New Offensive in Texas' War on Women? “If you want an abortion, tell us what we want to know”

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Wednesday March 28, 2012 · 7:30 PM PDT

2012/03/28 · 19:30

Rick Perry and his War on Women goon squad already have disgusted even the women of their own party with their creepy and intrusive sonogram law, generally recognized as the most oppressive anti-choice statute currently being enforced anywhere in the country. They backed up that roaring victory with the defunding of family planning services for hundreds of thousands of low-income women, merely because their lifesaving cancer screenings and desperately needed birth control pills were provided by The Great Satan, AKA Planned Parenthood.

And now they look to be coming after what tattered shreds of dignity and medical privacy that women in Texas have left.

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Tuesday August 21, 2007 · 5:07 PM PDT

2007/08/21 · 17:07

from Talk to Action

In Life's Dominion, Ronald Dworkin posited that although most people believe that abortion is sometimes justifiable, they also believe it "a kind of cosmic shame when human life at any stage is deliberately extinguished."

Dworkin concluded that "because opinions about abortion rest on differing interpretations of a shared belief in the sanctity of human life, they are themselves essentially religious beliefs" -- which made the banning of abortion an unconstitutional establishment of religion.

But as self-styled political "moderates" decide that some forms of human life count more than others -- and that Christian conservative votes count most of all -- there's plenty of cosmic shame to go around.

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Tuesday August 14, 2007 · 5:38 PM PDT

2007/08/14 · 17:38

from Talk to Action

Equipped to Serve is a popular training resource for crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) or, as they call themselves among themselves, "pregnancy center ministries." The first of the "Seven Fundamentals" at Equipped to Serve begins as follows.

"Truth is a very different thing from fact. ... Truth in the inward parts is a power, not an opinion."

Maybe that explains why the "truth" presented by CPCs strays so very far from the facts.

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Tuesday August 07, 2007 · 6:01 PM PDT

2007/08/07 · 18:01

Human Life International (HLI), "the largest international, pro-life, pro-family, pro-woman organization in the world," is directed by Fr. Thomas Euteneuer. Euteneuer is a well-connected activist who has logged over 700,000 miles in his tireless crusade to eliminate safe abortion care both here and around the world. Now he's written a book about exorcism, and one of the demon-worshipers who's simply got to go is ... me.

The HLI site is headlined by an article titled "Abortion: The Devil's Masterpiece." It's heavily larded with the inflammatory language of hatred — including a charge that my colleagues and I literally worship the demon Moloch by supplying him with blood sacrifices of children — and Father Tom means every word of it.

If he wasn't such a man of peace, I'd think he was trying to get us killed.

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Tuesday July 24, 2007 · 5:07 PM PDT

2007/07/24 · 17:07

Last week, Flip Benham's Operation Save America converged in Birmingham to "push what is left of the abortion industry into a deep grave." Writing of an OSA action against Birmingham clinics in 1994, Benham likened his mission to that of Dr. Martin Luther King.

Saints [were] held in the Birmingham jail where Rev. Martin Luther King wrote his letter. The battle we fight is the same, just a different colored glove. One colored glove: the humanity and equality of our black brothers and sisters. Second colored glove: the humanity and equality of our little brothers and sisters in their mother's wombs. Both gloves cover the hand of one who has come to rob, kill, and destroy -- the devil! The battle is the same.

Legitimate members of the clergy on the scene in Alabama this year included the Rev. Dr. Katherine Ragsdale of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, who witnessed a different kind of battle altogether.

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Tuesday July 17, 2007 · 6:11 PM PDT

2007/07/17 · 18:11

from Talk to Action

What do you call a woman who has an abortion? A "murderous mom"? A victim rendered mentally incompetent by the hormone rush of pregnancy?

Do you call her your wife, your lover, your sister, your daughter . . . or somebody else's criminal?

