"NBC News does not use the term `prolife,' which it regards as loaded, but if someone wanted to use `pro-choice,' I'd say that was fine."
--- NBC News Editor Gilbert Millstein.[2]

Introduction. We hear a lot about "anti-choice violence" and an "organized campaign of terror and intimidation against reproductive health centers."
Most Americans, and, indeed, many people from other nations perceive the struggle over abortion in the USA to be a vicious, violent battle -- with all of the violence being committed by so-called "fanatical anti-choicers."
This is entirely due to the stupid actions of a handful of deranged individuals and the persistent and monolithic bias of the broadcast, print and entertainment media.

Stereotyping by Pro-Aborts. The public perception of pro-lifers as violent nut-cases is partly fueled by the stereotyping perpetrated by virtually all pro-abortion organizations and the better-known abortionists, including third-trimester abortionist Warren Hern, who makes a living committing the most hideous kind of violence.
Hern says that
[Pro-lifers] are, with few exceptions, vicious, irrational, absolutely ruthless, unscrupulous, pitiless, and driven by hatred. They are willing to accept any level of violence, not to mention social disruption and imposition of emotional pain to reach their goals. Every anti-abortion demonstrator must now be considered armed, dangerous and a potential assassin until proven otherwise. The anti-abortion movement must be considered the source and spawning ground of a violent, terrorist movement which threatens the social fabric and civil society of laws of the United States. ... The general atmosphere is one of survival. Twenty-five percent of the clinics have been bombed. This is a highly repressive, totalitarian [pro-life] movement, similar to the Brown Shirts who broke windows in Jewish shops in Germany.[3]
This statement is from a typical "New Age" liberal, who considers all kinds of stereotyping to be forms of "hate speech" -- except, of course, when it is directed against people he disagrees with.
Most people would rightfully scream bloody murder if a racist depicted African-American men as unemployed layabouts who do nothing but father illegitimate children, and Black women as welfare queens. And they would also raise their voices in loud protest if an anti-Semite said that Jews are bloodthirsty money-grubbers who eat Christian children and run the world economy.
Why do people stereotype others?
Racists stereotype African-Americans in order to exploit them and feel superior to them.
Anti-Semites use this weapon to feel superior to Jews and to justify violence against them.
And pro-abortionists like Hern use hackneyed images so that they may sooth their burning consciences by saying, in effect, "Well, they're just as violent as we are."
Perhaps we should not be too surprised: After all, the only acceptable stereotypes in our culture now are used against Catholics and pro-lifers.
But there is another, more important reason that pro-aborts pigeonhole pro-lifers. Have you ever noticed that everything a pro-abortionist says is designed to divert attention away from the bloody business of slaughtering preborn babies? "You can't legislate morality;" "Abortion should be a decision between a woman and her doctor;" "If you can't trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child?;" "Pro-family, pro-child, pro-choice;" "Every child a wanted child;" and every other empty slogan they use in desperate attempts to get people to think about anything but abortion.
When a pro-abortionist insists that pro-lifers are violent fanatics, he is obviously trying to divert attention away from the real violence: The systematic (and oh-so-profitable) killing of tens of millions of innocent preborn babies.

The Role of Media Bias. Most Americans think that the average pro-lifer has a violent streak a mile wide, and that the average `pro-choicer' is a tolerant, mild-mannered, mainstream thinker. To be sure, there is some justification for this public perception. After all, so-called `pro-lifers' have murdered seven people, and have seriously injured ten others.
But have you ever heard about a pro-abortionist murdering a pro-lifer? Chances are you haven't, because when it happens, members of the media consider it beneath their notice.
Did you hear anything from the media when pro-abortion activist Eileen Orstein Janezic shot pro-life activist minister and radio talk show host Jerry Simon through his living room window? After killing Simon, she held police at bay with a pistol for six hours while spouting quotes from Anton LaVey's "Satanic Bible." In 1994, a jury found her guilty of murder and sentenced her to life in prison. During her trial, she admitted that she had shot Simon to prove her love of Satan.[4]
Did you hear anything when pro-abortionist Byron Looper, who was running against pro-life state Senator Tommy Burks for a political office, shot him through the left eye with a large-caliber pistol? After he murdered Burks, Looper boasted that "I did it, man, I did it! I killed that dude."[5]
Why didn't you hear about these murders?
Because when a "pro-lifer" goes on a rampage, it is big news to the media. The local media covers the event, and, since the national and international media love conflict, they broadcast it all over the world, even when the abortion story has nothing to do with violence, such as the annual March for Life in Washington or the availability of the RU-486 abortion pill.
But when pro-abortionists murder pro-lifers or other people, we never hear a word.
Judging from the wildly dissimilar coverage we see on abortion-related violence, we can almost imagine the desk editor of a typical large newspaper handling two different stories relating to abortion violence;

