Dr George Tiller, a Kansas doctor who has long provided abortion services (including late-term abortions) was gunned down this morning. He has been the target of anti-choice fanatics for years: his clinic has been vandalized, he was shot and wounded by one of these monsters years ago, and there has been ongoing legal harassment to shut him down.
One of these self-righteous and hypocritical creatures apparently shot him to death…as he was attending church services, ironically enough.
The culprit has not been caught, but probably will be soon. I'm sure whoever it is is very proud of him or herself.
(via ema; also note that you can get breaking updates via twitter)
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Forty years ago, the US Supreme Court decided in Roe v. Wade that states could not ban first-trimester abortions.
One of the problems with denialists is that they simply can't accept that science doesn't conform to their ideology.
The July 28 edition of the Lancet has a superb editorial about the need for legal and safe abortion in the developing world, particularly in Latin America (I've snipped parts; italics mine):
Inspired by this Jeffrey Feldman post, I'm putting together a post about abortion, evolution, and the dislike by some scientists of framing.
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by banning your IP addy?
yeah, all for it myself.