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deferred makes the heart sick" (Proverbs 13:12)
PRESS RELEASES
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PRESS RELEASE
July 15, 2000
For Immediate Release
Contact: Lifeguard at
lifeguard1@erols.com
Partial birth abortion decision evokes 'The Patriot' as American
revulsion mounts for despotic rulings
WASHINGTON -- In the recent box office smash, "The Patriot," Mel
Gibson plays a man of newfound peace forced once again to take up arms
to defend his family against the cavalier brutality of King George
III's mercenaries and troops. Willing to endure taxation without
representation, the quartering of English troops in private homes, and
restrictions on colonial freedom to raise his family in peace, Gibson
finally abandons his smoldering restraint--with devastating
results--when one of his children is cavalierly killed by a British
officer.
A man of honor and deep faith, the Gibson character nevertheless
quickly descends into the sump of retaliatory savagery as he avenges
the murder of his son at the hands of an agent of despotic,
insensitive stand-off rule.
Now, two-hundred-and-twenty-four years later, we have a cavalier,
culturally insensitive Supreme Court decision that mandates state
protection for those who would kill a baby in the most cavalierly
brutal way--euphemistically called "partial birth abortion"--only
moments before he/she is born. And this, despite the "procedure" being
a flagrant assault on the consciences of large masses of Americans
that still proclaim the Judeo-Christian creed.
Of course all the flimsy but fashionable "abortion rights"
(similar to "spousal abuse rights," one could argue!) rationales have
been trotted out by the five majority Supreme Court justices to
justify their surrender of rigorous, principled jurisprudence for the
groin-driven groupthink of the abortion lobby: the health of the
mother (which medical experts have dismissed as a real consideration
in partial birth abortion) and the so-called "undue burden" standard
for procuring the death of another.
And pro-life forces kid themselves into thinking that a partial
birth abortion ban can be crafted to pass through the needle's eye of
this specious new Constitutional "standard."
The fact of the matter is that the supreme law of the land now
permits infanticide--and in making such an abomination a "fundamental
right" perilously provokes the patience of a Judeo-Christian
people.
Do the esteemed justices realize the Pandora's Box they may have
opened with their violation of the Judeo-Christian covenant in favor
of a craven pandering to the oxymoronic dictates of the "abortion
rights" movement?
Are they at all aware of the disintegrating social forces they
have unleashed with this disingenuous legitimation of murder, this
open season on the most defenseless? Do they grasp the effect that
their spineless surrender to society's insatiable sensuality will have
on American youth?
And do they know what now stirs in the hearts of those who fancy
themselves modern "patriots" but whose grip on the Christian doctrine
of forbearance is less than admirable--or who have been pushed over
the edge by state-endorsed atrocity?
"Lifeguard is an unswervingly non-violent pro-life organization,"
said one Lifeguard member, "but in the face of such barbaric
provocations, I fear for what may come out of the fringes of the
movement. Why, we're already seeing the resurgence of a secessionist
movement in the South with this new Southern Party."
"These folks on the Supreme Court have lost all sense of decency
and discernment," he continued, "and all because that sissy Justice
Harry Blackmun of Roe v. Wade "fame"--as Woodward and Armstrong
indicated in 'The Brethren'--didn't have the guts to stand up to the
'pro-choice' lobbying of his wife and daughter."
"We will remain true to our principles," the Lifeguard went on,
"and I call on all who claim the pro-life mantle to do the same. But
at the same time I call on all pro-lifers to seek out assertive,
dramatic, creative, and prayerful ways not to 'go gentle into that
(dark) night, but to rage, rage against the dying of the light.'"
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PRESS RELEASE
June 28, 2000
For Immediate Release
Contact: Lifeguard at
lifeguard1@erols.com
Fonda's muddled, feel-good thinking typical of pro-aborts at Hillcrest, everywhere
Salt Lake City, Utah -- Appearing as the keynote speaker at an
annual dinner hosted by the Utahns for Choice (as reported by the
Pro-Life Infonet, see below), former "Barbarella" sci-fi star and
onetime booster rocket for North Vietnamese AA crews Jane
Fonda told assembled "pro-choicers" (translation: pro-abortion) that
pro-lifers were "hypocrites" because they didn't seem to care as much
about children outside the womb as those yet to be born.
