Mark Crutcher is an American

United States

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 pro-life

Pro-life

Opposition to the legalization of abortion is centered around the pro-life, or anti-abortion, movement, a social and political movement opposing elective abortion on moral grounds and supporting its legal prohibition or restriction...

 activist and author

Author

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 from Denton, Texas

Denton, Texas

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. He is the founder and president of Life Dynamics Inc.

Life Dynamics Inc.

Life Dynamics Inc. is a pro-life organization founded by Mark Crutcher in 1992. It is headquartered in Denton, Texas. The organization's motto is, "Pro-Life: without compromise, without exception, without apology". -Company Profile:...

 (LDI) and creator of the documentary Maafa 21

Maafa 21

Maafa 21: Black Genocide in 21st Century America is a 2009 pro-life documentary film which draws a connection between the targeting of African Americans by the eugenics movement in the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries, and the modern-day prevalence of abortion among African Americans...

.

Biography

Crutcher was involved in marketing

Marketing

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, particularly in the automotive field, before turning to pro-life

Pro-life

Opposition to the legalization of abortion is centered around the pro-life, or anti-abortion, movement, a social and political movement opposing elective abortion on moral grounds and supporting its legal prohibition or restriction...

 activism in 1987. His first work was the Life Activist Seminar, a workshop for grassroots

Grassroots

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 pro-life activists to teach them to work effectively. He has conducted approximately 140 of these seminars in 31 U.S. states and in Canada, with more than 15,000 people participating.

In founding Life Dynamics, Crutcher said that he wanted to fill a gap left by other organizations. One shortcoming he noticed was in what he called "professional counter-intelligence

Counter-intelligence

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 or intelligence-gathering

Intelligence (information gathering)

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". Crutcher's organization focuses its effort on gathering data on abortion facilities and pro-choice organizations.

Publications

Crutcher has written for:

• Citizen (a publication of Focus on the Family
  Focus on the Family
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  )
• The Christian American
• All About Issues.

He is the author of:

• Lime 5, described on the LDI web site as, "an exposé
  Investigative journalism
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   of the abortion industry".

He has also penned several strategy

Strategy

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 manuals for pro-life activists:

• Access: The Key to Pro-Life Victory
• On Message: The Pro-Life Handbook ISBN 0964888610
• LTW 250 — a guide to writing letters to the editor
  Letter to the editor
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   and is reprinted in full by Priests for Life
  Priests for Life
  Priests for Life is a Roman Catholic pro-life organization based in New York. It functions as a network to promote and coordinate pro-life activism with the primary strategic goal of ending abortion and euthanasia and to spread the Gospel of Life according to the encyclical of the same name...
  
  on their website.