When a "Pro-Lifer" Commits Murder: "Oh my GOD!! This is GREAT!!! Oh, man, we're gonna get a lot of new subscriptions outta this! Hey, all you people, drop everything and come over here! We just had another reproductive care provider murdered by one of those anti-choice religious fanatics! Matt, I want you to sketch an outline for a five-part series on anti-choice violence we're gonna run on the front page of Section II all next week. Get that to me ASAP! Maureen, you call the National Abortion Federation and NARAL right now and get me some juicy quotes, something that will make the public really weep. John, Steve and Linda, you get over to the scene of the crime right away. Interview everybody who was or is on the scene -- police, the medical examiner, paramedics, relatives of Dr. Jones, other clinic workers -- and get me some real tear-jerker quotes. You know, stuff about how noble and moral Dr. Jones was, how much he cared for women, and about how he had to wear a bulletproof vest even when he went to a restaurant with his family. Let's downplay the lawsuits against him, his multi-million dollar house, his collection of racehorses, and his convictions for beating his ex-wife, okay? I don't want to see any hint of that kind of thing in our story. Now, Sam and Eileen, I want you to dig up everything you can on this anti-choice murderer. He's gotta be one of those weirdo conservative Catholics. Let's play the old "Rosary-praying hypocrite" card again, it works every time. People love that stuff. I want everything on this guy, even if it's just a parking ticket. Take a lot of photos of him if you can, and see if you can get one that really makes him look like a monster. We can touch it up a little, too, like we did to O.J.'s photo. Who's gonna care? Rick and Rosie, get over here. I want you two to go over to the offices of every anti-choice group in town. Interview Right to Life, Joe Scheidler, every other nutcase in town. Get them to apologize for their violent rhetoric ..."

When a "Pro-Choicer" Murders a Pro-Lifer: "You're new here, aren't you, kid? Look here. We have an unwritten rule at this paper. Repeat after me: "Dead. Anti-choicers. Are. Not. News." Got that? Now go write me a hundred words, we'll stash it somewhere on page C29. Oh, by the way -- make sure that you don't mention that the killer was pro-choice or the victim was anti-choice. Are we clear on that? This is just another run-of-the-mill killing, with no political implications at all. Got it? Okay, now get outta here!"
The pro-abortion bias of the media is not some right-wing paranoid fantasy; it has been repeatedly documented.
The people who work for major media outlets are overwhelmingly pro-abortion. They routinely portray pro-lifers as crazy ideologues, and pro-abortionists as calm and gentle rational thinkers; they report only pro-life violence, never pro-abortion violence; they ignore the gruesome details of abortion, while portraying realistically the horrors of mangled bodies during wartime; and they ignore large pro-life events, such as the annual March for Life, while making a media sensation over a gaggle of a dozen NOW people gathered on the steps of a county courthouse.
Evidence that the media are pro-abortion has been accumulating for years;

