<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">I think that's an expression of a belief that public statements (in all kinds of forms) are critically important right now. The women's movement (what little remains of it) has left the public stage almost entirely to the Christian fanatical right, refusing to take on their terms of shame and guilt aimed at women who insist on controlling their own reproduction. And as for "seeking common ground" with them, as Dr. Barry Lynd said, the only common ground these people seek is the ground to bury us in. So yes, there's an opinion expressed. Each of us can decide whether we agree with the opinion or not and, if so, how to act on our beliefs. <br><br>As for outrage, I can only think of all the thousands of women who will face even greater hurdles to get an abortion, hurdles many will be unable to surmount, and all the doctors who will be discouraged from providing
those health care services. These anti-abortion killers are part of a movement to reduce women to incubators. Without reproductive rights, our right to participate as full members of society is moot. We are talking about half of humanity here. It's heartbreaking and yes, an outrage. <br><br>Jay Becker<br><br><div id="RTEContent"><div id="RTEContent"><div><strong> </strong><em></em><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Stop</span> thinking like an American, <br>Start thinking about humanity!<br></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 127, 64); font-weight: bold;"></span></div></div></div><br><br>--- On <b>Mon, 6/1/09, Robin Migalla <i><rmigalla@earthlink.net></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Robin Migalla <rmigalla@earthlink.net><br>Subject: Re: [CitizensTruth] On the Murder of Dr.
George Tiller<br>To: "Citizens Truth" <citizenstruth@six.pairlist.net><br>Date: Monday, June 1, 2009, 11:29 AM<br><br><div class="plainMail">Hi Jay and Fellow Truth Seekers,<br><br>This truly is a tragedy. I'm so sorry to see someone's outrage at what <br>they believe to be wrong creating such an outrageous action. This is why I <br>must pay attention when this reaction follows:<br><br>"But today, we mourn with outrage the loss of this heroic, compassionate <br>abortion doctor."<br><br>which in my way of thinking will only create more outrage.<br><br>I also am perplexed by anyone who claims to know what anyone else should do <br>as in this statement:<br><br>"People should attend vigils, protests, and other events that are being <br>planned to remember George Tiller and speak out against his murder."<br><br>How do they know what I should do? Is it possible that there is a <br>different way?<br><br>If anyone is interested, I'll be
offering silent prayers of gratitude and <br>compassion for the all of these victims of outrage at noon and 2:00pm CDT. <br> Feel free to join me in spirit if you'd like.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Robin<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Jay Becker [SMTP:<a ymailto="mailto:futurenotwritten@yahoo.com" href="/mc/compose?to=futurenotwritten@yahoo.com">futurenotwritten@yahoo.com</a>]<br>Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 11:07<br>To: Citizens Truth<br>Subject: [CitizensTruth] On the Murder of Dr. George Tiller<br><br><a href="http://www.revcom.us/a/167/Tiller-en.html" target="_blank">http://www.revcom.us/a/167/Tiller-en.html</a><br><br><br><br>As We Go to Press:<br><br> <br>On the Assassination of Caring, Courageous, Abortion Provider, Dr. George <br>Tiller<br><br><br><br><br><br><br>As<br>we go to press, the news has broken that Dr. George Tiller, one of
the<br>few doctors in the country to openly and publicly perform late-term<br>abortions, was assassinated while attending Sunday services in Wichita,<br>Kansas. His wife, Jeanne Tiller, was in the choir at the time of the<br>murder.<br><br><br><br>Dr. Tiller was a courageous, caring<br>doctor who risked his life every day to make it possible for women to<br>have late-term abortions. He had every understanding of what risks he<br>was taking in doing so. He survived a previous assassination attempt in<br>1993 when he was shot in both arms by Shelly Shannon, a so-called<br>"pro-life" activist. Dr. Tiller returned to work the next day. Over<br>three plus decades of providing abortions, his church was picketed and<br>he was harassed at home. His clinic was bombed. He was hounded by a<br>grand jury investigation, and faced criminal prosecution. In March of<br>this year a Wichita jury took just 45 minutes to acquit Dr. Tiller of<br>charges that he performed 19
illegal late-term abortions in 2003.<br><br><br><br>In<br>the face of all this, Dr. Tiller never bent in his commitment to the<br>right of any woman, in any circumstance, to choose whether or not to<br>have an abortion. In 1993, Dr. Tiller said in a statement: "It is not<br>unplanned pregnancy, it is unwanted motherhood that shipwrecks people's<br>lives. Make no mistake, this battle is about self-determination by<br>women of the direction and course of their lives and their family's<br>lives. Abortion is about women's hopes and dreams. Abortion is a matter<br>of survival for women."<br><br><br><br>Debra Sweet, Director of World Can't Wait, told Revolution<br>that Dr. Tiller was "someone who women could go to in very stressful<br>circumstances, and not find him judgmental." And she said, "This is a<br>huge blow. Nobody's doing what he was doing. I've known people from all<br>over the country who have gone to him, and doctors from all over
the<br>country refer to him because there is no one else. This was the place<br>women could go, as a last resort, even into the third trimester. This<br>is the single most important doctor doing abortions in the country. His<br>view was that he was saving women's lives by doing this, and he<br>continued doing it even knowing that his own life was at risk."<br><br><br><br>At<br>a pro-choice rally in 2001 in Wichita, Emily Lyons-a nurse who was<br>seriously injured in an anti-abortion bombing of a Birmingham abortion<br>clinic in 1998-spoke about the inspiration she got from Dr. Tiller:<br>"Not only have I been in a war, but gone to hell and come back," she<br>told the rally. "There are heroes in every war," she continued, "and<br>Dr. Tiller is one of mine. Many would not have the courage to do what<br>he has accomplished."<br><br><br><br>Mary Lou Greenberg, of the<br>Revolutionary Communist Party, met Dr. Tiller when she helped organize<br>the Wichita
protests to defend his clinic and abortion rights in 1995<br>and again in 2001. She described him as "a very gentle person, who was<br>determined to assist women, and very warm in his manner." She told <br>Revolution about<br>the impact of seeing the walls of his clinic, lined with framed letters<br>of appreciation, from women of all ages and circumstances. She<br>remembers one, which read, "Thank you for giving me back my life."<br><br><br><br>Dr.<br>Tiller's defiance, his caring spirit, his commitment to a woman's right<br>to an abortion, and his sacrifice must serve as a challenge to all<br>those who would not see women reduced to enslavement as forced<br>child-breeders. Revolution will have more to say about the<br>murder of Dr. Tiller and the battle for abortion rights in future<br>issues. But today, we mourn with outrage the loss of this heroic,<br>compassionate abortion doctor.<br><br><br><br><br><br>People<br>should attend vigils, protests, and
other events that are being planned<br>to remember George Tiller and speak out against his murder.<br><br><br><br>[For those in or near Chicago, that's 4 pm at the State of Illinois <br>Building, Clark & Randolph, today.]<br><br> Stop thinking like an American,<br>Start thinking about humanity!<br><br><br><br> << File: ATT00055.htm; charset = utf-8 >> << File: ATT00056.txt >> <br>_______________________________________________<br>CitizensTruth mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:CitizensTruth@six.pairlist.net" href="/mc/compose?to=CitizensTruth@six.pairlist.net">CitizensTruth@six.pairlist.net</a><br><a href="http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/citizenstruth" target="_blank">http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/citizenstruth</a><br>website: <a href="http://citizenstruth.info" target="_blank">http://citizenstruth.info</a><br></div></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>