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No choice for pro-life martyr
Feb. 02, 2001
Half a dozen officers stood guard outside the courthouse. But they weren't necessary.
"Who are we going to kill with a rosary?" asked Tom Takash with Children of the Rosary.
The Glendale-based group usually prays in front of abortion clinics. But this week its members were outside Maricopa County Superior Court.
Inside, Dr. Moshe Hachamovitch testified about the death of LouAnne Herron at his abortion clinic.
The extra security was there by order of the court. Hachamovitch is on the "Nuremberg List" of targeted abortionists on the Internet. Some of those doctors have been killed.
"We are not violent people," Takash said. "We are against violent acts."
The abortion protesters weren't interested in violence against Hachamovitch.
Instead, they concentrated on LouAnne Herron.
Her uterus was punctured during an April 1998 abortion at the A-Z Women's Center in Phoenix. She bled to death. Her doctor, John Biskind, is on trial for manslaughter.
"Women who think abortion is safe should come here and listen to this trial," Takash says. "Abortion should be outlawed."
Children of the Rosary believes abortion is murder. In this case, the group's correct.
But members blame Herron's tragic death not on an inattentive doctor, but on the legality of abortion.
"Women are abused all the time by abortions," Takash said, "more often than the press is telling you."
While he prays outside clinics, Takash said he has seen scores of emotionally distraught women forced inside by men.
"It's a farce that this is a women's choice," he says. "I don't think a woman would consciously choose abortion."
Herron was 32 when she entered the A-Z Women's Center. She was in the middle of a divorce, and about 24 weeks pregnant.
Because she was so far along, a nurse told her that she couldn't have an abortion.
Herron broke down crying.
She met with administrator Carol Stuart-Schadoff. Nine days later, Stuart-Schadoff told a nurse a "personal patient" was coming in to have more ultrasounds.
Prosecutors allege those ultrasounds were doctored to make it appear Herron was less than 24 weeks pregnant.
Herron was the first person in the clinic the next day. She had already paid $1,250 for the procedure.
People can disagree on the choice Herron made, but it certainly wasn't forced.
Herron clearly chose to have an abortion.
After completing the rosary, the protesters stood in rows and chanted a prayer.
It compared abortion with the death of Jesus, " . . . repeated in the slaughter of these least brethren of His."
Inside, the morning session ran late. By the time court broke for lunch, the Children of the Rosary were gone.
Herron's father, Mike Gibbs, was told of the protesters who were using the case to call for an end to abortion.
"They have their own agenda," he said softly.
And correctly.
The parent's agenda is to hold a doctor responsible for the death of his daughter.
The protesters' agenda is to hold up Herron as a martyr for a cause they believe in, but one she didn't.
Reach Ruelas at (602) 444-8473 or at richard.ruelas@arizonarepublic.com
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