Next Question--

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"'Cause there is no war on women." Rush Limbaugh 6 March 2012. 

Really? 

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The Half-National Pastime

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This from the Oklahoma Women's Network Blog (emphasis mine):

On April 2, 1931, 17-year-old Jackie Mitchell, the second woman to play baseball in the all-male minor leagues, pitches an exhibition game against NY Yankees and strikes out both Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. The next day, the Baseball Commissioner voided her contract, claiming baseball was too strenuous for women. The ban was not overturned until 1992.

More on Jackie here.

My gently snowflakes, I never wanted to play professional baseball (heck, I was barely good enough for the local summer leagues). But the kind of action related above is what makes women mad. We are told, repeatedly and still (though not in baseball), that we may not participate. We may not try. We may not try-out. Even if we are good enough, we may not. Makes a body angry.
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God Bless Kansas

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Scott Roeder, who has confessed to the fatal shooting of a Kansas abortion provider, is fighting prosecutors’ attempts to ban the so-called necessity defense at his trial. ... Roeders’ attorney filed a motion stating that Roeder should be allowed to argue that the killing was necessary to prevent Tiller from performing abortions.

The necessity defense is highly unlikely to succeed in Roeder’s case, according to two law professors .... “He may think this is his opportunity to explain why abortion is murder, but that’s not relevant,” said Michael Kaye, a professor of law at Washburn University School of Law in Topeka, Kansas. Also known as the “choice of evils” defense, the necessity defense is on the books in many jurisdictions and allows defendants to argue that they needed to take action to prevent greater harm. “Kansas has never to my knowledge recognized the necessity defense in its statutes, but sometimes defendants do raise it,” said Melanie Wilson, a law professor at the University of Kansas School of Law. In those cases, the court has declined to decide whether Kansas should recognize it, saying it’s a moot point because the defendant can’t meet the criteria for the defense. (Emphasis mine.)

For instance, the action that the defendant tried to prevent must be illegal — not simply perceived as immoral. If a woman has the right to an abortion under certain circumstances — and if the abortions that Tiller performed were lawful — then Roeder could not successfully argue that he was justified in killing Tiller to stop him from carrying out abortions.

Kansas courts have previously rejected necessity defenses.

--from the Southern Poverty Law Center
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The Dr Tiller Murder

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For many, many years, it has seemed to me that those who are part of the "pro-life" (I prefer to call it anti-abortion) movement must have a tiny, little screw loose someplace.

They say they are Christians. You remember Christians? The followers of Jesus Christ? The Prince of Peace? The man who hated no one? The man whose only act of violence was against the money-changers? The man who said to love one another? Yeah, that Jesus Christ.

Yet these so-called Christians (the Taliban West) are the only people on either side of this who use violence to impose their will & view on everyone else. Bomb. Harass. Vandalize. Terrorize. Shoot. Murder. These actions are their stock in trade.

We who espouse choice are the only ones at the table who must fear for our lives.

Doubt not, anti-abortion is all about the subjugation of women.
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