a pro-life rescue rally last month.

I was at that rally. Pastor Adler did indeed refer to a possible loss of life in the conflict over abortion: Those who do not flinch at tearing babies limb from limb will hardly think twice about murdering those who peaceably stand in their way. Yet Klein obligingly provides quotes comparing Adler to the infamous Jim Jones. Obviously, asking Planned Parenthood about the pro-life rescue movement is like asking Adolph Hitler about the French Resistance.

Klein writes that when she approached an abortionist’s office, she was met by peaceful people who gave her a smile, information about unborn life and an offer of help. She is offended that anyone would tell a pregnant woman that an unborn baby is more than just a blob of “uterine contents.”

Klein is outraged that anyone would dare to show a pregnant woman exactly what that defenseless baby looks like before the scalpel and the vacuum get to it. When will Klein have the journalistic honesty to show what that baby looks like after the abortionist gets through with it?

Klein and The Times would have us believe that unborn children are less than human--the property of their mothers, to do with as they please. They protest that it is illegal to stand between a pregnant woman and the abortionist’s knife. Well, as we all know, 150 years ago some Americans were legally termed less than human and the property of others. Thank God that the abolitionists and the Underground Railroad were willing to risk arrest and their very lives to do what was right, not what was “legal.” May we all have that same insight and courage today.

IRINA McGUIRK

El Toro