Background Briefing

Somewhere on a flight between Kansas City and Miami, Julie Killen went into the plane's lavatory and gave birth to a child. When she arrived at the Miami International Airport, she dropped the baby into a trash can. Two days later the dead chld was found. Julie Killen pleasded guilty to manslaughter.
In Racine, Wisconsin, a woman was charged with murder for dumping her newborn child in a highway rest area toilet.

If those two women had had abortions a weak or two before delivery, they would no have been in trouble with the law. It would still have been murder, but it would have been (pardon the misuse of the term) "legal." Federal and state courts have held that abortions are permitted virtually to the full term of the unborn child.

Abortion, the murder of a preborn child, is the number one killer in the United States (cardio-vascular diseases are second). "In the United States it is statistically confirmed that the most dangerous place for anyone o be, with regard to the preservation of one's life, is in the mother's womb."
The greatest threat to the child in gestation is not from measles, smallpox, PCBs in the mother's diet or acid rain. The greatest threat is the "would-not-be" mother who opts for abortion.

Abortion is a major business in the United States: there are bout 5,500 abortuaries in the nation; Fortune magazine estimated that their take is more than half a billion dollars a year. That does not include revenue from the sale of aborted babies' bodies. Planned Parenthood receives about $30 million a year from Title X appropriations, a program originally intended to provide "preventative family planning services," and it receives millions more from Title V, Title XIX, Title XX, and dozens of other tax-supported programs. Its 50 chapters, 200 affiliates, and 800 clinics perform more than 80,000 abortions annually.
There were some 1.5 million babies aborted in 1986. That's more than 4,000 abortions each day, 3 murders each minute, or 1 abortion every twenty-one seconds. (That does not include an estimated 260,000 that are not reported.) About 25 percent of the women having abortions are "repeats" - they have had one or more prior abortion. Abortuary centers report that women who have abortions are generally young, unmarried, and are not likely to have ever given birth to a live infact.

Kansas was the first state to legalize abortion-on-demand to time of birth. The national floodgates for abortion were opened on January 22, 1973, when the United States Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade, held that a woman has the right to do as she chooses with her body. The seven-to-two majority concluded that a preborn child is not "legally" a person; thus, it has no legal rights until it's delivered.
On that same day, in Doe v. Bolton, the Supreme Court held that babies may be aborted (killed) until the day they are to leave the womb. These decisions made it constitutionally impossible for any state to prohibit abortion at any time during pregnancy. Since then, more than 20 million preborn babies have been slaughtered by currette or syringe - an average of 4,100 every day from 1973 through 1986 with only a slight decline in 1987. That is the American holocaust and that is America's shame!

Human sacrifice on the altar of nihilistic humanism continues. There are about three abortions to every live birth in the District of Columbia. The ratio of birth to abortions in New York City is about one-to-one. Michael R. Gilstrap, in The Phineas Report, suggests that "aborion is an act of religious faith ...[for the woman who undergoes an abortion] it affirms a belief in man as ultimate rather than as created in the image of God. It is a commitment to an alien faith that rivals Christianity at the most fundamental levels."

The advocates of the right to abortion-on-demand insist it is a woman's right to terminate an unwanted pregnancy; it is part of her freedom of choice, part of her freedom to control her own body. They assert that abortion is just one method of contraception (a position being taught in many high school and even elementary sex education classes).

Supporters of abortion (murder) include several religious denominations: American Baptists, United Methodists, United Presbyterian Church, Episcopal Church, and Evangelical Lutheran Church. Spokesmen for those and other churches have made public statements that "continuance of pregnancy is not a moral necessity." (See Matthew 7:15; Luke 11:23; Revelation 3:15,16.) Federal Judge John F. Dooling, Jr. cited their statements when arguing that the Court's pro-abortion decision was "in the mainstream of the nations religious tradition." )See Matthew 6:24.)

