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Social Movements American society produces numerous

ement also uses more persuasive techniques with spokespeople for news programs and for lobbying efforts in Congress. They use the news media to get their message across, and this is one of the prime reasons for the "rescue" operations at abortion clinics--to get publicity (Trenholm, 1989, 6-14).

The leadership of Operation Rescue is represented by Randall Terry, a born-again Christian who notes that he was himself an illegitimate child who might be aborted today. He was attracted to the issue of abortion beginning in 1983 when a woman came into his prayer group and brought the topic to the fore, making him think, "If we believe this is murder, we'd better act like it's murder." He then began picketing abortion clinics, and in 1985 he entered a clinic, locked himself in, and was arrested. This as the beginning of his mission. He has built a religionbased coalition that is 60 percent evangelical Christian and 30 percent Catholic (Brower & Mason, 1989, 109).

The Black Power movement differs from the Civ

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