Randall Terry Out of Control

Randall Terry, founder of anti-abortion group “Operation Rescue,” will hold a news conference outside the National Holocaust Museum in the nation’s capital Thursday.

Terry says he will announce plans to run advertisements showing aborted fetuses during the 2012 Super Bowl as well as the NFC and AFC championship games. He also plans to run the ads during the 2012 Democratic primary elections.

It’s not clear whether networks will be willing to run the ads. Um, not bloody likely.

Terry made headlines during the trial of Scott Roeder, the man convicted of gunning down Dr. George Tiller in his church in May of 2009. Roeder assassinated Tiller because Tiller was one of the few doctors in the country who performed late term abortions.

Terry compared Scott Roeder to John Brown who used violence as a means to free slaves in 19th Century America.

Terry was also very critical of the prosecution of Roeder, characterizing it as unfair.

“There are those who want to pretend this trial has nothing to do with child-killing by abortion; that is a farce. It's like saying that the trials of Nat Turner and John Brown had nothing to do with slavery.
"We will be present to be a voice for the babies who perished at George Tiller's hand.
"George Tiller murdered 60,000 babies by his own hand. Scott Roeder knew this. How can Mr. Roeder receive a fair trial if this data is kept from the jury? Will the jury be allowed to hear evidence – such as the grizzly means by which these babies were slain and disposed of – evidence that would clearly effect Mr. Roeder's state of mind?
"If George Tiller has murdered 60,000 Jews, would the judge exclude all Jews from the jury, or insist that only anti-Semites could be jurors?"

Terry is also planning to run for president in 2012 on an anti-abortion platform.

I'm just going to say this because sometimes things like this need to be said.

Motherfuck this guy.

Why Did We Elect You?

You ran on a platform of opposition to the war.

We elected you and you failed to end them.

You told us you supported gay rights.

Don't Ask-Don't Tell is still in place.

You pretended to support a woman's right to choose.

And now comes a sweeping anti-choice executive order so you can get your watered-down 'reform' passed and claim a victory.

I desperately wish I had voted for Cynthia McKinney. Most would tell me that doing so would have been throwing my vote away.

At least I would have been voting for someone with principles.

Never a democrat. Never again.

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Digging His Own Grave

Right now, I'm listening to a live stream of Scott Roeder's murder trial.

If you didn't know, Roeder is the domestic terrorist who shot Dr. George Tiller in his church last May.

First, the judge ruled that Phill Kline could not testify for the defense. He said that he would allow Roeder to argue his beliefs as motive but that he would not let a public figure lend credibility to those beliefs.

Good goddamn ruling, judge.

Then came the opening statement from the defense.

I could not believe that I was listening to Roeder's attorney and not the prosecutor. He talked about how Roeder stalked Tiller.

He described how Roeder had to kill Tiller at his church because he had no other option since Tiller's clinic and home had security.

Now, Roeder is on the stand himself, digging his own fucking grave.

Rot and choke on a dick. I'm going back to listen to more.

Holy shit he just said that he asked Jesus into his heart watching the 700 Club. This, of course comes as no surprise.

Dr. Tiller, once again, thank you for the lives you saved and sleep well.

37 Years And Countless Lives Saved

This picture isn't the best, but the purple wristband says "Trust Women 5-31-09" That was the day that Dr. George Tiller , a woman's health care provider was assassinated in his church. It's funny that the trial of his killer starts on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade.

Thirty-seven years ago today, the Supreme Court decriminalized abortion. They ruled that the forth amendment's guarantee of privacy extended to what happened between a woman and her doctor.

Since then the attacks on that ruling have been relentless. What's at stake isn't just a woman's right not only to choose, but the right to make this choice in the only place it should be made: a doctor's office.

Regulations meant to subvert Roe have made abortion all but inaccessible in some parts of the country.

A reported rise in treatment for girls who have tried 'do-it-yourself' abortions that have gone wrong has gone up alarmingly.

This fight is far from over. Roe was only the first step and it is far too early to celebrate.

We are pro-choice because we are the ones who respect the sanctity of life.

This Is Not An Isolated Criminal Act And I Will Not Let This Go

Since the assassination of Dr. Tiller, pregnant women whose complications are threatening their lives and forcing them to make heartbreaking choices have even fewer options.  

This purple wristband says "Trust Women," which was Dr. Tiller's Mantra, along with the date 5/31/09, the day that Dr. Tiller was assassinated.  


But remembering a very brave man who put his life on the line to help women who had nowhere else to go is a relatively small part of why I wear this wristband.


The greater tragedy is the countless women who will die because Dr. Tiller has been taken from us.  

The blood of these women is precious and we have to do everything we can to see that Dr. Tiller is replaced so that these lives are not forfeit.


Because of the kind of domestic terrorism we saw on that terrible Sunday morning, we are in danger of losing doctors who are willing to help these women and this can only end one way and that is with the unnecessary deaths of women.

Show your respect for the sanctity of life and demand that women get the care they deserve.  Their lives are at stake.  

We can not let this go and we can not ever forget.

Get a wristband.

