May/June, 1997 Volume XII Number 6 - DEPARTMENTS Grapevine "There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance _ that principle is contempt prior to investigation." -- Herbert Spencer "If [Ron Fitzsimmons] thinks he lied, I guess that's his problem to deal with. We have not." -- Kate Michaelman, president of NARAL, after Fitzsimmons, a pro-abortion leader, admitted that he and the rest of the pro-abortion leadership had lied about the frequency and necessity of D&X abortions. "I lied through my teeth. . . . The abortion-rights folks know it, the anti-abortion folks know it, and so, probably, does everyone else." -- Ron Fitzsimmons, director of National Coalition of Abortion Providers, referring to his statements about the frequency and necessity of D&X abortions during the debate in Congerss over the bill to ban partial-birth abortions. He had claimed that there were very few such abortions and that they were only done where the life or health of the mother was in danger. "They are behind the times." -- Convicted multiple-murderer Charles Manson on the group-suicide of UFO cultists in the Heaven's Gate group. Copyright © 1997 AFLM