Last Clinic Standing

[im10ashus]

After years of violently blockading abortion clinics, terrorizing women and doctors, and agitating for biblical rule, there is a smug sense of triumphalism coming from the pro-life organization Operation Save America/Operation Rescue.

Between July 15 and 20, OSA/OR will be staging an extended protest in Jackson, Miss., aimed at closing the state’s last abortion clinic—a move the group hopes will “send a message” to abortion providers and lawmakers throughout the country.

(Check out a video in which the group’s president, Flip Benham, talks with unabashed glee about shuttering the “abortion mill.”)

Operation Rescue, you may remember, was the organization responsible for the infamous “No Place to Hide” campaign during the 1990s that distributed the home addresses and travel routines of abortion providers in the period before the first killing of an abortion doctor. (Background here and here)

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http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20060713_last_clinic_standing/

[benevolent dictator]

1. What are

all those MEN doing there? Seriously.

I love the bumper sticker: Don't want an abortion? Have a vasectomy!

[im10ashus]

3. I've never understood how men can be so controlling over a woman's body.

Misogyny and religion - partners in crime.

[MountainLaurel]

5. That sounds like a bumper sticker

Nice phrase, and so very true.

[whistle]

2. Any statistics on how many Mississippi women cross over to

...neighoring states for abortions? How about illegal abortions and the women who then need emergency services to treat botched abortion procedures, any statistics on those in Mississippi?

[im10ashus]

4. I am not sure.

But I am willing to bet that the numbers are or will be high.