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They are renowned as supernaturally difficult prey by the people who hunt them. Michael Tull, 41, a manufacturer's sales representative from Roswell, Georgia, calls the sport "absolutely addictive; some people call it a disease." He hunts about 25 mornings a year during the birds' spring mating season, getting up at 3 a.m., driving an hour and a half, then lying in the brush of north Georgia in a green-and-tan camouflage suit, making improper suggestions in hen-turkey language to persuade sex-crazed gobblers to strut into shotgun range, tail feathers spread, beard wiggling, wings spread and lowered...
...Tull took the letter to the police, who consulted with Washington County attorney John E. Samson and then proceeded in force--the complaint says with 10 squad cars, the city says it was fewer--to the house of the Smiths' cousins. The police believed they had probable cause to take her into custody, the police report states, "because of the health risk to Mary if an abortion was performed at this stage and due to the fact that an abortion was planned...
...that emotional afternoon more than a year ago, Heath Mayfield recalls, "I told her she didn't have to do that, and she kept crying." Heath too was upset, and when his mother Cathy Tull discovered why, she got on the phone with Mary's mother and, as she says, "had words." She and her husband John Tull, a printshop owner, then followed Heath to the Smiths' front yard, where the two families battled it out before a gathering audience of passersby. The Tulls claim that Heath was on his knees begging for the life of the baby in front...
...that point, the Smiths retreated to the nearby home of a relative and the Tulls went to get their son out of jail. But Cathy Tull didn't stop there. That evening she solicited from a local physician's assistant, James Jordan, a letter stating that "any elective abortion could potentially cause medical and emotional damage to the mother at any stage of pregnancy." Though Jordan and the doctor who co-signed the letter, K.C. Bagby, had never examined Mary, they claimed that at 23 weeks an abortion "could not only be harmful...but even in the most extreme case...
...were made aware that my son had no right and the baby had no right," acknowledges Cathy Tull. "But I just wanted to talk about the risk to the mother,and I was unable to communicate with her." With legal assistance from the Rutherford Institute, a conservative law foundation, the Tulls are framing their defense around free speech. "At the core of the issue is the father's right to express his concerns and convictions to the mother," says Rutherford's Brad Dacus. "For the opposition to be successful would have a chilling effect on that kind of free speech...