Dave Francis Leach is a Des Moines anti-abortion activist and publisher of the conservative Christian newsletter Prayer & Action News and web site The Partnership Machine. His publications support the doctrine of justifiable homicide in the case of abortion doctors, the same doctrine cited by Prayer & Action News subscriber and contributor Scott Roeder prior to the Assassination of George Tiller, a Kansas abortion doctor.

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  • Secretary General of the Army of God
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  • Dave Francis Leach is a Des Moines anti-abortion activist and publisher of the conservative Christian newsletter Prayer & Action News and web site The Partnership Machine. His publications support the doctrine of justifiable homicide in the case of abortion doctors, the same doctrine cited by Prayer & Action News subscriber and contributor Scott Roeder prior to the Assassination of George Tiller, a Kansas abortion doctor. Leach reprinted the Army of God manual, which lists ways to damage abortion buildings from putting super glue in locks to one page that describes a simple bomb, in the January 1996 issue of his magazine. The manual had previously been published only anonymously, and mailed anonymously to pro-life leaders and news reporters. Leach's reprint of it was the first printing that was not anonymous. The introduction explained that Janet Reno's Virginia Grand Jury had, for a year, subpoened pro-lifers and "commanded" them to bring any copies they had of the Army of God Manual. As they did, the books were confiscated. Prolifers were intimidated. Was possession of a book now a crime? Leach explained that reprinting it threw down the gauntlet: "if owning a book is a crime, here I am; prosecute me. " Within days after reprints went in the mail, the Virginia Grand Jury was disbanded.
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  • Band instrument repairman at family's music store in Des Moines, Iowa, 1972–present
    Writer-editor of a magazine of anti-abortion polemics, 1989–present
    Broadcaster on free access cable
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  • Dave Francis Leach is a Des Moines anti-abortion activist and publisher of the conservative Christian newsletter Prayer & Action News and web site The Partnership Machine. His publications support the doctrine of justifiable homicide in the case of abortion doctors, the same doctrine cited by Prayer & Action News subscriber and contributor Scott Roeder prior to the Assassination of George Tiller, a Kansas abortion doctor.
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