Get involved.

www.prochoiceamerica.org

Day In Court, Night In Hell

Scott Roeder, the accused murderer of Dr. Tiller has a preliminary hearing set for Tuesday.

In case you haven't been paying attention, on May 31st, Roeder is accused of walking into the Reformation Lutheran Church in Wichita, KS and shooting Dr. Tiller who was serving as an usher.

He is charged with first-degree murder.

Neither the prosecution or the defense are willing to say anything about the case and Roeder has so far refused to say what plea he plans to enter.

He has, however, been chatty about the crime itself.

Here are some of the things he has said over the course of several interviews with the Associated Press.

"Violence is not wrong in all situations, so if it takes that -- then if it is done righteously -- then, if it's done, it is OK."

"I know there are many other similar events planned around the country as long as abortion remains legal."

When asked if Tiller's murder was justified, Roeder replied, "Well, yeah. The thing is, how could it not be?"

"War has been declared upon the unborn."

He indicated that he would be "very pleased" if others took action to stop abortion "by any means necessary."

But every time Roeder has gotten close, he has stopped just short of confessing.

And the thing about reading between the lines, as obvious as it might be, is that it isn't evidence, so we do have to go through the formality of the preliminary hearing.


I'd like to think that one day this whole mess will be behind us and we can all sleep easy in our cloud beds with our halo pillows with our harp-sounding white noise machines with the warm feeling that comes from knowing that Roeder is in Hell being sodomized by Satan.






And that is what Flag Day is all about.


We, along with his wife, Jeanne and his children and grandchildren can find consolation that Dr. Tiller died because he refused to cower.

He saved the lives of countless women who had nobody else to turn to and he knew full well how this could have ended.

That kind of courage moves me beyond words.

That kind of compassion leaves me speechless.

For now, all we can do is hope for justice and that somebody will be brave enough to step up and put themselves in harms way to help these women who have nobody else who is willing to help then.

And pray that this isn't in fact the beginning of an attack on a much larger scale.

Once again, Dr. Tiller, thank you for the lives you saved and sleep well. You are my brother and when I see you on the other side, it will be an honor to shake your hand.

The Crux of the Argument and Some Documentation

“It has been estimated that as many as 5,000 American women die each year as a direct result of criminal abortion.

The figure of 5,000 may be a minimum estimate.” Richard Schwarz, SEPTIC ABORTION 7 (1968); “One recent study at the University of California...

Read More’s School of Public Health estimated 5,000 to 10,000 abortion deaths annually.” Lawrence Lader, ABORTION 3 (1966);

“[M]ore than five thousand women may have died as a direct result [of criminal abortion in the United States in 1962].” Zad Leavy & Jerome M. Kummer, Criminal Abortion: Human Hardship and Unyielding Laws, 35 S. CAL. L. REV. 123, 124 (1962);

“Taussig and others have concluded that the abortion death rate during the late 1920s was about 1.2% and amounted to over 8,000 deaths per year.” Russell S. Fisher, Criminal Abortion, in Harold Rosen, THERAPEUTIC ABORTION, MEDICAL PSYCHIATRIC, LEGAL, ANTHROPOLOGICAL, AND RELIGIOUS CONSIDERATIONS 8 (1954).

For me this is the reason for supporting reproductive rights. It's not an issue of personal autonomy. It is the simple fact that when abortion is inaccessible, women die and I just refuse to accept that.

When I said, "You are hypocrites," (admittedly an overstatement but I've never been one to shy away from heavy-handed rhetoric) I was speaking to the fact that in all the debates I've had over this issue, I've never heard a good response from somebody from the anti-abortion side as to what they have to say about those 5,000 women every year who died from illegal and unsafe abortions.

When I said that Roe saves lives, these are the lives I'm talking about.

There are women I care about who very possibly could have been in danger if they had not been able to see a doctor to terminate their pregnancy and admittedly that makes this issue very personal to me.

Figuring in the 5,000 women who died every year from illegal abortions, a conservative estimate would put the number of womens' lives that Roe saved at well over 150,000.

And that is simply why I am pro-choice.

Roe Saved Lives Part 2

"The dead women we saw had either bled to death or had died from overwhelming infections.

"Some had tears along the vaginal tract where they had used coat hangers to get up into the uterus and break things up -- like rupture the amniotic sac . . .

"Most of the dead women I saw were in their teens or twenties . . .

"The deaths stopped overnight in 1973, and I never saw another abortion death in all the eighteen years after that until I retired."

- Pennsylvanian coroner The Worst of Times by P. Miller, p.12,13,327 (1993, HarperCollins, New York NY)

Roe saved lives

"She died in my arms.

"Her blood splattered my white, starched uniform, seeping deeper than the uniform, permeating my body, my soul, my memory.

"She wouldn't, couldn't answer with what instrument she had inserted, mutilated. Perhaps the proverbial coat hanger?

"The only history obtainable was that she had been 'dumped' just outside the ER at the Los Angeles County Hospital, much too late for any medical help.

"Chunks of paper-thin bone, macerated tissue protruded from her vagina amidst profuse hemorrhage.

"Barely audible, her last words were, 'Someone's gotta pick up my little girl at school...'

