Posted on Jul 27, 2022
What a Missouri ‘ghost story’ reveals about the last time the state banned abortions
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This isn't the first time Missouri has banned abortions. Residents may have heard ghoulish tales of “Doc Annie” Smith, a physician who looms large in Missouri’s mythology for performing illegal abortions in the early 1900s. Today, the truth about her work has largely disappeared.
What a Missouri ‘ghost story’ reveals about the last time the state banned abortions
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Thanks for sharing this interesting story! I'm definitely sharing this on Twitter, especially since this story is *very* relevant to our current circumstances.
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CPL LaForest Gray
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I heard the story Monday (25 JUL 2022) on NPR SMSgt Anil Heendeniya
Disturbing, AMORAL & IMORAL.
https://youtu.be/HTDdIO74BuA
“The Barbarian’s WIN because of BARBARIC BRUTALITY, IMMORTALITY, they lack HUMANITY. They have No true Ethical Moral Compass.
They cross every line drawn because others keep BELIEVING they won’t “cross-the-next-one”.
Disturbing, AMORAL & IMORAL.
https://youtu.be/HTDdIO74BuA
“The Barbarian’s WIN because of BARBARIC BRUTALITY, IMMORTALITY, they lack HUMANITY. They have No true Ethical Moral Compass.
They cross every line drawn because others keep BELIEVING they won’t “cross-the-next-one”.
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CPL LaForest Gray
SMSgt Anil Heendeniya
1.) POLITICS
* ABORTION
* WHITE SUPREMACY
The Long History of the Anti-Abortion Movement’s Links to White Supremacists
Racism and xenophobia have been woven into the anti-abortion movement for decades, despite the careful curation of its public image.
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
“The anti-abortion movement in the United States has long been complicit with white supremacy. In recent decades, the movement mainstream has been careful to protect its public image by distancing itself from overt white nationalists in its ranks. Last year, anti-abortion leader Kristen Hatten was ousted from her position as vice president of the anti-choice group New Wave Feminists after identifying as an “ethnonationalist” and sharing white supremacist alt-right content. In 2018, when neo-Nazis from the Traditionalist Worker Party (TWP) sought to join the local March for Life rally organized by Tennessee Right to Life, the anti-abortion organization rejected TWP’s involvement. (The organization’s statement, however, engaged in the same false equivalency between left and right that Trump used in the wake of fatal white supremacist violence at Charlottesville. “Our organization’s march has a single agenda to support the rights of mothers and the unborn, and we don’t agree with the violent agenda of white supremacists or Antifa,” the group wrote on its Facebook page.)”
“As sociologists Nicola Beisel and Tamara Kay wrote with regards to the criminalization of abortion in the late 19th century, “While laws regulating abortion would ultimately affect all women, physicians argued that middle-class, Anglo-Saxon married women were those obtaining abortions, and that their use of abortion to curtail childbearing threatened the Anglo-Saxon race.”
SOURCE : https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/anti-abortion-white-supremacy/
2.) ENDING THE VIOLENCE: Applying the Ku Klux Klan Act, RICO, and FACE to the Abortion Controversy
“In March of 1993, David Gunn, a doctor who provided abortion servic- es in Pensacola, Florida, was shot and killed.' The gunman was a member of Operation Rescue.2 Recently, doctors who legally perform abortions have felt so threatened that they hire body guards to protect them and to help them gain access to their places of work.' Even these drastic measures are some- times futile.
In July of 1994, Dr. John Britton and his volunteer body guard, James Barrett, were both shot and killed4 outside of an abortion clinic.' Once again, the gunman was a member of Operation Rescue.6 From 1977 to April
1993, more than 1,000 acts of violence against abortion providers were reported in the United States.'
These acts included at least 36 bombings, 81 arsons, 131 death threats, 84 assaults, two kidnappings, one murder, and 327 clinic invasions! In addition, over 6,000 clinic blockades and other disrup- tions have been reported since 1977.”
