WTF Chicago?

[neadods]

I got a hit on Google news today about a Chicago hospital offering to stop 2nd timester abortions mid-procedure (as in women who start an abortion elsewhere can come in during the day-long stage where the cervix is being chemically opened and the hospital will try to stop it.)

Ooooookay. Look, I know some women are ambivalent, so if they change their mind, fine.

EXCEPT! The article glosses neatly over the couple of women who didn't change their mind. The one who were harassed outside the clinic by the "sidewalk counsellors" that we call protesters or antis to the point that they were DRAGGED UNWILLINGLY to the hospital for a reversal. The article goes on and on about how the "sidewalk protesters" are a major and important part of "outreach" but only two lines to the women who got to the hospital and told the doctors "I don't want to stop this abortion, this wingnut just wouldn't leave me the fuck alone until I came here."

Shocked? I was. Moreso when the article casually mentions in passing that when one of these women tried to get loose the protester called a lawyer on her. (It's on page 2 of the linked article.)

This woman goes to get a legal abortion, gets nabbed and harassed on the way out, and when she attempts to continue with HER CHOICE of a LEGAL PROCEDURE Jane Q Random AntiChoice CALLS A LAWYER ON HER. A violation of privacy and personal rights which the article glosses right the hell over.

I repeat: WTF Chicago?

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[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

FYI, when I tried to look at that site, Norton popped up with a message that it's a "known malicious site". This may mean that the site has been hacked; in any event, it seems to have been flagged as a malware installer.

[redpanda13.livejournal.com]

That's pretty strange. It's never happened for me and didn't happen just now. (I use a Mac, if that matters.) The site barely has any ads on it, as compared with some that are loaded and give me popups. It's just a lefty cartoon that changes three times a week. Norton may be over-reacting.
Anyway, here's the text:

I‘m often quite hard on the spiritual community, so to make up for it I’ve decided to create a Valentine’s Day card just for all my religious pals. Enjoy!

*I want to stone our children to death with you, sweetheart. Deut. 21:18
* Let's have children in harlotry, darling. Hosea 1:1-3
* You're worth three hundred foreskins, Valentine. Sam. 18:27
* I hear you come with the property, baby. Ruth 4:5-10
* I'd kidnap you anytime, sweetheart. Judges 21:19-25
*It's not rape if you give my dad 50 shekels, Valentine. Deut. 22:28-29
*You've captured my heart, now shave my head and trim my nails, Valentine!

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I'm getting a big kick out of the foreskin one.