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Opposing abortion camps don't give much to celebrate
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| News Date | Sunday, March 13, 2005 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | As holidays go, March 10th doesn't have the familiar ring of, say, July 4th or December 25th or even March 17th. But a holiday it is -- of sorts.
If you failed to stop for champagne and a greeting card, you may be forgiven, as it's hard to get behind something called "National Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers." It doesn't quite slip off the tongue like "Merry Christmas!" but there it is.
In fact, I've tried to come up with an appropriate greeting -- Termination Tidings? Happy Vivisection Day? -- and, well, you see the problem. It's also hard to be pithy about death, in this case the 1993 murder of Dr. David Gunn, an abortion provider who was killed by a crazy person, who, without irony, described himself as "pro-life."
The idea to declare a commemorative day to celebrate Gunn's work in the gut-wrenching trenches of aborted life is credited to Refuse and Resist (R&R), a grassroots group that protests whatever needs protesting.
R&R claims credit, for instance, for protesting the death sentence of Mumia Abu-Jamal, the radical black journalist who was convicted in 1982 of murdering a police officer. In 2001, a federal judge upheld Abu-Jamal's conviction but overturned the death sentence.
This year, Abortion Appreciation Day fell the day after another important date on the abortion calendar -- the trial of Jeff White.
Little known among Americans who go about their days without giving much thought to abortion, White is the fellow who last year was dragged away from a Washington, D.C., abortion clinic for displaying the remains of an aborted fetus in a jar.
Or the remains of a pre-born baby, depending on your point of view. |
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