TV program distorts truth about abortion industry

Law and Order: Criminal Intent, NBC's popular extension of its Emmy Award-winning series Law and Order, has proven itself a purveyor of pro-abortion propaganda. The episode titled "The Third Horseman," which aired Jan. 6, was filled with pro-abortion rhetoric, anti-right-to-life sentiment, and distrustful attitudes toward Bible-believing Christians.

The plot centered on the murder of an abortionist by an alleged anti-abortion fanatic. Before carrying out his supposedly divinely ordained mission of shooting the abortionist, the murderer reads his Bible and prays for God to steady his hand.

Tragically, the crimes of extremists who have murdered abortionists have handed the pro-abortion movement a sword.–.even though all legitimate pro-life leaders condemn the use of violence.

The Law and Order: Criminal Intent episode assaults the pro-life movement with heavy hands. Note these caricatures: When detectives break into the home of a couple thought to be harbouring the murderer, they find the couple chained to their kitchen radiator and reciting the Lord's Prayer in an attempt to delay the police. The murderer tells an acquaintance, who hands him a wad of money in support of his mission, that he felt God's hand upon his own as he pulled the trigger. A group of picketers marches outside the abortion facility. A clinic worker complains that the picketers call them names, yell at them and scare "the patients."

In the end, the viewer has received this message: abortion advocates are reasonable, compassionate, intelligent, and they help people; pro-life advocates and Bible-readers are ignorant, mean, dangerously radical, and they hurt people.

Law and Order: Criminal Intent – like most major media – totally ignored significant evidence of violent pro-abortion behavior. In a November 2001 article, the Los Angeles Lay Catholic Mission highlights some findings of California Right to Life's Abortion Crime Report. The report describes incidents of pro-choice violence, including: Three pro-abortionists were arrested after attempting to set fire to a Los Angeles church filled with 2,500 pro-life activists. Authorities found grenades under the speaking platform that, if detonated, would have seriously injured or killed anyone standing on it. An Orange city, Ca., police officer dragged an unresisting pro-life demonstrator behind a wall at a clinic and brutally assaulted him. Abortionist Bruce Steir accumulated a nasty record of botched abortions, many of which required reparative surgery by other doctors, before receiving disciplinary action. During his medical probation, he performed a fatal abortion on a woman. Four major abortion advocacy groups took up his cause and argued against filing any charges against him. Over 100 clients of Los Angeles abortionist Ivan Namihas have reported allegations of medical misconduct and sexual abuse, many of which involved oral sex and rape. He faces multiple charges, including four incidents of rape and 45 incidents of sexual abuse.

Other sources reveal the same callous and violent behaviour coming from pro-choicers: "Almost all the violence I saw came from the pro-choice people," says ex-abortion advocate Merle Terlesky in a September 2000 Toronto Sun article. He testifies that he himself used to kick, push and scream at pro-lifers and, in reference to a Toronto prayer service, admits that most clinic protests "were just as peaceful as that prayer meeting." Phoenix abortionist Brian Finkel boasted on ABC's Nightline that he was a trained marksman and would not hesitate to shoot a pro-lifer. He was recently arrested on 16 counts of sexual abuse, and now over 70 women have accused him of sexually abusing them during abortions, according to a November 2001 Arizona Republic article.

Author, professor and pro-life activist George Grant reports in his book Grand Illusions that he was shoved, called names, yelled at and taunted by a female abortion worker as he and his fellow demonstrators tried to talk to the girls being swept inside by the facility's escorts. A security guard later fired shots and chased Grant and his friends from the clinic grounds.

The Feminist Majority, an abortion-advocacy group, is already encouraging its supporters to take action commending NBC for demonstrating on Law and Order: Criminal Intent the "connections between the ‘religious right' and the violent anti-abortion terrorist network in the U.S."