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(1/16/2007)

The Marketing of Abortion Exposed on Teleconference

Best-selling author holds nationwide teleconference expose on abortion marketing

BY BOB ELLIS
DAKOTA VOICE

A ground-breaking teleconference on the marketing of abortion was held nationwide on the evening of Jan. 16.

The call was introduced and hosted by David Bereit, executive director of the American Life League. Bereit said that 1,000 phone lines had been booked for the teleconference, and 1,186 people had registered for the call. Bereit said people from all 50 states were registered, and also some internationally in such countries as Nigeria and Scotland.

Registrants were able to submit questions ahead of time as they registered. Bereit said 386 questions were submitted and they picked the most common of them to answer on the call.

WorldNetDaily.com Managing Editor David Kupelian was the featured speaker on the call. Kupelian is author of the tremendously successful best-seller "The Marketing of Evil: How Radicals, Elitists, and Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised as Freedom." WorldNetDaily.com is a news website featuring exclusive content and links to news stories from many other media outlets. The site has millions of visitors per month and is one of the top news websites in the world.

Kupelian said he was motivated to write his book because he was horrified by the changes our culture has undergone in recent decades. He said he wanted his book to not just be a complaint about the state of the culture, but to investigate how this situation came to be.

“'The Marketing of Evil' is just a modern expression for what used to be called ‘temptation,’” Kupelian said. “It [the book] looks through the eyes of marketing and strategy to see how the bad guys make evil look good.”

The marketing of abortion first began, according to Kupelian, with the sexualized culture. He points to the “sexualized revolution” of the 1960s. Kupelian said abortion is a reality in that revolution that simply has to be, in order for the revolutionaries to have their sexual freedom.

“In the marketing of evil, I take the reader back in time to the post-World-War II era,” Kupelian said. Kupelian pointed to the work of Alfred Kinsey and his book “Sexual Behavior and the Human Male” in 1948 and said it was the beginning of the sexual revolution. This book contained “data” about human sexuality which appeared to “normalize” all manner of sexual behavior and deviancy, including homosexuality. According to Kupelian, many of the test subjects Kinsey used were actually prisoners, prostitutes and people with various sexual disorders, and not average, representative Americans.

One of the things Kinsey is infamous for is the premise that children are sexual creatures from birth. Kupelian said children from 2-months of age were being molested by researchers who used stop-watches to time their sexual responses. He said that even today, most of the assumptions about human sexuality rest up on Kinsey’s so-called “findings.”

Regarding the marketing of abortion to mainstream American, Kupelian said a number of techniques are used in marketing evil in general, such as jamming and redefining words. “When it comes to abortion, one technique really stands out, and it’s called ‘lying,’” Kupelian said.

He cited Bernard Nathanson, who was a co-founder of NARAL and America’s abortion movement in the 1960s, who has since renounced his ties to the abortion industry. Regarding many of the catchy slogans the abortion industry used to “normalize” abortion, Kupelian said Nathanson told him in an interview, “’I remember laughing when we made those slogans up. They were very cynical slogans even then.’”

A key phrase of the abortion movement was the word “choice.” After all, says Kupelian, who can be against choice? Also, in need of facts, Kupelian says Nathanson admits to fabricating facts which they fed to a willing news media.

According to Kupelian, “One of the most powerful of their arguments was ‘Women are dying.’ They said 5000-10,000 women were dying from illegal abortions in America every year. It was actually calculated at 39 women a year.”

The key thing that made many Christians, churches and mainstream Americans so susceptible to these deceptions was the abandonment of objective Judeo-Christian values, Kupelian said. In fact, he says the church has been the number one target of the marketers of evil. Kupelian says many in America have been seduced into not only surrendering our values, but our common sense, because these tend to go hand in hand. As illustration of this, he referred to things such as the “self evident truths” referred to by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence. The evidence seems to indicate that even these historic truths are no longer self-evident in our culture.

One of the most common questions submitted by registrants was about the role of the media in supporting the marketers of abortion. “There is no group more guilty of making good look evil and evil look good than the media,” said Kupelian. “You can’t be pro-choice on child molestation or robbery; the situation has to be ethical in order for there to be a legitimate choice.”

Kupelian said the media was derelict in its duty from the beginning when they failed to ask abortion proponents such as Nathanson to provide the data for their so-called statistics. He said many reporters are actually activists masquerading as objective journalists, and don’t want to perform the proper role of the media to ferret out the facts.

It seems that more progress hasn’t been made by the pro-life movement, Kupelian said, because we often think in terms of reversing the Roe v. Wade U.S. Supreme Court decision. However, we have fewer abortion clinics and fewer doctors performing abortion, so progress is being made. He said there used to be more than 2,000 abortion clinics and now there are only about 800.

Kupelian encouraged people to contribute in any way they could to help end abortion, including joining other protesters at abortion clinics. He said though it may be scary at first, the rewards of knowing about the babies who may be saved from abortion are worth it.

“The abortion movement has always been based on lies, deception and selfishness,” Kupelian said. “In order to reverse this thing, we need to show them ultrasounds of those babies. We have to show them the risks of breast cancer. Science is on our side.” He said that if Roe v. Wade was being settled today, the science that we have learned since 1973 would render that decision impossible.

Kupelian also cited South Dakota’s recent attempt to overturn Roe v. Wade as progress, stating, “They didn’t win this round in November, but they’re going to be back. And now Georgia’s working on it.”

Kupelian’s book has been endorsed by notable personalities such as Dr. Laura Schlessinger, David Limbaugh, D. James Kennedy, Michelle Malkin, Rebecca Hagelin, and Donald E. Wildmon. It can be purchased from the bookstore at WorldNetDaily.com.