Bonnie Rogoff
Let's call a crime by its real name: child kidnapping
By Bonnie Rogoff
Did you know that 80 percent of Americans are members of the Taliban? Or that 65 of our United States Senators are affiliated with the radical Islamic movement in Afghanistan?
It's true. According to Kim Gandy, President of the National Organization of Women, anyone who supports the Child Custody Protection Act is a religious fanatic comparable to the Taliban. The subject of her press release is absurd:
"U.S. Republican Taliban Endangers Girls and Young Women."
NOW (and their buddies at Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-abortion America) oppose the Senate's passage of the bill, S. 403, which makes it a federal crime for strangers to transport your teenage daughters across state lines for abortions. They forget that of the 65 Senators who voted for passage, 14 are Democrats, many of whom are "pro-choice," and most Americans strongly favor the bill's passage.
In April 2005, a national poll conducted by The Polling Company of 1,000 adults showed that 82% opposed a person's right to transport a child across state lines for an abortion without parental consent. A Fox poll taken that same month found that 78% of Americans agreed that parents should be notified about a minor's abortion. That's an awful lot of American Talibans!
However, a majority vote didn't stop pro-abort Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) from using a procedural motion to block the bill and prevent it being directed to the conference committee. This is all due to political pressure from pro-abortion and feminist groups. They are not religious, but they are all fanatics for abortion.
Reading the press releases of the 'big three' — Planned Parenthood, NARAL and NOW — is scary. They call the bill the "Teen Endangerment Act," and the "Family Restriction Act." Let's call it by its real name: The Child Kidnapping Prevention Act. When someone other than a parent transports a minor for an abortion across state lines, it is kidnapping.
Kim Gandy, President of NOW calls it a "cruel bill" which "the bully-in-chief" gleefully signed, and laments that its passage will "make it a federal crime to accompany a minor...even a granddaughter, niece or sister — who is obtaining an abortion in a nearby state...thus making criminals of friends and family members helping teens who are unable to involve a parent in their decision."
All lies. Most of the time, the "grandmother" or "clergy" winds up being an uncaring, selfish irresponsible pedophile who manipulated the minor girl and wants to avoid a paternity suit, statutory rape conviction and possible felony charges. Just ask Marcia Carroll of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, who told her story at a Congressional committee in March, 2005. Ms. Carroll's daughter was taken to an abortion mill in New Jersey, not by an "aunt" or "caring sister" or clergyman but by her older boyfriend and his callous, scheming parents. When the 14-year-old teen had second thoughts about the abortion, the trio coerced her into having it. They wouldn't bring the girl home until she complied, threatening to dump her in the street with no money to get home. That's some choice!
Gandy further states:
"The reality of rape and incest is hidden behind walls of denial. Millions of girls and women are assaulted and raped, often by people they know."
"They (the Congress) show no concern for the health and future of the girls and women in their states or across this nation."
"And when they become pregnant through incest, violence or unwanted sexual activity, they often have nowhere to turn, no money to either terminate or carry through the pregnancy, and no one in their immediate family to talk to."
The largest abortion organizations in the United States are protecting the pedophiles and allowing sexual abuse of minors to continue. Mark Crutcher, Founder of Life Dynamics and Pro-Life America investigated Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Federation and revealed proof, via audiotapes, how they shield pedophiles who bring girls in for abortions by not reporting their crimes to the authorities. (See www.childpredators.com for more information.)
The first alleged victim of parental consent laws was a teenager named Becky Bell. Gandy revisits that story but lies outright when she recounts her death in 1988:
"But there are many young women who will not and cannot approach their parents with such a dilemma, and who will do as Becky Bell, the 17-year-old Indiana honor student who died because of an botched abortion."
This is a "pro-choice" myth. Becky Bell never had an induced abortion. The autopsy report indicates she suffered a miscarriage (possibly due to her drug use) and died of septic pneumonia. For the facts about Becky's tragic case, there are two excellent articles from the archives of Rightgrrl.com and from National Right to Life. Writer Christina Dunigan also discloses the horrific covered-up case of 13 year old Dawn Ravenell, who was killed by a legal abortion the same year. When teenagers are legally butchered their deaths go ignored by the pro-abortion activists.
Concluding her statement, Ms. Gandy takes a cheap shot at religious conservatives by comparing them to the Taliban:
"We all know of the Afghan Taliban's reliance on religion to justify their repression and control of girls and women. Now this Republican Taliban, with shameful help from certain Democrats, has made it clear that they are more concerned about appeasing U.S. religious and political extremists than they are about the health and well-being of our sisters, nieces, daughters and granddaughters."
The only reason she objects to the Child Custody Protection Act is because radical feminists want no limits imposed on abortion. Kim Gandy has about as much concern for the welfare of minor girls as the pedophiles who violate them and force them into abortion mills.
National Right to Life Committee's Legislative Director Douglas Johnson commented that the Democratic leadership is "now doing the bidding of the abortion lobby." The current session of Congress will conclude in a few weeks. If the Democratic caucus succeeds in stalling this bill so President Bush can't sign it, pro-life Senators will have a strong campaign issue in the fall, one that most voters would support at the polls.
