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	<title>Comments on: Husband of Dr. Tiller&#8217;s Patient Gives Heartbreaking Account of Procedure</title>
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		<title>By: Robt</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2009/06/03/husband-of-dr-tillers-patient-gives-heartbreaking-account-of-procedure/#comment-1911774</link>
		<dc:creator>Robt</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;As many Americans have the right to own a gun to defend themselves againt percieved life thretening situations.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Wouldn’t a woman have the right to defend her life with a doctor to thwart any percieved life threatening situations?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There are too many extremists willing to use the terrorist threat of murder to accomplish what they may feel is their God’s calling.  Ashamed they will never be called upon by their God.  Many religious tenents create the atmosphere of women as a secondary entity to man.  maybe its from the fable of Adam giving up a rib to make Eve?  Fact is men will never realize to birth or abort.  Possibly through empathy he may get a glimpse.  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Just a thought for the tormented of the faith.  You know your old testamnet when your brittleness breaks in the wind for God then was a jealous God and very unforgiving.  Where New Testament, Jesus forgave all.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;How many embryos must die to firtilize a sterile woman with a baby?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;When will they care as much for the born?  And if they new that a woman was carrying the next Adolf Hitler, an atheist or a gay person.  Would they approve of abortion or just what till it is born to water board Jesus into them?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;These are terrorists.  When they were demanding Americans to stand in courts of law with the 10 commandments of their religion on the wall in front of me.  Killing the judge was nowhere to be found and never will be.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As many Americans have the right to own a gun to defend themselves againt percieved life thretening situations.</p>
<p>Wouldn’t a woman have the right to defend her life with a doctor to thwart any percieved life threatening situations?</p>
<p>There are too many extremists willing to use the terrorist threat of murder to accomplish what they may feel is their God’s calling.  Ashamed they will never be called upon by their God.  Many religious tenents create the atmosphere of women as a secondary entity to man.  maybe its from the fable of Adam giving up a rib to make Eve?  Fact is men will never realize to birth or abort.  Possibly through empathy he may get a glimpse.  </p>
<p>Just a thought for the tormented of the faith.  You know your old testamnet when your brittleness breaks in the wind for God then was a jealous God and very unforgiving.  Where New Testament, Jesus forgave all.</p>
<p>How many embryos must die to firtilize a sterile woman with a baby?</p>
<p>When will they care as much for the born?  And if they new that a woman was carrying the next Adolf Hitler, an atheist or a gay person.  Would they approve of abortion or just what till it is born to water board Jesus into them?</p>
<p>These are terrorists.  When they were demanding Americans to stand in courts of law with the 10 commandments of their religion on the wall in front of me.  Killing the judge was nowhere to be found and never will be.</p>
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		<title>By: punaise</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2009/06/03/husband-of-dr-tillers-patient-gives-heartbreaking-account-of-procedure/#comment-1911737</link>
		<dc:creator>punaise</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 04:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I’d like to see a feminist website asking women to “come out” and say they’ve had abortions and tell their stories.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/6/2/215310/1411&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here’s&lt;/a&gt; a start.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>I’d like to see a feminist website asking women to “come out” and say they’ve had abortions and tell their stories.</em></p>
<p><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/6/2/215310/1411" rel="nofollow">here’s</a> a start.</p>
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		<title>By: ConscientiousHeretic</title>
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		<dc:creator>ConscientiousHeretic</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:02:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Jane, thank you for keeping this story alive.  I share the lament that it seems the news media would rather drop this story and move on.  But I find Dr. Tiller’s murder connected not just with the anti-abortion extremist movement, but also connected with the killing of the two people at the Tennessee Unitarian church last summer.  In both cases, the shooters had their heads and hearts filled with this hate-inspiring bile that pours out of radios and televisions across the country on a daily basis. That to me is the underlying story that will keep these tragic stories coming if nothing is done.  Hopefully, we are beginning to chart a course to hold people like O’Reilly, Limbaugh, Hannity, Goldberg and the rest accountable for their dangerous rhetoric.  I’m no fan of Blitzer, but at least he and CNN aired this piece.  It’s a start.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jane, thank you for keeping this story alive.  I share the lament that it seems the news media would rather drop this story and move on.  But I find Dr. Tiller’s murder connected not just with the anti-abortion extremist movement, but also connected with the killing of the two people at the Tennessee Unitarian church last summer.  In both cases, the shooters had their heads and hearts filled with this hate-inspiring bile that pours out of radios and televisions across the country on a daily basis. That to me is the underlying story that will keep these tragic stories coming if nothing is done.  Hopefully, we are beginning to chart a course to hold people like O’Reilly, Limbaugh, Hannity, Goldberg and the rest accountable for their dangerous rhetoric.  I’m no fan of Blitzer, but at least he and CNN aired this piece.  It’s a start.</p>
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		<title>By: lilybelle</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2009/06/03/husband-of-dr-tillers-patient-gives-heartbreaking-account-of-procedure/#comment-1911671</link>
		<dc:creator>lilybelle</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;There’s an odd cognitive dissonance whereby abortion–one of the most common medical procedures–is treated as something icky and rare. Open heart surgery is far more icky, and far more rare. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We need to counter the “rare” meme, which has infected our side too, as in “safe, legal, and rare.” I want it safe and legal, and the main reason is that it never has been and never will be rare. I want fewer abortions because all procedures have risks. But abortion never will be rare.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I’d like to see a feminist website asking women to “come out” and say they’ve had abortions and tell their stories.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;My response to the demonization of late-term abortions as something a wicked woman just decides to do sometime in the 7th or 8th month? I talk about my mother who had a late-term abortion when I was 7, and how glad I am that she did, because I needed my mommy, as did my 9-year-old brother, and my stepfather needed his spouse, and my mother needed her life. And she needed to get the safest procedure possible.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There’s an odd cognitive dissonance whereby abortion–one of the most common medical procedures–is treated as something icky and rare. Open heart surgery is far more icky, and far more rare. </p>
