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FRIDAY FAX - 12 Dez 03
Volume 6, Number 51

SECOND OF A THREE PART SERIES
CRR Threatens Legal Action/Documents Read into Congressional Record

In an effort to stop further dissemination of its top-secret strategy to produce an international right to abortion-on-demand, the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) has threatened legal action against the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM), which broke the story of this international law strategy in its December 5 Friday Fax.

In a letter faxed to C-FAM's New York office, Nancy Northup, president of CRR, claims that disclosure of this material has caused, and further disclosure will cause, CRR irreparable harm. Therefore, Northup makes a number of demands upon C-FAM, including that C-FAM must return all copies of the memos, must cease and desist from any further dissemination, by whatever means, including written, email, fax, oral, or electronic, of the Center's internal memos, and even that C-FAM must identify to the Center all persons and organizations, including email addresses, to whom C-FAM disseminated the Center's proprietary information.

However, no legal maneuvering against C-FAM can now protect this strategy from further public scrutiny, since the internal CRR memos, which describe the strategy were this week introduced into the permanent US Congressional Record by Congressman Christopher Smith (R-NJ).

In a statement explaining his submission of the documents into the Congressional Record, Smith said that It is critical that both the American and foreign public are made aware of these documents because they shed new light on the schemes of those who want to promote abortion here and abroad&.These documents are important for the public to see because they expose the wolf donning sheeps clothing in an attempt to sanitize violence against children. These papers reveal a Trojan Horse of deceit. In their own words, these documents demonstrate how abortion promotion groups are planning to push abortion&not by direct argument, but by twisting words and definitions.

Smith appeared particularly troubled by some of the admissions made in the memos, such as the CRR statement that &there is a stealth quality to the work: we are achieving incremental recognition of values without a huge amount of scrutiny from the opposition. These lower profile victories will gradually put us in a strong position to assert a broad consensus around our assertions. Smith also highlighted a statement from a CRR trustee, who asserted that We have to fight harder, be a little dirtier.

Through this stealth campaign to produce new international laws, another trustee hopes that CRR will become the midwife to the global choice movement.


[The Friday Fax is reported and written by Douglas A. Sylva, C-FAM Vice-President.]

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