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I've just seen a clip of Randall Terry *gloating* over the murder of Doctor Tiller. For those of you who've come in late, Randall Terry was the Bible pounder who started "Operation Rescue" in this area. He really wasn't popular around here. He was even less so after he cheated on his wife and skipped town with his new wife.
Excuse me... isn't that adultery? Why yes it is? You know what Biblical punishment was for adultery? Being stoned to death.
Back to the video - he rallies the Pro-Forced Birth troops with the rallying cry, "This is a teachable moment! Tiller was a mass murder! The other side will want us to give up our dead-baby signs, our veiled threats of violence against doctors and women, our inflammatory rhetoric - WHICH WE WILL NEVER DO! We will fight to protect Teh BAY-BIES from the moment of Conception to the moment of Birth!"
No word on about the women who must endure un-wanted pregnancies, or pregnancies turned wrong or just failed. And no word about the precious babies after birth either.
No. The "Pro-Life" movement believe that Abortion Is Murder - especially if it's someone else's abortion - MY abortion is a special exception. Rape, incest, the health of the mother - none of that matters. They only thing they care about is _forcing_a_woman_to_bear_children_. Period. There is no talk about helping people _raise_ children - except to hit them over their heads with a Bible - no talk about _preventing_ unwanted pregnancies - except holding a Bible between your legs - no talk about the health of the women before, during or after her pregnancies - except for praying over her... prefereably with a Bible.
There have been people on the Pro-Choice side who have tried to find common ground between them and the Pro-Forced-Birth movements... but there isn't any. The Pro-Forced-Birth movement doesn't want to talk, it wants to preach. It doesn't want to talk, it wants to threaten. It doesn't want to debate, it wants to convert. If you ignore the preaching, the threats and resist conversion - it will kill.
And it has. And it is proud of itself.
-m
Excuse me... isn't that adultery? Why yes it is? You know what Biblical punishment was for adultery? Being stoned to death.
Back to the video - he rallies the Pro-Forced Birth troops with the rallying cry, "This is a teachable moment! Tiller was a mass murder! The other side will want us to give up our dead-baby signs, our veiled threats of violence against doctors and women, our inflammatory rhetoric - WHICH WE WILL NEVER DO! We will fight to protect Teh BAY-BIES from the moment of Conception to the moment of Birth!"
No word on about the women who must endure un-wanted pregnancies, or pregnancies turned wrong or just failed. And no word about the precious babies after birth either.
No. The "Pro-Life" movement believe that Abortion Is Murder - especially if it's someone else's abortion - MY abortion is a special exception. Rape, incest, the health of the mother - none of that matters. They only thing they care about is _forcing_a_woman_to_bear_children_. Period. There is no talk about helping people _raise_ children - except to hit them over their heads with a Bible - no talk about _preventing_ unwanted pregnancies - except holding a Bible between your legs - no talk about the health of the women before, during or after her pregnancies - except for praying over her... prefereably with a Bible.
There have been people on the Pro-Choice side who have tried to find common ground between them and the Pro-Forced-Birth movements... but there isn't any. The Pro-Forced-Birth movement doesn't want to talk, it wants to preach. It doesn't want to talk, it wants to threaten. It doesn't want to debate, it wants to convert. If you ignore the preaching, the threats and resist conversion - it will kill.
And it has. And it is proud of itself.
-m