In addition to this Barbarellian logic-warp, Fonda told her no
doubt star-struck, cause-hungry (except where the most defenseless are
concerned--because that might mean actually controlling their sexual
behavior) gaggle of glitterati that "There is no research
to date to show that abstinence-only programs prevent risky sexual
behavior."
Her comment here referred to a recent veto by Utah Governor Mike
Leavitt (R) of a controversial "abstinence only" sexual education bill
for Utah schools that would have barred classroom discussion of
abortion.
Fonda then went on to slip further into the black hole of "smart
set" pseudo-intellecutalism when she equated opposition to abortion as
representing the same "mindset that opposes the notion of women
working." In so doing, however, Fonda exposed the dirty little secret of
the "pro-choice" side when she explained that a woman's right to
abortion was really all about women having power--thus tellingly ignoring
all reference to justice-for-all or, heaven forbid, love in an issue
that involves more than the woman alone.
"This is the kind of wooly-headed, lame-brained, me-generation
thinking that characterizes the whole so-called pro-choice side,"
reacted one Lifeguard to the news report.
Responding to Fonda's three main "points," the Lifeguard
added that
post-birth quality of life issues obviously just do not rise to the
level of seriousness as those which directly threaten the actual life of a
child, such as does abortion; that requiring abstinence-only programs
to prove their prevention potential before adoption is essentially asking
them to prove a negative; and that there is no connection between
women's right-to-work issues and abortion, as abortion involves another,
unique person whose rights are violated in ways much more grievous than
in workplace discrimination.
"Fonda is just invoking the flaccid, feel-good mantra of hedonists
from time
immemorial to prop up intellectually rickety positions that proceed more from
prurience than precise thinking," the Lifeguard went on. "It's typical of
what
we see and hear at Hillcrest from the so-called pro-choice clinic escorts
(at Hillcrest Women's Surgi-Center in Washington, D.C.) who parrot all the
buzz words and sound bite slogans of their party line but really don't understand
what they're talking about."
"It's really all about sexual promiscuity gussied up as principle
and compassion,"
he continued."It's really pudenda politics and crotch causes, and the tragic
thing
is that so many self-styled intellectuals like the Chuck Schumers of the U.S. Senate
(D-N.Y.) buy it hook, line, and sinker.How come a whole class of defenseless
people don't figure into their outreach program; how come all those little girls
being aborted aren't eligible for the feminists' sisterhood?"
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Lifeguard is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) front-line, Christian, pro-life organization
that employs the use of Scripture, reason, and natural law polemics lawfully
to save the lives of babies marked for abortion, publicly obliterate absurd
"pro-choice" rationales, and convert hearts to the gospel of life.
Jane Fonda Says Pro-Life People are Hypocrites
Salt Lake City, Utah -- At a recent pro-abortion event in Utah,
actress
Jane Fonda said pro-life people were hypocrites on many levels.
"The whole issue of choice has nothing to do with the fetus," she said.
"Have you ever asked yourself why [pro-life people] have so much
concern for the egg while it's growing inside a woman, but so little
concern for the child once it's born? For anti-abortion activists,
it seems life begins at conception and ends at birth."
Fonda was the keynote speaker Tuesday night during the annual
Utahns for Choice dinner at the downtown DoubleTree Hotel,
which was attended by about 500 members.
Utahns for Choice since 1991 has lobbied for pro-abortion laws.
The organization mobilized 3,000 citizens to call or e-mail Utah Gov.
Mike Leavitt to push for his veto of the abstinence-only sexual education
bill that would have forbidden teaching students about abortion in the
classroom.
Fonda thanked Leavitt for vetoing the bill.
"There is no research to date to show that abstinence-only
programs
prevent risky sexual behavior," she said, pointing out, "You can never
have an abortion if you're not pregnant . . . so why is it that people who
are opposed to abortion are also opposed to contraception?"
She talked about the close ties between a woman having power if
she
is able to determine the sexual and reproductive aspects of her life.
Denying a woman that right, Fonda said, "is the same mind-set that
opposes the notion of women working. It's a view that doesn't reflect
reality" and ignores the concept that women are contributing members
of society.
The pro-abortion U.N. conference on women at Beijing earlier this
year ratified a declaration asserting that "reproductive rights" are human
rights. But, Fonda said, the Vatican, the Muslim community and the most
conservative Republicans in the United States are opposing the measure
by turning it into an issue about abortion and the taking of rights from parents.
She urged the audience to call congressional leaders to urge support
of
the U.N. declaration.
