This will not be much of a diary. I am crying and nauseous from what I have just read and am having trouble holding it togehter. But people need to be aware of this because a horrible, horrible story that has NOTHING to do with proper, legal abortions is hitting the news, and it will be falsely used by the Hannitys of the world as an attack on women's right to choose.
PLEASE NOTE: THE LINK IS EXCEEDINGLY GRAPHIC AND DISTURBING. IT IS A GRAND JURY REPORT THAT DESCRIBES WHAT HAPPENED. IT CONTAINS PHOTOS.
The events are almost beyond belief, and i simply cannot bring myself to mention many of the details. A doctor in Philadelphia has been charging people to conduct abortions on viable babies. They were born alive, and he would kill them. The clinic was a house of horrors like Jeffrey Dahmer's apartment. I will give one fact -- the doctor severed the babies' feet and saved them. They were apparently souveniers.
Minorities were brutalized and murdered. He would apply different standards to white women, telling his employees "that's just the way the world works."
Again, this has NOTHING to do with the administration of proper, legal abortions. This man -- if the charges are true -- is a psychotic. Because I cannot repeat all of the details, I have linked to the grand jury report here (PLEASE NOTE: This is horrible stuff.)
Again, I have no doubt that this will be portrayed by the anti-choice crowd as a natural outcome of allowing women the right to choose.
We must condemn this with all of hearts and souls. If I supported the death penalty, this is one of the times I would apply it.
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UPDATE: Catholic Onlinehas reported the story and is telling its readers to send this to everyone they know "to help in this vital mission.''
Their mission isn't about stopping murder. that is the first attempt to make this a political "anti-abortion" case. it WILL happen. we MUST be ahead of the curve in condemning this.
UPDATE 2: I don't get some of these responses. Like, why is this here. Do you not get the point? Do you REALLY want this portrayed as a "abortion is murder" by the right wing? WHICH IS HAPPENING ALREADY!! If you sit back and say "this isn't about abortion, why are we reading this, blah blah" then you are left responding to the accusation. And if you are in a postion of responding to it when it is framed as having ANYTHING to do with a women's right to choose, that means the other side is out there already.
So what should be done? Rage! Condemn! Babies were killed...that has nothing to do with safe and legal abortion. They cannot call the liberals "baby-killers" based on this if we are pointing out our own horror at this.
Or...we can pretend that won't happen. And then watch the tide of horror come our way, wrongly, uninformed, but that is the way the world works now.
UPDATE 3: As expected, the attacks have now spread to the larger anti-abortion groups.
Operation Rescue (the one that went after George Tiller) has weighed in.
“As shocking as this case is, it is in no way an anomaly. Shoddy and illegal practices characterize the abortion industry in America."
They then offer $25,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of abortion providers.
Again, the point is, this will be used by anti-abortion groups to go after women's right to choose, and we have to get ahead of it.