Abortion forum cracks whip on 'dissidents'
Rusty Pugh
OneNewsNow.com
August 13, 2007

An event held in New York last week that was promoted as an abortion forum was actually designed to "crack the whip" on dissent within the pro-abortion movement. That's according to a spokeswoman for an organization that reaches out to women and men who suffer from the after-effects of abortion.

Billed as an "international ethical discussion," the event was titled "What's So Bad About Abortion?" Speakers included the chief executive of British Pregnancy Advisory Service, the leading provider of abortion services in the United Kingdom, as well as officials with NARAL Pro-Choice America, National Abortion Federation, and the Reproductive Health Technologies Project -- all of which, along with Catholics for a Free Choice, were sponsors of the two-hour event on August 9.

But leaders of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign -- the nation's largest network of women and men harmed by abortion -- say the event was not a forum or debate, but instead was a disciplinary meeting where those in the abortion movement were told to fall in line. Georgette Forney with Silent No More explains that some people in the abortion movement actually do not favor partial-birth abortion and want to care for post-abortive women. According to Forney, they are viewed as dissenters. the rest