"The racing pulse became slower...and stopped."

From "Roe v. Wade," Journal of the American Medical Association, September 15, 1989 (vol. 262, no. 11), page 1519

Testimonial From Decades Before Roe

"Someone gave me the phone number of a person who did abortions and I made the arrangements.

"I borrowed about $300 from my roommate and went alone to a dirty, run‐down bungalow in a dangerous neighborhood in east Los Angeles.

"A greasy looking man came to the door and asked for the money as soon as I walked in.

"He told me to take off all my clothes except my blouse; there was a towel to wrap around myself.

"I got up on a cold metal kitchen table. He performed a procedure, using something sharp.

"He didn’t give me anything for the pain — he just did it. He said that he had packed me with some gauze, that I should expect some cramping, and that I would be fine.

"I left."

‐ Polly Bergen, discussing the illegal abortion in the 1940s that rendered her infertile and nearly proved fatal.

I have more respect for the sanctity of life than the anti-choice crowd

The following is an argument about the sanctity of life.

One one side, some say that terminating a pregnancy shows an unconscionable lack of respect for life.

On the other, is the notion that refusing to treat women whose pregnancies put their lives in danger or dismissing the fact that when abortion is not available in a safe way, women end up bleeding to death shows a casual indifference to life.

By all means, someone join in.

Friend me on FaceBook and join the argument.

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Would Christ Himself Be Pro-Choice?

I did a search for 'christian and choice' on facebook and saw a number of groups that said essentially that one can not be a Christian and pro-choice at the same time.

Apart from the initial 'fuck you' that shot through my head, I had a couple of other thoughts as well.

I'll be brief.

"The least of these," I would say includes women who might bleed to death if they don't have access to a safe and legal abortion.

This casual indifference to a woman's health is troubling from people who claim to respect the sanctity of life.

Pro-choice is pro-life.

Saint or Killer

Reproductive rights have once again taken center stage with the murder of Dr. George Tiller, a doctor who was the last resort for many desperate women, forced to face unthinkable decisions. These were women whose health and sometimes lives were in peril.





This brings us to the points I disagree with a friend of mine. The notion that the child is ‘unwanted’ is in more cases than any of us realize, simply not true. This is doubly so in reference to Dr. Tiller’s practice.

There’s a whole conversation to be had about reproductive rights in general, but first, I want to address Dr. Tiller’s practice specifically. Dr. Tiller was one of three (now two) doctors in America who specialized in third trimester abortions for women whose lives were in danger.

I think it’s a widespread misconception on the issue as a whole, that women who get an abortion and doctors who provide them do so casually.

So before we talk about the value that our society puts on life, we have to understand that we’re not talking about elective abortions. For these women, ‘choice’ is not really a factor. Dr. Tiller cared for women who were forced to make the agonizing choice between their health and sometimes even their own lives and the child that they truly and desperately want.

It’s a foregone conclusion that Scott Roeder is a murderer and his actions fall into the category of terrorism, so I’m not going to waste space on him here. Of course his actions can’t be defended and I don’t think anybody wanting to have an intelligent debate on this subject would try to justify what he did.

The sad thing is that there are only two doctors left in this country who will perform a late-term abortion to save the life of a woman.

To put it simply, women are going to die because Dr. Tiller is gone. And that can’t be good news to anyone who respects the sanctity of life.

This is pretty much my mind’s piece specifically on the type of abortions that Dr. Tiller provided, which was to save the life of the mother. Expect another piece on the broader abortion argument soon.

Killer or Saint

I'm going to talk in very short sentences here and not use any bad words at all because I want this to be clear as a bell.

Also, I make it a practice not to swear when I'm actually feeling anger. To me, profanity should be a fun thing.

So here are my angry, swear-free ravings.

Comparing Dr. Tiller to Goebbels or Mengele is more than offensive, it's uneducated.

Before I move on to Dr. Tiller's career and legacy, I want to take a moment to ask why comparing American financial corporations to Eichmann was bad enough to call for Ward Churchill's head on a plate and at the same time refuse to denounce statements comparing doctors to the likes of Goebbels and Mengele is at best hypocritical and at worst, delusional.

Seeing as how I'm not a big fan of letting women die, let me ask why you should lay claim to the label of 'pro-life' and not me.

These abortions were not elective. Under Kansas state law, third trimester abortions are only allowed when the life or health of the mother is in jeopardy.

Dr. Tiller was a man who cared for women for whom the word 'choice' was meaningless. The only choice these women had was whether to act to protect their own health and sometimes their very lives or go through with a dangerous, often deadly pregnancy.

Your position is not pro-life just as Dr. Tiller was not a murderer.

Candlelight vigils were held across the nation to remember the life of a man who saved the lives of God only knows how many women.

You really want to talk about the sanctity of life? Wrap your brains around this.

Not only are there women who would be dead were it not for Dr. Tiller, but there are women who will die because he's gone.

So explain to me very slowly how one who supports the rights of women to be cared for by their doctor values the sanctity of life less than you do.

Pro-choice is pro-life.

Dr. Tiller, thank you for the lives you have saved and sleep well.