I truly wish I could get together a bunch of visibly pregnant women and come face to face with these protesters outside an abortion clinic and scream at them. "YOU FUCKSTICKS DON'T WANT US TO ABORT, SO HOW ABOUT WE DELIVER THESE "MIRACLES" AND GIVE THEM TO YOU?"

Or better yet, will any of you guys help pay the medical bills? Will any of you help raise these children? Will any of you be so kind as to offer free childcare and babysitting services? Can you bring us what you can in the form of diapers and formula and clothing? Can you donate us your leftover food and hand-me-downs?

I want them to be confronted with these questions and feel uncomfortable. I want them to deal with people belligerently screaming in their faces while holding up angry signs...I want them to look these women in the eye and offer meaningful, substantial solutions AND the most basic forms of support assistance if they carry their pregnancies to term.

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I realize, in context, it was ballsy--he was talking at a historically Catholic university where a small but vocal group was trying to humiliate him. He's the President of a country that's simultaneously "moderately conservative," Christian, and concerned with the economy above all else.(Fuck that...Christian in name only; how many of these Christians are consistent OR INFORMED about what Christianity actually refers to, or what it's most important principles encompass? It's like Mike Huckabee talking about marriage as an institution that's always existed between "one adult man and one adult woman" and then compare public acquiescence of gay marriage to, say, the marriage of an adult and a minor ...motherfucker, Mary was 15 when she married Joseph! What Bible is HE reading?? Same old shit. People accept misinformation and then use that to demonize gay marriage or "abortionists" like Tiller. FUCK THEM.)

I'm betting a majority of those "pro-life" poll respondents are also pro-birth control and are fucking STUPID and lucky enough that they can take it for granted that they're complicit with "pro-lifers" who would eliminate birth control if they could. I don't understand WHY more people don't know that. It isn't that hush-hush--you can infer from plenty of mainstream news sources, not just the likes of Jezebel or Feministing.

Do they just not care?

I don't understand WHY the media has the gall to use the term "pro-life" and "pro-abortion" even when describing a murderous act committed by the "pro-life" side against the (apparent) baby-eaters, those fat, hairy feminists, the liberal extremists who want to destroy the nuclear family and religion itself and simply want their abortions...the other services "abortionists" provide and the patients they serve just don't exist.

I can't believe how lackadaisical people are. It terrifies me. And it makes me angry and bitter. When will they understand what "pro-choice" refers to, when only the very wealthy can access birth control or when their daughters--impregnated by a rapist, are turned away and shoved out the door? When someone they love bears a child that spends a few months as a vegetable, then dies while the parents watch?

Common ground? Common ground with a side who's loudest and most active representatives don't want to do anything to reduce unplanned pregnancies and abortions beyond terrorizing DOCTORS like Tiller, and their patients? Common ground with a side that doesn't accept that this issue--abortion as a legal right, and the right of "abortionists" like Tiller to serve rape victims, couples seeking birth control, etc.---has been settled int he Supreme Court THIRTY YEARS AGO (as others have mentioned)?

Talk to me about "common ground" when Planned Parenthood firebombs a megachurch led by the likes of Rick Warren or patronized by people like Randall Terry.

When we're attacked and our health care providers are murdered, the terrorists are "pro-life" and Tiller's friends and loved ones are simply "pro-abortion." Not pro-choice versus anti-choice.

I wonder how a retaliation against Roeder and the assholes who probably abetted the attack would be covered.

We can't win. Not in this lifetime.

I feel like a fool for even expecting a little more than a soundbite...the economy is on fire, why should Obama or anyone but a few "extremist" Democratic members in Congress give this a second thought?

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I know their God, and their God would be fucking ashamed of them for being so desperately intolerant.

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The women make me scratch my head, the men make my skin crawl.

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