Attempted bombing at a women's clinic

[starrystarrygirl]

There are so many things I could say about this, but for sake of offending others, I think I'll just keep my mouth shut. One thing I will say though, is even after so many previous attempts elsewhere, what made these idiots think that this time it would prove a point and make people see their way? People piss me off.


http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/04/26...omb/index.html

[canoodle06]

I don't agree with abortion in *most* cases, but I would never do something like that.

[nottooblushing]

I am "pro-life" but come on that's just hypocritical. My stance leads me to be against the death penalty, in favor of stricked gun control. I have often said (and gotten into "trouble" with my church for saying it) that the best way to prevent abortion is not to make it illegal or attack practitioners, that just makes it even more dangerous. But instead offer women's sexual health clinics and make exams and birth control available in the same way planned parenthood makes them available. And then in addition provide adoption counceling and services. But ask a uber-conservative to give a teenager the pill or a condom and they think you've just asked them to kill baby Jesus.

[demonbuttercup]

Yeah I never understood the logic behind it either. It's like ok, it's wrong to abort babies (that haven't even been born yet) but it's justifiable to bomb a Health care facility and kill Drs, nurses, innocent people there just to get their pap smear, umm pregnant women who may or may not be there to have an abortion?!?!? there you go, you just killed a baby that the mother was planning on having?!?!?

But you can't rationalize the acts of people who think like that... their minds don't work like ours do.

[alban lusitanae]

Well, it's very easy to pass the normal line on this matter. We recently had the referendum in our country to legalize abortion up to 10 weeks, which was passed, but the same happened. Anti-abortionists threatened, called others murderers etc. I am in favour of abortion up to 10 weeks since, religion aside (absolutely needed in this case), pain sensitivity and absolute awareness is not proven and because if I was against it and other was not, who was I to force that person to have a child by force of law.

Anyway that doesn't matter to the point in here, which is obviously the complete stupidity of those who performed the action. And in fact, these are the people that justify the death penalty in my opinion...

[starrystarrygirl]

He won't get the death penalty seeing as how it didn't go off or harm anyone, however, I live in Texas. And as the famous Ron White says, "Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty.. my state's putting in an express lane." lol

Oh, and about the guilty. He's a 27 year old man who's served time for robbery and burglary. Doesn't quite seem to fit the picture, at least not in my opinion. I really expected it to be some super religion extremist.

[nottooblushing]

Or someone who found God in a Texas jail. Often people in jail for petty or slightly more thern petty crimes are not well educated. Might I suggest you read "coyote on a Fence" it's a play I saw here in Philly when it first opened and it deals with the way that religious and racial extremists pray on the uneducated poor to do their dirty work.

[alban lusitanae]

It's the only way they can make people follow them. That's why wars will never cease to exist, they need strife to keep power, otherwise will tell them all to go have sex with a donkey... on the passive position. That is the reason why John Lennon got killed.

[sera300]

The beliefs of the anti-abortionists who bomb (or whatever to endanger lives), through costing lives of innocent are no different in their fanaticism then those we are currently facing; killing/bombing for Allah or the the Jihad--all three are extremists and fail to define a line of rational beliefs; having minor regard for human life yet acting on the part of the greater good, in their minds.

[alban lusitanae]

delegation of responsability of action on a higher entity, be it a metaphysical entity or just a person of a higher rank is what puts the world in the state it's in right now. If you don't take responsability for what goes on in your mind, someone else certainly will...