Consider the case of Joan Andrews. On March 26, 1986, she disconnected the plug on the suction machine in the procedure room at the Ladies Center abortuary in Pensacola, Florida. she did not break into the abortion clinic; the door was open. When she was pulled away from the machine by police, she went limp, was handcuffed and dragged out. She did not resist the officers; there was no assault involved. The charge against her was resisting arrest and burglary, although she stole nothing and destroyed nothing. When she was removed from the center, the machine was hooked up again. At her sentencing she told the judge, "My intentions were to save lives by trying to nonviolently prevent the abortion of preborn children." The prosecution asked for a one-year sentence. The judged sentenced her to five years in maximum security at a Florida state prison. Why? Because he was annoyed that Joan Andrews would not promise to stay away from abortion clinics. That, she said, "would be an agreement tot let human beings be killed."
Joan Andrews began serving the five years in maximum security in September 1986. She is currently incarcerated in Broward Correctional Institute in a cell which the window has been painted over so that she cannot see outside. Her imprisionment extends until April 1991. The Florida Court of Appeals denied her appeal without comment. The only avenue left open to her is a pardon from Florida Governor Robert Martinez.
In a separete case, on the same day and in the same courtroom, the same Judge Anderson who sentenced Joan Andrews sentenced an accomplice to murder to four years in prison with time off for good behavior. The felon could be out of prison in two and a half years.
Biblical Christians and other pro-lifer advocates do not agree with the Court's decisions and must work to overturn them. They assert that the willful termination of pregnancy and wanton aborting of a preborn child is against a higher law - God's Law. Abortion, they insist, is murder. They noe that in no other area of society is homicide condoned. In 1986 the Washington State Supreme Court restricted an anti-abortion group's use of the words "murder" and "kill" in describing abortion. The court held that a restriction on the group's right of free speech was necessary to protect children from the harmful effects of such language. The court did not rule on the harmful affects of abortion on children.
The anti-abortion forces insist, further, that a woman should control her body by controlling herself (and her emotions); that such control should come before, not after the ace; that women have no moral or legal right to murder a preborn baby to avoid the fruit of sin. (Less than 3 percent of all abortions are performed for medical reasons or following rape or incest; 97 percent are strictly a matter of convenience. Many abortions in the United States are performed to cover up pre- or extra-marial sex.)
Some pro-abortionists argue that it is cheaper to do away with unwanted babies than to le them be born and go on welfare or end up in prison. In 1984, vice-presidential nominee, Geraldine Ferraro (Zacarro), agreed: "The cost of putting an unwanted child through the [welfare] system far outweighs the cost [the federal funding] of these [abortion] procedures." As for the costs of "justice," former Representative Ferraro said during a House debate on federal funding of abortions: "It is a simple matter of economics. Unwanted children so often end up in the criminal justice systems... it's very expensive to take care of them."

