Chicago Tribune Article Shows National Impact Of OR's Work
We are posting below a story that appeared in the June 10, 2008, edition of the Chicago Tribune. This article should encourage everyone in the pro-life movement. Our tactics are successful and our work is making an impact around the nation. The article shows a vibrant, effective pro-life movement that is changing with the times in order to bring the speediest end to abortion.
Here is a quote from the article from one of George Tiller's attorneys:
Another of Tiller's lawyers, Laura Shaneyfelt, said the threat to abortion rights in Kansas and elsewhere is very real, regardless of what happens with Roe. "People need to wake up and see this could have a real impact," she said.
Attorneys don't make these kinds of comments, indicating they could lose, unless they mean them. Please continue to pray for Operation Rescue and our work to save lives and stop abortion. If you are so led, your financial support is also very much appreciated. (Click to donate.)
-Operation Rescue Staff
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Abortion foes take battle beyond Roe
Makeup of high court is political focal point, but activists cutting access with ruling intact
By James Oliphant, Tribune correspondent
June 10, 2008
WICHITA, Kan. - Troy Newman appears to be just about the happiest person who ever set foot in an abortion clinic.
"We're winning," Newman says excitedly. "We're winning the youth. We're winning the hearts and minds of the people."
Except for his prematurely gray hair, Newman, the head of Operation Rescue, perhaps the most aggressive anti-abortion group in the nation, seems boyish and eager.
"I just want to be the best pro-lifer I can be," he said.
The organization has just moved into its new offices in Wichita, a shuttered abortion clinic that Newman helped hassle out of business. "Nothing warms my heart more than a closed abortion clinic," he said. He keeps souvenirs in his office of some of the clinics he has claimed credit for helping shut down.
Newman has good reason to feel optimistic. Through the work of groups like his, the number of places where women can obtain abortions in the United States has shrunk by two-thirds since the early 1990s, to about 700. The Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive-rights think tank that has had a longtime connection to Planned Parenthood, estimates abortions are now unavailable in 87 percent of counties nationwide.
