Battle of the Unborn ; the Moral Backlash / the Right to Abortion has Been a Touchstone of Feminism for Decades. But Part Two of This Compelling Series Reveals How American Liberals Have Been Stunned by the Fact That Most Women Now Want It Banned ... And Some People Will Go to Lethal Extremes to Stop It

Daily Mail › February 26, 2004

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IN A major investigative series, the Mail's award-winning chief foreign correspondent, Ann Leslie, travelled to America to examine a remarkable phenomenon: the growing moral backlash against promiscuity, abortion and out-of-control welfarism. Teenage pregnancies and sexual disease rates are falling for the first time in 30 years. Yesterday, in the first part of her series, she talked to young girls who believe in sexual abstinence. Here, she looks at the contentious issue of abortion.

ONE summer's day Paul Hill, a Presbyterian minister and father- of-three, armed himself with a pump-action shotgun, went to a clinic in Florida and cold-bloodedly murdered a 69-year-old doctor and a 74- year-old retired Air Force officer who was with him.

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Battle of the Unborn ; the Moral Backlash / the Right to Abortion has Been a Touchstone of Feminism for Decades. But Part Two of This Compelling Series Reveals How American Liberals Have Been Stunned by the Fact That Most Women Now Want It Banned ... And Some People Will Go to Lethal Extremes to Stop It

For this double murder, Hill spent nine years on Death Row and was executed by lethal injection last September.

Unlike the murderers I've interviewed on America's Death Rows, Hill neither insisted on his innocence, nor expressed any regrets for what he had done.

Indeed, he exulted in his crime. Paul Hill's closest friend was the Reverend Donald Spitz, and as the condemned man's officially recognised 'spiritual adviser', the pastor was therefore entitled to be present at Hill's execution.

The Rev Spitz assured me: 'Paul never repented, not even at the end. In fact, I spent two hours with him on the eve of his execution and he was still urgin...

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