Fonda founded the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy
Prevention in 1995. In 1994 she was named goodwill ambassador for the
pro-abortion U.N. Population Fund.
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PRESS RELEASE
September 1, 2000
For Immediate Release
Contact: Lifeguard at
lifeguard1@erols.com
web site: www.erols.com/lifeguard1
"Choicer" hypocrisy highlighted in Hillcrest "gun fondling" comment;
Lifeguard accompanies challenger to MLK memorial event demonstrating
that pro-life advocacy is prime civil rights action
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- "Pro-choice" elements at Hillcrest Women's
Surgi-Center here, whose blatantly anti-choice interference with
lawful Lifeguard referral activity has long exposed the essential
hypocrisy of their cause's position, again flaunted internal
contradictions recently when one "escort"--a frequent critic of
supposed pro-lifer fascination with guns and violence--sheepishly
admitted he himself owned guns.
"And I like to play with his guns," another male "escort," who
claims a special relationship with the gun owner, said with a smirk.
The incident was just one of many over the years of pro-life
action at Hillcrest that underscore the contradictions and essential
wrongheadedness of the so-called pro-choice position.
Others include feminist pretensions to defending women from
"harassment" but which endorse the wholesale slaughter of the smallest
members of the "sisterhood"; tolerance of pornography (especially
where pornographers' money fatten favored party campaign coffers)
while decrying the objectification of women; and, most egregiously,
claiming to be non-violent while standing on an Everest of dead
babies' bodies.
And despite being confronted with their contradictions time and
again--and invariably being rendered mute by their starkness--the
"pro-choice" elites cling to the frayed security blankets of their
flawed ideologies. One has to wonder what their true reasons are, but
sexual license and anti-authority bias are good guesses. So much for
principle.
"I suppose there's no sense being 'pro-choice' if you can't be
dense," quipped one Lifeguard.
"But wasn't it folks like this who were supposed to provide us
with the "bridge to the 21st Century?" he added wryly. "Better check
this bridge's pilings before going over it."
In a related development, a Lifeguard returning home from
Hillcrest August 26 found himself loudly denounced in the Metro by an
African-American male who, presumably seeing exposed pro-life
materials, charged the Lifeguard with being more interested in "dead
fetuses" than in suffering African-Americans.
Challenging the Lifeguard on the spot to attend the day's 37th
anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech on the
National Mall, the agitated man may have been surprised when the
Lifeguard promptly accepted, saying he would gladly accompany his
interrogator to the event.
The Lifeguard, a former race relations counselor, spent the next
three hours with the subway scrutinizer, sharing with him the civil
rights speeches, his email address, and hopefully an understanding
that the civil rights of the pre-born are grossly violated in
abortion--and that African-Americans, given their searing experience
with rights' violations, should be the most pro-life group of all.
That is, if it's truly principle, and not merely partisanship and
getting "the prize," that counts.
***
Lifeguard is a tax-exempt, 501(c)(3), front-line, Christian pro-life
organization that employs the use of Scripture, reason, and natural
law polemics lawfully to save the lives of babies marked for abortion;
publicly obliterate "pro-choice" rationales; and convert hearts to the
gospel of life. Lifeguard will make presentations to your pro-life
group. All donations to Lifeguard are tax-deductible and may be sent
to: Lifeguard, P.O. Box 777, Great Mills, Maryland 20634.
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PRESS RELEASE
September 6, 2000
For Immediate Release
Contact: Lifeguard at
lifeguard1@erols.com
Web site: http://www.erols.com/lifeguard1
"Choicer" hypocrisy highlighted in Hillcrest "gun fondling"
comment;
Lifeguard accompanies challenger to MLK memorial event demonstrating
that pro-life advocacy is prime civil rights action
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- "Pro-choice" elements at Hillcrest Women's
Surgi-Center here, whose blatantly anti-choice interference with
lawful Lifeguard referral activity has long exposed the essential
hypocrisy of their cause's position, again flaunted internal
contradictions recently when one "escort"--a frequent critic of
supposed pro-lifer fascination with guns and violence--sheepishly
admitted he himself owned guns.
"And I like to fondle his guns," another male "escort," who
claims a special relationship with the gun owner, said with a smirk.
The incident was just one of many over the years of pro-life
action at Hillcrest that underscore the contradictions and essential
wrongheadedness of the so-called pro-choice position.
