The abortion lobby has taken note of Pro-Life Action League’s mailer project and doesn’t like it.
On January 22, the 42nd anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v Wade decision, the League sent a mailer to every abortion clinic in the U.S.
Inside was a pair of plastic handcuffs, a photo of Oklahoma City abortionist Naresh Patel being arrested last month, and a note asking, “Could you be next?”
The note encouraged abortion workers to get out of the business for their own good and included PLAL’s Eric Scheidler’s personal cell phone number.
The list of abortionists and workers who have been arrested in the past four decades since abortion was made legal and supposedly moved off the back alley is as long as the reasons: extortion, tax evasion, sex abuse, drug abuse, illegally prescribing and selling drugs, murder, negligence, on and on criminality.
And it makes sense. Those in the business of killing babies for a living have already demonstrated rather gaping character flaws. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to conclude they’ll commit other crimes.
But abortion proponents are up in arms. Quoting Planned Parenthood executive VP Dawn Laguens from a Cosmopolitan article devoted to the mailer:
“I think it reads like what it is: intimidation and harassment and a very implied threat,” she said. Abortion opponents “want to outlaw abortion and put women and doctors in jail. I think they’re sending about as clear a message as they can that that’s exactly what they want to do.”
How PLAL’s mailer could be construed as a threat to lock up women is a stretch, but Cosmo wasn’t alone. Kudos to BreitbartUnmasked.com for adding an illustration for flourish….
Leftinalabama.com saw menace in the mailer as well, also accusing PLAL of supporting China’s one-child policy by buying Chinese-manufactured handcuffs – really.
I asked Scheidler, why all the attention? It’s not as if pro-life activists haven’t done similar mailings before.
“One reason is they think it makes us look like we’re trying to intimidate someone,” said Scheidler. “But if you think about it for more than a second – toy handcuffs and a signed letter including a personal cell number – a threat of what? If you’re committing crimes and I know about it, then I am going to turn you in to the police; that’s not a threat.”
Eric noted the League gets pro-abortion counterparts – mailers with red coat hangers on them.
“We just laugh,” said Scheidler.
But PLAL’s mailer also hit close to home.
“I think they have a guilty conscience,” noted Scheidler. “Arrests like that of Naresh Patel put them in such a bad light. It exposes them for who they are. It has been really surprising to have two abortion providers actually call me as a result of the mailer – a pro-life activist – to try to justify what they’re doing.”
One, Anise Burrell from Summit Medical Center in Detroit, argued with Scheidler on the phone for 10 minutes.
“She kept repeating, ‘This is an ugly cruel world’ she was sparing children from being born into,” said Scheidler.
Abortion industry types know mailers such as PLAL’s may have the intended impact and prompt abortionists and workers to walk away. Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards tried to mitigate the damage in a tweet…
Who's preventing more unintended pregnancies: healthcare providers or anti-abortion activists mailing them handcuffs? https://t.co/dXMQ5t1nlJ
— Cecile Richards (@CecileRichards) January 29, 2015
Scheidler has indeed received calls and texts from workers wanting out.
Click “like” if you are PRO-LIFE!
But there is a flip side.
“I’ve received countless crank calls and crank texts,” noted Scheidler, adding someone complained to Facebook about him yesterday, which led to his account being suspended for three hours.
Then there are the real harassers.
Reprinted with permission from Jill Stanek.