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April 27, 2007

In Abortion Debate, Words Mean Something

Those crazy Texans. Some overly-enthusiastic pro-lifers in Austin left a live bomb in the parking lot of the Austin Women's Health Center Wednesday, forcing the evacuation of the center and a nearby apartment complex while the bomb squad detonated it. The bomb was described as "capable of inflicting serious injury or death." Considering the crazy tone of the anti-abortion crowd in the area, I'm not at all surprised by this.

Austin Abortion Exposed features the center on its website, where it describes the doctors as "serial killers" and the clinic a "killing center." Red River Church describes the clinic as a "death chamber" that is engaged in "killing children." The doctors are called "roving serial killers" and "contract killers." They even accuse clinics of killing "children whose mothers are poor" because it is "cheaper" than paying "the hospital to deliver a live baby." It is a short step for a true believer inspired by such outrageous, highly charged language to deciding that God wants them to snipe abortion doctors or blow up clinics. Particularly in a state where the abortion rights battle has been so hard-fought.

Posted by Becky at April 27, 2007 12:06 PM