Others include feminist pretensions to defending women from
"harassment" but which endorse the wholesale slaughter of the smallest
members of the "sisterhood"; tolerance of pornography (especially
where pornographers' money fatten favored party campaign coffers)
while decrying the objectification of women; and, most egregiously,
claiming to be non-violent while standing on an Everest of dead
babies' bodies.
And despite being confronted with their contradictions time and
again--and invariably being rendered mute by their starkness--the
"pro-choice" elites cling to the frayed security blankets of their
flawed ideologies. One has to wonder what their true reasons are, but
sexual license and anti-authority bias are good guesses. So much for
principle.
"I suppose there's no sense being 'pro-choice' if you can't be
dense," quipped one Lifeguard.
"But wasn't it folks like this who were supposed to provide us
with the "bridge to the 21st Century?" he added wryly. "Better check
this bridge's pilings before going over it."
In a related development, a Lifeguard returning home from
Hillcrest August 26 found himself loudly denounced in the Metro by a
man who, presumably seeing exposed pro-life materials, charged the
Lifeguard with being more interested in "dead fetuses" than in suffering
African-Americans.
Challenging the Lifeguard on the spot to attend the day's 37th
anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech on the
National Mall, the agitated man may have been surprised when the
Lifeguard promptly accepted, saying he would gladly accompany his
interrogator to the event.
The Lifeguard, a former race relations counselor, spent the next three
hours with the subway scrutinizer, sharing with him the civil rights
speeches, his email address, and hopefully an understanding that the civil
rights of the pre-born are grossly violated in abortion--and that
African-Americans, given their searing experience with rights' violations,
should be the most pro-life group of all.
That is, if it's truly principle, and not merely partisanship and getting
"the prize," that counts.
***
Lifeguard is a tax-exempt, 501(c)(3), front-line, Christian pro-life
organization that employs the use of Scripture, reason, and natural
law polemics lawfully to save the lives of babies marked for abortion;
publicly obliterate "pro-choice" rationales; and convert hearts to the
gospel of life. Lifeguard will make presentations to your pro-life
group. All donations to Lifeguard are tax-deductible and may be sent
to: Lifeguard, P.O. Box 777, Great Mills, Maryland 20634.
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PRESS RELEASE
February 23, 2001
For Immediate Release
Contact: Lifeguard at
lifeguard1@erols.com/gmcorrigan@mindspring.com
Lifeguard reaches out to mainline feminist/abortion groups in bold
life-saving/open communication bid
ARLINGTON, Va. -- In a long-range bid to save as many babies as
possible from untimely death through abortion, Lifeguard, Inc.
Secretary-Treasurer Mike Corrigan--with executive council
approval--has initiated overtures to three mainline feminist/abortion
advocacy groups, volunteering to appear at any forum the groups might
assemble in order to exchange ideas and explain the pro-life position.
In emails recently sent directly to the National Organization for
Women (NOW), the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action
League (NARAL), and the National Abortion Federation (NAF), Corrigan--
a former civil rights worker, Catholic pro-life feminist, and 10-year
activist outside Washington's Hillcrest Women's Surgi-Center--said he
believes untilled common ground lays in pro-life affirmation of
women's legitimate feminist grievances.
He offered to come alone, if necessary, to any discussion group the
groups might host and promised his home telephone number to interested
parties.
"Pro-lifers, who don't also distinguish themselves as thoughtful
feminists, are missing a bet here," Corrigan said, adding that women
have become so scarred by centuries of male sexual misbehavior,
betrayals, control, and workplace exploitation that many no longer
trust men to respect their vulnerability in pregnancy.
"Their legitimate demands for workplace comparability, child care
services, upward mobility, maternal leave benefits, and respect on a
job free from sexual harassment are entirely consistent with Christian
principle.
"Why should we relinquish these vital issues to those who
would tell women that the best way to secure these benefits is through
throttling their life-giving power in pale imitation of male
violence and domination tendencies? This is just more male sexual
escapism," he said, "masquerading as a feminist initiative. What about
all those little girls killed in abortion? Chattel rights, apparently,
are still with us.
"We also must convey to women that we hear their anger and pain and
offer them our reform, love, and support--though not for 'solutions'
that shred feminist first principles against violence and
exploitation.
"I'm interested in exploring--and possibly alleviating--that
component of the abortion scourge that relates to women's legitimate
grievances with men and their historically horrid treatment at the
hands of sexist institutions, laws, and customs," Corrigan went on.
