CA Senate Report Categorises Pro-lifers as Hate Criminals

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California State Senate Report Places Pro-Lifers in Same Category as

White Supremacists and Anti-Semites

http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/aug/04082603.html

SACRAMENTO, August 26, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The California

Senate's Office of Research (SOR) recently issued a report entitled

"Protecting Californians from Hate Crimes: A Progress Report". In the

report's opening paragraph is a thinly veiled accusation that

pro-lifers are of the same mold as hate-filled and violent extremists.

The report describes several white supremacist, anti-Semitic, and

anti-government criminals as emblematic of the hate crime problem,

pointing out that one of the two killed abortion doctors.

 

California State Assemblyman Tim Leslie, expressing outrage and dismay

at the document, wrote to the SOR requesting a retraction and an

apology. In his August 24 letter, Leslie said of the report: "Its

evident bias against and demonization of people with pro-life views is

both naked and offensive."

 

Leslie points out that the report fails to acknowledge that the vast

majority of pro-life people are not anti-Semitic, white supremacist or

anti-government, and affirmed that when crimes are committed in the

name of pro-life, they are instantly condemned by the pro-life

movement at large.

 

In his letter to SOR director Donald B. Moulds, Leslie quoted a 2000

study done by Human Life International, which shows that in the

category of "Deadly and extreme crimes against persons" (murder,

manslaughter, attempted murder, kidnapping, torture and rape) there

are 121 pro-abortion incidents versus 25 committed by supposedly

pro-life persons. In the category of "Less serious crimes against

persons resulting in actual injury" (assault, sex crimes, reckless

endangerment, and violation of civil rights), the ratio is 651-112.

 

Assemblyman Leslie reminded Moulds that "most people who oppose

abortion do so because they love life and they love humanity. They are

not haters, and you cannot lump them into a category of hateful

people. If anything, they are more loving because they give up so much

and endure so much to save the lives of babies."

 

See the SOR report at http://www.sen.ca.gov/sor/REPORTS/REPORT

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