What the hell happened to personal responsibility? Eh? Waah waah waah, they provoked me, make them stop – that’s all we ever hear. Man up, anti-choicers! If someone offers you more wine an abortion clinic to target with violence, you can just say no.
Amanda Marcotte tells us the anti-choicers in Wichita are arguing over this point, now that a new clinic has opened where Dr Tiller’s used to be until an anti-choicer shot him dead in a church.
But now there’s a new clinic in town where Dr. Tiller’s used to be, and irate anti-choice groups are petitioning the city to have it shut down.
Their reasoning is that the clinic, the South Wind Women’s Center, provokes them into harassing the people going in and out of it, and because they understand that they are super annoying people, they would like the provocation taken away.
Better yet, an intra-fundamentalist controversy has erupted over the question of exactly how provocative the clinic is. One group says that medical workers providing private abortion care are deliberately provoking gun violence and have to be stopped before some hapless responsible gun owner who brings a gun to an abortion clinic ends up in jail because a meanie doctor pushed him to murder. The other groups say that while they fully agree that the clinic is making them harass its workers and patients, it’s a step too far to suggest they’re pushing anyone to shoot at them.
That’s very disappointing. Surely they should be united on this question. Personal responsibility, I tell you.
… So, they’re flat out admitting they’re specifically going for a heckler’s veto?
Tiller was shot in a church, while performing duties there.
Clearly churches are dangerous.
I think you missed a strike out
like so?
Tim Moore (from the comments in the 2nd link) had a great comment explaining what would happen in any reasonable world:
Jacob – ha! blurf – yes – like that. I furgott.
We need to setup Pledge a Picket at South Wind, that way the anti-choicers will be compelled to help raise money for the pro-choice cause.
That only applies to people that are not them. You know, like dirty sluts that get themselves pregnant and the like.
/sarcasm
Jenora Feuer (#1)
You misspelt stochastic terrorism.