JABbering Stooge

Case in point, the furor over Planned Parenthood’s attempt to open a clinic in Aurora, Illinois. In an effort to circumvent the coerced pregnancy crowd’s new tactic of economic terrorism, Planned Parenthood pulled a Brewster Jennings & Associates, using a front company to file the appropriate permit applications needed to set up shop. Abortion opponents found out anyway, and raised holier-than-thou hell about it to the Aurora city council, which then illegally pulled the permit after having already approved the permit in the first place.

As Chicago Tribune columnist/blogger Eric Zorn points out:

bitter experience tells them they have to skirt the notice of those in the community who feel compelled to try to impose on everyone their opposition to abortion.

Sadly, as we have seen on many occasions, abortion foes all too often resort to violent means to such imposition.

looseheadprop has some trenchant analysis over at Firedoglake:

Planned Parenthood isn’t just abortions, it’s birth-control, pre natal and post natal maternal care, it’s sexually transmitted disease care, it’s even primary “I have a cold with sniffles” health care. It’s also breast cancer screening and general gynecological care.

For the poor. And the uninsured.

*snip*

But because the parameters of that health care include abortions–legal abortions– Planned Parenthood is, once again, the subject of demonstrations, protests and now discrimination be the government of Aurora caving in to the demands of angry protesters.

Now Aurora’s government can screech until it’s blue in the face about how evil Planned Parenthood is for not being totally on the level when applying for the permits, but they have no legal right to do what they did. As looseheadprop points out, “there is so much case law on this issue, it could choke a horse.”

In other words, the City of Aurora surrendered to terrorists without a shot being fired. For all our alleged horror when it’s enacted against us by outside forces, we freely do it to each other. Because terrorism works.

Don’t believe me? consider this comment left at an Aurora-area anti-choice blog:

I have emailed both “gentlemen” as requested. I wondered aloud if perhaps there weren’t some laws that I could ignore as long as it didn’t mess with the status quo…………

If that isn’t a terroristic threat, I’ll eat my “Impeach Cheney?” hat.

Sadly, this sort of thing happens every time the efforts of religious conservatives to subvert democracy to their own twisted ends fails. They resort to terrorism.

Because the last resort of a theocrat is violence.