Thoreau said, "The soul of man exists in the Contemplation of the nature of women behind bars." In this, as in so many things, he appears to have been right.

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Tuesday July 10, 2007 · 5:21 PM PDT

2007/07/10 · 17:21

As the Army of God honors executed murderer Paul Hill in Milwaukee and Operation Save America descends upon the same clinic bombed by Eric Rudolph, Operation Rescue prepares to host its own event in Wichita. Its target is Dr. George Tiller, the object of a years-long crusade by former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline.

Besides the usual gang of suspects with shadowy pasts and dubious friends, this year's list of high-profile guest stars includes the president of a United States NGO delegation to the United Nations.

Not bad for a group with its own ties to the Army of God.

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Tuesday July 03, 2007 · 5:56 PM PDT

2007/07/03 · 17:56

While the Bible that the Christian Right is substituting for the Constitution these days maintains that "her price is far above rubies," those same people have decreed in various bans on abortion that the worth of any woman, no matter how virtuous, plummets at "that point in time when a male human sperm penetrates the zona pellucida of a female human ovum." From that moment forward, not only her body, her hopes and her dreams, but sometimes -— despite the hollow promise of tacked-on provisions allowing "a medical procedure designed or intended to prevent the death of a pregnant mother" — even her very life can be forfeit.

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Tuesday June 26, 2007 · 4:43 PM PDT

2007/06/26 · 16:43

from Talk to Action

In their avid thirst for the blessing of the Christian right, GOP presidential hopefuls Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee and Sam Brownback lined up last fall to prostrate themselves before James Dobson and Tony Perkins. In the grip of his own presidential fever, John McCain joined them in espousing the religious right's agenda.

Catholic bishops are frustrated by Rudy Giuliani, who says he is personally opposed to abortion, but would not impose his beliefs on the nation. Some Catholic bishops condemn Giuliani's more moderate position on abortion as "pathetic," saying "he shares the identical position on abortion as John Kerry and Hillary Clinton."

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Tuesday June 19, 2007 · 5:09 PM PDT

2007/06/19 · 17:09

from Talk to Action

As Flip Benham's Operation Save America prepares to besiege the same Birmingham, Alabama clinic bombed by Eric Rudolph, longtime associates of the underground terrorist network calling itself the Army of God prepare to memorialize assassin Paul Hill — complete with a reenactment of the shotgun murder that took the lives of Dr. John Britton and his escort, James Barrett.

Events like these are intended to remind abortion providers that there is a violent underground. But they should also remind the rest of society that there is an armed wing of theocratic activism, to which most turn a blind eye. — Frederick Clarkson

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Tuesday June 12, 2007 · 6:28 PM PDT

2007/06/12 · 18:28

from Talk to Action

As Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards got right with Jesus and the only "single-issue voters" that rate the Democratic Party's approval, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tried talking the talk to enlist "pro-life" support for funding stem cell research.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has drawn guffaws from the pro-life community for comments saying that embryonic stem cell research, which involves the destruction of days-old human embryos, is a "gift from God." Her remarks came after the House approved a bill to force Americans to fund it.

"Science is a gift of God to all of us, and science has taken us to a place that is biblical in its power to cure... And that is embryonic stem cell research," Pelosi said.

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Tuesday June 05, 2007 · 8:11 PM PDT

2007/06/05 · 20:11

[Promoted from the Diaries - MB]

from Talk to Action

As Rick Santorum, Hillary Clinton, Sam Brownback and Barack Obama packed to attend Jim Wallis' Pentecost 2006, some wondered about Wallis' true agenda.

The source of Wallis' appeal is his apparent moderation, both political and theological. His argument is compelling in its simplicity: An overriding commitment to social justice is more basic to Christianity than the issues championed by Christian fundamentalists. But to prevail he must avoid seeming too militantly progressive. "The country is not hungry, I don't think, for a religious left to counter the religious right," Wallis [said]. "The country is hungry for a moral center."

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