The tactic: stress the isolated acts of violence committed by a few members of the pro-life movement in order to weaken the whole movement and its struggle against violence.

What are the methods the pro-life activists use in advancing their cause? The most common ones are peaceful marches, prayer meetings and candlelight vigils--the exact same methods used by the civil rights movement of the 1950s.

As much as Mike, Nisha and Becky would like us to believe otherwise, not every person opposed to abortion is a violent, trigger-happy, Christian fundamentalist fanatic.

The newsletter refers to pro-life activist as "anti-choice protestors [sic]." Bringing the language of choice to the issue of abortion, and calling themselves "pro-choice, " was a simply themselves brilliant maneuver by the pro-abortion movement. It reduces the decision to abort to just another part of our modern consumer culture.

"What shall I choose today" the woman contemplating abortion asks herself. "The red blouse, or the blue blouse? McDonald's or Burger King? Abortion, or carrying the child to term?"

Applying the paradigm of choice to the problem of abortion is a public relations coup for the movement--as well as a huge misapplication of the democratic principle of choice.

It's also sad commentary on the state of our nation.