Thursday September 5, 2002

PRO-LIFE ACTIVIST WHATCOTT ARRESTED

Tried to enter U.S. illegally to attend prayer meeting

REGINA, September 5, 2002 (LSN.ca) - Bill Whatcott, the prominent Saskatchewan pro-life activist, was arrested and charged in Minot, North Dakota yesterday trying to enter the U.S. illegally.

John Sidloski, friend and fellow activist, told reporters that Whatcott and his wife Elizabeth had been turned away by U.S. customs last week on their way to a prayer meeting in Wisconsin -- possibly on grounds of past "criminal" convictions stemming from pro-life activities. The meeting was important enough to Whatcott that he attempted to sneak across under cover of darkness, but police picked him up when he placed a pre-arranged call to his wife from a phone booth.

Whatcott won fame as executive director of Christian Truth Activists. After Regina's Planned Parenthood office spent months trying to suppress his right to protest abortion outside their facility, earlier this summer a court vindicated Whatcott.

"They're trying to nab him on whatever they can get," says Denise Hounjet-Roth, Saskatchewan President of Campaign Life Coalition. "But he's a fighter and will stay true to convictions," she adds, confident that the pro-life movement has not seen the last of Bill Whatcott.

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