New in PJ Media:
At 3:17 on Saturday morning, a fire broke out at Life Choices, a Christian pregnancy clinic in Longmont, Colorado that offers “’Christ-centered ministry providing education, support, healing, and limited medical services for sexual life choices.” Police regard the fire as an arson attack. The building was also daubed with graffiti reading “Bans off our bodies” and “If abortions aren’t safe neither are you,” along with the anarchist symbol. With all the incendiary language coming from Democrat leaders, the only surprise here is that more such clinics haven’t been torched thus far.
There certainly has been plenty of incitement. One of the rising stars of the Democrat Party, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Swizzle Stick) demanded that pro-abortionists go “into the streets,” and party elder stateswoman Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Eye-Popping Fury) declared, “The hell with the Supreme Court. We will defy them!” The eminent and universally respected speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi (D-Ice Cream Freezer), sent out a fundraising email calling on her supporters to “RISE UP” and “make every last anti-choice Republican REGRET what they’ve done.”
Barack Obama’s call was more muted: “Join with the activists who’ve been sounding the alarm on abortion access for years – and act. Stand with them at a local protest.” At a time when Leftist protests so easily become violent, it was noteworthy that Obama didn’t say anything about protesting peacefully (unlike, say, Donald Trump on Jan. 6, 2021). Jill Biden tweeted: “For nearly 50 years, women have had the right to make our own decisions about our bodies. Today, that right was stolen from us. And while we may be devastated by this injustice, we will not be silent. We will not sit back as the progress we have already won slips away.” And: “Tomorrow, we will continue to fight — for our daughters and granddaughters, and for ourselves — until all women can decide our own futures once again.”
Well, they didn’t sit back in Longmont, Colo. They fought. Is the torched pro-life clinic, which suffered extensive fire and smoke damage, what all these Leftist leaders wanted? Will they condemn this arson? It’s much more likely that they will ignore it altogether, just as they ignored the Antifa and Black Lives Matter riots of the summer of 2020.
Democrat leaders are also likely to ignore the Saturday morning attack on the Vermont State House, where the attackers also painted “If abortions aren’t safe you’re not either” and caused over $25,000 in damage. Here once again the basic intelligence of Leftist rioters is in serious question. Are they not aware that there probably isn’t a single person in the Vermont State House who is happy that Roe v. Wade was overturned? Do they seriously not know that Vermont is one of the least likely states to outlaw abortion now that states are able to do so?
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PMK says
The fact that Vermont is not likely to ban abortions isn’t the issue for most of these rioters. The Dobbs decision was just an excuse. The judges in the majority were an excuse to blame Trump for this decision. Even if they didn’t approve of the arson attack on this clinic, odds are more Vermonters than not winked and nodded.
gravenimage says
And Colorado is one of just a handful of states that allow abortion at *any* point in the pregnancy, even at birth.
So no, this is not about concern over abortion not being available there.
Infidel says
Wonder what Comrade Rod thinks about this one?
gravenimage says
Good question, Infidel. Of course, he’d never touch a story like this. Typically he picks a story where a Jihad terror attack has claimed a single victim, or a few–as re a recent throat-cutting murder–and says in essence that this is nothing, and that everyone should be focused on banning all guns in the US.
CogitoErgoSum says
If you say “bans off our bodies” I have to ask what is a body and when does your body become yours?
Infidel says
Also, how does it work one way for vaccines and another way for abortificants?
somehistory says
the unborn have bodies, too, but plenty of people feel they have an immoral ‘right’ to put hands, forceps, knives, salt, and other toxic debris all over the tiny babies.
gravenimage says
All grimly true.
CogitoErgoSum says
As I see it, if this is framed as a question of what are the rights that human beings have over their own body, inhabited by their own consciousness (if you don’t like the word “soul”), then it is a human rights issue.
I agree that a woman has a right to control her body. But if she becomes pregnant as a result of her own actions which result in the creation of another human being insider her body, does she have the right to kill the human being inside her body that she caused to be created there (by putting something else inside her body)? What more basic and important human right is there for a human being than the right to live? I think a woman has no right to kill her baby and the baby has the right to live.
Even in the case of rape, I would still say the killing of the human being who had nothing to do with the rape would be a human rights violation and if anyone should suffer a penalty it should be the rapist. The fact that the woman would have to carry to term a baby she did not want makes the crime of rape extremely serious and I would make the penalty for rape if a child is conceived a death sentence – but still giving the woman who was raped final say in whether it should be carried out or not. In the case of rapes resulting in pregnancy it seems fair to me that the rapist would be trading his own life for the life of the human being he caused to be created. The woman who was raped will still have her life and the baby will have its life.
I know all of this isn’t completely fair but it’s as fair as I can think to make it. Life may be everyone’s right but there’s no way to guarantee everyone’s life will be a good life. We live in an imperfect world – and these are only the thoughts of a nobody who nevertheless is somebody and is thankful to be alive in the world.
somehistory says
“Post-Roe, stand up for those who cannot fight for themselves”
Ben Carson and Marjorie Dannenfelser
“Perhaps they didn’t know the wonderful and astonishingly intricate details that science now tells us — such as the fact that immediately upon fertilization a baby has its own unique set of DNA or that by six weeks, a baby has a heartbeat and the brain is starting to develop very rapidly with 400 million new neurons in one day. By 10 weeks, the child’s heart has beat more than 10 million times while fingernails are growing, and fingerprints start forming, too. By 14 weeks, these children are making facial expressions, and by 15 weeks, he or she has a preference for sucking either the right or left thumb. By 15 weeks, these babies have beautiful and fully formed noses and lips, as well as their little eyelids and eyebrows. They possess all their major organs, which are formed and mostly functional. At 15 weeks, babies can respond to taste, and female babies have all the eggs that they will ever produce.
