For 8 years, these groups had easy access to the levers of power in this country, right into the White House, and not just through the smug political operative, Karl Rove. The whole Bush regime, from the "Decider" who believed he was on a mission from God, to the thousands of political appointees who re-wrote government websites, rules and laws restricting abortion access, is responsible for a leap in the way government stopped women from accessing abortion. These legal and political attacks on women's access to abortion – and birth control – changed life for millions of women.
They gave the mainstream media the idea that it's OK to quote anti-abortion organizations as a legitimate voice in the matter of what women have the legal and moral right to do with their lives.
The Rush Limbaughs, Pat Robertsons, and Ann Coulters have responsibility for Dr. Tiller's murder too, by creating a political climate leading to his murder. 9-11 was the fault of "abortionists" according to Pat Robertson. The clever Rush comment "Tiller the Killer," drawn straight from the constant street protesters around George's clinic, and Coulter's comment that previous abortion doctors were killed by a "gun used in a procedure" all fuel the climate that it's OK to murder doctors.
But it's not only the ravings of the right wing that are dangerous to women's rights.
What about the "leaders" of the Democratic Party who counsel us to find common ground with these fascists and religious fanatics? You have a president who invites an outspoken homophobe to give his inaugural prayer, citing "common ground" with this as somehow a step forward. You have a president who won't come out in favor of gay marriage, tacitly encouraging many of his supporters to vote FOR Proposition 8 in California. You have a president who bends over backwards to give legitimacy to the anti-abortion cause, to the honesty of their leaders' convictions.
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