peta, a bunch of

fucked up fuckwads (and that's coming from a vegan animal activist)

i was a card carrying member YEARS ago. then i started feeling uncomfortable about some of the things there were doing. i left the flock shortly there after. they've used women negatively in their ad campaigns but THE FOLLOWING TAKES THE CAKE - it makes me sick to my very core

George Tiller shooting prompts PETA ad campaign in Wichita

BY SUZANNE PEREZ TOBIAS

The Wichita Eagle

WICHITA - A national animal rights group plans to erect billboards in Wichita urging people on both sides of the abortion debate to go vegetarian.

One version of the billboard says, "Pro-Life? Go Vegetarian." The other says, "Pro-Choice? Choose Vegetarian." Both feature a photo of three baby chicks.

Lindsay Rajt, campaign manager for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, said the billboards were prompted by the recent shooting death of abortion doctor George Tiller, who was killed Sunday at his church.

"The discussion of the value of life is front and center right now in the public conversation," Rajt said.

"We think we would be irresponsible if we don't talk about how we're all guilty of extreme cruelty to animals every time we sit down to a meal that includes meat."

Rajt said her group contacted Wichita-area billboard companies Tuesday but was waiting to hear back about availability. She did not know where or when the billboards would be posted.........

(ht: dependable renegade and feministe)

contact peta and tell them how very seriously fucked up they are:

501 Front St., Norfolk, VA 23510
757-622-PETA (7382)
757-622-0457 (fax)

and there's no easy link for emails but you can use this one: (fill in the blanks at the bottom of the page)

peta email

from feministing

Community Blog Round-up and a cartoon: In honor of Dr. Tiller
A cartoon video via the Women's Medical Fund in Philadephia about abortion clinic workers in honor of Dr. Tiller:

And a round-up of all the Community Posts about Dr. Tiller:

Boston Vigil for Dr. George Tiller by meganjpeterson (For a full listing of events, see Ann's post or our calendar)

A Moment of Silence for Dr. George Tiller by FunFrnd10

An Abortion Provider Reacts to the Murder of Dr. George Tiller by sbherold

On the Issues: An Abortion Provider Reflects on Dr. George Tiller by On The Issues

George Tiller and How Dehumanization Leads to Violence by cng87

A Very Short Post from Skrr

Thanks to everyone who contributed posts today. If you attend vigils tonight, post about them at the community blog.

Posted by Miriam

(i don't normally copy a WHOLE post. i do a very small portion and just link to the rest. today, i copied the whole feministing posting and linked to it as well. i don't think they'll mind)

instead of standing in front of clinics

that provide reproductive, abortion, birth control and other gynocological services - taking pictures of and invading the privacy of women who enter those clinics, WHY DON'T YOU STAND IN FRONT OF CLINICS AND DOCTORS OFFICES THAT PROVIDE VIAGRA?

you believe sex is NOT good nor should it be fun. you believe sex is for PROCREATION ONLY. most (no, not all) men who seek viagra are of the age where they and their legally wed opposite gender spouse are well over child bearing age. i think that's OUTREAGOUS. they should NOT BE SEEKING ERECTIONS. ERECTIONS LEAD TO SEX (or at the very least the spewing of seed) and SEX SHOULD ONLY LEAD TO PROCREATION. period
so stand in front of THOSE doctor's offices and harass them and take pictures of THEM and THEIR families and threaten them and their patients and their patients families
Abortion provider must turn over files
By Stephanie Simon, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
One of the nation's few late-term abortion doctors was ordered Wednesday to turn over about 2,000 patient medical records to a Kansas grand jury investigating his practice.Abortion opponents hope that the records will lead to further criminal charges against Dr. George Tiller, who already is facing 19 misdemeanor counts stemming from late-second and third-trimester abortions at his clinic in Wichita.Tiller's lawyers say he scrupulously follows the law. They plan to ask the Kansas Supreme Court to overturn a state district court judge's ruling that Tiller begin handing over files as early as today."It's an unprecedented encroachment upon a woman's right to privacy," attorney Dan Monnat said.Monnat was joined in court by a lawyer from the New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights, who filed affidavits from three patients demanding that their medical records remain private. Even though the judge ordered names and addresses removed from the files, the patients said they feared their identities could be deduced from details about their families and medical histories. The antiabortion group Operation Rescue has given the grand jury several photos that it says show pregnant women entering Tiller's clinic; the same pictures are posted online, with the women's faces blurred."Even thinking about the possibility of anti-choice extremists identifying me has caused my partner and I great distress," one woman wrote.The unfolding legal dispute treads familiar ground..........