Pro-death advocates urge the termination of pregnancies as a way to ease economic dislocation (poverty), remedy sexual promiscuity, and builg a "planned" and "perfect" society. The journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics carried an article arguing that handicapped children may have less (social) value than dogs or pigs with "superior capacities." (So much for the Hippocratic Oath physicians once subscribed to: "I will not give a woman a pessary to produce abortion.")
In the journal article, Peter Singer asserted: "Once the religious mumbo-jumbo surrounding the term 'human' has been stripped away� we will not regard as sacrosanct the life of each and every member of our species."
Thus, anti-life groups would have physicians be "social executioners" according to a state blueprint. The pro-life forces say that (1) putting a value on human life on the basis of such crass economic determinism, if accepted, would enforce a "Hitlerian concept" - a continuing holocaust to eliminate those individuals considered "non-productive" (the deformed and handicapped, the elderly, and the unwanted preborns who fail to meet predetermined genetic standards); (2) committing abortion to escape the fruits of promiscuity simply adds one sin on top of another; (3) the issue of public funding of abortion should be resolved by prohibiting abortion-on-demand; and (4) the suggestions of either pre- or post-partum murder reveal a total disregard for the sanctity of life.
In Communist China, the government's birth control policy permits one child per couple, with a maximum of two in rural areas. Women whose pregnancy would exceed the birh quota must abort. The New York Times hailed Red China's policy as "most effective in implementing birth control and population planning."
In the Soviet Union, about 10 million abortions are performed each year; that is 2 o 3 abortions for every live birth. In Romania, 60 percent of pregnancies end in abortion. In Communist-dominated Poland, while 700,000 children are born, 800,000 are aborted.
Dr. Bernard Nathanson, a founder of the National Abortion Rights League, performed abou 5,000 abortions following the 1973 Roe v. Wade court decision. Dr. Nathanson once vehemently subscribed to and promoted pro-abortion arguments. He has changed his mind; he now fights against abortions and abortionists. As to a woman's right to control her own body, Nathanson retorts: "I think everyone should control their own body... BUT we have a very sound data which have demonstrated that the fetus is not part of a woman's body. It is an uneasy tenant... immunologically distinct, biologically distinct... it is not in fact a part of a woman's body."
Pro-abortionists claim that the preborn baby is simply "fetal tissue" and not a living entity until delivery (or, at the earliest, third trimester). Thus, they argue, having an abortion is no different from having a tooth pulled, or getting a haircut. They do not object to the fetal tissues of an aborted baby being used for face creams or other cosmetics.
Pro-life advocates counter: the preborn baby is in reality a living human being who dies a painful death when aborted. By the seventh week, the child has its own (measurable) brain waves. And, they point out, the presence of brain waves is one of the legal criteria determining whether an individual is alive or dead! The pro-choice/pro-death groups also argue "viability": as long as the preborn baby depends upon its mother's life-support system, it is not a viable life. But, argue the anti-abortion spokesmen, consider kidney dialysis, respirators, life-support systems: many adults depend on such life-suppor systems to exist. If a doctor or nurse were to turn off the life-support sytem under such circumstances, the charge would be murder.
In a letter to Presiden Reagan, twenty-six doctors emphasized that scientific methods make it clear that preborn babies feel pain during abortion. "Nerves are in place by six to eight weeks after conception... chemicals to transmit sensations from nerves through the spinal cord to the brain exist by twelve weeks... the fetus reacts the same way a full-grown individual would when exposed to something painful, by squirming, thrashing... accelerated heartbea and higher blood pressure." (Note: At six weeks, the kidney's, stomach, and liver begin to function; at seven weeks, the preborn child has everything found in a newborn baby; at twelve weeks, the fingerprints are completely formed, the baby weighs about one ounce- all that is left is to grow.
Dr. Nathanson made public an ultrasonic filming of abortion (The Silent Scream) which shows the preborn baby in he womb, thrashing about, trying to avoid the suction device which is tearing off its head. Viewers of the film saw the child dismembered, its head crushed, as it was sucked out of the womb. The physician who performed the abortion that was filmed has never performed another. (Dr. and Mrs. Nathanson have produced and award-winning pro-life film and videocassette, Eclipse of Reason featuring Charlton Heston.)
So much for the key premises of the United States Supreme Court's 1973 pro-abortion decision. Dr. Nathanson argues, "Some of the key premises [of that decision] are now so outdated, now so anachronistic that the decision itself has been rendered an anachronism... the times, the new data, the new perceptions, and the new science, cry out for a change in that decision." Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Conner warned: "The Roe framework... is clearly on a collision course with itself... it has no justification in law or logic."
On December 27, 1987, Dr. Nathanson wrote the McDonald's Corporation criticizing the Ray Kroc and Roberta L. Kroc Leadership and Visiting Scholars Endowment for funding research in the use of human fetal tissues in the treatment of diabetes. (The Krocs were founders of McDonald's.) Dr. Nathanson wrote, "Laudable through its aim- the cure of diabetes- surely more humane methods than the wholesale destruction of viable unborn babies should have been pursued." McDonald's responded that it is not connected with the Kroc foundation. However, several members of the Kroc foundation are also members of the McDonald's corporate board.
In January, 1987, President Reagan submitted the President's Pro-life bill of 1987 to the Congress The bill was carried in the United States Senate by Senator Gordon Humphrey (New Hampshire) and in the House of Repesentative Henry Hyde (Illinois). That bill would have put congress on record as being opposed to the Roe v. Wade decision and would have permanently prohibited federal funding of abortion and denied Title X family planning funds to organizations (such as Planned Parenthood)which perform or refer for abortions. Senator Humphrey also introduced a bill to rescind tax breaks for abortion clinics. The Abortion Rights Mobilization (a pro-abortion coalition) brought suit against the Internal Revenue Service for not revoking the tax-exempt status of the Catholic Church. The group charged that the church used tax-exempt funds for political action (fighting abortion) and that put the pro-abortion groups at a disadvantage.
Representative Robert Dornan (California) placed bills before the House proposing a pro-life amendment, restrictions on interstate transport of fetal tissue, and a ban on federal aid to any educational institution that performs abortions except to prevent the death of the mother. Representative Philip Crane (Illinois) introduced a bill which would have eliminated Supreme Court and Federal District Court jurisdiction to hear or review cases arising out of state laws relating to abortion.
The so-called Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987 included "abortion neutral" amendments which held that (1) nothing in the bill was meant to force any hospital or school receiving federal funds to perform or pay for abortions and (2) laws barring sex discrimination could not be construed to require or prohibit any person or public or private entity to provide for or pay for any benefit or service related to abortion.