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The Lichter-Rothman studies on media bias, themselves ignored or suppressed by the media, found that motion picture leaders are 95% pro-abortion, television leaders are 97% pro-abortion, and news media leaders are 90% pro-abortion.[6]
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The Media Research Center performed a detailed study of major media coverage of the abortion issue, and documented many ways in which the mainline media displays its pro-abortion bias;
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half of pro-life groups are labeled "conservative," while less than three percent of pro-abortion groups are labeled "liberal;"
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in none of 387 news stories on pro-life groups were they referred to by their preferred label of "pro-life," but in all of 682 news stories on pro-abortion groups, reporters labeled them by their preferred description "pro-choice;"
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the media portray abortion as a divisive issue in the Republican Party, but not in the Democratic Party;
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reporters ignore altogether the debate over partial-birth abortion, or swallow the lies of pro-abortionists without checking their facts;
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pro-life protests and other events, no matter how large, are not news, while pro-abortion events, no matter how small, are always news;
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reporters hype `pro-life' violence to the maximum extent possible, and utterly ignore pro-abortion violence;
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When a pro-lifer gets into trouble, the media take great pains to make sure everyone knows that he is associated with the pro-life movement; but when an abortionist murders someone, the media deliberately omit the fact that he or she performs abortions. As one example, John Baxter Hamilton choked and beat his wife, then smashed a hole in her skull, murdering her. Not a single article in the national press mentioned that he was one of Oklahoma City's most prominent abortionists, although the local press mentioned his occupation many times.[7]
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and, finally, dead abortionists are headline news for weeks or months, while women killed by the same abortionists simply do not exist. As far as the media is concerned, they are Untermenschen, non-persons.
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The Newspaper Guild, the nation's newspaper employee's union (consisting of 200 newspapers and 34,000 employees), adopted a resolution at their 1986 convention favoring unlimited abortion. It reads; "[The Newspaper Guild] reaffirms a woman's fundamental constitutional right to make private and confidential decisions regarding reproduction. That right, supported in the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision 13 years ago, holds that freedom of choice in abortion decisions is a matter of constitutional right, protected, secured, and guaranteed by the 4th and 14th Amendments. We oppose any re-examination of the court's decision at attempts to restrict these rights by the federal, state or local governments of the United States."[8]
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The health editor of The New York Times has said "If you read their pieces, you can usually figure out what they [reporters] think ... Anybody who reads The New York Times who doesn't think The New York Times is pro-choice, they are out of their minds ... we send messages all the time about what we think."[9]
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Even pro-abortionists have acknowledged what a good friend they have in the media. Susanne Millsaps, executive director of the Utah Chapter of NARAL Pro-Choice America, has said that "The media has been our best friend in this fight. They claim objectivity, but I know they're all pro-choice."[10]
The media has two objectives regarding abortion:

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Paint all pro-lifers as violent fanatics, thus turning public opinion against us, blunting our efforts on the streets, and discouraging recruiting; and
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Do everything it possibly can to divert attention away from the more than 45 million preborn babies who have died brutal and unnecessary deaths in the USA alone.
On the other hand, whenever pro-abortionists kill or beat up pro-lifers or other people, the local media usually reports fairly on the incidents. However, the national and international news services usually consider such incidents beneath their notice. This means that interested parties must dig a little in order to find documented evidence of pro-abortion violence. It also means that almost everyone is astonished when they are told that pro-abortionists have committed nearly 200 murders since 1965.
Just a few of these murders are listed below.

