With doctors being murdered and abortion used as a tool to corrupt the national health care discussion:
“This issue is not about party politics. It’s not about obstructionism. It is about saving lives and protecting pro-life Americans across the country,” Rep. Joe Pitts, R-Pennsylvania, said.
I wish there was a way to end this debate for good [...]

This is awful…
The man charged with killing abortion provider Dr. George Tiller claimed Sunday that more violence is possible while the medical procedure is allowed to continue, giving his warning in calls that also focused on complaints about his treatment in jail.
Scott Roeder, being held on charges of first-degree murder and aggravated assault in Tiller’s [...]

Watch the following video of George Tiller’s suspected murderer and tell me if you don’t see something wrong with this picture.

Let’s say, for argument’s sake, that Roeder actually did kill Tiller. Does that guy look like he has even a shred of remorse? It sounds like he’s getting directions to a restaurant, not being [...]

“Whatever titles we give these murderers, both deserve our attention. Violence like that is no way to solve a political dispute nor a religious one. And the fanatics on all sides do great disservice when they confuse dissention with rage and death.”
- Sarah Palin on the similarities between the Tiller and Long shootings
Credit where credit [...]

People were asking for more of a connection. Well, here ya go. The number of Operations Rescue’s senior policy adviser.
Not only that, the adviser was convicted of conspiring to bomb an abortion clinic in 1988. I’m all for prison reforming somebody, but why does she still work a militant anti-abortion outfit? Seem a little odd [...]

Now, why would anybody ever take this the wrong way?

Transcript:
Terry: The point that must be emphasized over, and over, and over again: pro-life leaders and the pro-life movement are not responsible for George Tiller’s death. George Tiller was a mass-murder and, horrifically, he reaped what he sowed.
Q: So who is responsible …
Terry: The man who [...]

His name is Scott Roeder and it looks like he’s involved with Operation Rescue in some way. Obviously that doesn’t mean they’re to blame, but if you convince your followers that somebody is a mass murderer and is doing it legally…you think something bad might happen?
Here’s the comment he left at Operation Rescue’s site, via [...]

From the description of the car in the earlier post, it’s not surprising that a suspect has been rounded up so quickly.
From KansasCity.com:
A suspect in the fatal shooting today of Wichita abortion provider George Tiller is in custody in Johnson County. [...]
Police said had been looking for a white male who was driving a 1990s [...]

Not only that, he was killed at his church.
From KMBC:
In a news conference on Sunday afternoon, Capt. Brent Allred said they were looking for a blue Ford Taurus with a K-State vanity plate, license number 225 BAB. He said the car was registered to an owner in Merriam.
Police described the shooter as a white male [...]

No doubt you’ll be hearing A LOT about this decision…
Although Sotomayor has not had a case dealing directly with abortion rights, she wrote the opinion in Center for Reproductive Law and Policy v. Bush, 304 F.3d 183 (2d Cir. 2002), a challenge to the “Mexico City Policy,” which prohibited foreign organizations receiving U.S. funds from [...]

Old enough to see an R rated movie? Then you’re now old enough to get the morning after pill over-the-counter. Today the FDA announced the Plan B contraceptive will be made available to anyone 17 or older without a prescription. This is in response to a recent federal court ruling which criticized the executive branch’s [...]

Despite criticism from several quarters, the Sarah Palin pick is being received very well by core Republicans.
Palin, say conservative activists, has instantly changed how they feel about [John] McCain’s campaign and spurred them to go to work for the Republican ticket.
First, though, they’re expressing their newfound fondness for McCain with their checkbooks. Since tapping Palin, [...]

I wrote about Hillary supporter Debra Bartoshevich back in June when she decided to break from her party and support McCain instead.
So what made her so special? Well, she was as an elected delegate to the Democratic National Convention at the time. Understandably, she was quickly booted.
Now she has popped up in a new [...]

Whenever I’m interviewed on Christian or conservative talk radio, the topic nearly always turns to — or starts out with — abortion. Never mind that the book that prompted my appearance is about independent politics; radio hosts and even book reviewers zero in on the one chapter on abortion and gay marriage. The irony is [...]

For every time the word “irony” is used correctly, there are approximately three hundred incorrect uses. (No, it is not “ironic” that it rained on the day you had planned a picnic.) The following, on the other hand, is ironic. Read it and giggle nervously:
A new form of cloning has been developed that is easier [...]

At a rally in Dover, New Hampshire, Barack Obama was interrupted by a group of abortion protestors. I think he handled the situation pretty well.

It was certainly a clever phrase, but it was rude of them to interrupt him. What do you think?

From the NY Times:
Two teams of scientists reported yesterday that they had turned human skin cells into what appear to be embryonic stem cells without having to make or destroy an embryo — a feat that could quell the ethical debate troubling the field.
All they had to do, the scientists said, was add four [...]

[Re-published from 2008Central.net]
Marc Ambinder on Romney and abortion:
Mitt Romney is simply struggling to explain the Republican Party’s conventional pro-life position. Which is: overturn Roe v. Wade. And then, slowly build up public support for a constitutional amendment banning abortions. ETA: 30 years or more.
This is not a flip-flop.
The reason why Romney is struggling to explain [...]

It could all come down to electability, not social purity.
From Politico:
Rudy Giuliani, whose positions on abortion and homosexuality mark him as the most socially liberal Republican presidential candidate in more than a generation, is so far winning the contest for the support of social conservatives, according to a new analysis of recent polls.
Forty-four percent of [...]

For too long, moderate Republicans have been silenced by party leadership who has pandered to the far right wing. The bullyboy braying of talk radio hosts and self-righteous right-wingers have cowed Republican candidates into acting against their political instincts while the base of the party has been shrinking and shrinking. While expounding the “big tent” theory of party building, leaders of the party were really constructing an outhouse.