"Today, one reads in the papers about Serbian army policies that
promoted the use of rape of thousands of Moslem women 'as an
instrument of terror' during the recent conflict in the area," he
added.
"Is it any wonder that women are outraged by men's conduct toward
them across the ages?
"From foot-binding, arranged marriages, and denial of the franchise
in days gone by to workplace inequality, sexual harassment, and
spousal abuse of today, women--simply because God generally made them
gentler and physically less muscular than men--have suffered
innumerable indignities at the hands of those who should have
cherished and respected them better.
"To the extent that women's newfound rage over this kind of
chauvinistic treatment is a factor in their intractability over the
abortion question, true pro-lifers have a responsibility to
acknowledge--and correct--women's legitmate grievances with society."
Corrigan, who with Lifeguard engages in pro-life referral and
diversion activities outside Hillcrest (3233 Pennsylvania Avenue SE,
Washington, D.C.) Saturday mornings from 8:30 to 11 a.m., said that,
to date, none of the feminist/abortion advocacy groups has taken him
up on his offer. Ý
Lifeguard is a tax-exempt, 501(c)(3), front-line, Christian pro-life
organization that employs the use of Scripture, reason, and natural
law polemics lawfully to save the lives of babies marked for abortion;
publicly refute "pro-choice" rationales; and convert hearts to the
gospel of life. Lifeguard will make presentations to your pro-life
group. All donations to Lifeguard are tax-deductible and may be sent
to: Lifeguard, P.O. Box 777, Great Mills, Maryland 20634. Lifeguard's
website is at www.erols.com/lifeguard1
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March 20, 2001
For Immediate Release
Contact: Lifeguard at
lifeguard1@erols.com/gmcorrigan@mindspring.com
www.erols.com/lifeguard1
Turnarounds mount at Hillcrest as Lifeguard offers customers $100 to
"think about it a week"
WASHINGTON, D.C.-- Claiming four likely "saves" in four weeks,
Lifeguard, Inc., a Christian front line, pro-life sidewalk counseling
and educational services group, is now offering up to $100 to women
seeking abortions at Hillcrest Women's Surgi-Center here to postpone
their decision for at least a week.
Partly as a result of the new initiative--funded by Lifeguard and
a passer-by who pledged to match Lifeguard's contribution--three
prospective Hillcrest clients in the last four weeks turned away from
the southeast D.C. abortion center, promising to read Lifeguard
diversion materials and reconsider their decision. A fourth departed
without availing herself of the program.
None has been seen to retun in subsequent weeks.
"The program not only is a attention-getter at the site and a
last-minute lifeline to the pre-born, but it also conveys Lifeguard's
concern for women and the plight they may be facing over an unplanned
pregnancy," said Lifeguard Seretary-Treasurer Mike Corrigan.
"The last couple we approached came back out of
Hillcrest within minutes and hugged longingly and at length on the
lawn," added Lifeguard Sergeant-at-Arms John Marcus. "Although the
power of prayer and exhortation is probably mostly responsible for
the turnaround, the couple did take the financial assistance and
was grateful for Lifeguard's intervention."
"The Lifeguard board voted several months ago to authorize the
program," Corrigan explained. "To safeguard Lifeguard funds we take
precautions during the client contact phase to ensure the request is
in good faith. The program will continue as long as it is financially
feasible to do so."
"Now, what we'd really like to do," Corrigan added, "is get greater
participation by pro-lifers at this site. There is really nothing like
the satisfaction of knowing you saved a little life down here, and in
the process, maybe had the opportunity to expose the essentially
sexist, male-benefitting, 'choicer' pro-abortion arguments for the
house of cards that they are."
"This is a great opportunity for people of faith," Corrigan went
on. "This counter-abortion activity is the heroic stuff of future
church history. It's an opportunity, though a tragic one, to take your
place among the faithful names of Christianity-past in building a
truly loving, truly pro-woman, truly just society--one that doesn't
exploit an entire class of innocent people and doesn't penalize women
for their life-giving powers."
"I can't understand why the Hillcrest sidewalks aren't thronged
with pro-lifers eager to demonstrate their gratitude for all that God
has given them--and feel the power of being at the center of His
life-giving plan for humanity."
