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"Right now, the future of abortion in America is in serious jeopardy," reports Mark Crutcher of Life Dynamics Incorporated in Denton, Texas. The abortion industry is doomed, he says, "simply because access to abortion is evaporating. While our legislative, educational, and street activist efforts may not have accomplished what they were intended to accomplish, they have at least convinced a vast and growing majority of the medical community that abortion is not something with which they want to involve themselves."

In a free booklet called Access, the Key to Pro-Life Victory, Crutcher explains that, "just as women can choose to have an abortion, doctors can choose not to perform them." And so they have. Crutcher emphasizes that "the practice of medicine is seen as one of prestige and integrity. Unfortunately for the abortion industry," he adds, "being an abortionist is simply not consistent with that image."

Crutcher quotes the leaders of the abortion industry to document his conclusions. An abortionist named Hodes asserted confidently in the September 1991 issue of Glamour magazine that pro-lifers are "not going to win in the legislatures unless they get lucky. They are going to win by attrition," he predicted glumly, "because fewer and fewer doctors will perform abortions." A retired abortionist named Thompson acknowledged his pariah status in the December 26, 1992 issue of Indiana's South Bend Tribune. "In obstetrics and gynecology," he conceded, "the term abortionist is still a dirty word."

In the October 1992 issue of the medical journal Obstetrics and Gynecology, an abortionist aptly named Grimes revealed that "abortion rates were found to be inversely related to the distance to a provider." That revelation contradicts the industry claim that women will have abortions whether they're legal or not. In rare moments of candor, abortion advocates have repeatedly acknowledged that access to abortion facilities "does affect the abortion rate." Abortions increase as access becomes easier, and decrease as it becomes more difficult. Abortion turns out to be largely a matter of convenience, after all.

Crutcher concludes that "access determines the abortion rate." He argues further that "the abortion rate controls the legal status of abortion." That's because the more abortions that are performed, the more money the abortion industry has to fund its ongoing lobbying effort -- and the more guilt-ridden Americans there are who feel compelled to justify the shameful choice they made. Realizing that "the political battle over abortion is now a battle over access," Crutcher has developed a three-pronged approach to curb that access: "(a) educate the medical community about the realities of being an abortionist, (b) educate and support attorneys in how to effectively pursue and litigate abortion malpractice cases, and (c) educate women who are injured in abortions about their legal rights." The frantic responses of the abortionists quoted in his booklet suggest that Mark Crutcher and Life Dynamics have indeed found "the key to pro-life victory."