A story about an abortion provider:
As many of you know I am a clinical dentist practicing in Philadelphia. For about twenty-five years I treated a doctor who was one of the principal abortion providers in South Jersey, as we like to call it around these parts. Anyway, he had quite a few stories including that he had purchased his bulletproof vest with Dr. Tiller: you all recall he was the doctor assassinated by some miscreant a number of years ago and that unfortunately the vest was not sufficient to save Dr. Tiller.
Every day, there were picketers outside my patient's office and they rotated and had their own specific schedules. Now once in a while one of these protestors would wind up either as a patient in the doctor's office or as a parent or other accompanying helpmate for another lady who elected to have an abortion. The doctor told me he used to ask them, and I'll paraphrase, "What are you doing inside? You're consistently outside trying to stop me from doing this." Invariably, the woman would respond, and again I'm paraphrasing, "Yes but this case is DIFFERENT from your others because..."
The next day, the accompanist would be outside again, carrying a picket sign or harassing patients as they attempted to make their way into the office.
Unfortunately, this capable, bright, sensitive, altruistic doc succumbed to cancer and died a few years ago. I still see his grown children as patients and we talk about him as though he just left us.
So this is emblematic of the hypocrisy of the Republicans. Nothing we all didn't know before of course...I just felt the need on this day of protest to re-tell the story.
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Your point is extremely valid.
They can oppose abortion rights all the time, but when it comes to them...well, the hypocrisy just stinks to high heaven.