"These 'choicers' have got everybody hoodwinked," Corrigan
continued."They're the ones peddling sexism in the form of
male-fantasy sexual irresponsibility and profits to a male-dominated
abortion industry; and they're the ones peddling violence. It's time
pro-lifers bucked up their courage and gave the lie to this worldwide
canard, lest, as the Bible says, their other sacrifices and
'festivals' become unsightly in the eyes of the Almighty."
"It's really very simple."
"And as Edmund Burke said, 'The only thing necessary for the
triumph of evil is for good men (and women) to do nothing.'"
Corrigan also noted that his recent offer to make himself available
to area pro-abortion organizations interested in exploring
feminism-based common ground with the pro-life movement still has not
yet been accepted or responded to. Ý
Lifeguard is a tax-exempt, 501(c)(3), front-line, Christian pro-life
organization that employs the use of Scripture, reason, and natural
law polemics lawfully to save the lives of babies marked for abortion;
publicly refute "pro-choice" rationales; and convert hearts to the
gospel of life. Lifeguard will make presentations to your pro-life
group. All donations to Lifeguard are tax-deductible and may be sent
to: Lifeguard, P.O. Box 777, Great Mills, Maryland 20634. Lifeguard's
website is at www.erols.com/lifeguard1
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LIFEGUARD PRESS RELEASE
April 7, 2001
For Immediate Release
Contact: Lifeguard at
lifeguard1@erols.com/gmcorrigan@mindspring.com
www.erols.com/lifeguard1
703-532-2959
Lifeguard invites "choicer" groups to debate as NARAL ad tumbles over
its own contradictions
WASHINGTON, D.C.-- With no response (or even acknowledgement) in
the two months since Lifeguard--a Christian, pro-life shock troop
which conducts diversion activities at Hillcrest Women's Surgi-Center
in Southeast here--offered to discuss feminist common ground issues
with area pro-abortion groups, Lifeguard has replaced the offer with
an invitation to debate the abortion/feminism issue.
"A Lifeguard official will debate any of the pro-abortion advocates
under just about any circumstance or condition, and I call
upon the local media to take note of this overture," said Lifeguard
Secretary-Treasurer Mike Corrigan. "If these 'pro-choicers' are really
about enhancing women's workplace options, they should be eager to
find some kind of common ground with pro-lifers."
"Bring on the Eleanor Smeals or the Patricia Irelands or even the
(Senator) Chuck Schumers of the 'cause' and let's debate true feminist
principles, not the house of cards that is abortion feminism's
'intellectual' grounding. Abortion feminism is phony feminism.
"Perhaps they don't want sunshine on this issue," Corrigan
continued. "Perhaps they just want to hide behind the specious
commandeering of the God-given faculty of 'choice' to justify any and
all choices, which is what their 'choice' mantra is all about. They've
used it to dupe the public into believing that defining away the
humanity of little, pre-born girls is somehow in the interest of
feminism--and justified because it's a 'choice.'
"And how the Fourth Estate's vaunted investigative journalists
have let this slide by unexamined is yet another mystery--that is, if
you ignore the fact that sexual license-for-all really is the dirty
little secret behind abortion feminism.
"Phony feminism is just the Trojan Horse to get this outgrowth of
the 'Playoy Philosophy' popularly accepted," Corrigan, who is also a
member of Feminists for Life, added. "No wonder the pornographers who
exploit women are such fervent supporters of so-called abortion
rights. And the same 'feminist' militants who rail against male sexual
predation and violence against women are the ones who support programs
like HBO's sexually explicit 'Sex and the City.'"
The Lifeguard olive branch comes not only in the wake of "choicer"
silence in the Lifeguard outreach matter but it follows the recent
airing of a particularly misleading NARAL ad that shows--in
disarming,"Leave It To Beaver," suburban atmospherics--a mother
helping her young daughter negotiate her first bicycle ride.
The ad subtly conflates the "choice" of abortion with this little
girl's mastery of bike-riding and overall well-being, and ends with
the stem-winder, "Never give up your freedom to choose; your dreams
are tied to it."
"Slick sophistry," Corrigan said. "What the ad fails to convey is
that a mere seven years and fifteen minutes prior to this famous first
bike ride, NARAL apparently is willing to let this little girl be
sacrificed in the exercise of the attending mother's 'choice.' These
folks seem oblivious to their abuse of the truth. I thought they were
opposed to abuse. As a matter of fact, I thought they were opposed to
'Leave It To Beaver'-type sentimentality.
