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...Jane Roe would never, never have done what McCorvey did last week: defect. On Tuesday she quit her job at Dallas' A Choice For Women clinic. On Thursday she announced that she had been baptized in a swimming pool by none other than Flip Benham, head of the antiabortion group Operation Rescue. She said she would be an Operation Rescue volunteer, "serving the Lord and helping women save babies." Said Sarah Weddington, one of the lawyers who recruited McCorvey and took Roe v. Wade to the Supreme Court: "When I first heard about it, I had to sit down...
...Only an interior wall separates the neighbors. Norma McCorvey, the "Jane Roe" of Roe v. Wade, told Reuters she is not exactly thrilled with her new neighbors, but the clinic has no intention of moving out: "We are here for the duration."Operation Rescue'snational director Flip Benham said: "It's a tremendous place. At the killing center, at the gates of Hell, is where the church of Jesus Christ needs to be.'' TIME senior writer Richard Lacayo added: "Now we'll see what happens when we've got Roe v. Rescue...
...strategy, but by the time the two-day session ended, the group had suffered a permanent rift over the murder of Gunn 13 months earlier. Hill, a defrocked Presbyterian minister, had arrived in Chicago with a petition, signed by more than 30 activists, that called the shooting justified. Flip Benham, director of Operation Rescue, which was once considered the radical wing of the antiabortion movement, spoke against the attack and later confronted Hill. "For the cause of Christ, for the sake of the children and the sake of your own family, cease and desist from spewing this misrepresentation...
...their patients, including verbal and physical harassment, assaults and fire bombings. Government officials and activists on both sides of the contentious abortion issue were quick to condemn the killings. "You don't use murder to solve the problem of other murder. It is heresy," said the Rev. Flip Benham, director of the antiabortion group Operation Rescue. Said Eleanor Smeal, president of the Fund for the Feminist Majority: "While there are two sides to the issue of abortion, there are no two sides to the issue of shooting people for their opinions...
...latest report on money-market-fund yields shows that three funds are now paying more than 5 percent. The top performer is Benham's Prime Money Market Fund, based in Mountain View, California, which was yielding 5.12 percent. In second place, yielding 5.09 percent, is the Olde Premium Plus Money Market Series, available through the discount broker Olde. The Dreyfus Basic Money Market fund is third, with a 5.02 percent yield. The average money-market fund is paying only 4.35 percent, up from 4.29 percent last week, according to the weekly report by IBC/Donoghue...