There is also evidence that by 15 weeks, if not earlier, they are able to feel the excruciating pain of abortion — and millions have suffered this fate. Over 63 million children have had their lives taken since the deeply divisive and scientifically unsound decision in Roe v. Wade.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/wellness/post-roe-stand-up-for-those-who-cannot-fight-for-themselves/ar-AAYWjQk?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=da7272ee3b1e46d9a6494b5a133f7f79
somehistory says
They’ll “fight for the **daughters and granddaughters* they didn’t allow to be born.
It’s amazing that so many incredibly old and seriously wrinkled and hideously ugly inside and out these women are. Way too old to be worried about becoming pregnant and finding a **safe** place to murder a baby. Those places are never safe for the little one.
They get out and screech about “keep your hands off my body” and give no thought that anyone wishing to put their “hands on the bodies” of these witches would be mentally ill.
Many of them already murdered their children. Now they pretend that the Justices have taken away a “right” they didn’t have in the first place.
Substitute teachers rarely make students do the work. then the teacher returns and demands that papers be finished and turned in or fail. That’s how it was with the Court….some murderous fools told women they could freely murder and the **real** Justices came in and said “not so.”
wpm says
The democrats(including the newest supreme court judge) could not every say what a women was or define what is a women a month ago. Now they want abortion with no restrictions pass the 6 month of pregnancy as a “women right” .Even in western Europe and Japan it is not done past the 3 month.These pregnancy center get health insurance section 8 housing and other benefits for poor pregnant women who are looking or thinking of no aborting their child why is this a bad thing?No one forces these women it is their “choice” just like they can keep the baby or put him or her up for adoption .
Andrew Blackadder says
So when these ”women” scream my body, my choice, then they dont really mean every female can make whatever choice she wants to make because these females that want to have the child can also make a choice… Cant she ?.
Somebody needs to explain to these sad ass fat ”women” that abortion is not illegal, the Law is in the hands of the State, so just go to a State that allows it and may God forgive you.
California may now become The Abortion State as that Golden State standard has lost its shine already.
Rarely says
The violence and threats are inexcusable.
Peaceful demonstrations and the ballot box are the proper places for people to express themselves in a civilized society.
somehistory says
From the woman in Portland, OR, whose clinic was attacked…thousands in damage done…and she believes the “defund police” left them more vulnerable.
“White, a self-identified pro-choice liberal Democrat Catholic, said she does not understand why her organization was a target for violence.
“We help anyone who walks in our doors and the people are coming to us. They’ve already made a choice to have children. They’ve already made that choice. So they don’t understand what we do. And it’s left over from 50 years ago. We are here to support women, support babies, support families. We believe in their rights.”‘
she should realize that the mobs who attacked Black businesses in pretense of defending “black lives,” are some of the same mobs attacking anyone who might not agree with their criminal attitudes and actions.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/portland-abortion-protesters-target-pregnancy-support-center-the-violence-was-horrible/ar-AAYTNRn?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=3d9e2927b1d84c04b425
Rarely says
As an aside, I just received a cartoon that reads:
“Time zones are amazing.
It’s 4 am in Tokyo, 8 pm in London and 1953 in the United States.”
Cute.
CogitoErgoSum says
I thought it was 1984.
somehistory says
It’s amazing. so many people care about what is happening in the U.S. to keep the unborn from as much slaughter as has been happening for nearly fifty years, but they totally ignore the slaughter gong on in places like nigeria.
And, many have condemned the Justices, while not being subject nor affected to any degree by the verdict.
Rarely says
somehistory.
I think you’ll find that the ruling will affect American society in general in a major way and spread outside US’s borders.
somehistory says
If it keeps at least some babies from being murdered, that’s what I care about.
If people in other countries don’t want to come here, I find that a good thing as we have too many coming now.
And if some, like the *singer* who has already announced that she will give up her U.S. citizenship over the deal, wish to leave, that’s to the good also.
If people do not live here, they don’t have to abide by U.S Law.
Infidel says
Precisely!
gravenimage says
Is This What AOC and Pelosi Wanted? Christian Pregnancy Clinic Torched in Colorado
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I doubt they will say anything against it.
And if these thugs are so wedded to “choice”, why are they opposed to there being options other than abortion? The existence of this clinic was not preventing anyone from getting an abortion.
somehistory says
FOX News reports:
“ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC avoid mention of Jane’s Revenge in coverage of arson, attacks against pro-life groups”
‘”Your thirty days expired yesterday. We offered an honourable [sic] way out. You could have walked away. Now the leash is off. And we will make it as hard as possible for your campaign of oppression to continue. We have demonstrated in the past month how easy and fun it is to attack. We are versatile, we are mercurial, and we answer to no one but ourselves,” the statement said.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/abc-cbs-nbc-msnbc-avoid-mention-of-jane-s-revenge-in-coverage-of-arson-attacks-against-pro-life-groups/ar-AAYW1Wv?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=f9b3233176654e99a3787a5
somehistory says
“how ***fun**** it is to attack.” Plain evil.
DavidR says
Almost everybody who says “I wish I was never born” really means it. Even people who were truly unwanted, and given up emotionally or for adoption, would kill themselves. A lousy, pain filled life is still better than no life at all. WAY better.
somehistory says
Absolutely….life beats never having existed. If they had never been, there would be no one that might find them lovable and ‘wanted.’ each day is a new opportunity for things to improve.