Utah politics

April, 2002:
You don't know whether to laugh or cry. From Paul Rolly's column in the Salt Lake Tribune:

"The Republican state convention delegate was discussing with a prominent Utah GOP elected officeholder the issue of immigration when the delegate whined that a fence should be constructed to span the entire USA-Mexican border to keep out illegal immigrants.
"What happens when they climb the fence?" asked the politician.
"You electrify it," said the delegate. "Then they won't touch it."
"But what if they touch it? You would let them die?"
"It would be their choice," said the delegate.
"What about a mother with a baby strapped to her back? You would let the mother and the baby die?"
"It would be the mother's choice to kill that baby," said the delegate.
"Then you're in favor of abortion?" asked the officeholder. Dead silence. "

Double standards

Blogger "Daylight Atheism" points out that parents who lobbied to have Christian propaganda pamphlets sent home with all schoolchildren are shocked and appalled to find that atheists and members of other religions want to use the same channels to distribute their information. Are they lying hypocrites or just blind in one eye and can't see out the other?

"The only moral abortion is MY abortion"

In March, 2006, Joyce Arthur wrote an article on Daily Kos called "The only moral abortion is my abortion." She introduces her stories thus:

In the spring of 2000, I collected the following anecdotes directly from abortion doctors and other clinic staff in North America, Australia, and Europe. The stories are presented in the providers' own words, with minor editing for grammar, clarity, and brevity. Names have been omitted to protect privacy.

The stories recount how anti-abortion protestors and activists come to abortion clinics for safe, legal abortions, then go back to trying to shut them against other women.

A mother speaks up

A mother says,

I've found that the most rabidly anti-abortion people are those who don't have children. I have taken my job of raising children so seriously and have committed myself so entirely that my conclusion in the matter is that the only child that should be born is one that is WANTED!!!!!