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October 26, 2009

Dr. Tiller’s assassin, Scott Roeder, plans to auction off autographed drawings that highlight the murder

Maybe Charles Manson should have done the same thing, auctioned off a few pieces of jailbird art. Maybe drawn a ‘David and Goliath’ scene, where Goliath’s head is inscribed with the name ‘LaBianca’. Maybe Mark Chapman, too, with Goliath then ‘Lennon.’ Why shouldn’t they make money for their own legal defenses? By selling penitentiary art to their fawning admirers that brags about the killings?

Online auction to raise funds in Scott Roeder case

An Army of God manual. A prison cookbook compiled by a woman doing time for abortion clinic bombings and arsons. An autographed bullhorn.

These are among the items that abortion foes plan to auction on eBay and other Web sites in a fundraiser for Scott Roeder, the Kansas City man charged with killing Wichita abortion doctor George Tiller.

“This is unique,” said Regina Dinwiddie, a Kansas City anti-abortion activist who will sign the bullhorn. “Nobody’s ever done this before. The goal is that everybody makes money for Scott Roeder’s defense.”…

Among items that will go on the auction block, Dinwiddie said, are three drawings she received in the mail Wednesday from Roeder. Two drawings were done by another inmate at his direction, but Roeder autographed all of them.

“They’re wonderful pencil art drawings,” she said. “They were done in jail.”

One is a sketch of David and Goliath.

“It has David with a slingshot in one hand and the head of Goliath in his other hand and the name ‘Tiller’ on Goliath’s forehead,” she said. “On the corpse on the ground, it says ‘child-murdering industry.’ ”

Leach said he was continuing to collect items.

His own donation: An Army of God manual, an underground publication for anti-abortion militants that describes dozens of ways to shut down clinics, including bombing. Leach published a reprint of the manual in 1996 in his magazine, Prayer and Action News.

“I plan to cover up the offending eight pages of bomb recipes and instead insert a note saying that in order to avoid legal problems, we advise our bomb-loving friends to seek their bomb recipes in a U.S. Army Manual, which is approved by the Justice Department,” Leach said. “I will also enclose my April 1996 issue, which contains bomb-making excerpts from a declassified U.S. Army Manual widely available in Army surplus stores.”

Another item to be auctioned, Leach said, is a collection of recipes compiled in prison by Shelley Shannon, the Oregon woman who shot and wounded Tiller in 1993 and was later convicted in a series of abortion clinic arsons and bombings.


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UPDATE: eBay stopped the auction.

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October 7, 2009

Towhhall.com’s Terry Jeffrey is a bullshitting, bug-eyed pro-lifer

Not a Death Panel, a Death Mandate
by Terry Jeffrey

If you are someone who believes killing unborn children is a right that should be legally protected…

…as if this guy were acting legally? Well, except for shooting his girlfriend in the head?

…and made available to all pregnant women, and that the government should eventually take over the U.S. health care system, then you must believe that the government should get into the business of killing unborn babies.

What the Hell?

And if you believe that, then you believe that the law must compel certain government officials to cooperate in the killing of innocents.

In a government-run or government-funded health care system that guarantees access to abortion, there must be people in government responsible for making sure unborn babies get killed…

No, idiot, the ‘public option’ doesn’t fund abortions. Period.

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October 4, 2009

Pro-lifers of ‘Susan B. Anthony List’ do pro-choice a favor by claiming brutal murders were caused by legalized abortion

This is a classic case of being completely blinded by the passion for a single political issue. By the time they’re done, the ‘Suzy Bs’ come closer to making the case for legalized abortions to save women from harm. Very poorly thought out and badly argued…

Man Kills Pregnant Woman After She Refuses to Have an Abortion
by LifeForAll on Tue 29 Sep 2009 10:34 AM EDT

In an instant, one man took two lives. The heartbreaking story out of Tennessee confirms what we know and the abortion industry refuses to admit: abortion does NOT help women.

Okay, let’s back this up. The woman was eight months pregnant, so there wasn’t going to be any abortion. That’s why he was charged with a second murder, the baby:

“School teacher Tonya Johnson was eight months pregnant. From the looks of it, her boyfriend Tarence Nelson didn’t want to have the baby. Deputies in Shelby County, Tennessee say the couple was arguing over whether she should get an abortion. But Nelson made the final call when police say he shot both mother and unborn child.”

Now just how is abortion’s legality relevant to this tragic story?

The problem with legalized abortion is that it creates a culture in which life’s value is only in its utility and life itself is completely dispensible. Today, a woman can dispose of her unborn child in an instant. Sadly, what this man did is not too different.

Can any of you get this argument? It seems like complete nonsense. Life either has value ‘only in its utility’, or ‘life itself is completely dispensible’. One or the other, you can’t have it both ways (unless you weirdly assign value to things in order to throw them away). Our culture de-values unborn babies’ lives, but the mother didn’t because she wanted the baby, but then the father didn’t want the baby, and what again does this have to do with legal abortions?

But abortion also devalues the woman.

Take for example, the countless women who are coerced into getting abortions by their boyfriends or husbands. Serrin Foster, of Feminists for Life, notes, “Domestic violence against single pregnant women at the hands of a boyfriend is being reported with greater frequency. Coercion crosses all socio-economic classes.”

