FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 23, 2007

Contact: Marc Tuttle, Communications Director, (262) 796-1111, cell: (262) 408-0506

Pro-Life Wisconsin Demands Retraction and Correction of
Defamatory Statements by Pro-Abortion Organizations

Brookfield, WI � Pro-Life Wisconsin is asking NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin (NARAL) and Planned Parenthood Advocates of Wisconsin (PPAW) to retract and correct false and defamatory statements published and aired about the organization and its executive director, Peggy Hamill. The statements expressly name Pro-Life Wisconsin and Peggy Hamill as attendees and celebrants of a July 28 event in Milwaukee organized to commemorate Paul Hill�s 1994 murder of a Florida abortionist including a reenactment of the day of the murder and a memorial honoring Hill.

�The statements that I was present or participated in the event as well as their interpretation that I or Pro-Life Wisconsin approve of or condone murder are totally false and defamatory,� said Hamill. �Pro-Life Wisconsin is a peaceful, prayerful organization that calls on God�s grace to change hearts and minds toward an unconditional love for His most precious preborn children. We oppose violence against the preborn, and we oppose violence against those who perform abortions or participate in the abortion industry. Violence only begets violence, fueling a never-ending cycle of destruction which coarsens our culture instead of healing it.�

Mrs. Hamill and her husband were near the abortion mill earlier in the day, their personal van parked around on a side street, praying the rosary on behalf of the babies, as is their custom every Saturday. They intentionally left the area well in advance, to avoid the re-enactment event, and by the time it was scheduled, 11:00 a.m., they were miles away.

�PPAW even went so far as to shoot a video of me praying the rosary well before the reenactment event began and then splice it into their video of the event to make it appear as if I were a participant,� said Hamill. �Such action cannot be passed off as a mistake, but rather a calculated effort to smear my name and that of my organization. This shameful deceit deserves an apology. I could not be more proud to represent Pro-Life Wisconsin and the thousands of families who pray and work daily for an end to the violence of abortion. It is nothing less than appalling that NARAL and PPAW would falsely portray a peace-seeking organization as promoters of violence and death. I do hope these organizations avail themselves of this opportunity to fully retract their damaging statements,� said Hamill.

Representing more than 30,000 families across the state, Pro-Life Wisconsin exists for a singular purpose: to restore and protect the inalienable right to life of all citizens of our state, whether born or preborn, young, old, disabled or terminally ill. We affirm that the right to life exists at the moment of fertilization and extends until natural death; this truth being handed down by God and articulated in the Declaration of Independence.

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