"Abortion feminism is a cop-out from the tough fight of making
systemic societal changes that would, through workplace and other
comparability changes, honor and welcome a woman's reproductive
powers," Corrigan concluded. "I will demonstrate with any group that
seeks to do this free of the abortion canard, and call on all
pro-lifers to do the same--and I await the 'pro-choice' answer to
Lifeguard's invitation." Ý
Lifeguard is a tax-exempt, 501(c)(3), front-line, Christian pro-life
organization that employs the use of Scripture, reason, and natural
law polemics lawfully to save the lives of babies marked for abortion;
publicly refute "pro-choice" rationales; and convert hearts to the
gospel of life. Lifeguard will make presentations to your pro-life
group. All donations to Lifeguard are tax-deductible and may be sent
to: Lifeguard, P.O. Box 777, Great Mills, Maryland 20634. Lifeguard's
website is at www.erols.com/lifeguard1
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PRESS RELEASE
May 31, 2001
For Immediate Release
Contact: Lifeguard at
lifeguard1@erols.com/gmcorrigan@mindspring.com
Lifeguard featured in "Defend Life" article; turnarounds continue at
Hillcrest as Lifeguard still awaits "pro-choice" response
to outreach bid
BALTIMORE, Md. -- In a jaunty, picture-peppered feature piece that
captured the unique, two-fold--Scriptural and secular--protest
strategy of Lifeguard, Inc., a Maryland-based pro-life publication
called Lifeguard an organization that "confuses and confounds the
opposition with a combination of prayerful demonstration, sidewalk
counseling, apologetics, and creative street theater, using props,
songs, and, yes, even, humor."
The extremely complimentary coverage in the March-April issue of
"Defend Life," a bi-monthly newsletter (136 Stevenson Lane, 21212) of
Baltimore's Defend Life, Inc., went on to underscore a major thrust of
Lifeguard's outreach to non-religious abortion advocates: exposing the
incompatibility of abortion feminism with authentic feminist first
principles.
"Why don't you read a little about your feminist foremothers,
ladies," the article quotes Lifeguard Secretary-Treasurer Mike
Corrigan as challenging Hillcrest Women's Surgi-Center "escorts."
"None of them believed in abortion! They recognized it as a
violent male agenda....You know what 'crypto-sexism' means? Look it
up. You're practicing crypto-sexism."
"Chattel once again, ladies. You're chattel once again," the
piece continues the quote. "You're doing the men's bidding, playing
right into their hands, and you don't even know it!"
The "Defend Life" article, which also quoted Lifeguard
Sergeant-at-arms John Marcus as truthfully telling Hillcrest customers
that abortion "will not help you, it will hurt you," pointed out that
Lifeguard is a nonprofit, interdenominational Christian organization
that forbids physical violence and verbal attacks on the character
(but not the arguments) of opponents.
In related developments, recent Lifeguard outreach activity at
Hillcrest has been responsible for a spate of recent turnarounds at
the Southeast, D.C. abortion mill.
In one dramatic instance a mother and daughter accepted Lifeguard
diversion literature and welcomed Lifeguard entreaties to reject
abortion. The mother eventually took the side of the Lifeguard
on-point and urged her teen daughter not the "make the same mistake I
did."
The pair ultimately drove away, smiling and waving--with a
Lifeguard stuffed animal in hand--at the Lifeguard contingent.
Finally, Lifeguard is saddened to report that its February
"common ground" discussion overture to professedly pro-choice National
Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARRAL), the National
Abortion Federation (NAF), and the National Organization for Women
(NOW) has yet to be acknowledged.
"It makes one wonder about the 'pro-choice' credentials and
sincerity of these organizations," bristled Lifeguard
Secretary-Treasurer Mike Corrigan. "You would think that if these
mainline 'feminist' groups were truly interested in increasing women's
choices, they would jump at opportunities to scale back the acrimony.
"Perhaps they're terrified of an open debate on the subject,"
Corrigan went on. "Perhaps their leaders really know that their
rationales, at heart, are specious and indefensible in the face of
ordinary intellectual inquiry, but exportable only through demagoguery
and distortion.
"Such possibility is suggested by the transparency of the
pretexts these groups constantly hype to justify their agendas,"
Corrigan added, "a foible that will eventually expose them to any
thinking person.