How about that, did you get that? Abortion causes domestic violence. The legal opportunity for an abortion creates violence out of nothing, really? When it was illegal, pregnant girlfriends never got hurt, or beaten up, or killed. And better yet: women who they themselves did not want the baby never got hurt, or beaten up, or killed. And never killed themselves. Or died from back-room abortions. Or badly complicated childbirths. Or post-partum depression.

Abortion does not empower women. Rather it provides an escape route of sorts for men who do not want to take responsibility for a child. Those men who see abortion as a way-out will try to obtain it at any cost.

These are very weird arguments: abortion doesn’t empower women, hey everybody let’s talk about men. Actually, the way men are described here sounds like they’re the ones who feel powerless. As in ‘who allowed these damn women to have minds of their own?’

The abortion industry argues that if abortion was illegal, women would die. Wake-up everyone. Abortion is legal and women are being killed NOW.

Do the folks over at SBA List even bother to come up with a coherent group of talking points for their people? These arguments are terrible, completely from the far side of planet pro-life.

Incidentally, this is a picture of the guy, Tarence Nelson, from his MySpace page. I’m sure if abortions were illegal, he wouldn’t have had any reason to shoot his girlfriend.

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September 22, 2009

Gore and sugarplums wingnut: Do abortions in public so ‘…we might hear angels singing as we ponder the glory of conception.’

So…if we perform heart transplants in the public square, will we hear the angels sing of the evils of atherosclerosis? Or the glory of Lipitor? Or, perhaps the joy of retaining an original-parts scalpel-wise-chaste heart in your horny chest? Confusing. I’m a little unclear on the ‘public gory-gut-spewing and surgical-blood-letting inspiring-the-blessed-angels-to-sing’ miraculous phenomenon.

I have a feeling the strange Lila Rose, here, would surprise us all and not then lobby for the sorts of public executions Fox would probably jizz over. That would be uncivil, I imagine, revenge being a deeply personal matter between you and the condemned.


…everybody now, watch, and sing a conception song: “HARK THE HERALD ANGELS SII-IINGGG….

…GLORY TOOO..THE NEWBORN KINNGGGG……”



…can we lighten the baritones?…k thx….

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April 8, 2009

wait–isn't this beginning to smell like 'pharmacist activism'?

Filed under: abortion — Tags: , , , , , , , — toma @ 1:10 pm


These comments on the Illinois ruling putting on hold the Blagojevich rule are sounding awfully fishy to me. Are the pro-lifers saying that pharmacists are also charged with making health-care decisions for people? I can understand that they might be looking for perhaps dangerous prescription drug interactions, but that’s not what’s being said here:

Judge puts hold on morning after pill rule

(KFVS) – Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich in 2005 issued a rule prohibiting pharmacies from turning away women seeking emergency contraception, sometimes called the morning-after pill.

But, on Monday a Sagamon County judge put a hold on that previous ruling. The pill reduces the chance of pregnancy if taken within 72 hours of sexual contact.

“I think that it’s the woman’s right to choose if she feels she should get the morning after pill, she should get it. But medically if it would interfere with different factors then the pharmacist has the right to intervene,” said Sarah O’Daniel of Carbondale.

The pharmacist at Logan Primary Pharmacy agrees there are times a pharmacist should be able to decide what’s right for a woman.

“There are several health concerns that could come up when filling this type of prescription. And without having that judgement (sic) call in the pharmacist’s behalf that really could pose a significant health problem to that patient,” said pharmacist Ben Calcaterra.

Some of the Illinois pharmacist who challenged the former governor’s mandate believe it was a tantamount to abortion.

“I don’t think it’s a good decision from a woman’s perspective because I feel like there’s a lot of situations a woman can be in that make them have to take the Plan B pill,” said Kellie Close of Carbondale. “For instance, if they were sexually assaulted.”

“I’m not in favor of it,” said Emily Teitelbaum of Carbondale. “It brings in the pharmacists’ religious beliefs, backgrounds and personal choices that can kind of sway their decision on giving the Plan B pill to a woman.”

The final decision on this issue will now rest in the hands of the Illinois Supreme Court.

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April 6, 2009

isn't this less 'constitutional' than just…petty?



I don’t yet see how this is a Constitutional issue. Don’t get me wrong, maybe I could find a way, but I’m not in the mood for the calisthenics.

Yes, there are hospitals that would work this way, but the real battle is in their and all the other street-corner pharmacies. That’s where the ‘abortion participant’ battle is really going on.

Look, every time I potentially interviewed for another lab research job (molecular biology, my thing), I always let them know that I would not kill rats and mice. I won’t be a part of it, and those jobs that required it thanked me and moved on. No biggie.

Pharmacies that are totally against handing out birth control or morning-after pills should banner it clearly so that women don’t mistakenly walk in on the wrong place. That would also make it clear that like-minded workers will be welcome there. Is that such a radical thing to expect?

What’s clear of the politics of the right on this issue is that they want to be able to shock and upset people with their personal beliefs being revealed in professional places at the last second. They want to humiliate people with a ‘I’m just a medical professional sworn to protect life’ veneer. Gotta admit, it’s an effective strategy.

But it’s petty, and it’s unprofessional.

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Update: Post updated with recent articles and commentary over at Oxdown Gazette.

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