CULTURE
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‘Where
is The Outrage?’
State House Demonstration for Women Killed by Abortions Massachusetts News
February 1--Pro-life demonstrators gathered at the front steps of the State House last month to remember women who have been killed by "safe, legal abortion." The "Tombstone Picket" was intended to "tip the scales a little more toward rationality and the sanctity of life," according to organizer Bill Cotter of Operation Rescue. Some of the 35 to 40 demonstrators were holding cardboard tombstones with the names of women who have died as the result of abortions gone wrong. They were handing out flyers with the names of hundreds of women who have met a similar fate. Cotter told Massachusetts News that the picketing was intentionally held on the anniversary of the John Salvi shooting spree on December 30, 1994. Salvi entered an abortion clinic in Brookline and killed two women, wounding several others. "We’ve had worldwide coverage of the John Salvi killings, as we should," Cotter said. "But people in the abortion industry and the feminists who support them have consistently pointed at the Salvi incident to prove that their main concern is safety for the women they serve. That’s not really the case. If this were true," Cotter continued, "they would join us in our opposition to these homicides by abortionists." Cotter claimed that women’s health is not really the most important issue with the abortion proponents. What they really care about, he said, "is abortion and the feminist agenda. They defend ‘choice’ at the expense of individual women. They’ll even embrace Bill Clinton if it means forwarding their agenda." One of those standing in front of the State House and holding a tombstone sign was William Clarke of Cambridge. Clarke, 83, was there, he said, to warn people there will be a price to pay for "the culture of death." He believes that God will chastise this nation if we don’t collectively turn from the culture which devalues human life. Clarke said that contrary to what pro-abortion activists claim, the pro-life movement is not about violence. "We pray long and hard before coming out to demonstrate, whether it’s here or at the abortion clinics," he said. He added that it is his goal simply to get someone to stop and talk with him for a few minutes and "give some attention to the issues of life." A flyer distributed by the demonstrators asked, "Where
is the Outrage?" Citing several cases in which abortionists were responsible
for grisly deaths and cover-ups, Cotter said, "There are many victims of
the abortion industry," not all of them are unborn babies.
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