Most Disgusting Vile OPED FROM NYT

Opinion/Editorial


 

 

 I hate to say it but this takes the cake as far as overboard editorials from the New York Times, literally this is the most vile, disgusting, putrid form of writing that I have ever come across and I have seen BS as you all know from this paper the NYT.
 To celebrate a victory is one thing such as an election win and gloat as they do when they win their elections of course on their false pretenses.
 But to gloat in an editorial about the death of another human being and gloating about the deaths of millions upon millions of innocence is downright evil.
 This mornings lead OPED in the NYT entitled "Courage in Kansas."
 Here it is in its entirety.
   Nearly four years after an anti-abortion extremist opened fire and killed a Wichita abortion provider, Dr. George Tiller, as he stood in the foyer of his church, a new medical clinic offering comprehensive reproductive health services — including abortions through the first trimester of pregnancy — opened on April 3. It is in the building that once housed Dr. Tiller’s clinic.
 Wichita, a city of about 400,000 people, has been without any abortion services since Dr. Tiller’s murder. Women needing abortions have had to travel long distances, stealing time away from jobs and family, to exercise their constitutionally protected right to one of the nation’s most common medical procedures.

The new clinic, called the South Wind Women’s Center, will not be performing late-term abortions as Dr. Tiller did. But the fact that it has opened at all is remarkable, and is a tribute to the perseverance and courage of those involved in the project, especially Julie Burkhart, a former colleague of Dr. Tiller who directs the Trust Women Foundation, which owns the clinic. Her struggle to open the facility after the murder, and now to keep it open in the face of continuing threats and acts of intimidation, and amid escalating efforts in Kansas and other Republican-led states to stigmatize and restrict abortion in defiance of Roe v. Wade and subsequent Supreme Court rulings, is both inspiring and instructive.

For months after Dr. Tiller’s death, Ms. Burkhart says, she thought hard about whether she wanted to join with others to try to open a new clinic, knowing it would be “the challenge of our lives.” His old building was chosen as the site not because of the symbolism, but for its layout, she says, which works better for patients and doctors than other buildings in the area.

Anti-abortion groups responded by trying, unsuccessfully, to get the local planning commission to rezone the site to keep out medical services, and by filing bogus complaints with building inspectors and fire marshals in an effort to shut down renovations. The harassers even filed a complaint with the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts, the state body that regulates medical providers, alleging the illegal practice of medicine when the clinic was not even open.

Ms. Burkhart’s own home has been picketed twice in the last few months. The second time, she saw a sign pointed at her house that said, “Where’s your church?” — a reference, which she found “incredibly frightening,” to Dr. Tiller’s murder at his church. She has obtained a temporary protection order against the fanatic who led the picketing, and she is seeking a permanent one. There is now tighter security at her home and the clinic, she says.

The South Wind clinic is to be staffed by three doctors whose names have been withheld to help protect their safety. Only one of them lives in Kansas. The other two will be flying in from out of state, emulating the practice in several other states, like Mississippi, North Dakota and South Dakota, where doctors’ fears about personal safety and being ostracized in their communities, combined with a shortage of physicians with training in abortion care, make it necessary to import doctors.

Special precautions are planned for transporting the doctors to and from the airport. Recently, one of the doctors who will be commuting from another state to work at South Wind received a harassing phone call from Troy Newman, head of the extremist anti-abortion group Operation Rescue. Mr. Newman got through by posing as a reporter and then posted his surreptitious recording of the conversation on the organization’s Web site, along with the physician’s name. “I was terrified for a while,” says the doctor, who remains committed to the Wichita job.

Two weeks ago, David Leach, from another radical group, Army of God, posted on YouTube a chilling recording of his recent jailhouse conversation with Scott Roeder, the convicted murderer of Dr. Tiller, in which both men seemed to suggest that some like-minded anti-abortion terrorist might kill “Julie Darkheart,” Mr. Roeder’s insulting name for Ms. Burkhart. By opening the clinic in Dr. Tiller’s building, Ms. Burkhart has made herself a “target,” both men said on the tape, which was first reported by RH Reality Check. “I don’t know if anyone will pick up the gauntlet,” Mr. Leach says ominously, adding that he hadn’t known Mr. Roeder would act until he did.

Local law enforcement needs to be on alert, as does the F.B.I. and Attorney General Eric Holder Jr., who should assess the situation and determine whether federal marshals need to be deployed to protect Ms. Burkhart, clinic personnel and the facility itself.

Dangerous and unconstitutional legislative restrictions, unceasing harassment, threats of violence and fearful doctors having to hide their identities for self-protection: this is what it means to be on the front line of trying to deliver legal and necessary reproductive health care to women in Wichita and other parts of the country where zealous right-wing politicians and activists on the political fringe currently hold sway.

So why does Ms. Burkhart persist in this battle? “The frustrations and dangers are real, and sometimes it’s scary,” she says. “But just because we happen to be in a more conservative area in the Midwest doesn’t mean women don’t need good, safe medical care. We have work to do here and patients to see in this clinic.”

  Now please tell me that the NYT is not gloating and basking in the sunlight over this disgusting vile crap.