“Beginning just over a year ago, a surprising number of patients initiated lawsuits, charging their Planned Parenthood physicians with everything from malpractice to medical incompetence.

“Only the first few of these cases have been completed, but already the damages assessed against Planned Parenthood are well into the millions of dollars.

“Most observers close to this relatively new phenomenon -- of holding abortionists responsible for ruining the lives of those patients they don’t kill -- say that it’s highly likely that the number of these lawsuits will increase exponentially as women become more acquainted with their rights and less intimidated to tell their stories in public.

“If these experts are right, the abortion industry’s own arrogant disregard for their patients' health could turn out to be the death blow that brings them down, once and for all.” (Judie Brown’s Weekly Commentary, American Life League, April 12, 2001.)

Pat Robertson Shocks Pro-Life Movement by Minimizing China’s “One Child” Policy 
On Sunday, Pat Robertson, in an interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN, said in response to a question on China’s one-child-per-family policy, that while he “doesn’t agree” with it (the policy) he said the Chinese have a population of 1.2 billion “and they don’t know what to do about it.” He appeared to sanction the policy by saying the Chinese government is “doing what they have to do.” Expressions of shock and incredulity from many pro-life and pro-family leaders, among them Ken Connor, president of the Family Research Council (FRC) and Gary Bauer, president of Campaign for Working Families, led Mr. Robertson to issue a “clarification” that made matters worse by saying, “In my CNN interview, I did not preface my remarks with my long-held view [favoring the right to life], but I merely expressed what to me seemed obvious . . . That the Chinese people with a population of 1.2 billion will face a dilemma of massive proportions if they permit their population to explode upwards of 2 billion people.” He added that the one-child policy reflects “an obvious necessity.”

In the April 18th edition of Washington Update, which is sent via facsimile to thousands of Americans, FRC’s Ken Connor had this to say: “I have profound respect for Pat Robertson and all he has done to champion faith and family. Family Research Council defended him last year when he was subjected, along with the Rev. Jerry Falwell, to an unwarranted political attack. But these statements, and the clarification that failed to clarify, are misguided and just plain wrong. China’s “dilemma of massive proportions” is its desire for prosperity and progress without liberty. Its lack of freedom for families under the one-child policy is part and parcel of its severe limits on religious, economic, and political freedom across the board.