Interesting. And the paper verified that it did, indeed, come from the son.

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This one’s making the rounds this morning, as reported by U.S. News and World Report:
As the White House readies its plan for finding “common ground” on reproductive health issues and reducing the need for abortion, a major debate has emerged over how to package the plan’s two major components: preventing unwanted pregnancies and reducing the […]

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Sweet:
Bill O’Reilly and the rest of the Fox talkers have been busy proclaiming their utter innocence in the assassination of Dr. George Tiller — as well as the innocence of the anti-abortion groups that were harassing Tiller prior to his death. They’ve been adamant that only Scott Roeder, the assassin, bears any actual culpability.
Which may […]

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Heartbreaking.

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Sullivan this week has been posting some amazing and heart-wrenching stories from women who had to decide whether or not to have a late-term abortion. There’s a lot of stuff like this:
My third pregnancy resulted in the birth of twin girls - one with horribly deformed internal organs and the other normal.  I had chosen not […]

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This would be Scott Roeder, the man charged with shooting abortion doc George Tiller.
Fits the profile, doesn’t he? Balding white male? Check. Prototypical angry white guy? Check. Gotta read his ex-wife’s description of him, as well:
“The anti-tax stuff came first, and then it grew and grew. He became very anti-abortion,”
Check.
Makes you think that when we […]

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Note what Bill’O here does not say:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs0m8PHds5w

Anarchy and vigilantism is bad for society. Once the law breaks down society is finished.
And that’s the basis upon which O’Reilly thinks Americans should condemn Tiller’s murder. Not that murdering of an adult individual - versus the fetuses O’Reilly so carefully tallies up - could in and of itelf […]

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Today’s quick hit references this piece from Rick Santorum, in which he finds it “outrageous” that Obama should appoint pro-choice appointees to the Justice Department. But then in Santorum’s world, pro-choice itself is “outrageous.”
If he’s apopleptic now, just wait ’til we get the first Supreme Court nominee.

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Hm. Via Sullivan, a diaologue over who bears the blame for the stand-off over abortion, pro-lifers or pro-choice types, in which on Freddie DeBoer writes:
To me, the question about abortion (and it is a philosophical and moral question, not a scientific one) is whether or not a fetus is a human, and thus deserving of […]

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And so this morning, amidst the continuing financial crisis which is going to shake itself out in ways we can’t even yet imagine, and constrain the future of our country in ways so profound that it may very well hasten our fall from the top of the global trash heap, I get an e-mail from […]

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So long as right-wingers are in control, that is.

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…when people begin changing their names.

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Hm.

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — You know things are very very bad on Wall Street when a guy like Henry Paulson — Treasury secretary, solid Republican, and former Goldman Sachs CEO — joins the crowd calling for more regulation over the financial markets.
Paulson spared no one in his criticism Thursday of the excesses of deregulation that has […]

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I suppose I’m supposed to be uplifted by this. But every time we see a pro-life story in which a woman who actually had an abortion is quoted as saying that no one else should make the decision she was free to make, I get a little uneasy.
I’ve known women and in fact back in […]

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In a sane country you’d never see that headline. Unfortunately, we don’t live in a sane country:
DENVER (AP) — The Colorado Supreme Court cleared the way Tuesday for an anti-abortion group to collect signatures for a ballot measure that would define a fertilized egg as a person.
The court approved the language of the proposal, rejecting […]

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Or not. Verizon suddenly decides “Hey - maybe pro-choice text messages aren’t so ‘controversial or unsavory’ after all!”

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So nice of Verizon to act the gatekeeper and prevent pro-choice text messaging from sullying its system.

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