Abortion opponents continue protests after interfaith gathering
By Paul A. Anthony, Rocky Mountain News
Published August 24, 2008 at 5:01 p.m.
Updated August 24, 2008 at 5:25 p.m.
Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry holds an anti-abortion sign outside the Convention Center after earlier being kicked out of the interfaith gathering.pic by ryan
14TH AND CALIFORNIA STREETS — Randall Terry, the anti-abortion activist who disrupted this afternoon's Democratic Convention Interfaith Gathering, continued his protests, confronting attendees with a grisly picture of an aborted fetus as they exited the Colorado Convention Center.
"When Obama was a fetus, was he still Obama?" Terry yelled through a megaphone to passers-by.
Terry was one of three men evicted from the gathering for yelling anti-abortion and anti-Barack Obama messages during the opening minutes of the event. He is the founder and president of Operation: Rescue, a Washington-based anti-abortion group.
Terry and another man are holding a large sign between them, printed on one side with a picture of Obama and on the other a picture of an aborted fetus. In between are the words: "A Vote for Obama Is a Vote for Dead Children."
Police were maintaining a sizable presence outside the convention center, even before Terry's two-man protest, and they continue to watch the proceedings.
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August 24, 2008
5:15 p.m.
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starflight5 writes:
If you will remember the 2000 campaign George W. Bush preached his
“pro-life” convictions at great length. Many people voted for him
because of his views on this issue, believing him to be “the true Christian”
candidate and therefore most worthy of being president.
Now, 8 years later, not one single thing has been done to stop legal
abortion in this country and certainly has there never been anything
mentioned in an effort to address the core causes of so many abortions.
So, we still have legal abortion. In addtion, we have a failing economy,
a record budget deficit, record unemployment with millions of jobs
being sent overseas, loss of respect around the world, a bloody war
started under false pretenses, veterans without decent benefits, the
worst trade deficit in our history, failing schools, record homelessness
and an out of control border.
If we don’t get the George Bush Republicans out of office in this election,
we might not have anything left to rescue the next time around. Voting for
any candidate because of his views on one issue, or solely because you
are convinced that he is a “proper Christian” is a very foolish
and sometimes dangerous thing to do.
August 24, 2008
6:16 p.m.
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HopiMedicineMan writes:
George Bush strikes me as a fellow who had no set program when he came into office. Osama gave him something to do. Bush has no sense of history. He went to Iraq as Custer to South Dakota. It took a general to straighten out the mess. No Bush value has been permanently stamped on this country. I'm more fearful that Biden is more like Bush than McCain.
August 24, 2008
6:26 p.m.
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Billy writes:
This is an issue that should not debated by men, or women who do not want an abortion. Anyone not involved who are posting, protesting or anything should give it up and get a life. Especially all these religious zealots. They preach this and that and half of them are no way near practicing what they preach. Especially those that get caught having homosexual encounters, cheating on their spouses, visiting protitutes, or whatever. Abortion is a decision a woman must make, and I know it's a tough decision, but it one they must make, no one else. It is their choice, not yours.
August 24, 2008
6:36 p.m.
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I_am_smarter_than_you writes:
If you don't want an abortion, don't get one. There are too many unwanted children in this overpopulated world of ours now anyway. The "right" wants kids to be born, but what is their plan for the kids after they are born? Will they take care of them? Do they want to expand welfare so that people will be able to afford all of these kids they don't want?
August 24, 2008
6:50 p.m.
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LadyBird112 writes:
Gloria, with each and every post of yours that you put up, I'm inclined to believe that the RN = Real Nuisance, and that you forgot to put the word "bull$hit" before the word "artist."
August 24, 2008
8:21 p.m.
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me2 writes:
Funny that the God/Goddess so against abortion didn't have a specific commandment against "Rape". Funny that he (small cap) overlooked what has been the most important reason for unwanted pregnancies until perhaps the 19th century.
If God/Goddess so hates abortion, let him/her stop with all the miscarriages. A dead zygote is a dead zygote either way.
August 24, 2008
8:34 p.m.
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HopiMedicineMan writes:
When I was flying to Taos last night in my friend's Piper Comanche, I could not help but notice, the scarcity of people below. There's a lot of land, and very little evidence of people. That's a real observation, not coached by a cliche. Maybe "overpopulation" is merely a choice. May I suggest change.
Some look down and see a tiny hamlet or a house here and there, a tiny city, Monte Vista, and conclude overpopulation. Don't work so hard at asserting a lie. It will misdirect your bitterness. And you need that for the hunt.
August 24, 2008
8:41 p.m.
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HopiMedicineMan writes:
Think about what you're saying. You're connecting some notion of overpopulation with abortion.