I revisited Choice this week and found myself having trouble deciding which story to choose until I came across Kate Maloy’s A Normal Woman. With all the goings on with the Tiller murder, this story got me thinking on how if the right would just listen to women and maybe investigate a little bit as [...]
We had some technical difficulties yesterday, and the click list didn’t run. So, here it is . . . the first Saturday click list (and hopefully the last). Have a great weekend!
First They Were Broke, Now Operation Rescue Says Everything’s A-OK – The Pitch
Health Insurance Companies Consider C-Sections a “Pre-Existing Condition” – Think [...]
Bust out your dancing shoes, because Operation Rescue is about to be pushing up daisies. According to several reports yesterday, including a story on NPR, Operation Rescue is in deep financial troubles. Troy Newman blames it on the economic downturn. Since Operation Rescue no longer has non-profit status, donations to the group [...]
I’m having a moment of schadenfreude here – Randall Terry and Troy Newman are fighting like a pair of ex-lovers over who has the right to use the Operation Rescue name. Stayin’ classy, as per the usual, the two have resorted to name calling and mudslinging to try and one up the other. [...]
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For all of you who went to Nebraska this weekend to support Dr. Carhart, a big thank you from all of us who couldn’t be there! It was exciting to see on Twitter that ya’ll had a good turnout (200 pro-choicers on Saturday [...]
Operation Rescue has its newest target: Dr. Leroy Carhart in Nebraska. Dr. Carhart provides abortions and also performs late term abortions just as Dr. Tiller did in Wichita, KS. Anti-choice extremists are launching an attack against Dr. Leroy because he is unafraid to perform abortion and protect the rights of the women and families who [...]
Guest writer Carolyn Marie Fugit is a native Kansan involved in social justice for over a decade. In addition to volunteering for ProKanDo, she has worked extensively in LGBT rights advocacy. Since Dr. Tiller’s assassination, there has been renewed interest in Kansas for pro-choice advocacy, and she is working to organize that energy to defend [...]
“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, not [...]
Randall Terry, the founder of Operation Rescue, has seriously gone off the deep end. He’s launched a 12 city tour to defeat Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. In a graphic flyer, Terry proclaims that Republicans who “refuse to filibuster [are bowing] in abject obedience to the Angel of Death.” His tirade goes [...]
“Lake of Fire” is a documentary by Tony Kaye about the radical anti-choice movement. He looks at the history of violence against abortion providers and provides a very frightening view of the domestic terrorists who threaten women’s access to reproductive health care.
The film was released in 2006 and opens with a focus on the [...]
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