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    Operation Rescue loses its touch

    Category: Culture Wars
    Posted on: January 21, 2007 4:51 PM, by Josh Rosenau

    Few heed Operation Rescue’s call for abortion protest:

    Kansas’ largest city braced Friday for a possible repeat of massive abortion protests in the wake of Operation Rescue’s nationwide call for demonstrations.

    But while abortion opponents dubbed the four-day event a “cry for justice,” that cry largely fell on deaf ears on Friday afternoon.

    Only a few dozen abortion protesters picketed outside the clinic of Dr. George Tiller…. Abortion rights supporters, and even the media, at times outnumbered the protesters.

    The conservative revival in Kansas kicked off in 1991 with an unexpected outpouring of anti-abortion protesters in Wichita. While nasty weather may have played a role, I think that the defeat of OR's "Man of the Year" signals that the anti-abortion sentiment in Kansas has peaked. It seems to have been replaced by a more pragmatic approach to politics in general.

    We can only hope this feeling spreads.

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    Well, thank God! Maybe people have noticed that if you stop trying to prevent abortion, you have fewer late abortions? Or that the sky didn't fall and that harlots aren't copulating in the street any more than usual? Or that it's the business of the person having the baby?

    Posted by: Monado | January 21, 2007 7:17 PM

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    Mercy! What's the world coming to if we can trust individuals to think for themselves and make decisions for themselves?!

    Posted by: Ashes2Fire | January 22, 2007 11:10 AM

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