© Bonnie Rogoff
Did you know that 80 percent of Americans are members of the Taliban? Or that 65 of our United States Senators are affiliated with the radical Islamic movement in Afghanistan?
It's true. According to Kim Gandy, President of the National Organization of Women, anyone who supports the Child Custody Protection Act is a religious fanatic comparable to the Taliban. The subject of her press release is absurd:
"U.S. Republican Taliban Endangers Girls and Young Women."
NOW (and their buddies at Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-abortion America) oppose the Senate's passage of the bill, S. 403, which makes it a federal crime for strangers to transport your teenage daughters across state lines for abortions. They forget that of the 65 Senators who voted for passage, 14 are Democrats, many of whom are "pro-choice," and most Americans strongly favor the bill's passage.
In April 2005, a national poll conducted by The Polling Company of 1,000 adults showed that 82% opposed a person's right to transport a child across state lines for an abortion without parental consent. A Fox poll taken that same month found that 78% of Americans agreed that parents should be notified about a minor's abortion. That's an awful lot of American Talibans!
However, a majority vote didn't stop pro-abort Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) from using a procedural motion to block the bill and prevent it being directed to the conference committee. This is all due to political pressure from pro-abortion and feminist groups. They are not religious, but they are all fanatics for abortion.
Reading the press releases of the 'big three' — Planned Parenthood, NARAL and NOW — is scary. They call the bill the "Teen Endangerment Act," and the "Family Restriction Act." Let's call it by its real name: The Child Kidnapping Prevention Act. When someone other than a parent transports a minor for an abortion across state lines, it is kidnapping.
Kim Gandy, President of NOW calls it a "cruel bill" which "the bully-in-chief" gleefully signed, and laments that its passage will "make it a federal crime to accompany a minor...even a granddaughter, niece or sister — who is obtaining an abortion in a nearby state...thus making criminals of friends and family members helping teens who are unable to involve a parent in their decision."
All lies. Most of the time, the "grandmother" or "clergy" winds up being an uncaring, selfish irresponsible pedophile who manipulated the minor girl and wants to avoid a paternity suit, statutory rape conviction and possible felony charges. Just ask Marcia Carroll of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, who told her story at a Congressional committee in March, 2005. Ms. Carroll's daughter was taken to an abortion mill in New Jersey, not by an "aunt" or "caring sister" or clergyman but by her older boyfriend and his callous, scheming parents. When the 14-year-old teen had second thoughts about the abortion, the trio coerced her into having it. They wouldn't bring the girl home until she complied, threatening to dump her in the street with no money to get home. That's some choice!
Gandy further states:
"The reality of rape and incest is hidden behind walls of denial. Millions of girls and women are assaulted and raped, often by people they know."
"They (the Congress) show no concern for the health and future of the girls and women in their states or across this nation."
"And when they become pregnant through incest, violence or unwanted sexual activity, they often have nowhere to turn, no money to either terminate or carry through the pregnancy, and no one in their immediate family to talk to."
The largest abortion organizations in the United States are protecting the pedophiles and allowing sexual abuse of minors to continue. Mark Crutcher, Founder of Life Dynamics and Pro-Life America investigated Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Federation and revealed proof, via audiotapes, how they shield pedophiles who bring girls in for abortions by not reporting their crimes to the authorities. (See www.childpredators.com for more information.)
The first alleged victim of parental consent laws was a teenager named Becky Bell. Gandy revisits that story but lies outright when she recounts her death in 1988:
"But there are many young women who will not and cannot approach their parents with such a dilemma, and who will do as Becky Bell, the 17-year-old Indiana honor student who died because of an botched abortion."
This is a "pro-choice" myth. Becky Bell never had an induced abortion. The autopsy report indicates she suffered a miscarriage (possibly due to her drug use) and died of septic pneumonia. For the facts about Becky's tragic case, there are two excellent articles from the archives of Rightgrrl.com and from National Right to Life. Writer Christina Dunigan also discloses the horrific covered-up case of 13 year old Dawn Ravenell, who was killed by a legal abortion the same year. When teenagers are legally butchered their deaths go ignored by the pro-abortion activists.
Concluding her statement, Ms. Gandy takes a cheap shot at religious conservatives by comparing them to the Taliban:
"We all know of the Afghan Taliban's reliance on religion to justify their repression and control of girls and women. Now this Republican Taliban, with shameful help from certain Democrats, has made it clear that they are more concerned about appeasing U.S. religious and political extremists than they are about the health and well-being of our sisters, nieces, daughters and granddaughters."
The only reason she objects to the Child Custody Protection Act is because radical feminists want no limits imposed on abortion. Kim Gandy has about as much concern for the welfare of minor girls as the pedophiles who violate them and force them into abortion mills.
National Right to Life Committee's Legislative Director Douglas Johnson commented that the Democratic leadership is "now doing the bidding of the abortion lobby." The current session of Congress will conclude in a few weeks. If the Democratic caucus succeeds in stalling this bill so President Bush can't sign it, pro-life Senators will have a strong campaign issue in the fall, one that most voters would support at the polls.
© Bonnie Rogoff
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