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Murder of Abortion Doctor Shows Obama's Common Ground Approach Is Empty
Tweet Share on Facebook June 8, 2009 Comment (8)By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
Salon.com's Broadsheet sports a headline that asks whether the Internet can save one of the few remaining doctors in the U.S. who performs late-term abortions, Dr. Warren Hern.
Dr. Hern and others' pictures, home addresses, clinic addresses and so on have been posted online by activists whose ulterior motive, in view of what happened to Dr. George Tiller, may be to incite violence against these doctors.
But Broadsheet also notes that liberal online social networking has linked them up and galvanized possible political change:
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Kentucky Horse Council Offers Breeders Incentive to Limit Births
Tweet Share on Facebook June 5, 2009 Comment (9)By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog.
This is jump-for-joy good news in the horse industry. This week, the Kentucky Horse Council launched a program that offers financial incentives for owners to geld horses capable of reproduction but that are not appropriate for breeding. The program pays the owners' veterinarians up to $100 per horse and $250 per household for gelding services.
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Michelle Malkin-Playboy 'Hate Rape' Distortion Is Venomous Too
Tweet Share on Facebook June 4, 2009 Comment (247)By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog.
I wish I did not have to waste a blogpost refuting a distortion of my words in a previous post, but here goes.
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Atlantic Monthly Essay Calls Tiller Murder OK--That Is Crazy
Tweet Share on Facebook June 4, 2009 Comment (45)By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog.
I was sent a link to this essay for the Atlantic Monthly online condoning murder. This is not journalism. It is not responsible. It should be recanted, deleted, and the person writing it (who calls herself pro-choice, but there's no evidence of same in this article) should be taken to the woodshed by her editors.
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Can Republicans Spin Pelosi's Outreach to Reagan?
Tweet Share on Facebook June 3, 2009 Comment (49)By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog.
At today's unveiling of the statue of former President Ronald Reagan, Nancy Reagan spoke very briefly. But the first and most important thing she did was to profusely thank House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a fellow Californian, for making the event and the placement of the statue in the Capitol's Statuary Hall possible.
I'm just wondering since Speaker Pelosi is such a favorite target of conservative commentators, how many of them will take note of Nancy Reagan's praise for Speaker Pelosi, and for her very bipartisan move to honor Ronald Reagan's memory. I'm sure they'll find ways to shoot holes in Speaker Pelosi's big reach across the aisle. But it will be tough, especially since Ronald Reagan, unlike either of the Presidents Bush, is an ideological icon and favorite politician of America's Right.
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Playboy Mix of Sex, Hate, and Politics Demeans Conservative Women
Tweet Share on Facebook June 3, 2009 Comment (514)By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog.
Yesterday, I was contacted by the executive director of SmartGirlPolitics.org, a conservative women's website, to stand up for conservative women treated despicably by the media. Here I am, doing just that. -
Abortions More Frequent for Private Religious School Students
Tweet Share on Facebook June 2, 2009 Comment (34)By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog.
There's an interesting new study reported in the June issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior showing that unwed pregnant teenagers and women in their 20s who attend or have graduated from private religious schools are more likely to have abortions than young women who go to public schools:
Researchers studied some 1,504 unmarried and never-divorced women ages 26 and younger from 125 schools. The women were as young as 14 and as old as 26 at the time they discovered they were pregnant. Some one quarter admitted having abortions, which researchers say is probably an underreported percentage:
Despite the absence of a link between personal religious devotion and abortion, religious affiliation did have some important influence. Adamczyk found that conservative Protestants (which includes evangelicals and fundamentalist Christians) were the least likely to report having an abortion, less likely than mainline Protestants, Catholics and women with non-Christian religious affiliations.
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George Tiller's Murder Is Our Fault
Tweet Share on Facebook June 2, 2009 Comment (78)By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog.
Kansas obstetrician George Tiller's murder this past weekend has lifted the cover off the netherworld of violent, antiabortion extremism. The proliferation of antiabortion violence, which I blogged about on Monday, is a very, very scary development in U.S. history. It is a form of domestic terrorism that merits more state and federal investigation so would-be perpetrators can be stopped before they kill:
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Tiller Murder Is Terrorism, and All Pro-Life Extremists Are to Blame
Tweet Share on Facebook June 1, 2009 Comment (264)By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog.
Let George Tiller's murder be the last straw. It is time for America's pro-choice majority to stop standing idly by as extreme so-called pro-life advocates murder obstetrician-gynecologists (OB/GYNs) who are providing women with the legal right to terminate pregnancies. I am careful to note I am referring here to EXTREMIST pro-life advocates, people who refer to abortion as "baby-killing" and other inflammatory rhetoric. I am explicitly not referring to mainstreamers who object to abortion due to religious beliefs, but who refrain from using inflammatory speech.
Bonnie Erbe
Bonnie Erbe is a contributing editor at U.S. News & World Report and hosts PBS's weekly news analysis program, To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe. She also writes a weekly syndicated newspaper column for Scripps Howard News Service.
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