Posted on 02/28/2003 6:06:21 AM PST by Notwithstanding
Justice O'Connor's information on "assaults" is included in a brief NOW filed in September that alleged a series of violent acts perpetrated by the Scheidler defendants. But a WORLD investigation ("False witnesses?" Oct. 5, 2002) revealed that those assertions may have been based on false testimony by NOW witnesses:
—Carolyn Thompson, a woman who testified anonymously that she was beaten bloody at a Los Angeles abortion protest, told a significantly different version of her story in a 1989 class-action suit in which she was the named lead plaintiff. That story varied on numerous essential details and mentioned no assault. Scheidler attorneys charged that NOW deliberately obscured Ms. Thompson's identity in order to hide discrepancies between her 1989 and 1998 testimonies.
—Abortion clinic organizer Susan Hill testified that a Scheidler protester broke the arm of an abortion clinic administrator's husband during a pro-life demonstration in Milwaukee in 1985. The truth, documented in court records and news stories, was that a passerby unassociated with the Scheidler defendants (and with a history of mental problems) broke the man's arm in 1986.
—Penny Bertsch, an abortion clinic manager in Chico, Calif., claimed that Scheidler-affiliated pro-lifers injured her when they "smashed clinic staff members against the clinic" for four hours in 1989. But video footage covering virtually the entire event shows pro-lifers staging a peaceful sit-in while Ms. Bertsch and other clinic supporters picked up protesters and shoved them away from the clinic.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldmag.com ...
The pro-abortion left has done more than lie. They have falsified records in their Supreme Court filings. Both the Roe and Doe defendants have testified that they were duped in the written testimony that was submitted on their behalf. Both women are now evangelical Christians and, through counsel, have petitioned the court to vacate the rulings because of the deceptions. Talk about a potential future earthquake! Sarah Weddington and the other pro-abortion attorneys could be in for disbarment, prison, and even worse. And, the "abortion rights" movement would be in for a big shock.
To Freepers who want more information, try the Focus on the Family website, family.org.
They wholeheartedly supported the Prince of Lies, Komrade Klinton, didn't they? They didn't give a rat's rearend about his history of rape, right?
Anything to further socialism and abortion, they're for.
Not surprising, to say the least.
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