	Background Briefing Somewhere on a flight between Kansas City and Miami, Julie Killen went into the plane's lavatory and gave birth to a child. When she arrived at the Miami International Airport, she dropped the baby into a trash can. Two days later the dead chld was found. Julie Killen pleasded guilty to manslaughter. In Racine, Wisconsin, a woman was charged with murder for dumping her newborn child in a highway rest area toilet. If those two women had had abortions a weak or two before delivery, they would no have been in trouble with the law. It would still have been murder, but it would have been (pardon the misuse of the term) "legal." Federal and state courts have held that abortions are permitted virtually to the full term of the unborn child. Abortion, the murder of a preborn child, is the number one killer in the United States (cardio-vascular diseases are second). "In the United States it is statistically confirmed that the most dangerous place for anyone o be, with regard to the preservation of one's life, is in the mother's womb." The greatest threat to the child in gestation is not from measles, smallpox, PCBs in the mother's diet or acid rain. The greatest threat is the "would-not-be" mother who opts for abortion. Abortion is a major business in the United States: there are bout 5,500 abortuaries in the nation; Fortune magazine estimated that their take is more than half a billion dollars a year. That does not include revenue from the sale of aborted babies' bodies. Planned Parenthood receives about $30 million a year from Title X appropriations, a program originally intended to provide "preventative family planning services," and it receives millions more from Title V, Title XIX, Title XX, and dozens of other tax-supported programs. Its 50 chapters, 200 affiliates, and 800 clinics perform more than 80,000 abortions annually. There were some 1.5 million babies aborted in 1986. That's more than 4,000 abortions each day, 3 murders each minute, or 1 abortion every twenty-one seconds. (That does not include an estimated 260,000 that are not reported.) About 25 percent of the women having abortions are "repeats" - they have had one or more prior abortion. Abortuary centers report that women who have abortions are generally young, unmarried, and are not likely to have ever given birth to a live infact. Kansas was the first state to legalize abortion-on-demand to time of birth. The national floodgates for abortion were opened on January 22, 1973, when the United States Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade, held that a woman has the right to do as she chooses with her body. The seven-to-two majority concluded that a preborn child is not "legally" a person; thus, it has no legal rights until it's delivered. On that same day, in Doe v. Bolton, the Supreme Court held that babies may be aborted (killed) until the day they are to leave the womb. These decisions made it constitutionally impossible for any state to prohibit abortion at any time during pregnancy. Since then, more than 20 million preborn babies have been slaughtered by currette or syringe - an average of 4,100 every day from 1973 through 1986 with only a slight decline in 1987. That is the American holocaust and that is America's shame! Human sacrifice on the altar of nihilistic humanism continues. There are about three abortions to every live birth in the District of Columbia. The ratio of birth to abortions in New York City is about one-to-one. Michael R. Gilstrap, in The Phineas Report, suggests that "aborion is an act of religious faith ...[for the woman who undergoes an abortion] it affirms a belief in man as ultimate rather than as created in the image of God. It is a commitment to an alien faith that rivals Christianity at the most fundamental levels." The advocates of the right to abortion-on-demand insist it is a woman's right to terminate an unwanted pregnancy; it is part of her freedom of choice, part of her freedom to control her own body. They assert that abortion is just one method of contraception (a position being taught in many high school and even elementary sex education classes). Supporters of abortion (murder) include several religious denominations: American Baptists, United Methodists, United Presbyterian Church, Episcopal Church, and Evangelical Lutheran Church. Spokesmen for those and other churches have made public statements that "continuance of pregnancy is not a moral necessity." (See Matthew 7:15; Luke 11:23; Revelation 3:15,16.) Federal Judge John F. Dooling, Jr. cited their statements when arguing that the Court's pro-abortion decision was "in the mainstream of the nations religious tradition." )See Matthew 6:24.) Consider the case of Joan Andrews. On March 26, 1986, she disconnected the plug on the suction machine in the procedure room at the Ladies Center abortuary in Pensacola, Florida. she did not break into the abortion clinic; the door was open. When she was pulled away from the machine by police, she went limp, was handcuffed and dragged out. She did not resist the officers; there was no assault involved. The charge against her was resisting arrest and burglary, although she stole nothing and destroyed nothing. When she was removed from the center, the machine was hooked up again. At her sentencing she told the judge, "My intentions were to save lives by trying to nonviolently prevent the abortion of preborn children." The prosecution asked for a