:47:04
Don't be afraid, Ruth.
It's okay.
:47:06
You're safe now.
:47:08
We're your friends.
We're on your side.
:47:12
Ow! Ow!
:47:14
Ohh! Ohh! Mngh!
:47:17
Ow! Ow. Uh-uh.
:47:18
Feel that?
:47:20
Uh, yeah.
That feels good.
:47:22
That's your liver.
:47:24
You have to realize they want to
use you to attack Judge Richter
:47:27
for saying he'd let you out
for an abortion.
:47:30
He's been ruling against
the "Baby Savers" for years.
:47:33
And now with all the
publicity you're getting,
:47:36
they want to use you
to send a message.
:47:38
If they keep you from getting
the abortion you want,
:47:41
it'll be a big symbolic
victory for them.
:47:44
Hey...
do my spleen again.
:47:46
But... thanks to Diane's work,
:47:48
you're safe from them now.
:47:50
It is always women like you
:47:52
who are most victimized
by anti-choice...
:47:54
indigent women, third-worid
women, women of color.
:47:58
I'm not a colored woman.
:48:01
Yesterday we reported the
tragic story of Ruth Stoops,
:48:04
an indigent woman charged
with criminally endangering
:48:07
the life of her fetus
because of her drug use.
:48:09
Members of an anti-abortion
group, the "Baby Savers,"
:48:12
have paid her bail
and taken her in
:48:15
while she awaits hearing.
:48:16
And today, they brought her
along to their daily protest.
:48:19
Action News 4's Cindy Lindstrom
was there.
:48:21
As anti-abortion protesting
continued today
:48:24
outside the Women's
Health Services Clinic,
:48:26
Ruth Stoops showed up
:48:27
alongside "Baby Savers" local
chairman Norm Stoney.
:48:31
Stoops declined to speak
with us on camera today,
:48:33
but Stoney tells us she does
not plan to have an abortion.
:48:37
He thinks her unusual case
could set a precedent.
:48:40
We're amazed that the state
can seek to punish someone
:48:43
for endangering
their preborn baby
:48:44
and then allow them to kill it
through abortion.
:48:46
Now, we hope, and Ruth hopes,
that the absurdity of this case
:48:49
will make crystal clear
:48:51
the fundamental
unconstitutionality of abortion.
:48:54
This simple woman,
this quiet voice will send
:48:56
a deafening message that
abortion must be stopped.
:48:59
Oh, man! I never said
anything like all that.