The Rhetoric of Operation Rescue

Projecting the Christian Pro-Life Message

By: Mark Allan Steiner

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The Rhetoric of Operation Rescue is a comprehensive examination of the rhetoric of Operation Rescue, a pro-life social protest group (prominent between 1988 and 1992) that orchestrated blockades of clinics where abortions are performed. Steiner examines how the group sought to persuade people—primarily conservative evangelical and fundamentalist Christians—to join their ranks, as well as how they sought to use their form of social protest to achieve their public policy goals. In so doing, Steiner explains both the group's initial success (beginning with its 1988 "Siege of Atlanta" protests) and its ultimate failure. More fundamentally, though, Steiner shows how the group appealed to the convictions of conservative evangelical and fundamentalist Christians in the United States. He shows how the rhetoric of Operation Rescue—for those conservative evangelicals and fundamentalists that found it convincing—shaped fundamental understandings of what their Christian faith means, how to practice it in an authentic manner, and how to engage in public dialogue and political activism.

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Operation Rescue and Evangelical Christian Social Protest	p. 2
The Rise and Fall of Operation Rescue	p. 7
Preview of Chapters	p. 14
Foundations	p. 23
Rhetoric as Evangelism	p. 24
Traditionally Dominant Conceptions of Rhetoric	p. 26
Beyond Traditionally Dominant Rhetorical Theory	p. 28
A Definition of Rhetoric	p. 31
Perspective	p. 31
Partisan	p. 32
Identify	p. 32
Invitation/Temptation	p. 34
Imposes	p. 35
Audience	p. 35
Rhetoric, Theology, and Evangelical Christian Experience	p. 36
The Rhetorical and Theological Ancestry of Operation Rescue: Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism in Erancis A. Schaeffer's A Christian Manifesto	p. 42
Evangelicalism	p. 46
Fundamentalism	p. 48
Premillenial Dispensationalism	p. 49
Reaction against the "Liberal" Turn in American Protestantism	p. 50
The Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy	p. 51
Separatism	p. 52
Problematic Features of Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism	p. 53
Anti-Intellectualism	p. 53
The Impulse to Hegemony	p. 56
Problematic Features in Schaeffer	p. 59
Anti-Intellectualism	p. 61
The Impulse to Hegemony	p. 65
Conclusion	p. 67
Representations of the Evangelical Christian Faith	p. 73
Abortion as an Acute Failure of the Christian Community: Representations of History in the Rhetoric of Operation Rescue	p. 74
History as Rhetoric	p. 77
The Controversy of Abortion History	p. 78
Abortion History as Moral: Glessner	p. 78
Abortion History as Political: Luker	p. 81
Operation Rescue and Abortion History	p. 84
Discontinuity of the Roe v. Wade Decision	p. 84
Moral Condition of the United States	p. 86
Proper Role of the Christian Community	p. 88
Conclusion	p. 92
"A Clear Trumpet Has Been Sounded": The Rhetoric of Operation Rescue as Theological	p. 96
The Theology of Operation Rescue	p. 98
The Plainness of Scripture	p. 98
The Primacy of Abortion	p. 104
Testimony and the Insularity of "Conversion"	p. 107
Conclusion	p. 109
The Rhetorical Foundations of Pro-Life Violence: (Mis)representation in the Rhetoric of Operation Rescue	p. 112
Rhetoric and Representation	p. 115
Representative Theme #1: Holy War	p. 117
Characterization of Scene	p. 119
Characterization of Those Opposed to Protestors	p. 120
Characterization of Protestors	p. 121
Representative Theme #2: Identification with the Unborn	p. 123
In Obedience	p. 125
In Suffering	p. 125
In Experience of God's Blessing	p. 126
Calcified Oversimplification: The Rhetoric of Paul Hill	p. 128
Manifestations of the Holy War (Mis)representation	p. 128
Manifestations of Reductionistic Focus on the Unborn	p. 131
Manifestations of Calcified Rigidity	p. 132
Conclusion	p. 133
Public Dialogue	p. 139
Counter-Characterizations of Operation Rescue: Oppositional Rhetoric, 1988-91	p. 140
Rhetoric and Public Vocabulary	p. 143
Rhetoric and Delegitimizing Discourse	p. 145
Pro-Choice Delegitimizing Discourse	p. 146
Dissociation of Operation Rescue and the Civil Rights Movement	p. 146
Operation Rescue Activists as Fanatics	p. 148
Operation Rescue Activists as Violent	p. 153
Conclusion	p. 154
The Limits of Radical Rhetoric: Portraits of the Public in the Rhetoric of Operation Rescue	p. 159
Portraits of the Public	p. 163
The Public Is Virtuous but Deceived	p. 163
The Public Is Complicitous in the Evil of Abortion	p. 166
Public "Passivity" and the Self-Evident Nature of Truth	p. 168
Operation Rescue and Darseyan "Radical Rhetoric"	p. 172
Conclusion	p. 176
Operation Rescue's Bitter Rhetorical Harvest: Pro-Choice Vocabulary as Public Lexicon in the 1993 United States Senate Hearing on the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act	p. 180
Angling toward the FACE Act: Delegitimizing Images of Pro-Life Activists	p. 182
The May 12, 1993, Senate Hearing	p. 184
Implications	p. 194
Conclusion	p. 199
The Lessons of Operation Rescue	p. 200
Operation Rescue's Representations of the Evangelical Faith	p. 202
Operation Rescue and Public Dialogue	p. 207
Evangelical Religion, Politics, and Public Discourse: Toward a "Rhetorical" Corrective	p. 210
Index	p. 222
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