Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, January 1, 1995 TAG: 9501030087
SECTION: NATL/INTL PAGE: A12 EDITION: HOLIDAY
SOURCE: THE NEW YORK TIMES
DATELINE: BOSTON LENGTH: Short
Another telephone hot line, the Pro-Life Action News in Chicago, predicted an end to laws protecting abortion providers this year and the reversal of a series of measures designed to safeguard women's rights to terminate unwanted pregnancies, even those that resulted from rape or incest.
The Godarchy line in Wichita, Kan., closed with the biblical warning, ``Woe to the bloody city.''
Not one of these telephone hot lines made any mention of the killings of two receptionists on Friday at abortion clinics in Boston. And though many moderate leaders of the anti-abortion movement scrambled to disavow violence, some of the movement's most vocal and radical proponents stepped back from endorsing the murder of clinic doctors and staff, but not too far.
``We're in a war,'' said Don Treshman, the national director of Rescue America, who said his group has a mailing list of more than 30,000 names.
``The only thing is that until recently, the casualties have only been on one side. There are 30 million dead babies, and only five people on the other side, so it's really nothing to get all excited about.''
Some disagreed. ``I am rethinking my position,'' said the Rev. Pat Mahoney, the director of the Christian Defense Coalition.
``There may be a link between advocating the use of force and people acting on it,'' he said.
by CNB