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In 1998, pro-abortionist Byron Looper, a county property assessor, was running for office against pro-life state Senator Tommy Burks. Looper shot Burks in the left eye with a heavy-caliber pistol near a pumpkin patch where Burks planned to take schoolchildren on a hayride that day, then boasted to his friends "I did it, man, I did it! I killed that dude!"
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In 2001, Oklahoma City abortionist John Baxter Hamilton strangled his wife, beat her over the head with a heavy blunt object hard enough to smash a hole in her skull, and then slammed her face repeatedly onto the marble floor of the master bathroom in their home.
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In 1995, pro-abortionist Lavern Ward killed Debra Evans, 28, and her daughter, Samantha, 10, then hacked the unborn child out of Debra Evan's body. He then abducted her son, Joshua, 7, and later stabbed him to death. He was convicted of three counts of first-degree murder.
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In 1996, 29-year-old pro-abortionist Mark Boyd hired a hit man to kill his 15-year-old girlfriend, Kyunia Taylor, as she rode home on a school bus. Kyunia's baby, named Diamond, was delivered three months premature and died 23 days after Kyunia's murder.
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In 1993, Huntsville, Alabama pro-abortion activist Eileen Orstein Janezic murdered 51-year old pro-life activist minister and radio talk show host Jerry Simon. After shooting Simon through a window of his home, she held police at bay with a pistol for six hours while spouting quotes out of Anton LaVey's "Satanic Bible."
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In 1998 Jackson, Mississippi abortionist Malachi Dehenre, primary abortionist at the New Women's Clinic abortion mill, murdered his wife, Nyesha, who worked with him.
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In 1998, a jury found pro-abortionist Alfred E. Smith guilty of murder in the death of his ex-girlfriend Deena Moody. Smith killed Deena because she refused to abort their preborn child.
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In 1994, a jury convicted Los Angeles abortionist Alicia Ruiz Hanna of murder after Angela Sanchez, a 27-year-old mother of four, died at her Santa Ana abortion mill. The abortionist tried to stuff Angela's body into the trunk of her car in full view of her children, who were watching from the abortuary's waiting room.
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In 1989, a judge sentenced Los Angeles abortionist Milos Klvana to 53 years in prison after a jury found him guilty of murdering eight newborn babies.
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In 1983, El Paso abortionist Raymond Showery murdered a five-pound viable baby who survived one of his third-trimester abortions, and was later charged with manslaughter after botching an abortion that killed Mickey Apodaca.
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In 1997, 38-year old Kevin Robinson murdered 15-year-old Daphne Sulk because he had gotten her pregnant, and she refused to get an abortion to cover up his child molestation.
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In 2002, Matthew John Wiedeman and his friend Raymond Anthony Soto murdered 16-year old Stephanie Nicole Burnett by stabbing her repeatedly and beating her to death with a heavy steel barbell because Wiedeman believed she was pregnant and she refused to have an abortion. The coroner said "I think it's one of the most gruesome [murders] I've ever seen."
For a more detailed list of murders committed by pro-abortionists, click here.
The killing just goes on and on.
Abortionists and other pro-abortionists are cowards. They only attack and kill those weaker than themselves. For example, of the 194 people we know of that have been murdered by pro-abortionists, 185 (95 percent of the victims) have been women and children and only nine have been men.
The people murdered by abortionists and other pro-abortionists are shown below;[11]

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66 pregnant women [46 pregnant girlfriends, four pregnant wives, 13 abortion clients, and three other pregnant women];
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12 other women [three wives, one ex-wives, two girlfriends, two elderly women, and four other women];
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42 born children [15 newborn babies and infants, 16 living aborted preborn babies and eleven children aged 2-13];
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65 wanted preborn children; and
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9 men [two male abortionists, two male pro-life activists, and five other men].
The most pitiful deaths of all are the murders of pregnant mothers. As the documentation list shows, pro-abortionists have raped, tortured, beaten, strangled, poisoned, stabbed, burned, murdered, and even buried alive pregnant women, many of them in their last trimester. It boggles the mind and arouses both intense pity and profound anger when one imagines some laughing pro-abortion male gleefully torturing and then murdering a poor woman who is heavily pregnant and who cannot defend herself. And it staggers the imagination to realize that no pro-abortion group has ever denounced this kind of sickening violence. In fact, in several cases, pro-abortion groups have even opposed charges being brought against the murderer for the killing of the preborn child!
The murder of pregnant women by pro-abortion men happens far more often than most people imagine. At least three studies have shown that the most common cause of fatalities among pregnant women is murder, and statistics show that almost one-third of these are due to pro-abortion men who kill their wives or girlfriends simply because they are pregnant.

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A March 2001 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that the leading cause of death among pregnant women in Maryland is homicide. Using death records and coroner reports, state health department researchers found 247 pregnancy-associated deaths between 1993 and 1998. Among those deaths, 50 were murders. By comparison, homicide was the fifth-leading cause of death among all Maryland women.
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In Cook County, Illinois, 25 of the 95 pregnant women who died between 1986 and 1989 were murdered.
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In New York, 73 of the 293 deaths among pregnant women between 1987 and 1991 were homicides.[12]
If we use the results of these studies and basic information from the Census Bureau, we can easily calculate that about 25 to 30 women are murdered in the United States each year because they are pregnant.[13]
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This document was updated on April 5, 2004.
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