alan keyes just got on my last nerve. The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that two days ago, the carpetbagging hypocrite from the great state of maryland called women who get abortions and the doctors who provide them…”terrorists”. now i don’t care where you stand on this excruciatingly personal issue, you just don’t go there.
when the wrong-reverend jerry falwell blamed sept. 11 on “the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians” just days after the horrifying attacks of 2001, the white house reprimanded him and he apologized a few days later. i’d hope for a similar outcome now, but i’m not holding my breath.
to suggest that there is some similarity between someone in al-qaeda who plots the murder of innocent americans and an american woman who requests an abortion from a doctor who will provide one is disgusting. no matter where one stands on this litmus-test of an issue…i really think that anyone with half a brain would find the would-be senator’s comments deplorable.
The remarks came as Keyes was explaining why three months ago he said that the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks were a “warning” from God to “wake up” and stop “the evil” of abortion.
“Now, you think it’s a coincidence that on September 11th, 2001, we were struck by terrorists an evil that has at its heart the disregard of innocent human life?” Keyes said in a May 7 speech in Provo, Utah. “We who have for several decades killed not thousands but scores of millions of our own children, in disregard of the principle of innocent human life…I don’t think that’s a coincidence, I think that’s a shot across the bow. I think that’s a way of Providence telling us, ‘I love you all; I’d like to give you a chance. Wake up! Would you please wake up?’ “
the offensive remarks don’t end with terrorist-comparisons; keyes also likens the fetus/mother relationship to that of a slave whose life or death is in the hands of his/her master. keyes has repeatedly attacked his opponent, Barack Obama, by insisting that Obama holds the “slaveowner’s position” because he is in favor of a woman’s right to choose.
Keyes argues that women who claim they have rights over the fetuses in their bodies are akin to plantation owners claiming control over slaves because they are “property.”
women as terrorists within their own bodies? as slave-owners? i’m not even pro-choice, but i must say, alan keyes? get out of my uterus. now. and take your stupid metaphors and insensitive contentions with you, thank you.
