Anti-Abortion Crusader Died Tues In Plane Crash After Spending Cessna Budget On Failed Vote Recount

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

**IRONY... spent money on undoing abortion election results that he should have spent on his old plane. plane kills him.



https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/anti-abortion-crusader-dies-in-plane-crash-after-spending-cessna-budget-on-failed-vote-recount/ar-AA1bnsxz

Last summer, voters in Kansas faced a choice: Keep abortion legal, or give the state the chance to ban it? Kansans came out and supported abortion by a wide margin, but that didn’t stop anti-choice folks from trying to undo the vote with a recount. Now, one of the people that funded the recount is dead — after crashing his plane.

Mark Gietzen, the anti-choice activist who largely underwrote the unsuccessful 2022 recount effort, died on Tuesday, May 16 after crashing his Cessna in Nebraska. He was the sole occupant of the plane, and was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the Wichita Eagle. Yet, on the subject of the plane, the Eagle had more to say:

Gietzen, in an August interview with The Eagle, said the nearly $120,000 he spent on the statewide recount would likely complicate his plans to renovate the old Cessna, which he said he flew for the first time in the summer of 2022 after he put 15 years of work into it.

“My only drawback on this Value Them Both recount is that that airplane is going to sit and collect dust for a little while,” he said in August. “Well, not collect dust. I’ll just go fly it in uncontrolled airspace, and we have to put 50 hours on it before you can fly with passengers anyway, which is a necessary and good rule. I’ve already got so much invested in that plane, I want to get finished. I’m so proud of this thing.”

His obituary in the Eagle is full of fawning quotes from other anti-choice politicians, who called him “the hardest-working guy I know in the pro-life movement” and “an irreplaceable figurehead.” Let’s hope so!

[musette_sf]

1. "Value Them Both", bullshit

If you erase my rights, you DO NOT value me.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

2. Well, at least he didn't finish those 50 hours.

Necessary and good rule.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. I wonder if Mark was ever pregnant.

I'm guessing not, and so he hasn't a clue what abortion is really about.

The best thing is that this is a perfect definition of irony.

[lapfog_1]

4. dammit

"He was the single parent of three children. Information about survivors was not immediately available."

and here I was hoping for a Darwin award.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

5. picture of crumpled up plane here

https://www.kwch.com/2023/05/17/kansas-abortion-opponent-dies-nebraska-plane-crash/

[Cha]

10. OMg!

[drmeow]

6. Thoughts and prayers nt

[Solly Mack]

7. Flight aborted.

[MissB]

12. .

Best comment award!

[niyad]

8. Kharma!!

[3Hotdogs]

11. NO ! What'samatterU? It was Jesus, giving him an early welcome and the starry crown as a reward

for his anti-abortion work. Ya see, Jesus don't like that abortiony shit going on. So he rewards men who work in His name.

[Cha]

9. Wow... Most Women Want a

Choice.

And they don't want men Fucking that up.. or anyone.

[Sky Jewels]

13. Oh well. The Great Sky Wizard works in mysterious ways.

Must have been part of the Grand Plan, right?

[Raine]

14. Sympathy to those who loved him. 🕯️nt

[Merlot]

15. Sympathy to the families of the women who die because they could not get an abortion.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

16. It's a shame to lose an old vintage aircraft like that.