"We're out there saving society," said abortionist Tom Tvedten of Little Rock. "Most of the people in [the state prison farm] are from single-parent families and weren't planned or wanted." Viewed in this (dim) light, abortion becomes a kind of pre-emptive strike, a way of eliminating the criminal element early. How efficient. Think of it as capital punishment without the bother of a trial, let alone a verdict and sentence. [Editorial response to article on Arkansas abortionists.]

"If James Kopp is guilty of the senseless killing of Dr. Slepian, this would make James Kopp pro-choice, not pro-life. The pro-life movement is dedicated to the saving of life, not the taking of life."

For more background on Kopp, consult LifeSite Daily News.

A federal appeals court threw out a record $109 million verdict against anti-abortion activists Wednesday, ruling that the First Amendment protects the "Nuremberg Files" website and wanted posters branding abortion doctors "baby butchers" and criminals.

The Church of Glad Tidings in Yuba City, California, has posted a billboard that reads: "Don't end your pregnancy. We will raise your child." According to a church representative the church has facilitated adoptions, including babies born in jail. Planned Parenthood representatives oppose the billboard.

Nearly half of the women who had their babies aborted in Kansas last year were from other states, a Kansas agency reported Monday. Abortionist George Tiller's Wichita abortion mill was cited as the main reason. Legislators said Tiller thrives because Kansas law allows doctors to commit late-term abortions to protect the mother's mental, as well as physical, health. Over 90% of the abortions committed in Kansas after 22 weeks were on women from other states.

Four abortionists publicly admit that they commit abortions in Arkansas. Abortionist Tom Tvedten, 54, said "this is a cash business, and doctors can make as much doing this as in family practice. I don't think there's ever going to be a shortage of providers."

About 50 pro-lifers held a prayer vigil on Sunday in the neighborhood of abortionist Fernando Betancourt. Some protesters carried rosaries, while others held blue, triangle-shaped flags symbolizing unity and triumph. The demonstration was the third in recent years at the homes of Southwest Florida abortionists. The first, in 1997 at the Naples home of Dr. Wallace McLean, caused McLean to stop committing abortions.

The Proverbs 31:8 Project seeks to confront confused or apostate people with the images created by the abortion war. "People confronted with the actual images of the slaughtered babies are changed by the experience."

Pro-life missionary William Goodman was arrested in December at a Madison, Wisconsin, abortion chamber. The Thomas More Center for Law & Justice based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, filed a counter-suit Thursday seeking damages and a jury trial. The judge had granted a temporary injunction against Goodman two days earlier.

Rock For Life's San Bernardino affiliate will protest the "rock for Big Abortion" event on April 6 at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles, where the so-called "Feminist Majority" will promote an "All-Women Rock For Choice Concert to Save Roe." "Rock for Life will be at this concert in force, with pro-life evangelism, to provide teens with what they really want: accurate information about the personhood of every human being from the moment of fertilization/conception," said Erik Whittington, director of Rock For Life.

The Crisis Pregnancy Centre of Winnipeg was vandalized last week. Profane graffiti was spray-painted over the windows of the building in huge yellow letters. At least a gallon of blood-red paint was also thrown on the wall and surrounding area.

Public records can reveal amazing and potentially very useful things about your local abortuaries and abortionists. You don't have to be a private eye to be an effective investigator; you just need to be persistent.

The late-term abortion program at Brigham and Women's Hospital was quietly shut down earlier this year after the chief abortionist was accused of threatening to murder his staff. At least one child has apparently been saved by the hospital's action, according to Pam Nourse, spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, who lamented "we know of at least one person who fell through the cracks... She had to go ahead with her pregnancy."

A north Dallas abortion mill which gained publicity when Operation Rescue moved next door, prompting the Christian conversion of Roe v. Wade plaintiff Norma McCorvey, apparently has closed. "I am absolutely ecstatic that there's one less abortion clinic in the city of Dallas," McCorvey said Friday. Rev. Flip Benham of Operation Save America (Operation Rescue) said that this is the sixth abortion chamber in Dallas to close since 1991.

A Kansas state House committee held a hearing Tuesday on a bill to require abortionists to tell women about the increased risk of breast cancer from abortion. Abortion supporters wondered why, if there is a connection between abortion and breast cancer, the American Cancer Society does not say so. But attorney John Kindley noted that anti-smoking groups claimed a link between smoking and lung cancer long before the American Cancer society did. "I can assure you the facts are quite simple," Kindley said. "It's a question of what to do about these facts."

A South Florida teen says that her chances of ever having children may be ruined because of a botched abortion. Abortionist Jose Casso, 71, has been arrested twice in the past few months for practicing medicine without a license.

