David Leach (activist)

He publishes the Prayer & Action News quarterly newsletter (1989–present), and edits the website The Partnership Machine (1998–present) which covers social issues including abortion, politics, religion, immigration, divorce, sodomy, and education.

Prayer & Action News also featured occasional contributions from Scott Roeder, the convicted killer in the assassination of George Tiller, a doctor in Wichita, Kansas who provided late term abortions.

Taking dozens of lives by the cruelest devices, from burning to death in acid, to dismemberment, to Dr. Tiller's scissors in a baby's brain, as a single day's work for any abortionist.

"[10] So while I am waiting for more dialogue, I must say that so far, the Bible discussion I have seen overwhelmingly supports anyone willing to sacrifice everything in order to physically stop an abortionist from killing thousands of babies.

[10]Leach was fired in 1996 from his reporter job at Ankeny Today, after he reprinted 40 pages of the Army of God Manual in the January 1996 issue of his Prayer & Action News,[14][15] which gave step-by-step instructions for making plastic explosives and fertilizer bombs.

Officials said the step was taken partly because of concerns about Leach, after he had signed statements saying that Paul Jennings Hill and Michael F. Griffin could have been justified in killing abortion-providing doctors in Florida.

[citation needed] The introduction explained that Janet Reno's Virginia Grand Jury had, for a year, subpoenaed anti-abortion activists and "commanded" them to bring any copies they had of the Army of God Manual, which were then taken, which Leach alleged was treating the possession of the book as a crime.

[18][failed verification] In 1998 the fictional series Rescue Platoon, a story of a future, final war against abortion, was serialized on Leach's website.

[20] In April 2013, Leach posted a video to YouTube which included a recorded telephone conversation with Roeder, discussing the fact that Tiller's abortion clinic had been re-opened by another agency.

[12][13] Leach appeared in the HBO documentary film Soldiers in the Army of God,[21][failed verification] and was a guest on The Alan Colmes Show discussing his views on abortion.