Time for all Catholics to oppose the National Organization of Women (Code name for Anti-Church)

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The Catholic Church and all Catholics have again recieved a devestationg blow in their fight against abortion. Consider, Federal courts allowing NOW to sue anti-abortin groups under RICO laws based on extortion.

RICO laws were designed to combat criminal groups, not to be used against Catholics that share a different point of view on abortion.

THE Claim: Anti-abortion activist groups are encouraging potential clients of NOW run abortion clinics to consider other options beside pregnancy termination.

NOW claims these efforts are loosing revenue for the clinics which make money for each life they take.

NOW calls this extortion! Really!

NOW's true colors have shined. Its not about Womens rights or as Now terms "choice". Its about the money that goes into their coffers to promote their agenda. The childrens life they take and the long term effects on women who due abort are not even considered.

This landmark decision opens the door to nationwide law suits against anyone who opposes NOW views on abortion.

Its time for all Catholics to pray for resolution and take a stance with your State and Federal representitives. Take the time to call and write your legislatures to support overturning this decision.

Its time to call out and encourage the Catholic Church to financially support legal efforts to appeal this decision and for all Catholics to rally for freedom to truely present alternatives ("choice")for people facing abortion decisions.

Encourage the passage of laws which make it manditory that faith based initiatives are first and formost in the the process, before any abortion is considered. This is true choice for women, by presenting alternatives to NOW"S " terminate life and make money " policy.

Support Cardinal Francis George of Chicago who called the decision "unjust" and encourage his archdiocese to firmly commit to joining the appeal. Encourage every archdiocese to stand behind Cardinal Francis George in this effort.

The following AP article explains further:

Protests will go on, anti-abortion groups vow after courtroom loss

The Associated Press

04.21.98

CHICAGO -- Opening the door for claims across the nation, a federal jury relying on a racketeering law aimed at the mob said threats and violence used by anti-abortion leaders amounted to extortion.

Defense attorneys immediately promised an appeal of Monday's landmark decision that could cost the movement millions of dollars. Anti-abortion leaders said protests would go on, though one said demonstrations may become more "prayerful."

"This is the biggest courtroom defeat for the anti-abortion movement ever," said Fay Clayton, a National Organization for Women attorney who fought to keep the class-action lawsuit alive through 12 years of pre-trial skirmishing.

The jury of two men and four women returned its verdict against activists Joseph Scheidler, Andrew Scholberg and Timothy Murphy, as well as two anti-abortion groups, the Pro-Life Action League and Operation Rescue.

Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry originally was named in the lawsuit. But already facing $169,000 in court awards from two other lawsuits, he settled with NOW in January and was no longer part of the case.

The defendants played a major role in organizing clinic blockades that sometimes flared into violence. But they said they are against violence and shouldn't be blamed for the excesses of others.

They were sued by NOW and two clinics that have been the targets of some of those demonstrations.

Following a six-week trial before U.S. district court Judge David Coar, the jury found that the defendants banded together in a nationwide extortion campaign based on violence and threats designed to force clinics to close.

The jury awarded nearly $86,000 in damages, but the amount will be tripled to $258,000 because the lawsuit was filed under the federal Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organizations law, known as RICO. And perhaps 1,000 other clinics across the nation will now be eligible to seek triple damages.

"They want to bankrupt us--there's no question about that," Scheidler, executive director of the league, said as he left court.

The 1970 racketeering law was intended to fight organized crime but has been used against business in recent years. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1994 that RICO could be used in a class-action suit against the anti-abortion movement.

"RICO is terribly flawed, fatally vague and overbroad," said one defense attorney, Tom Brejcha. "Combined with use of federal or state statutes against those who would engage in peaceful, nonviolent civil disobedience, RICO tramples the First Amendment."

Cardinal Francis George of Chicago called the decision "unjust" and said the archdiocese might join in the appeal.

"The decision in this case effectively equates freedom of speech with racketeering," he said. "If the courts had been used to stop the organized sit-ins at lunch counters throughout the South in the '60s, there would have been no civil rights movement."

Coar scheduled a hearing for Wednesday at which he is expected to discuss a court order to curb violence at clinics.

Coar barred abortion-rights attorneys from introducing evidence that they claimed would tie the defendants to more than a decade of bombings and arsons at clinics around the country. But he allowed them to tell jurors of doctors and patients being grabbed, pushed, struck with protest signs and threatened.

"A jury of six men and women saw through the thugs' shameless attempt to pervert the First Amendment," NOW President Patricia Ireland said.

Scheidler said the verdict wouldn't deter the movement from pushing ahead with demonstrations.

"We're still going to be at the abortion mills, probably in greater numbers, but in a more prayerful spirit," Scheidler said.

He said the most militant protests have ended in recent years and that lately demonstrators have begun to hand out rosaries and ask potential patients to pray with them.

"We wanted to come out as a legitimate force in America and not as racketeers," Scheidler said. "There is no honor in being a racketeer and we're not racketeers."

The damages were awarded to clinics in Milwaukee and Wilmington, Del., for security measures required after violence flared outside their doors.

After the verdict, Wendy Crew, an attorney for New Woman All Women Clinic of Birmingham, Ala., said the clinic may seek triple damages under the ruling. A security guard was killed and a nurse seriously injured there Jan. 29 in the first fatal bombing of a U.S. abortion clinic.

There have been no arrests.

Related: Attorneys for pro-life activists deny 'conspiracy' accusations 3.6.98

-- (mg_comm@hotmail.com), December 20, 2002

Answers

Joe Scheidler, Nellie Gray, and so many others, have given their timeand money so generously, in this abortion battle. Some of us, who occasionally go to these abortion clinics to protest, are so gratified, when we get even one turnaround. Another baby lives!

God bless all in their eforts.

-- ed Richards (loztra@yahoo.com), December 20, 2002.


John G. Please note the credits on the above post

-- Michael A (mg_comm@hotmail.com), December 20, 2002.

I agree - check www.feministsforlife.org for a terrific PRO-LIFE alternative! :-)

-- Christine L. :-) (christine_lehman@hotmail.com), December 20, 2002.

Thanks, Michael A.

JFG

-- (jfgecik@hotmail.com), December 20, 2002.


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-- (MattElFeo@netscape.net), February 13, 2003.


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