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Inside his small office, Jim Sedlak picks the receiver and listens as worried callers sound off about the Planned Parenthood Fed
Inside his small office, Jim Sedlak picks the receiver and listens as worried callers sound off about the Planned Parenthood Fed
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2013-09-28
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Inside his small office, Jim Sedlak picks the receiver and listens as worried callers sound off about the Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s newest clinic of its distribution of pamphlets in their area. They don’t like it, they tell him, but they don’t know how to stop it. So Sedlak leans back in his chair and, drawing on almost 20 years of experience, tells them how tiny anti-abortion groups can tackle the nation’s largest abortion-rights group.
Sedlak has been taking aim at Planned Parenthood for years through his small, grassroots anti-abortion organization, American Life League’s STOPP International, a two-man group whose sole mission is to bring down its giant ideological opponent. Planned Parenthood normally brushes off attacks from such "fringe groups", reserving its considerable strength for reproductive healthcare services and advocacy. But it’s hard to ignore recent anti-abortion legislative victories like the ban on so-called partial birth abortion passed in November, the more recent Unborn Victims of Violence Act, which defines fetuses as unborn children, and similar state measures against fetal homicide. Anti-abortion activities regaining ground, and that has forced Planned Parenthood to take a closer lock at the opposition. "It gives us a big challenge," Planned Parenthood President Gloria Feldt told NEWSWEEK, "but we’re ready."
Feldt has learned that even individual efforts can have nationwide ripple effects. Take the case of John Pisciotta, director of Pro-life Waco and a Baylor University economies professor, who sparked a furor in Waco, Texas, this February when he decided to attack the relationship between the local Gift Scouts council and Planned Parenthood. The council, long a participant in a half-day Planned Parenthood conference on puberty education had ignored Pisciotta’s pleas to distance itself from what he considered "an assault on Christian morality." After chatting with Sedlak, a longtime friend, Psciotta recorded a 60-second spot for a Christian radio station urging listeners to reconsider supporting the scouts. Then, he asked them to boycott their Thin Mints.
The cookie boycott wasn’t successful—sales actually rose 2 percent—hot the local council did break off its relationship with the group. And, much to Pisciotta’s surprise, his local concern became a national one. STOPP was flooded with phone calls from angry parents demanding to know whether their councils were linked with Planned Parenthood. Individual Girl Scouts troops have autonomy in choosing their programs, and national CEO Kim Cloninger has said that those aligned with Planned Parenthood would continue their relationships. Sedlak compile a list of them that he posted online last week. It’s up to individual viewers, he says, to decide what to do with that information.
The word "furor" in Line 2, Paragraph 3 probably means ______.
选项
A、violent anger or uproar
B、a state of intense excitement or ecstasy
C、public disappointment
D、a fashion adopted enthusiastically by the public
答案
A
解析
词义理解题。本段第一句话是主题句:个人的力量也可以导致连锁反应,下面以John Pisciotta为例展开。讲述Piseiotta攻击两个组织local Girl Scouts council和Planned Parenthood间的关系时煽风点火,引起了轩然大波,呼吁人们重新考虑支持前者,并发动静坐抗议。根据段落大意和动词 sparked可以推断A 为正确答案。选项C 语义力度不够,而B 和D 虽然包含了狂热和潮流的意思,但是与段落整体感情色彩不合。
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