Word: crutchers
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...spending priorities in the college newspaper, he left for George Washington University in Washington. After graduating from there and then from Duke University law school, Starr clerked for then U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger until 1977. He went on to the Washington offices of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, a law firm based in Los Angeles where William French Smith, a friend of Ronald Reagan, was a partner. In 1981, when Smith became Reagan's first Attorney General, Starr left the firm--and his six-figure salary--to follow his mentor into government, becoming Smith's chief of staff...
...find on display at Century 21. At L.D.I. coffee is served in mugs that read ABORTION STOPS A BEATING HEART. A smiling young man sitting in front of a word processor, one soon learns, was once arrested for his role in an antiabortion demonstration. And L.D.I. founder Mark Crutcher, a friendly man with a Texas drawl, becomes deadly serious when he talks about an impending "civil war" between pro-life and pro-choice forces...
...Crutcher is a marketing consultant by training, not a lawyer. Yet Life Dynamics, which he founded in 1992, is one of the more innovative, and aggressive, outposts of the Christian legal offensive against abortion. While other groups provide free representation to clinic demonstrators or help states draft antiabortion laws, L.D.I. has developed a new program called AbMal-short for abortion malpractice-that encourages patients to file lawsuits against abortion providers. L.D.I. claims to have a network of more than 600 lawyers nationwide ready to file such cases and has been recruiting more with a mailing to thousands of personal-injury...
...pays for all this? Janie Bush, director of the Choice Foundation, a Dallas-based pro-choice group, says L.D.I. seems to have "virtually an unlimited supply of finances behind it." Crutcher won't say exactly where his outfit's funding originates, only that L.D.I. relies on sympathetic donors and that it will "not take a penny" from possible malpractice awards in any of the 71 cases it currently supports, none of which have yet gone to trial. In a 1992 issue of the L.D.I. publication, Firestorm: A Guerrilla Strategy for Pro-Life America, Crutcher advocated using such suits not just...
L.D.I.'s emergence has many abortion-rights supporters worried-and outraged. Bush says the emotional and financial toll of fighting malpractice suits will probably shut down some abortion clinics, but many will dig in and fight. "It's absolutely bunk that they care about women," says Bush about Crutcher and his organization. "Everything I have seen from Life Dynamics is very specifically focused on driving the abortionists out of business." But Crutcher argues he's keeping women safe and keeping abortionists honest. Of course, what troubles abortion-rights advocates is that L.D.I.'s ultimate goal isn't better abortion services...