Ten Years Ago They Blew Us Up
By AnnRose, Section Hypocrites
Posted on Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 12:53:57 PM EST
Tags: abortion, terrorism, Birmingham
Early on
January 29, 1998 a bomb went off at
New Woman All Women abortion clinic in Birmingham Alabama. The security guard, off duty police officer Robert "Sandy" Sanders, was blown to pieces and the clinic nurse,
Emily Lyons, was gravely injured. The bomb was detonated from about a block away by
Eric Rudolph who is currently serving 2 life sentences in jail for this bombing and has confessed to the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Park bombing and the bombings of an abortion clinic and gay nightclub in Atlanta.
I went to Birmingham 2 days after the bombing to support the owner, my friend Diane Derzis. I took these chilling pictures. Homegrown terrorism had come home to roost.
Now, that a pro-choice Democrat is poised to become the next President, I and others in the pro-choice movement fear that the violent anti-abortion attacks of the 90's will be rekindled.
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Abortion Rights 101 For Dummies
By Beket, Section Flasher Diaries
Posted on Wed Sep 05, 2007 at 05:35:27 PM EST
Tags: Abortion, religion, pro-choice, politics, republican, democrat, supreme court, reproductive rights, health, medicine, terrorism, pro-life
As an abortion provider (MD) I performed an early first trimester abortion on a college senior some years ago. Prior to meeting me she had told a clinic counselor that she was the president of her campus "pro-life" organization. Think about that. That must mean that she was one of their most committed and hardest workers against legal and safe professional abortion care for several years, but when she got pregnant herself, she was in the clinic having an abortion within a week of her positive pregnancy test.
As I completed her abortion, I asked her what she was now going to do about her affiliation with that anti-choice club. Startled, she gasped, sat abruptly up on the operating table, and, with eyes booming horror, blurted out in a tremulous, frightened voice, . . .
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