Lib lady Patt Morrison (That's Pat with two T's) was outraged at the Terri event. I am to guess if she were outraged that a poor innocent was murdered, or if she were furious that anyone would deign to save her. I wind up choosing the latter.
I was taken aback at first thinking she was talking about libertarians as well, alas it was librarians...
Anger: It's not fair. How dare they? How can they practice retrograde isolationism abroad and rapacious cronyism at home? How can they dishonor 9/11 by exploiting the nation's fears to justify upending the Constitution and creating a metastasized secret government? Threatening librarians with prosecution? Arresting people wearing anti-Bush T-shirts, thus conflating protest with sedition? Sneaking and peeking on us without warrants -- at the same time they're wrapping the White House in impenetrable secrecy in the name of national security? I went to bed at night raging against the outrages -- Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, Katrina, Blackwater, Terri Schiavo -- and woke to fresh ones with the morning's news...........
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Here comes projection again. In this case as in haters calling people they hate haters, it is the brain dead calling people they hate brain dead.
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As we celebrate the 35th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade and the granting of reproductive freedom for America's women, it worth acknowledging the sacrifices of those who have made this freedom possible.
Dr. Susan Wicklund, who managed an abortion clinic in Bozeman, Montana until 1998, has just released her book "This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor."
Wicklund tells about how she was forced to buy a .38 Special and a bulletproof vest to protect herself from anti-abortion protesters. Wicklund's daughter had to be driven to school in a police cruiser.
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The morally significant time is the explosive brain development from 25-33 weeks, the period that the Supreme Court decided that the state does indeed have a right to defend the rights of the fetus.
There is a compelling moral and legal symmetry between the end of a person's life (the brain-dead Terri Schiavo, for example) and the significant brain activity that signals the beginning of a person's life in the third trimester............
The Tribulations of Providing and Obtaining an Abortion
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