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[dreamer_easy]

If you can't legally stop women from having abortions, all you can do is harass and intimidate them. Oklahoma's new law is an example. It requires physicians to collect extensive personal details from women seeking abortions - details which will be posted on the Web, making it possible for individual women to be identified. The law has been put on hold by a judge and is being challenged by the Center for Reproductive Rights.

The Senator behind the law says the info is needed to help prevent unwanted pregnancies. I can save him the quarter mill: quit with the useless abstinence-only education, and make sex education mandatory in Oklahoma schools, including education about contraception.

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[hnpcc]

What really gets me about the abortion "debate" is the way that certain people fan the flames, and then throw up their hands in mock horror when a doctor is killed and say "oh but we didn't mean that."

Yes they fucking did. I really wish some people could be charged with incitement.

If this country were really serious about combating terrorism, they'd focus on all kinds terrorism, and not just the kind that involves religious and racial profiling.

Well non-Christian religious profiling at least. And yes, in complete agreement with you.

[alryssa.livejournal.com]

What really gets me about the abortion "debate" is the way that certain people fan the flames, and then throw up their hands in mock horror when a doctor is killed and say "oh but we didn't mean that."

Yes. There are a lot of loathesome individuals like this out there right now who take far too much pleasure in stoking the fires with their influential political pokers but refuse to take responsibility for the horrendous actions that ensue.

As an update on Kate's original story, I've just heard that the injunction to stop the information from being listed has been extended. Not an end, but certainly a welcome reprieve for the time being.