Monday, March 30, 2009

From the files of Ben Wetmore: "A Plan to save 3,636 babies a year by shutting down 6 clinics and developing a best practices [sic] to shut down more nationwide"


NJO: "Benjamin Wetmore: A mentor of mine; a genius", said James O'Keefe in an interview in September 2009. So let's take a look at some of the wisdom of this certifiably mentorial influence on James' life.

Today, from March 2009, "A Plan to save 3,636 babies a year by shutting down 6 clinics and developing a best practices [sic] to shut down more nationwide"

Source: http://benwetmore.com/documents/MCFL/proposals/MCFL_ClinicShutdown-proposal.doc [Now a dead link]


A Plan to save 3,636 babies a year by shutting down 6 clinics and developing a best practices to shut down more nationwide


Massachusetts Citizens for Life

Prepared by: Ben Wetmore

For the Gerard Health Foundation’s consideration

March 30, 2009


People want to close abortion clinics and are not sure how.  Some have been closed, but pro-lifers are not sure what universal tactics work and which closings were instead providential.  Through this grant, Massachusetts Citizens for Life will take the methods used by pro-lifers nationwide and test them, track what works and learn the best ways to close clinics.  The beautiful side effect of this research will be the shuttering of clinics.  We will publish the findings and let pro-lifers nationwide know what worked in Massachusetts.  If the tactics work in a state as pro-abortion as the Bay State, it can work across the nation.
Most of the previous efforts were undertaken by volunteer organizations, and their successes were primarily anecdotal.  But anecdotes are not transferable.  The lack of serious media coverage has also hurt our ability to find out what truly closes a clinic.  The methods have never been measured in a scientific and analytical way, and approached using paid staff having this as a full-time job.

From the files of Ben Wetmore: "A plan to save 1,170 babies a year in the state of Massachusetts through the passage of an informed consent law utilizing political pressure"


NJO: "Benjamin Wetmore: A mentor of mine; a genius", said James O'Keefe in an interview in September 2009. So let's take a look at some of the wisdom of this certifiably mentorial influence on James' life.

Today, from March 2009, "A plan to save 1,170 babies a year in the state of Massachusetts through the passage of an informed consent law utilizing political pressure".

Source: http://benwetmore.com/documents/MCFL/proposals/MCFL_LaurasLaw-proposal.doc [Now a dead link]


A plan to save 1,170 babies a year in the state of Massachusetts through the passage of an informed consent law utilizing political pressure


Massachusetts Citizens for Life

Prepared by: Ben Wetmore

For the Gerard Health Foundation’s consideration

March 30, 2009



On September 13, 2007 Laura Hope Smith, a 22 year old girl who was 13 weeks pregnant, died during an abortion.  The tragedy of losing both grandchild and daughter was not lost on her mother, who was shocked and angered because Laura had been raised in a pro-life and Christian household.  As the details unfolded, it became clear that the initial decision that Laura made to abort was not the choice she would have made if given the correct information about the risks to abortion, information on fetal development, and the ultrasound picture that the abortionist had already taken.
Informed consent laws have been passed in various forms in 33 states.  Such laws are often non-controversial and not seriously opposed by the abortion industry.  Social science researcher Dr. Michael New has shown that such laws have on average a clear reduction in the abortion rate by .86% in the overall abortion rate on average.  The sporadic judicial nullification of such laws has made it clear as to their impact by showing the subsequent spike in abortions in a year following nullification.  As Massachusetts’ abortion rate is currently 19.9 per thousand women of reproductive age, reducing that through passage of such a law to 19.04 per thousand women of reproductive age would save 1,170 babies a year.