<p>We need to counter the “rare” meme, which has infected our side too, as in “safe, legal, and rare.” I want it safe and legal, and the main reason is that it never has been and never will be rare. I want fewer abortions because all procedures have risks. But abortion never will be rare.</p>
<p>I’d like to see a feminist website asking women to “come out” and say they’ve had abortions and tell their stories.</p>
<p>My response to the demonization of late-term abortions as something a wicked woman just decides to do sometime in the 7th or 8th month? I talk about my mother who had a late-term abortion when I was 7, and how glad I am that she did, because I needed my mommy, as did my 9-year-old brother, and my stepfather needed his spouse, and my mother needed her life. And she needed to get the safest procedure possible.</p>
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		<title>By: TheLurkingMod</title>
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		<dc:creator>TheLurkingMod</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:22:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Watertiger is upstairs!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://firedoglake.com/2009/06/03/bush-duplicitous-deceitful-dangerous-to-global-stability/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Bush Duplicitous, Deceitful, Dangerous to Global Stability&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Watertiger is upstairs!<br /><a href="http://firedoglake.com/2009/06/03/bush-duplicitous-deceitful-dangerous-to-global-stability/" rel="nofollow">Bush Duplicitous, Deceitful, Dangerous to Global Stability</a></p>
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		<title>By: egregious</title>
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		<dc:creator>egregious</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;And for the record we successfully treated premies in Russia who were born short of six months with heart defects. The heart was about the size of a grape. I honor this life. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I also have been through multiple pregnancies and feel it would be cruel to ask a woman to carry a child to term that had no chance of survival. That some women do go ahead and have the full term child is their decision which I also honor. But it must be their informed choice and not imposed by law.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And for the record we successfully treated premies in Russia who were born short of six months with heart defects. The heart was about the size of a grape. I honor this life. </p>
<p>I also have been through multiple pregnancies and feel it would be cruel to ask a woman to carry a child to term that had no chance of survival. That some women do go ahead and have the full term child is their decision which I also honor. But it must be their informed choice and not imposed by law.</p>
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		<title>By: becca656</title>
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		<dc:creator>becca656</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;I live with a very intelligent man who was raised Jesuit Catholic and is quite conservative.  His position is that O’Reilly was right and all this man, Tiller, was was a babykiller.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This man cannot understand that the procedure was not used to terminate just any old pregnancy and that it was typically used by women who figured out too late in the pregnancy that they didn’t want the baby and would prefer to have a dog or a BMW instead.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;He said he had done his research; I, on the other hand, suggested he do his research somewhere other than the Heritage Fund website.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I’ve come to the conclusion that I cannot have a battle of wits with someone that is unarmed.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I live with a very intelligent man who was raised Jesuit Catholic and is quite conservative.  His position is that O’Reilly was right and all this man, Tiller, was was a babykiller.</p>
<p>This man cannot understand that the procedure was not used to terminate just any old pregnancy and that it was typically used by women who figured out too late in the pregnancy that they didn’t want the baby and would prefer to have a dog or a BMW instead.</p>
<p>He said he had done his research; I, on the other hand, suggested he do his research somewhere other than the Heritage Fund website.</p>
<p>I’ve come to the conclusion that I cannot have a battle of wits with someone that is unarmed.</p>
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		<title>By: punaise</title>
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		<dc:creator>punaise</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;umm…bill a cool chord?&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>umm…bill a cool chord?</p>
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		<title>By: egregious</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2009/06/03/husband-of-dr-tillers-patient-gives-heartbreaking-account-of-procedure/#comment-1911666</link>
		<dc:creator>egregious</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;On a different note (Cb, maybe?)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That would “b” fine with me&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>On a different note (Cb, maybe?)</p>
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<p>That would “b” fine with me</p>
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		<title>By: egregious</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2009/06/03/husband-of-dr-tillers-patient-gives-heartbreaking-account-of-procedure/#comment-1911665</link>
		<dc:creator>egregious</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;I personally know someone who had an 8th month abortion. An examination revealed the baby had no brain and would die within hours of being born. Not mentally retarded…zero brain.  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I am both pro-life and pro-choice but I think people of good will on both sides of the equation could understand the mother’s decision to end it there. The alternative was to carry another month and face certain death then, as opposed to certain death at the time. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Does anyone want the government to be making this decision?&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I personally know someone who had an 8th month abortion. An examination revealed the baby had no brain and would die within hours of being born. Not mentally retarded…zero brain.  </p>
<p>I am both pro-life and pro-choice but I think people of good will on both sides of the equation could understand the mother’s decision to end it there. The alternative was to carry another month and face certain death then, as opposed to certain death at the time. </p>
<p>Does anyone want the government to be making this decision?</p>
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