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Back in the 1980s, Peggy Wehmeyer was working for Channel 8 TV WFAA as the religion reporter. She was assigned to report on the finding of dead unborn babies found in a trash dumpster behind an abortion clinic. The woman who found them is one of my best friends. Peggy came with a cameraman and they filmed my friend opening up the trash bags filled with coffee grounds, cigarette butts and little unborn babies. over 900 babies were recovered.

Back at the station, when all the film was being prepared for the evening news, a very interesting thing happened. They put the film on a continuous loop while they were deciding what to keep and what to cut. Everyone, pro-life and pro-choice viewed it and to a person were shocked to the core at what they saw to the point where the entire room got into an uproar - all against abortion.

The broadcast brought awareness about abortion in Dallas. A city law was passed that required abortion clinics to not put the babies in the trash. The 900 babies were honored and buried in a Catholic cemetery.

Peggy did a great job with the story.