From: dking@raul.nas.nasa.gov (Dan King)
Subject: Re: MEET GEORGE TILLER, LATE-TERM ABORTIONIST, Part 1
Keywords: late-term, third trimester, abnormalities, bi-parietal diameter
Organization: NAS Program, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 18:43:45 GMT


Peter seems to believe that if he brings up enough examples
of disagreeable doctors who also just so happen to perform 
abortions that we will become convinced abortion should be 
outlawed.  Seems obvious this is a pointless and dare I say
even stupid tactic.  But Peter persists.  Well Peter, I 
think the following few cases should be enough to convince
you that it is time to outlaw the pro-life movement.
 
From "RU486: The Pill that Could End the Abortion Wars
and Why American Women Don't have it" by Lawrence Lader:
 
  The attacks on Dr. Eduardo Aquino and his clinic in 
Corpus Christi, Texas, "disrupted my life and terrorized
my wife and four children," he related.  Although his un-
listed home phone number was constantly changed,
threats poured in to his wife, Mercedes.  On March 1,
1988, a dozen screaming picketers surrounded their house.
When Dr. Aquino arrived, his wife "Was crying and hys-
terical, barely able to tell me what was going on."  Their
ten-year-old son, Eddie, had locked himself in his room.
  The house was surrounded twice more in March, and
a bomb threat was telephoned to Aquino's clinic. "Fear
was tearing my family apart," he said.  "Mercedes sank
into depression, crying in our bedroom for hours during
the day." The grades of their eldest son, Eddie, plum-
meted, and he became uncontrollable. "Eddie had to be 
hospitalized for his behavioral disorders. In June, on his
psychiatrist's recommendation, we arranged to have Ed-
die stay indefinitely with my sister-in-law in Paraguay.
Under the stress, Mercedes' peptic ulcer flared up, and
she has been treated for that as well as post-traumatic
stress syndrome."
  Although the doctor has won monetary damages in
court against this terrorism, which are being appealed,
the family's suffering persists.  His wife is "afraid of ele-
vators, planes, people - almost everything," he said.  When
the doctor is called out at night, "she turns of the air 
conditioner while she waits so she can hear every sound.
She sees a psychiatrist every week, but I fear she'll never
again her spirit."  Eddie has been held back in school
and also sees a psychiatrist.  Dr. Aquino, despite excom-
munication by the bishop of Corpus Christi, continues to
do abortions at his clinic and office.
  Dr. Curtis Boyd of Albuquerque, New Mexico, has been
the target of similar terrorism.  Death threats are "rou-
time" for him and his wife.  They receive regular bomb
threats.  At his previous clinic in Dallas, Texas, "members
of Operation Rescue charged the door, knocking a coun-
selor and doctor to the ground before chaining them-
selves to the furniture and medical equipment," he re-
calls.  On Christmas Eve 1988, the Dallas clinic was doused
with gasoline and set ablaze, causing $100,000 worth of
damage.  But only one staff member quit.  "For the rest
of us," he says, "the arson was a reminder (A frightening
and painful one, to be sure) how important it is that we
have the courage to go on."
  Dr. Boyd, who comes from pioneer Texas stock and
was captain on the Corps of Cadets at Texas A&M Uni-
versity, remembers that "my grandfather was an elder in
the Foot Washing Baptist Church,  I went to church with
him every service.  I grew up in a time when women and
children were the property of men.  That time is past."
He speaks of a patient for whom he did an abortion many
years ago.  Now forty-two years old with two boys, ages
four and nine, she wrote a recent Christmas card that
"you make it possible for so many women to have healthy
families." "That is why I do abortions," he concludes. "I
believe that the availability of abortions allows more
women to create healthy families."
 
 
Following soon Peter, the wonderful story of Dr. Amy Cousins.
Watch for it.
 
Dan King

  
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