SOURCE : https://scholarship.law.uwyo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1987&context=land_water
3.) THE APPLICABILITY OF SECTION 241 OF THE KU KLUX KLAN ACTS TO PRIVATE CONSPIRACIES
TO OBSTRUCT OR PRECLUDE ACCESS TO ABORTION*
SOURCE : https://escholarship.org/content/qt87z8t88x/qt87z8t88x_noSplash_cbf7bd97708b138b3f06adc005f41433.pdf
4.) The Link Between the Capitol Riot and Anti-Abortion Extremism
Jessica Winter
SOURCE : https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-link-between-the-capitol-riot-and-anti-abortion-extremism/amp
1.) POLITICS
* ABORTION
* WHITE SUPREMACY
The Long History of the Anti-Abortion Movement’s Links to White Supremacists
Racism and xenophobia have been woven into the anti-abortion movement for decades, despite the careful curation of its public image.
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
“The anti-abortion movement in the United States has long been complicit with white supremacy. In recent decades, the movement mainstream has been careful to protect its public image by distancing itself from overt white nationalists in its ranks. Last year, anti-abortion leader Kristen Hatten was ousted from her position as vice president of the anti-choice group New Wave Feminists after identifying as an “ethnonationalist” and sharing white supremacist alt-right content. In 2018, when neo-Nazis from the Traditionalist Worker Party (TWP) sought to join the local March for Life rally organized by Tennessee Right to Life, the anti-abortion organization rejected TWP’s involvement. (The organization’s statement, however, engaged in the same false equivalency between left and right that Trump used in the wake of fatal white supremacist violence at Charlottesville. “Our organization’s march has a single agenda to support the rights of mothers and the unborn, and we don’t agree with the violent agenda of white supremacists or Antifa,” the group wrote on its Facebook page.)”
“As sociologists Nicola Beisel and Tamara Kay wrote with regards to the criminalization of abortion in the late 19th century, “While laws regulating abortion would ultimately affect all women, physicians argued that middle-class, Anglo-Saxon married women were those obtaining abortions, and that their use of abortion to curtail childbearing threatened the Anglo-Saxon race.”
SOURCE : https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/anti-abortion-white-supremacy/
2.) ENDING THE VIOLENCE: Applying the Ku Klux Klan Act, RICO, and FACE to the Abortion Controversy
“In March of 1993, David Gunn, a doctor who provided abortion servic- es in Pensacola, Florida, was shot and killed.' The gunman was a member of Operation Rescue.2 Recently, doctors who legally perform abortions have felt so threatened that they hire body guards to protect them and to help them gain access to their places of work.' Even these drastic measures are some- times futile.
In July of 1994, Dr. John Britton and his volunteer body guard, James Barrett, were both shot and killed4 outside of an abortion clinic.' Once again, the gunman was a member of Operation Rescue.6 From 1977 to April
1993, more than 1,000 acts of violence against abortion providers were reported in the United States.'
These acts included at least 36 bombings, 81 arsons, 131 death threats, 84 assaults, two kidnappings, one murder, and 327 clinic invasions! In addition, over 6,000 clinic blockades and other disrup- tions have been reported since 1977.”
SOURCE : https://scholarship.law.uwyo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1987&context=land_water
3.) THE APPLICABILITY OF SECTION 241 OF THE KU KLUX KLAN ACTS TO PRIVATE CONSPIRACIES
TO OBSTRUCT OR PRECLUDE ACCESS TO ABORTION*
SOURCE : https://escholarship.org/content/qt87z8t88x/qt87z8t88x_noSplash_cbf7bd97708b138b3f06adc005f41433.pdf
4.) The Link Between the Capitol Riot and Anti-Abortion Extremism
Jessica Winter
SOURCE : https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-link-between-the-capitol-riot-and-anti-abortion-extremism/amp
The Long History of the Anti-Abortion Movement’s Links to White Supremacists
Racism and xenophobia have been woven into the anti-abortion movement for decades, despite the careful curation of its public image.
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