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Jun. 3rd, 2009 03:02 amThere's a whole lot of banter on LJ in the past couple of days over the Tiller assassination and reproductive freedom in general.
People are learning what a polarizing issue it is.
I've said what I had to say regarding my stance in my previous post. My mind has been made up on the subject of a woman's right to choose for many years now and I have not wavered, nor is there anything that anyone can say to me that will cause me to change my mind, although people have tried and I have listened and read what they have to say.
This is one issue that I don't feel like reaching across the aisle over.
Why?
Because my side of the auditorium isn't armed with pipe bombs, its not threatening the other side with bodily harm, vandalism, harassment, threats against their family members, it's not shooting people. We're not planting incendiary devices at Olympic villages. We're not standing outside places of business day after day after day, threatening hellfire and brimstone at patrons and employees.
I'd like to be spared the oozy sanctimony and apologism from the other side of the aisle; talking about how it's just oh-so-terrible that George Tiller was murdered as he served in his church, but gosh, he had it coming somehow.
"Pro-life" created this mess. The blame rests on all of them. They screeched fire in the crowded theater for years on end and this is the result. A good man is dead, a husband, father, grandfather, and compassionate caregiver to thousands of women who found themselves in desperate straits.
Now who has blood on their hands?
No, I'm not reaching across the aisle. They aren't worthy of the bottom of my shoe, much less a handshake of "compromise".
People are learning what a polarizing issue it is.
I've said what I had to say regarding my stance in my previous post. My mind has been made up on the subject of a woman's right to choose for many years now and I have not wavered, nor is there anything that anyone can say to me that will cause me to change my mind, although people have tried and I have listened and read what they have to say.
This is one issue that I don't feel like reaching across the aisle over.
Why?
Because my side of the auditorium isn't armed with pipe bombs, its not threatening the other side with bodily harm, vandalism, harassment, threats against their family members, it's not shooting people. We're not planting incendiary devices at Olympic villages. We're not standing outside places of business day after day after day, threatening hellfire and brimstone at patrons and employees.
I'd like to be spared the oozy sanctimony and apologism from the other side of the aisle; talking about how it's just oh-so-terrible that George Tiller was murdered as he served in his church, but gosh, he had it coming somehow.
"Pro-life" created this mess. The blame rests on all of them. They screeched fire in the crowded theater for years on end and this is the result. A good man is dead, a husband, father, grandfather, and compassionate caregiver to thousands of women who found themselves in desperate straits.
Now who has blood on their hands?
No, I'm not reaching across the aisle. They aren't worthy of the bottom of my shoe, much less a handshake of "compromise".
