Volunteers keep a watchful eye on the fetus fanatics

About the Book

Why did the police employ a masterful plan for getting patients into the clinic one day, only to stand around, as though shackled, the next? Why did the police refuse to arrest protesters who were twenty deep in front of the clinic for 36 hours straight? Why did federal marshals ignore a federal judge when he ordered them to clear the clinic entrance? How did a mayor, a governor, and a president effectively invite thousands of protesters to the city? Fetus Fanatics offers first hand answers to these intriguing questions.

Fetus Fanatics is unique because it simultaneously integrates, correlates and links three groups—anti-choice zealots, government officials, and pro-choice activists— operating during a specific event: an Operation Rescue protest. The reader learns about government support of fetus fanatics and the frustration, anger, and actions of pro-choice activists. As we enter a new century, elected officials continue to collaborate with fanatics, often leading the way. Voters must understand this truth before they vote.  

Operation Rescue leaders fueled the fire with dozens of inflammatory quotes to the media.  “The Lord will use this event to target the entire Midwest." "We will win." "This holocaust will end when the church realizes this is not a social issue but a gospel issue." "The devil will hang himself." "Christians will get on school boards and into government positions." "The final solution is in the church." These quotes illustrate a little of what pro-choice leaders were fighting.

In approximately 53,000 words, readers of this book will understand how the events in Wichita illuminated the ultimate goal of the far right. Their goal was and is to take away the rights of all personal decision-making. As they operate under the guise of religion, they espouse their positions and manipulate facts. They attack socially progressive laws, progressive judges, politicians, legislators, and individuals who do not agree with their positions. The reader will see their threads of deceptions throughout as they try to move America away from the right to privacy and freedom of choice.

Fetus Fanatics illustrates conclusively that the people in top positions in the government do make a difference. They can create chaos, as they did in Wichita, Kansas in the summer of 1991, or they can establish and maintain order.  It is true because Wichita tried it both ways during two different events by fetus fanatics.

Whether locally elected mayors and city council members, state elected governors and legislators, or federally elected senators, house members and presidents, their actions and inactions create the environment in which we live, all while claiming their morality is best for us as individuals, the country, and the world.

The call to “fix the judiciary” started decades ago and continues through to this day. Now they are more intense and more strident. This book illustrates the importance of an independent judiciary—perhaps, the most critical and consequential issue of our time. 

The siege was a was reminder of the days when abortions were illegal, when women went to great extremes, even risked their lives, to obtain abortions. They sometimes traveled alone at night to protect their identities. Sometimes they traveled blindfolded to provide cover for the person doing the abortion—sometimes a doctor, sometimes not. During the siege, staff sneaked into the clinic at night; patients fought angry, screaming, yelling, cursing, pushing mobs intent on blocking their access.

Young patients cried. Older patients comforted them. Then and now, women make the ultimate sacrifice to have abortions. At least on this day, they are still legal and, therefore, safe.

It is possible that will not be true tomorrow. Fetus fanatics come in many forms—locally elected school board members, mayors, city and county council members; state legislators, members of Congress; presidents of the United States. They demand an agenda that focuses on their view of God, their view of freedom, their view of life. Those views are drastically different from those of the majority of Americans. Voters must have information, primarily to make decisions that will secure their freedoms. By integrating the actions of three factions—anti-choice, government, and pro-choice activists, Jarman presents a unique perspective not covered in other books.

Fetus Fanatics ends with a paradigm shift for reproductive freedom. This shift, developed over many years, changes the rhetoric on abortion. It may not be great for fundraising, but I believe it can turn around the losses sustained in abortion rights.

The paradigm shift presents a view of pro-choice that also includes people who define themselves as pro-life. The goal is to isolate the extremists. It is not about compromise. A poll by Mason Dixon outlined in the book demonstrates the potential of this approach.

Throughout the book are cartoons by Richard Crowson, first published in The Wichita Eagle. His cartoons are an enormous addition to the pages of Fetus Fanatics.