(Untitled)

[ursulav]

As the entire world probably knows by now, given the internets are aflame with it, one of the few late-term abortion providers in the US was shot to death in church yesterday.

It's the wrong time of month for this sort of news to hit, so I am very angry. I would be angry anyway, but my rationality is jacked down several critical notches, to the

Comments

[ashbet]

Thank you. That's much better than I could have said it.

(And this is coming from a woman who had a life-threatening pregnancy and chose to go through with it . . . but with the full knowledge that it was a CHOICE that I was making, I wasn't forced into it. And thankfully my amazing daughter and I both came out okay. But I have *infinite* sympathy for women who know that their babies *can't* be okay, or who feel like the risk to their own life is too much to bear.)

I'm going to go read that article, and I'm going to cry buckets -- I always do. It's such a heartbreaking decision. The only people who think it's "easy" are the people who have no idea what it entails for the person going through with it.

**hugs**

-- A :/

[jazzfish]

For Planned Parenthood at least, one can enter a person and address to be notified of one's donation in memory of the deceased. My work-based google-fu is weak, but if someone else were able to come up with an address for either Randall Terry ("George Tiller was a mass-murderer. We grieve for him that he did not have time to properly prepare his soul to face God. I am more concerned that the Obama Administration will use Tiller's killing to intimidate pro-lifers into surrendering our most effective rhetoric and actions. Abortion is still murder.") or Terry's org Operation Rescue, I'd be overjoyed to make a donation for either of those in memory of Dr Tiller.

(The donation will be going through regardless. I'd just prefer to add that additional bit of bite.)

[ursulav]

B'lieve they changed their name to Operation Save America, and their corporate headquarters are at

P.O. Box 740066
Dallas, TX 75374

So you could probably donate in their name. *grin*

[jazzfish]

And done! Thank you muchly!

[awfulhorrid]

Every once in a while I'll see some protesters out in front of our local Planned Parenthood facility. If I can afford to do so, I then stop long enough to make a donation to the facility, always thanking the protesters for reminding me to donate.

[maggiedacatt]

Being pregnant right now, I couldn't read the whole thing.

Being someone whose life was saved by terminating a pregnancy, I'm nonetheless right there with you. (And being pregnant is like being PMS-y).

[seiberwing]

...that is a very odd icon for a pregnant woman. I take it I'm missing context or something.

[frenchpresser]

It's a pregnant lady being attacked by a giant version of one of those plastic belt loop things that were big in the 80s.

[maggiedacatt]

I'm watching, waiting to see one of those again. I'm a grad student, and all the undergrads seem to think that 80s fashion is the shiznit. I cringe, thinking I hated all this stuff the first time around...

(Moon Boots have been replaced with Uggs... I'm not sure this is an improvement.)

[empty_room]

Things like this make me terribly, terribly glad that I do not live in America.

[wrendragon]

Me too.

[skull_bearer]

Ditto

[turbinerocks]

Parts of America are awesome!

But not Kansas. Kansas is insane :D

[draike]

Thank you, Ursula. More people need to hear stories like that woman's. I had no idea about how malformed the partial-birth abortion ban really was, and now I disagree with it even more.

Pro-life should mean pro-every-life, even those you don't personally agree with. If abortion is murder, then what is it when you kill a fully-grown adult out of malice?

[helzebel]

Agreed. I knew the American right wing were twisting words with the whole 'partial birth' thing, but I didn't realise it was quite so deceitful...