one-year sentence. The judged sentenced her to five years in maximum security at a Florida state prison. Why? Because he was annoyed that Joan Andrews would not promise to stay away from abortion clinics. That, she said, "would be an agreement tot let human beings be killed." Joan Andrews began serving the five years in maximum security in September 1986. She is currently incarcerated in Broward Correctional Institute in a cell which the window has been painted over so that she cannot see outside. Her imprisionment extends until April 1991. The Florida Court of Appeals denied her appeal without comment. The only avenue left open to her is a pardon from Florida Governor Robert Martinez. In a separete case, on the same day and in the same courtroom, the same Judge Anderson who sentenced Joan Andrews sentenced an accomplice to murder to four years in prison with time off for good behavior. The felon could be out of prison in two and a half years. Biblical Christians and other pro-lifer advocates do not agree with the Court's decisions and must work to overturn them. They assert that the willful termination of pregnancy and wanton aborting of a preborn child is against a higher law - God's Law. Abortion, they insist, is murder. They noe that in no other area of society is homicide condoned. In 1986 the Washington State Supreme Court restricted an anti-abortion group's use of the words "murder" and "kill" in describing abortion. The court held that a restriction on the group's right of free speech was necessary to protect children from the harmful effects of such language. The court did not rule on the harmful affects of abortion on children. The anti-abortion forces insist, further, that a woman should control her body by controlling herself (and her emotions); that such control should come before, not after the ace; that women have no moral or legal right to murder a preborn baby to avoid the fruit of sin. (Less than 3 percent of all abortions are performed for medical reasons or following rape or incest; 97 percent are strictly a matter of convenience. Many abortions in the United States are performed to cover up pre- or extra-marial sex.) Some pro-abortionists argue that it is cheaper to do away with unwanted babies than to le them be born and go on welfare or end up in prison. In 1984, vice-presidential nominee, Geraldine Ferraro (Zacarro), agreed: "The cost of putting an unwanted child through the [welfare] system far outweighs the cost [the federal funding] of these [abortion] procedures." As for the costs of "justice," former Representative Ferraro said during a House debate on federal funding of abortions: "It is a simple matter of economics. Unwanted children so often end up in the criminal justice systems... it's very expensive to take care of them." Pro-death advocates urge the termination of pregnancies as a way to ease economic dislocation (poverty), remedy sexual promiscuity, and builg a "planned" and "perfect" society. The journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics carried an article arguing that handicapped children may have less (social) value than dogs or pigs with "superior capacities." (So much for the Hippocratic Oath physicians once subscribed to: "I will not give a woman a pessary to produce abortion.") In the journal article, Peter Singer asserted: "Once the religious mumbo-jumbo surrounding the term 'human' has been stripped away� we will not regard as sacrosanct the life of each and every member of our species." Thus, anti-life groups would have physicians be "social executioners" according to a state blueprint. The pro-life forces say that (1) putting a value on human life on the basis of such crass economic determinism, if accepted, would enforce a "Hitlerian concept" - a continuing holocaust to eliminate those individuals considered "non-productive" (the deformed and handicapped, the elderly, and the unwanted preborns who fail to meet predetermined genetic standards); (2) committing abortion to escape the fruits of promiscuity simply adds one sin on top of another; (3) the issue of public funding of abortion should be resolved by prohibiting abortion-on-demand; and (4) the suggestions of either pre- or post-partum murder reveal a total disregard for the sanctity of life. In Communist China, the government's birth control policy permits one child per couple, with a maximum of two in rural areas. Women whose pregnancy would exceed the birh quota must abort. The New York Times hailed Red China's policy as "most effective in implementing birth control and population planning." In the Soviet Union, about 10 million abortions are performed each year; that is 2 o 3 abortions for every live birth. In Romania, 60 percent of pregnancies end in abortion. In Communist-dominated Poland, while 700,000 children are born, 800,000 are aborted. Dr. Bernard Nathanson, a founder of the National Abortion Rights League, performed abou 5,000 abortions following the 1973 Roe v. Wade court decision. Dr. Nathanson once vehemently subscribed to and promoted pro-abortion arguments. He has changed his mind; he now fights against abortions and abortionists. As to a woman's right to control her own body, Nathanson retorts: "I think everyone should control their own body... BUT we have a very sound data which have demonstrated that the fetus is not part of a woman's body. It is an uneasy tenant... immunologically distinct, biologically distinct... it is not