Dear President Obama: 2 years since Dr. Tiller was murdered & your party has been all but silent.

[kpete]

Dear President Obama:
Today marks two years since Dr. George Tiller, a reproductive rights advocate and one of the precious few physicians in the country who performed lifesaving late-term abortions, was murdered at his church.

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Mr. President, the vicious murder of Dr. Tiller was an act of terrorism committed by a terrorist. It should have been a wake-up call to this nation, and to you, to acknowledge the ugly reality that the anti-choice movement is a serious domestic threat.

Instead, the anti-choice movement has gained momentum with the unilateral support of the Republican Party, turning what was once a radical fringe movement into nothing less than state-sponsored terrorism, in defense of an inherently violent ideology.

And in response to this onslaught of violently misogynist activity by people who seek to rob people with uteri of their agency, their bodily autonomy, their right of self-determination, their access to a legal medical procedure, their ability to do that most basic of life management in the modern world—control their reproduction—your party has been all but silent.

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the rest:
http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2011/05/i-write-letters_31.html

[gratuitous]

1. Too busy renewing the USA PATRIOT Act and executing bad, bad people

But we'll get around to that women's health thing in due time. How about, let's see . . . never? Does never work for you gals? Oh, and please don't refer to women's parts, could you? Some of the menfolk get upset that there could be kids reading/watching/listening.

[individual rights]

2. What do you suggest as a response?

[Tesha]

4. Action. Loud talk, frequently. Standing with the women who are the...

...constituents of the Democratic Party.

Tesha

[KansDem]

3. I find it highly ironic, if not downright detestable, that Ed Schultz can call Laura Ingraham...

...a "slut," and be suspended without pay for one week and required to issue an apology, yet Bill O'Reilly can call Dr. George Tiller a "baby killer," over and over, without accountability.

And who committed the greater crime? When I last checked, Laura is still alive.

Apparently right-wing terrorism is acceptable in this country...

[defendandprotect]

5. Americans and Democrats have to understand that SILENCE is also a response ... !!

When nothing is happening as you expect it to be happening --

take another look -- !!