The Marion Berry of the PL movement is baaaaack...

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Old Mission, New Life
Randall Terry Wants to Lead Rebirth of Antiabortion Fight

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/14/AR2009071403317.html

<snip> Randall Terry has a thing for fake blood. He buys it by the jug ($31.95 a gallon from a costume store in South Bend, Ind.) and splatters it over baby dolls to represent aborted fetuses or smears it on copies of the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade.

Not exactly subtle symbolism. But then Randall Terry, the once and future shock jock of the antiabortion movement, has never been one for subtlety.

"Don't get blood on the pavement," the former head of Operation Rescue warned his fervent band of followers yesterday as they prepared for a second day of protests at the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. He didn't want to give the police a reason to haul them away -- at least not yet. Terry's supporters carefully poured the stage blood on their hands and then ran their fingers across copies of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 court ruling that legalized abortion.

Terry seemed delighted with his latest prop, which he said came to him in a vision as he contemplated how to disrupt the Sotomayor hearings. Actually, he liked blood-splattered baby dolls, too. They were wheeled in strollers across the campus of the University of Notre Dame back in May to condemn the commencement speech given by President Obama. On Monday, the dolls were back in action, laid out in child-size coffins and then paraded by Terry and company past the clutch of TV cameras outside the Senate hearings for Sotomayor. The coffins were accompanied by a demonstrator dressed in judge's robes brandishing the sickle of the Grim Reaper.

"You gotta admit, the Grim Reaper sickle is a good effect," Terry said, flashing a self-satisfied grin in his blue suit. </snip>