Part of How They Took Away Your Bodily Autonomy Was Through Terrorism

[kpete]

Bombings, arsons, assassinations. Stalkings, clinic invasions. Assaults, bomb threats. Finally, Supreme Court justices.

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OFFICIALLY SPEAKING, the opponents of abortion don’t engage in terrorism. Throwing acid at people because you consider yourself an instrument of God's justice turns out not to qualify across the board as terrorism, if you get my drift. Shooting them dead in church, bombing their clinics, following them to those clinics or their cars or homes—these are state offenses that tend not to trigger federal terrorism statutes, because those statutes and their enforcement target non-Christian and non-white communities.

After 9/11, the media didn't call Tiller's assassination or any other incident of anti-abortion political violence terrorism, no matter how focused it was on achieving a political outcome, because that would have been inflammatory. Terrorism is about Those People.

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...........a white man with a gun, a flag and a cross cannot be a terrorist in America, since the 9/11 era, recapitulating the ugliest aspects of American history, defines him as a counterterrorist. Tools born from the War on Terror are now tools for states to persecute people for exercising the most basic bodily autonomy they possess. Today we learned, once again, who the Constitution is for and who it is not.

https://foreverwars.substack.com/p/abortion-pro-life-terror-operation-rescue-tiller?utm_medium=ios

[NullTuples]

1. As a trans woman with a trans teen, I agree with this message

Bodily autonomy is the most basic freedom. And Republicans are showing that they don't give a damn about that.

[Wounded Bear]

2. Indeed! nt

[Irish_Dem]

3. They will keep killing and terrorizing Americans until they get compliance with the GOP agenda.