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[neadods]

amilyn says it best: Homegrown Terrorism: America at War on Women.

Click through my tags below, too. Read about Noel Noeson, whose right to conscience involved stealing prescriptions and refusing to answer telephones lest he be asked about birth control. Read about the Biting Beaver, who was shuttled from hospital to hospital attempting to find Plan B until it was too late - and then was given abortion "advice" that might have killed her. Read about the head of Health and Human Services calling it "an important statement" that women be denied birth control. Read, and do not wonder why women need abortion in a country that treats them like this.

Then keep reading. Read about the doctors who've performed abortions on people who picket them - and who then return to the picket lines, because the only moral abortion is theirs. Read about the woman whose fetus died late term in utero - unable to get a doctor to remove the corpse that was festering and sickening her because nobody did late term abortions. Not even to remove a CORPSE. Read about the pro-life girl all ready to do the right thing and adopt - only to discover that none of the prolife shelters she'd helped advertise wanted a biracial baby.

There has been a war for a long time. A war of shouting, of vandalism, of intimidation, of attempted murder, and real murder. Call it for what it is:

A war.

A hate crime.

Terrorism.

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Like I've never wandered off on a tangent in other people's posts. :) Don't think twice about it.

I look at it this way. It's not a bad thing to be reminded that my readership may not be legion, but it is international. Better to deal with an issue that might derail the larger conversation head-on and thus get *back* to the larger conversation than get all fussy about a single word when it's an avoidable one and, as Box points out, not a bad reminder.

And there's gonna be plenty of discussion of this all over the blogosphere. I'm a bit surprised jonquil hasn't posted yet.

I do, by the way, continue to rec amilyn's post if you haven't followed the link. She has had to deal directly with more of the issues related to the assassination than I have.