Operation Rescue is perhaps the best-known anti-choice group in the U.S. For over twenty years, Operation Rescue has demonstrated against abortion clinics, deployed so-called “Truth Trucks” to cities and towns around the nation, and otherwise harassed and threatened doctors, clinic workers, and women. OR was founded by Randall Terry in 1986, when he led a [...]
In late January, Scott Roeder was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of Dr. George Tiller, a Kansas physician who provided abortions. Roeder was also convicted of two counts of aggravated assault for threatening two other men as he fled. Roeder’s sentencing was scheduled for March 9, but this week it was announced [...]
Abortion and the Health Care Battle – The New Yorker Abortion in Tanzania – The Guardian New FBI Data Shows Sharp Increase in Anti-Gay Hate Crimes – Think Progress Mexico to Consider Constitutional Ban on Abortion – National Partnership for Women & Families Former Kansas Attorney General’s Assistant on Trial for Illegal Investigation of Planned [...]
After the assassination of Dr. Tiller I wanted to interview someone who had lived in Kansas for awhile, someone with a keen understanding of politics and a history of progressive compassion. After thinking about all the great people I know in the state, I decided the perfect person would be Dr. Meredith Moore, who, until [...]
“It was as though in those last minutes he (Eichmann) was summing up the lessons that this long course in human wickedness had taught us the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil” -Hannah Arendt The banality of evil. When Hannah Arendt wrote of Eichmann’s trial in Jerusalem she painted him as entirely average, [...]
This week’s murder of Dr. George Tiller is a tragic reminder that the extreme right wing vigilantes who call themselves “pro-life” are anything but that. Scott Roeder was arrested on Monday in Kansas for shooting and killing Dr. Tiller while Tiller was at church. Roeder was also charged with aggravated assault for injuring two people [...]
My first official post is coming tomorrow, but I just saw this on the news… George Tiller, the Wichita doctor who became a national lightning rod in the debate over abortion, was shot to death this morning as he walked into church services. Tiller was providing services that help women maintain control of their bodies [...]
