Operation Save America -

I am reading your editorial page for May 16, 2002. I am shocked that these officials are calling the abortion center a "healthcare facility". Since when is killing your baby healthcare or "reproductive health service" ? What are they "reproducing" if they are killing the babies. This has all become a word game in America. A "woman's right to choose". Choose what? Finish the sentence. A woman's right to choose ... to kill her baby.

I have been on the street at this abortuary for over twelve years. There has always been safe passage. In the past twelve and a half years over 1,030 moms have changed their minds and had their babies. Praying Christians were physically out there to reach out to them. Help was provided them in many ways such as clothes, food, furniture, housing, jobs, adoption. We have a church class for them on Sunday and pick them up with our van ministry. There are some that we have helped for many years. I have been matron of honor and godmother for one of these young ladies. We make them a part of our life.

Outreach to women in crisis from caring and loving people, some of whom have had abortions themselves in the past and have come to regret that decision, is not harassment. Rather, it is showing the compassion of Christ. Over 340 adults have prayed to accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior. This is street ministry and a public service to needy women.

I can see these officials have gotten slanted information. Bill Finch and Woody Bliss have both been clinic escorts. I personally spoke with Mayor Mark Lauretti of Shelton today, he said he signed onto the letter because he was led to believe that there was violence involved in this transition and they were asking for a "peaceful resolution". There has never been any violence in the history of our ministry. It's all a part of fear mongering. Lauretti also told me he is not ashamed of his Catholic prolife view and everyone knows where he stands on abortion. He has three children.

If these people cared so much about women, how come they did not do anything to help a young woman who was brought out on a stretcher hemorrhaging? She was the victim of a botched abortion. She told us her uterus and bladder was perforated. The baby was over 20 weeks. She was brought to the hospital in an ambulance and given a hysterectomy. At a young age, she will never be able to have children.

Do these officials know that the Summit's current abortionist, Mark Allen Blumenfeld, M.D., was issued probation for five years and told he could not practice solo? At least four formal complaints have been filed against him for negligence and incompetence. The Summit had to pay a large amount of money to a woman who claimed other doctors "butchered" her there. This was reported in the CT Post. Do any of these people care about all the women who have been scarred physically, mentally and spiritually? Where are all the feminist's groups to help them?

According to a Hartford Courant article, Dr. Blumenfeld had to pay $133,000. in damages to a clinic worker. Some workers testified that he ordered prescriptions with family members' names and fictitious names to get drugs for his own personal use. His former technician testified that the abortionist became erratic, shouted at staff and patients, and slapped a patient who was lying on the operating table. It was reported that he had trouble performing late term abortions because he was so nervous and talking to himself.

Last but not least, how about the little pregnant girl that was brought to the Summit around March/ April this year? She was ten years old when she got pregnant from a seventy-five year old man and is now six months pregnant and eleven. The CT Post covered this story and said the Summit did not report this child abuse to authorities. A search warrant was served them by police for investigation. Did anyone care about this little woman's rights? God help us.

For the Least of These,
Marilyn Carroll
Calvary Prolife Ministry
Trumbull

#2 Letter from Joe McClure

May 17, 2002

In response to the letters from State Senators Finch, Jepsen, Freedman, Bpt. Councilwoman Grogins, and some municipal leaders published in The Post on May 16, 2002, I would like to make a few comments.

To whom are they referring when they say "Our priority"? Are they speaking for themselves personally? Are they claiming to speak for the whole of their constituency? Or are they only speaking for the socially and morally liberal ones?

Do they even care what the less vocal, more conservative public believes?

When they say their priority is to "ensure that women in the greater Bridgeport region have safe and secure access" to abortion centers, are they saying that the access must be given at the cost of everyone else's First Amendment rights. Our rights to free speech (and freedom to have robust public discussion of issues anyone believes important), freedom of religion and the public expression thereof, and free association of like-minded people?

The authors apparently do not really know what "protesters" do outside the abortion center because their claim that access to the services there is "obstructed" is simply not true. If access were obstructed there would be arrests. What the authors have so sensationalized is the public questioning of the woman's decision to kill her unborn child.

When they cite that abortions are "legal" I would like to remind them that not all things legal are right. Slavery was certainly "legal", so was the extermination of Jews "legal" in Germany early in the 20th century. Fortunately those wrongs were righted by ones who took a stand on high moral ground.

As to the services being offered at abortion centers being called "necessary, reproductive health services", I would like to address the women who are now considering exterminating their unborn babies: You need to know that, contrary to what your boyfriends, parents, and post-abortive peers are telling you, abortion is not necessary. You do not need to kill your baby. YOU DO HAVE CHOICES. Choices that are morally right, and pleasing to God. There are all kinds of help available to you (material, financial, housing, medical, and more) that you will never hear about from the "counselors" at the abortion centers. Remember they are in the cash business of killing babies. Please call or visit an abortion alternative service like Hopeline Women's Center for more information. Please consider lovingly carrying your baby to term and perhaps offering her to be adopted by a loving childless couple.

If the politician-authors of the letters would WORK to address the real needs of the women in crisis in our region, and HELP THEM by eradicating poverty, creating real affordable housing, increasing parenting counseling, teaching abstinence instead of (un-)safe sex, and more, then the abomination of child killing would no longer exist.

If boyfriends, parents, and peers would come alongside the woman with an unplanned pregnancy with compassion, love, and charity toward both the woman and her baby, and, demonstrate faith in God's plan for the child's life, we wouldn't be discussing tensions at an abortion center.

Sincerely, G. McClure

Monroe

#3 Abortion Clinic On Main Street

May 20, 2002

To the Editor:

The recent City of Bridgeport officially authorized and funded move of an abortion clinic from a back street neighborhood to Main Street heightens the present brazen attitudes of the zealots for legal abortion. After twenty-nine legalized years of low visibility mayhem against the unborn, abortion has moved out of the closet. It is rather like the Auschwitz of infamy moving to Berlin, from the distant suburbs into the center stage of that once horrifying social experiment called Nazi Germany. The abortion proponents no longer fear having the light of day shed on their nefarious deeds. We are safe, we are legal, they chant, like some kind of repetitive religious mantra. No one, no Christian, no Jew, no Muslim, no conservative, no one will stand in our way.

Sadly the facts scream against the deed. They cry out from the grave. We dare not hide them. Twenty-nine years and 40 million Americans later. Who is poorer for it? We are. For example, what plausible genius has been forever lost? What awesome talent has been permanently silenced? What precious girl or boy, each an individual of inestimable value, has been finally flushed through a medical waste garbage disposer or dumped at a crematorium? What cost have we also paid in the degeneration of our moral conscience and of our once dearly held will to do right?

Will the light of day now shine on Main Street and expose this for all to see? And from this small light will a crowd of witnesses arise and join with one voice to finally say, no more? Or will this curse on our nation, our state and this city continue unchecked and unnoticed? Will people of strong heart and moral purpose stand to resist? Or will this clinic just become another neighborhood business like a donut shop or toy store dispensing its wares, making a profit and paying its taxes to the cold blind eye of government?

Kindest Regards,
Ron Coddington
Hamden, CT