"They denounce the 'violence' of pro-lifers while standing on an
Everest of butchered babies bodies; they rant about women's rights,
while violating the rights of a whole class of unborn women; they talk
about 'choice' but thwart all legislative efforts to enhance informed
consent about abortion and the dangers of RU-486; they agitate for
'poor women,' but are unwilling to direct poor women, who decide
not to abort, to pro-life crisis pregnancy centers.
"Theirs seems to be a cagey, convoluted game," Corrigan
explained, "plied by elites, demagogues and dictators throughout
history, which cloaks class-centered, special interest causes in the
guise of social conscience, scary scenarios, and evocative
posturing--but which doesn't stand the test of rudimenatary reasoning
or basic decency. It is through such critical reasoning--such
contradiction exposing--that people of good will can bring them down.
"That, perhaps, is why I haven't heard from these groups,"
Corrigan concluded. "So perhaps it's a despot's power that they're
really interested in, not the principles that they supposedly
espouse." Ý
Lifeguard is a tax-exempt, 501(c)(3), front-line, Christian pro-life
organization that employs the use of Scripture, reason, and natural
law polemics lawfully to save the lives of babies marked for abortion;
publicly refute "pro-choice" rationales; and convert hearts to the
gospel of life. Lifeguard will make presentations to your pro-life
group. All donations to Lifeguard are tax-deductible and may be sent
to: Lifeguard, P.O. Box 777, Great Mills, Maryland 20634. Lifeguard's
website is at www.erols.com/lifeguard1
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PRESS RELEASE
September 24, 2001
For immediate release
Contact: Lifesaver1@mindspring.com
or M. Corrigan at gmcorrigan@mindspring.com
or at 703/532-2959
Terrorist attack highlights the fragility of life; transience of
worldly pleasures
WASHINGTON -- Gridlocked in downtown D.C. on the day anti-lifers
snuffed out the lives of thousands of World Trade Center and Pentagon
toilers as well as hundreds of airline passengers and brave emergency
workers, this Lifeguard was treated to a cavalcade of
poignant--and fleeting--impressions.
One, however, one stands out among the lot.
First--before the gridlock--there was the eerie, televised
spectacle of the center's south tower, hemorrhaging smoke and guts,
suddenly, quietly giving up its ghost, and slipping its mortal coil in
a ghastly upwelling of fire and dust.
Unsummoned, the cry of a 30's newscaster at the sight of the
Hindenburg disaster came to mind: "Oh, the humanity."
The collapse came so stealthily, so silently as a video image,
ABC-TV anchor Peter Jennings didn't even comment on it at first.
But in those moments of disregard, of mute disbelief, perhaps, how
many thousands within that image's wounded, actual walls met sudden
death--and subsequent judgment?
Then there were the buzzing knots of people on the streets of the
federal city, formerly so self-abosorbed and rushed, finding in
monumental tragedy the fellowship that is always available to sons and
daughters of the same God.
It is, however, a people's daily search for its Creator--through
Biblical truths and inspired Church teaching, ideally, but at least
through reason and natural law principles--that should bring a nation
together, not tragedy. And it is this Creator--accessible only through
the "needful things" of such deliberate search--who stands ready to
comfort his creatures in times of such tragedy, wrought not by Him,
but by his creatures' freedom of choice.
Finally, safe at home and with an otherwise beautiful day fading
into a clear night, there was the sight of a lone fire engine on I-66
returning to a firehouse somewhere west. It streamed--before such
practice caught on as a popular gesture--an American flag, and seemed,
in its solemn movement, to carry with it the souls of all those brave
police and fire fighters whose heroic choice was to give their lives
so that others might live that day.
It also seemed, in its forlorn but striking procession, to announce
the fleeting nature of this life and the permanency of what is to
come--and this was the impression that lingered.
Those who disingenuously call pro-lifers "anti-choice
terrorists"--perverting the language as they pervert the morals of a
country--got a dose of the real thing on September 11. It can only be
hoped that the fragility of life and the sometimes suddenness of
death, which the terrorists' evil "choice" highlighted, brought into
stark relief the realization that mere "choice" is not the ethic you
want to be judged by on the other side.
Lifeguard is a tax-exempt, 501(c)(3), front-line, Christian pro-life
organization that employs the use of Scripture, reason, and natural
law polemics lawfully to save the lives of babies marked for abortion;
publicly obliterate "pro-choice" rationales; and convert hearts to the
gospel of life. Lifeguard will make presentations to your pro-life
group. All donations to Lifeguard are tax-deductible. Those interested
in contributing should contact this email address for information.
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