Letters to the Editor
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What's the differnece between Mississippi and Afghanistan under the Taliban??
Plenty.
Don't be ridiculous.
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Two More Cents
Mr. Hunt et al, you’re still loitering here and so am I.
Here’s what you say: much defense of abortion is self-justification in the face of felt (or suppressed) guilt.
I don’t doubt in your obsessive line of work that you have encountered women who have told you this.
I’ll say it again, there are pro-choicers like me who feel that it's a shame abortion continues to be steeped in the rhetoric of guilt, largely created and perpetuated by the anti-choice movement.
I am not buying it on a broad scale, as the default, and I never have. A woman’s right to choose termination could be, in many cases, the greater good. No guilt necessary.
Short and sweet today.
Now, pro-choice kittens, go and write your checks to PP of Alabama if you want somewhere specific for your funds to be used. They are also helping Katrina and Rita victims with affordable and free birth control in MS.
Go now, go…
Thank you.
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They say a man is known by the company he keeps
Mr. Hunt seems so desperate to assure us of his good intentions that he’s willing to post his phone number on this forum so that you can hear his rationalizations against personal freedom directly.
I suggest you simply judge him by the company he keeps.
Life Advocate Magazine contains the only published work by Mr. Hunt revealed by a Google search.
Life Advocate Magazine was published by Advocates for Life Ministries. They were put out of business in 1999 by a lawsuit brought by Planned Parenthood of America. The defendants were found liable for threats under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE) and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). The jury awarded the plaintiffs $107.5 million.
Andrew Burnett, director of Advocates for Life Ministries, signed a “Defensive Action” statement in 1993, a petition which promoted the concept of justifiable homicide of abortion providers. One of his co-signers was Michael Bray, a convicted clinic bomber.
Burnett later helped create the American Coalition of Life Activists (ACLA), an organization that promoted not just justifiable homicide, but arson and bombing. You might remember the ACLA being in the news a while back for a little website known as The Nuremburg Files, a site which listed personal information about abortion doctors. It was a "hit list" of abortion doctors, complete with graphics indicating which targets had been eliminated.
The ACLA supported Operation Rescue. In 1998, NOW won a 12-year-long battle to put Operation Rescue and Pro-Life Action League (PLAN) out of business. The Supreme Court ruled that leaders in the anti-abortion movement committed acts of extortion against abortion clinics and damaged their ability to do business.
These are Mr. Hunt’s colleagues.
When life begins, what are the moral choices when facing an unwanted pregnancy – these questions are complicated. They are also personal.
And let's be clear. These people are not pro-life advocates. They are anti-abortion extremists.
Their goal is to take away your civil and legal rights and assign them to a zygote or fetus, a being not yet viable outside a woman’s body. Failing to gain legal support to do so, they resort to intimidation, violence, and bullying.
Instead of trying to understand them, or trying to make them understand you, please spend your time and energy encouraging our political leaders to continue to support Roe vs. Wade and leave morality where it belongs: in the realm of the individual. The decision to carry to term and birth a child can only be made by the person being asked to do so. Any other solution is unconscionable.
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White Southerners, Catholics and the Republican Party
Thanks Michelle for a fine article. Your presentation at the Unitarian Church was excellent.
Abortion is a personal choice that each woman has to make after learning all that she can.
Those who seek to force their own personal beliefs upon everyone else are not patriotic Americans who believe in the rule of law and the God given right of free choice. Each of us is answerable only to God on judgement day and to no one else.
Just as the nazis' did to the Jews, ie make them a focal point of hate and discrimination, to gain political power the Bush crime family does the same in America.
Bush is part of the white southerners who supported the KKK against black people and exist to this day. Now their message of hate is spreading to women who choose abortion, against stem cell research, and in so many other ways that encroach on our civil liberties as they seek to wreak havoc upon our US Constitution.
Yes along with the huge issue of abortion their is the equally huge issue of the systematic destruction of America in order to retain illegally gotten political power.
The religious factions of the white southern Baptist fundamentalists and the Catholic Church, my church I am ashamed to say, who are agents of hate and intolerance and totally complicit in the Bush/ Repub crime family lead to the downfall of America. It is an ever growing and brewing dark cloud of destruction hanging over America.
Will martial law be forced upon the American people by the Republican party and the Bush crime family.
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Christianity under siege
I once volunteered for Planned Parenthood and counseled college peers on effective family planning methods. I am now pro-life because of my spiritual view of life, not because I think those who have abortions are inherently evil. As a believer in Jesus as the Jewish Messiah,I'm frustrated and saddened at the misrepresentation by the religious right of the Jewish faith that Jesus loved, lived, and taught. The faith of Jesus is not the pseudo-political religious ideology taught by much of Institutional Christianity (what I often refer to as "Church-ianity"}. Institutional Christianity is the distorted version of the Judaism-based faith of Jesus that has committed historical crimes against humanity since Constantine's Rome, paying particular attention to the Jewish people when it comes to finding targets for persectution. This is not the decentralized, anti-institutional faith found in the book of Acts, which narrates the activities of Jesus' disciples bringing their faith into the marketplace of ideas passionately, but without pushing political agendas to "Christianize" any of the places it found a home. Trust in God denudes a person of the need to "push" the Jewish faith of Jesus down anyone's throat or even think that a nation should formalize and legislate what Jesus described as being like "the wind." Besides, politicians do that already.Institutional Christianity is more like Islam or Nazism if one does their homework in the subject of history. Christian nationalism is a very scary idea. It's an aberration of Jesus' "Messianic Judaism"... a wrong application of divine idea for human political purpose. As a Holocaust educator, I have taken the position that if Institutional Christianity were of the true spirit of the faith that Jesus lived, taught,it would not have manifested the political paralysis of the German churches in the face of the rise of Nazism. It would have transcended the threat, not dissolved before it. As a pro-life believer in Jesus, the issue of abortion breaks my heart, but I am not beyond understanding the fear and confusion that causes a woman to seek one. It is a matter of conscience that must be decided in the heart. The same as believing in Jesus. A decision of the heart. Something that is hard to institutionalize without the heart hardening into something unfeeling, stony, and cold.
As abortion may very well be under seige in Louisiana, so is Christianity under siege for those of us who live great spiritual distance from the religious political expression of it in this country. The truth of the faith of Jesus, the itinerant rabbi from Nazareth who fulfills messianic prophecy, is under siege by those who call themselves Christian.