Pro-life Women Jailed for Having Begged an Abortionist to Quit a Decade Ago...

Life Site News -- Your Life, Family, and Culture Outpost ^ | Friday January 4, 2008

[kingu]

OK ,,, how did 60 days each turn into 5 months and 8 months?

My only guess is that either they were subject to additional prosecution in the interim, or there were penalties involved for not acting in a timely manner to report to jail.

[moonman]

"Would you support anti-war activists camping out in front of people’s homes across the country to shout down our soldiers? Their kids? How about illegal alien supporters camping out in front of Minutemen homes? Following them around in their cars?"

LOL Too funny! You and I both know unpatriotic idiots like that wouldn't last 5 minutes in 95% of the towns in America. Better think of a better comparison.

[2harddrive]

Well, the baby killer’s son WAS out in public. (He could not have been legally nude then, could he?) No, he did not have to listen, and could have gone inside. The 2 ladies did apologize when they realized their identification error. Still, if is saves ONE baby’s life,...isn’t it worth it?

[kingu]

Last I checked, that was private property.

Still, if is saves ONE baby’s life,...isn’t it worth it?

So then shoot the doctor. After all, if that's the overriding justification for intimidating people in their own homes, why stop at shouting? Why not just kill them? You'd be saving at least one baby's life.

[Titan Magroyne]

On February 6 ... at approximately 7:05 a.m., Melissa Abbink and Sharon McKee approached ... from the north, walking in a southerly direction on the sidewalk adjacent ... began to yell at Crabb's son ... When Abbink and McKee ... acknowledged their mistake ... they were approximately 50 to 55 feet from the front step of the Crabb residence. Thanks for finding and posting that. I picked out parts of the paragraph to suggest that the two women apparently approached Crabb's home in low-light conditions such that they could not distinguish one male from another until they were 50-55 feet away. Didn't prevent them from presenting themselves as some kind of foe to a person on the property, though. Assuming similar visual acuity for the Crabbs, I can easily understand a bunker mentality on their part. That would creep me out, and being pursued as the sun climbs 25 minutes higher in the sky would not improve my perception of the interlopers.

[GeronL]

wow. so much for amendment one in this country

[the invisib1e hand]

...These women are not charged with speaking to an abortionist. They’re charged with bothering him on his property while he’s walking into his house...

OK, so that's worth 8 months in jail, eh?

[Eagles6]

save

[wardaddy]

effin ridiculous

[topher]

Okay, but do you believe the Phelps people should be permitted to stand on the sidewalk outside the home of a dead US service member and ask the family questions about what their son/husband/father died for?

There have been folks willing to follow the Phelps gang around with paintball guns...

I guess if they show up there (in front of the homes of someone who died in Iraq/Afghanistan, they might get painted...

The more I think about it, paintballs is a form of Freedom of Expression, but it has the problem of damaging property. By the same token, the emotional damage done by the Phelps can be heard in a Civil Court.

Remember that O.J. Simpson was convicted in a Civil Court, where there was less burden of proof.

Now I might say that the Phelps IRS dodgers may have the right of Freedom of Expression, but if this results in emotional injury, then they should filed with a Civil Suit (or many, many Civil Suits)...

[topher]

Okay, but do you believe the Phelps people should be permitted to stand on the sidewalk outside the home of a dead US service member and ask the family questions about what their son/husband/father died for?

A shorter reply:

During the Vietnam War, apparently protestors did this with parents of servicemen who were lost.

The movie Hamburger Hill tells one such instance. That was why one person re-upped for Vietnam...

What they described in movie Hamburger Hill was probably much sicker than the Phelps gangs acts...

[topher]

The research you have done is probably better than that done by LifeSite News...

You are to be commended for your research... Seems if LifeSite News is to continue to have credibility, it might need to do a better job reporting stories...

[Coleus]

Mayor Chris Beutler
555 South 10th, 2nd Floor Rm 208,
Lincoln, NE 68508
Fax: 402-441-7120
E-mail: mayor@lincoln.ne.gov

The women in two separate facilities may be contacted by mail:

Melissa Abbink
4420 NW 41st
Lincoln, NE 68524

Sharon McKee
1125 E. 17th St.
Columbus, NE 68601

[Salvation]

**Pro-life Women Jailed for Having Begged an Abortionist to Quit a Decade Ago...**

Amazing story!

[victim soul]

what other spaces/towns etc only allow “focused picketing”’?

So much for making laws “content neutral” on a public sidewalk no less!

Why can’t Brittany et al just go to court and get “focused picketing” and harrassment laws passed against those creeps with cameras that won’t leave them ?

[victim soul]

MMMM .. your theory might be correct but these women have been jailed since December and have you read/seen/heard anything about them except here?