in fact a part of a woman's body." Pro-abortionists claim that the preborn baby is simply "fetal tissue" and not a living entity until delivery (or, at the earliest, third trimester). Thus, they argue, having an abortion is no different from having a tooth pulled, or getting a haircut. They do not object to the fetal tissues of an aborted baby being used for face creams or other cosmetics. Pro-life advocates counter: the preborn baby is in reality a living human being who dies a painful death when aborted. By the seventh week, the child has its own (measurable) brain waves. And, they point out, the presence of brain waves is one of the legal criteria determining whether an individual is alive or dead! The pro-choice/pro-death groups also argue "viability": as long as the preborn baby depends upon its mother's life-support system, it is not a viable life. But, argue the anti-abortion spokesmen, consider kidney dialysis, respirators, life-support systems: many adults depend on such life-suppor systems to exist. If a doctor or nurse were to turn off the life-support sytem under such circumstances, the charge would be murder. In a letter to Presiden Reagan, twenty-six doctors emphasized that scientific methods make it clear that preborn babies feel pain during abortion. "Nerves are in place by six to eight weeks after conception... chemicals to transmit sensations from nerves through the spinal cord to the brain exist by twelve weeks... the fetus reacts the same way a full-grown individual would when exposed to something painful, by squirming, thrashing... accelerated heartbea and higher blood pressure." (Note: At six weeks, the kidney's, stomach, and liver begin to function; at seven weeks, the preborn child has everything found in a newborn baby; at twelve weeks, the fingerprints are completely formed, the baby weighs about one ounce- all that is left is to grow. Dr. Nathanson made public an ultrasonic filming of abortion (The Silent Scream) which shows the preborn baby in he womb, thrashing about, trying to avoid the suction device which is tearing off its head. Viewers of the film saw the child dismembered, its head crushed, as it was sucked out of the womb. The physician who performed the abortion that was filmed has never performed another. (Dr. and Mrs. Nathanson have produced and award-winning pro-life film and videocassette, Eclipse of Reason featuring Charlton Heston.) So much for the key premises of the United States Supreme Court's 1973 pro-abortion decision. Dr. Nathanson argues, "Some of the key premises [of that decision] are now so outdated, now so anachronistic that the decision itself has been rendered an anachronism... the times, the new data, the new perceptions, and the new science, cry out for a change in that decision." Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Conner warned: "The Roe framework... is clearly on a collision course with itself... it has no justification in law or logic." On December 27, 1987, Dr. Nathanson wrote the McDonald's Corporation criticizing the Ray Kroc and Roberta L. Kroc Leadership and Visiting Scholars Endowment for funding research in the use of human fetal tissues in the treatment of diabetes. (The Krocs were founders of McDonald's.) Dr. Nathanson wrote, "Laudable through its aim- the cure of diabetes- surely more humane methods than the wholesale destruction of viable unborn babies should have been pursued." McDonald's responded that it is not connected with the Kroc foundation. However, several members of the Kroc foundation are also members of the McDonald's corporate board. In January, 1987, President Reagan submitted the President's Pro-life bill of 1987 to the Congress The bill was carried in the United States Senate by Senator Gordon Humphrey (New Hampshire) and in the House of Repesentative Henry Hyde (Illinois). That bill would have put congress on record as being opposed to the Roe v. Wade decision and would have permanently prohibited federal funding of abortion and denied Title X family planning funds to organizations (such as Planned Parenthood)which perform or refer for abortions. Senator Humphrey also introduced a bill to rescind tax breaks for abortion clinics. The Abortion Rights Mobilization (a pro-abortion coalition) brought suit against the Internal Revenue Service for not revoking the tax-exempt status of the Catholic Church. The group charged that the church used tax-exempt funds for political action (fighting abortion) and that put the pro-abortion groups at a disadvantage. Representative Robert Dornan (California) placed bills before the House proposing a pro-life amendment, restrictions on interstate transport of fetal tissue, and a ban on federal aid to any educational institution that performs abortions except to prevent the death of the mother. Representative Philip Crane (Illinois) introduced a bill which would have eliminated Supreme Court and Federal District Court jurisdiction to hear or review cases arising out of state laws relating to abortion. The so-called Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987 included "abortion neutral" amendments which held that (1) nothing in the bill was meant to force any hospital or school receiving federal funds to perform or pay for abortions and (2) laws barring sex discrimination could not be construed to require or prohibit any person or public or private entity to provide for or pay for any benefit or service related to abortion.