Proposals for buffer zones at abortion chambers could change the abortion battle. Albuquerque Mayor Jim Baca has proposed a 100-foot buffer zone around "health care clinics." However, none of the nine city councilors has agreed to carry the measure for the mayor. State Rep. Gail Beam has introduced a similar measure in Santa Fe. Features on pro-lifer Sherry Dib and pro-abortion activist Joan LaMunyon-Sanford are also included.

Patrick Mahoney of the Christian Defense Coalition hopes to challenge Attorney General John Ashcroft to stop allowing the "Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances" (FACE) Act to be used as a "political battering ram to harass and intimidate and go after peaceful pro-life activists."

Perhaps the most common indication for a "life of the mother" abortion is the diagnosis of breast cancer in a woman who is pregnant. But there is a sound biological basis to the beneficial effects of a full-term pregnancy, even when breast cancer has already occurred.

A federal racketeering probe in Chicago alleges that a mafia don owns and operates a prominent abortion facility and actively tries to bribe politicians on the premises. But pro-lifers say this is only one example of the questionable activities at abortion mills in the United States, pointing to various common financial and medical irregularities.

People do not have a "right" to murder other people. Therefore, if someone claims he has a "right" to murder people, what do we say? Proverbs 26:4 says, "Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him." Does that mean our response should be to help pass laws to regulate the way a fool commits murder? No. That makes us like unto him.

The Tennessee state attorney general's office is pressing for fines of $25 to $5,000 against an abortion chamber for violating injunctions barring the facility from operating unless it became certified as an ambulatory surgical treatment center.

One of the saddest and most dramatic examples of abortion's ability to infect the human heart is the story of a young black pastor....

A bloody crime scene, a rumored affair, and inappropriate responses led police to arrest abortionist John Baxter Hamilton hours after his wife was slain, police said in an affidavit released Tuesday. Hamilton was wearing bloodstained clothing, but no shoes or necktie, while the victim had a necktie around her neck. "Hamilton appeared to be acting and not concerned for the victim," the document said.

Notorious abortionist Steven Brigham has asked a judge to restrict sidewalk counselors' contact with women who enter his abortion facility. The counselors had already restricted their activities after reaching an agreement with the abortionist in August. The sidewalk counselors seek to inform women of the fact that Brigham has had his license revoked in several states because of endangering the lives of women.

A new study casts doubt on the reliability of ultrasound in detecting Down syndrome in the womb. Note from Voice For Life editor Tim Palmquist: Unfounded fears of Down Syndrome have caused many women to abort their babies, while other children are lost because of amniocentesis-induced miscarriage.

According to a paper to be published by the Royal Statistical Society, the rise in abortions in recent decades and the trend to have first children later in life have set in place an explosion in the number of women suffering the disease. One study has suggested that having an abortion before giving birth to a child, rather than the other way around, increases the chance of breast cancer by up to four times.

John Burt, 62, who runs a women's home, was arrested Friday outside "The Ladies Center" abortion chamber. Police Captain John Mathis claims that Burt yelled "This place has killed more than the Ku Klux Klan did" to a black couple. Note from Voice For Life editor Tim Palmquist: Where is the "racial insult" here? It sounds like Burt was condemning the abortion mill and the Ku Klux Klan. We do not know Burt personally, but advise that most of the information in this article be taken with a grain of salt. If you know of anyone who has personal knowledge of Burt or this incident, please contact us.

A San Francisco jury agreed that Planned Parenthood should pay $672,610 to a woman was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder after her unborn baby lost an arm and a leg from a Planned Parenthood abortion. The woman had a second abortion several months later to ensure that the child would be fully killed. She now says that she is suicidal and haunted by visions of babies being killed. Judge Douglas Munson ordered that Planned Parenthood be held responsible for refusing to provide critical medical documents to the woman.

The Centurions offers therapy to the many people who have been leaving the abortion industry.

A British Medical Journal study reported that parents may be choosing to abort their babies "needlessly" because of "grossly inadequate" or "frankly misleading" advice about chromosomal abnormalities detected by amniocentisis genetic screening tests. Some babies were aborted even though their genetic problems may cause no symptoms or mild ones.

A couple filed a $50,000 malpractice lawsuit last week against abortionist Harvey Brookman of the "Healthy Woman's Center." The woman claims that Brookman failed to order follow-up tests in response to her complaints of pain and bleeding following the abortion. She was hospitalized over a month later for tubal pregnancy.

Rapin Osathanondth, head abortionist at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital, has been accused of threatening five nurses by saying "I'm going to kill you. I'm going to execute you, Texas style." The incident happened on December 27, the day after a gunman attacked seven workers in Wakefield, Mass.

Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's office Tuesday filed a federal civil rights suit against Joseph and Victoria Kraeger and their two adult daughters. Victoria said despite the suit, her family will continue to "exercise their constitutional rights" to demonstrate against the local Planned Parenthood abortion center.