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Employees of the Republican National Committee will be pleased to know that if they should ever find themselves in the unfortunate position of needing an abortion, their insurance plan covers it. The Republican National Committee’s health insurance plan covers elective abortion – a procedure the party’s own platform calls ...
GOP, Republican Party, Health Care, Health Insurance, Abortion
Holocaust survivor and author Elie Wiesel condemned signs containing Holocaust imagery and antisemitic conspiracy theories, at Michele Bachmann’s “tea party” event last Thursday. One sign at the rally contained images of dead Holocaust victims at the Dachau concentration camp under the banner “National Socialist Health Care.” Another sign said ...
Michele Bachmann, Loopy, Extremism, Right Wing, Health Care, Abortion, Elie Wiesel, Tea Party
Pastor Stephen Broden from Dallas Texas gives the benediction at Michele Bachmann’s “house call” protest against the health care reform bill, and immediately launches a political diatribe about “death panels!” and “death care!” and tyranny and socialism and anti-Christ abortion and violation of all the laws of God and ...
Michele Bachmann, Loopy, Extremism, Right Wing, Health Care, Abortion, Sex Clinics, Pastor Broden, Death Panel
C-SPAN 3 is covering the Michele Bachmann anti-health care tea party swarm right now; as I write, Jon Voight is speaking on the steps of the Capitol. I’d estimate the crowd at between 7.3 and 8.2 million people. At least. UPDATE at 11/5/09 10:03:39 am: The word of the day ...
Michele Bachmann, Loopy, Extremism, Right Wing, Health Care, Abortion, Sex Clinics
Michele Bachmann’s (R-Mars) chief of staff is bailing out, and declines to say why. The aide who helped turn Rep. Michele Bachmann into a controversial mainstay of cable news has informed colleagues that she’s quitting — just as the firebrand Republican congresswoman prepares for her biggest media moment yet. ...
Michele Bachmann, Loopy, Extremism, Right Wing, Health Care, Abortion, Sex Clinics
The New York Daily News is reporting disturbances at some polling stations, apparently from anti-abortion “activists” who support Doug Hoffman: Police Called To NY-23 Polling Sites. I just got off the phone with former state Democratic Chairwoman June O’Neill, who informed me the police had been called to at ...
GOP, Republican Party, Extremism, Right Wing, Dede Scozzafava, Doug Hoffman, Conservative Party, Abortion
Last Wednesday we noted a report that eBay had rejected an auction by a radical anti-abortion group to raise money for alleged murderer Scott Roeder: EBay Says No to Scott Roeder Benefit Auction. According to TPM, however, the auction did go online for a brief time before being pulled down. ...
George Tiller, Abortion, Crime, Extremism, Hate Speech, Scott Roeder, Army of God, Ebay
The Kansas City Star’s Judy L. Thomas reports that eBay has rejected an auction by anti-abortion extremists intended to raise money for Scott Roeder, the alleged murderer of Dr. George Tiller. The auction would have included items such as an Army of God manual, a “cookbook” compiled by a woman ...
George Tiller, Abortion, Crime, Extremism, Hate Speech, Scott Roeder, Army of God
The more extreme anti-choice activists give themselves permission to do almost anything in the name of God. The latest example — an eBay auction of memorabilia from the violent fringe: Online auction to raise funds in Scott Roeder case. An Army of God manual. A prison cookbook compiled by ...
George Tiller, Abortion, Crime, Extremism, Hate Speech, Scott Roeder, Army of God
Since the murder of Dr. George Tiller, anti-choice extremist Randall Terry’s been getting louder. In his latest unsavory stunt, he’s advocating that people burn effigies of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. Dave Weigel points out Terry’s classy demonstration videos. [Video]
Abortion, Extremism, Religious Right, Randall Terry, Operation Rescue, Women's Rights
The new Oklahoma law that blatantly violated state and federal constitutions, by requiring that detailed information about each woman who has an abortion be published on the state’s website, has been delayed by at least a month: Okla. Abortion Publicity Law Blocked by Court. To challenge the state constitutionality ...
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Mars) continues promoting her bizarre, obsessive “SCHOOL-BASED SEX CLINICS” distortions, in her latest crazy rant to the US House of Representatives. [Video]
Michele Bachmann, Loopy, Extremism, Lunacy, Right Wing, Health Care, Abortion, Sex Clinics
In an attempt to threaten and scare women out of having abortions, Republicans in Oklahoma (Sen. Todd Lamb, R-Edmond, and Rep. Dan Sullivan, R-Tulsa) have created a new law that blatantly violates the state and federal constitutions, and requires physicians to provide the state with detailed personal information about women ...
