Betty Dodson with Carlin Ross

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Thank you, Tommy, for the link.  I'm outraged.  Abortion is legal yet our government turns a blind eye to the criminal harassment, death threats, and murder of its citizens.  Why do they continue to kow tow to the religious right?

Despite mounting threats to the clinic--and potentially to the life--of Nebraska Dr. Leroy Carhart, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has removed the federal marshals earlier charged with protecting him.

Dr. Carhart lost his federal marshal protection two weeks ago, much to the alarm of pro-choice leaders, leaving him vulnerable at a time when anti-choice violence has been escalating across the country, and when Carhart himself has been openly targeted by groups such as Operation Rescue, which is calling for protests at his clinic later this month. In addition, members of the Army of God, an organization that promotes the use of violence against providers of abortion care, and glorifies those who commit acts of murder, are also targetting Dr. Carhart.

Betty and I feel that we should target Randall Terry the founder of Operation Rescue (the group responsible for publishing George Tiller's name, address, and where you could find him on a sunday morning) and paint "killer" on his house in red paint.  According to the NY Times, the anti-abortion forces have nothing to do now that Tiller is gone:

For the first time in years, only a Wichita police car has been waiting outside the abortion clinic of Dr. George R. Tiller, who was shot to death a week ago. Gone are the trucks bearing enormous images of bloody fetuses, the signs offering the home addresses of clinic workers, the crowd of protesters yelling to women as they enter.

Before Dr. George R. Tiller was killed, his Wichita clinic was a regular target of abortion protesters, including this man wielding a cross at a demonstration in 2006.

Over almost 20 years, a vocal, diverse constellation of anti-abortion forces has grown up in this conservative city with an intensity rarely seen elsewhere, converging around Dr. Tiller's practice. With his death, its future suddenly seems uncertain, too.

This episode is dedicated to the life and work of Dr. George Tiller and all those who've fought to protect our reproductive rights and support intentional motherhood. It's time to revive feminism...this time by honoring pussy power. Here's the link to the book A New View of a Woman's Body:

I found this on Susie Bright's blog. She found it on John Cole's Balloon Juice, which she found through Bitch PhD's blog.

"In 1994 my wife and I found out that she was pregnant. The pregnancy was difficult and unusually uncomfortable but her doctor repeatedly told her things were fine. Sometime early in the 8th month my wife, an RN who at the time was working in an infertility clinic asked the Dr. she was working for what he thought of her discomfort. He examined her and said that he couldn't be certain but thought that she might be having twins.

"We were thrilled and couldn't wait to get a new sonogram that hopefully would confirm his thoughts. Two days later our joy was turned to unspeakable sadness when the new sonogram showed conjoined twins. Conjoined twins alone is not what was so difficult but the way they were joined meant that at best only one child would survive the surgery to separate them and the survivor would more than likely live a brief and painful life filled with surgery and organ transplants.

The killing of Dr.Tiller offers no better example of why I couldn't wait to leave Wichita and move to NYC. This was back in 1950, so I missed the big abortion insanity that has raged there since I left home. I'm ashamed of my sister and brother Kansans. I can only hope they become better educated and the fog of ignorance lifts. To answer the question Thomas Franks asks in his brilliant book, "What's the Matter with Kansas" my answer is fundamentalist religion and the spin of Republican double speak that gets these folks to vote against their own interests based on buzz words like "liberal elite."