Discussion: AUDIO: Texas Anti-Abortion Activists Reveal They Track Patients, Doctors

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THIS, is what you call stalking!!!

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Stalking, and harrassment. Both of which are crimes.

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For a group that says they are pro-life they sure seem to enjoy threatening, destroying and in some cases taking the lives of those that don’t agree with them.

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Nah, it’s totally cool. The Robert’s Court has made it implicitly clear that stalking is protected by the First Amendment (but only if women are the targets).

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Sounds like conspiracy charges…possibly even some terroristic-type charges even may be warranted. But then I see that this is Texas and should probably switch over to the civic awards page to search for these ass-hats. Because in texas, killing Doctors and their patients is probably a constitutional mandate.

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The irony of being “pro-life” is lost on these thugs since most of the same people are in favor of capital punishment. Little gobs of tissues, good; living breathing adults, bad. Ricky Glasses could be their spokesman.

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Just so long as your aren’t stalking Supreme Court Justices.

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This is nothing new–the forced birthers have been doing these kinds of things for years now. The vids of them following doctors and nurses, as well as their families, are proudly shot! I remember 1 from the late 90’s of a pair of kids going into an elementary school, tagged as the “murder’s children.” The glee in the voices of the bitches recording the video is sickening as hell, and I am from the Land of Self-Righteousness!

What I do not and will never understand is why the Choice side never retaliates in kind. Like this: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/a-clinics-landlord-turns-the-tables-on-anti-abortion-protesters/2012/03/29/gIQAThgwiS_story.html That got their attention. Have their homes and families pictures on websites… Retaliate!

Sadly, someone will explain to me that that is Bad, Very Bad, Not Nice And We Don’t Act Like That. And Scalzi’s I Hate Your Politics (http://whatever.scalzi.com/2002/03/22/i-hate-your-politics/) will come to my mind, still totes applicable!

As ever, SMFH.

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“sidewalk counseling” = calling women murdering whore baby-killers.

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Wonder how many of the Pro-PreciousLifers are vehemently opposed to the kids fleeing violence in their countries ?

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They do more than just keep spreadsheets on the victims and their cars. They also take videos of the women going into the clinics, the workers, and the doctors and they post them online. They are inviting violence against anyone associated with these clinics. They are domestic terrorists–plain and simple. The names of the organizations and their members should be put on every law enforcement agency’s list and they should be hunted down and stopped. It is beyond belief that any of this is remotely legal.

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But, but, aren’t these guys all libertarians, and terrified of ‘the government’ poking its nose in their business?

Like all puritans, past and present, all they want is to able to control the lives of others.

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White christian domestic terrorists always get a pass until they do some extra crazy sh*%. