37 years ago today, Roe v. Wade was passed, creating the strongest wedge issue our country has ever seen. Protesters were out in full force today.
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Tiller’s clinic started getting regular picketers in 1975 and was a constant target of militant anti-abortion group Operation Rescue. The clinic was bombed by anti-abortion activists in 1985, and he was shot in both arms by activist Shelley Shannon in 1993.
Earlier this year, Tiller was acquitted of 19 counts on claims that second opinions given in his late-term abortion cases were not independent. Kansas law requires that prior to a late-term abortion, a patient receive a second opinion completely unrelated to the first.
Where are we going to send them? That decision I would have made before I’d announced the closure.
Sen. John McCain • Who may have lost the election but was 100% correct on the Guantanamo Bay closure when he said this during a Fox news interview back in January, days before the inauguration. Four months later, Barack Obama’s facing dissent on Guantanamo Bay from his own party. Now, if only the Republicans can translate winning on this one issue to all of their other problems, they may have a chance of being relevant again. • source
