Books in Brief: Lime 5: Exploited by Choice

Lime 5: Exploited by Choice, by Mark Crutcher (Life Dynamics, 318 pp., $19.95)

WHO needs back alleys when you can get the same gore in a Main Street “reproductive-health center”? You’ll find the answer in this shocking, fascinating, and depressing book, which will shred anyone’s complacency on abortion. Mining thirty years of court, medical, and newspaper reports, Mr. Crutcher uncovers what actually happens inside abortion clinics. His detached accounts of women’s deaths, mutilations, filthy clinics, forced abortions, drunken, crazed, and sadistic abortionists, cold-blooded indifference to dying patients, stomach-churning “medicine” (e.g., doctors ending late-term abortions in mid procedure because the women can’t pay more)—expose this “safe” procedure as anything but. The sheer volume of sorrow here seems beyond belief—except that it’s all painstakingly documented. Crutcher’s revelation that the federal Centers for Disease Control (its duties include compiling abortion statistics) is managed primarily by actual abortionists is the kind of story that should be worthy (dream on) of 60 Minutes. —Jack Fowler

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Jack Fowler is a contributing editor at National Review and a senior philanthropy consultant at American Philanthropic.

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Lime 5: Exploited by Choice, by Mark Crutcher (Life Dynamics, 318 pp., $19.95)

WHO needs back alleys when you can get the same gore in a Main Street “reproductive-health center”? You’ll find the answer in this shocking, fascinating, and depressing book, which will shred anyone’s complacency on abortion. Mining thirty years of court, medical, and newspaper reports, Mr. Crutcher uncovers what actually happens inside abortion clinics. His detached accounts of women’s deaths, mutilations, filthy clinics, forced abortions, drunken, crazed, and sadistic abortionists, cold-blooded indifference to dying patients, stomach-churning “medicine” (e.g., doctors ending late-term abortions in mid procedure because the women can’t pay more)—expose this “safe” procedure as anything but. The sheer volume of sorrow here seems beyond belief—except that it’s all painstakingly documented. Crutcher’s revelation that the federal Centers for Disease Control (its duties include compiling abortion statistics) is managed primarily by actual abortionists is the kind of story that should be worthy (dream on) of 60 Minutes. —Jack Fowler