Live From the Gates of Hell : An Insider's Look at the Anti-Abortion Movement

Kipling's poem, "IF," must have had a place of honor on Jerry Reiter's wall when he was growing up, just as it did on the walls of the bedrooms of many young Christian boys when I was a child. Reiter, raised Catholic but "born again" as a teen and recruited by the extreme religious militants of the anti-abortion movement, came to his senses when faced with the true nature of all too many of the militant anti-abortion religious... Read Full Review

I found this book enthralling, and difficult to put down! To quote the book jacket, it "reads like a gripping murder mystery", and while that is certainly true, it is much more! The author, Jerry Reiter, was an early member of the Christian Coalition. As a member of the Buffalo, NY, church lead by the Reverends Paul and Rob Schenk, he was involved in anti-abortion protests. This is an insider's story of how a potential... Read Full Review

This story moves along like a Mack truck but when the dust cleared I suddenly realized I had learned some things I did not know before. I never saw a connection between the radicals in the little fringe groups and the more respectable conservatives, from Pat Robertson and George W. Bush to Pat Buchanan and Rush Limbaugh. As a writer myself, I admired the good pacing of the story and the way Reiter shares his up-close anecdotes... Read Full Review

I've been recommending this book to everyone I know---it's non-fiction, but reads like a suspense novel. Regardless of which stance you take on abortion, the insights will turn your preconceptions upside-down and may even make you reconsider which "side" you take. With a solid background working for the Religious Right, Jerry Reiter is the perfect guide to the underground antiabortion movement which flourishes across the... Read Full Review

I could not put this book down when I read it. It is told in such a fast-moving way that I could not wait to see what was going to happen next the weekend I read it. The book shows what scary characters are out there behind the scenes in the culture war, which Reiter shows us is now very clearly a shooting war. When the book covered the section on what motivated Paul Hill, who opened fire on three unarmed senior citizens,... Read Full Review