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Mars) announces the latest far right fever swamp fantasy: the health care reform bill is going to allow the demonic Planned Parenthood to set up ... I hope you’re sitting down ... sex clinics in the schools of America! With free abortions for 13-year olds! What’s worse ...
Michele Bachmann, Loopy, Extremism, Lunacy, Right Wing, Health Care, Abortion
They encouraged and applauded his murder, but anti-choice fanatics aren’t finished with Dr. George Tiller yet. Now the leader of the domestic terrorist group calling itself the “Army of God” has sent a letter to the church Tiller attended, telling pastors that they “brought damnation on themselves.” A Virginia ...
George Tiller, Abortion, Crime, Extremism, Hate Speech, Scott Roeder, Operation Rescue, Rev. Donald Spitz, Army of God
The National Right to Life Committee is loudly claiming that the health care bill promoted by Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) would allow federal funds to subsidize abortions. Imagine my surprise, if you will, to discover that this claim is false.
At the Value Voters Summit, anti-choice activist Lila Rose says “abortions should be done in the public square.” Because then we would hear the angels sing. [Video] UPDATE at 9/21/09 7:41:56 pm: Some background information about Lila Rose: Citizen ‘Entrapment’: Lila Rose and 21st Century Stealth Pro-Life Activism.
Abortion, Extremism, Value Voters Summit, Family Research Council, Religious Right
Suspected murderer Scott Roeder is apparently now enlisting the aid of a fanatical anti-abortion lawyer who plans to argue that it’s OK to gun down doctors like George Tiller: Justifiable homicide defense eyed in Roeder’s case. Attorney Michael Hirsh is known for trying to use this same insane strategy in ...
George Tiller, Abortion, Crime, Extremism, Hate Speech, Scott Roeder, Operation Rescue
Federal investigators are reportedly looking into the possibility that the alleged murderer of Dr. George Tiller, Scott Roeder, may have had help. WICHITA, Kan., Aug. 10 (UPI) — A federal investigation is underway to determine if more than one person was involved in abortion doctor George Tiller’s death, Kansas ...
George Tiller, Abortion, Crime, Right Wing, Extremism, Hate Speech, Scott Roeder, Army of God, Operation Rescue
The health care legislation currently in Congress covers abortions, and anti-abortion groups are gearing up for a big fight. “We want to see people who have no health insurance get it, but this is a sticking point,” said Richard Doerflinger, associate director of pro-life activities for the U.S. Conference ...
Barack Obama, Health Care, Abortion, Randall Terry, Operation Rescue
The Sunday edition of the New York Times has a very good, in-depth piece by David Barstow on Dr. George Tiller, and the history of fanaticism, threats, media provocation, and violence leading up to his murder: An Abortion Battle, Fought to the Death. Long ago, he had accepted the ...
George Tiller, Abortion, Crime, Right Wing, Extremism, Hate Speech, Scott Roeder, Army of God, Operation Rescue
I’m astounded that the National Press Club is apparently going to lend their podium to anti-abortion fanatic Randall Terry — so that he can threaten terrorism and “violent convulsions” if Obama’s health care plan pays for abortions: Healthcare, Abortion, and Potential Violence: ‘Let All Those in Government be Warned: They ...
Abortion, Extremism, Hate Speech, Randall Terry, Operation Rescue, Fanaticism
Here we go; the extreme wing of the anti-abortion movement has been whipping itself into a lather over Sonia Sotomayor, and they apparently managed to sneak at least two people into the hearing: Second Antiabortion Heckler Interrupts Sotomayor Hearing. Another antiabortion activist disrupted the confirmation hearing of Judge Sonia ...
Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court, Confirmation, Congress, Abortion, Randall Terry
Barack Obama told Pope Benedict today that he wants to reduce abortions in the US. VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - President Barack Obama promised Pope Benedict on Friday that he would do everything possible to reduce the number of abortions in the United States, the Vatican said. Obama and Benedict ...
Barack Obama, Pope Benedict, catholic church, Abortion, Stem Cells
According to ABC News, Scott Roeder (the fanatic suspected in the murder of Dr. George Tiller), has been using snail mail from his jail cell to stay in touch with the extremist anti-abortion network: Abortion Doc Murder Suspect Advocates Via Mail. A man charged with shooting a prominent Kansas ...
George Tiller, Abortion, Crime, Right Wing, Extremism, Hate Speech, Scott Roeder, Army of God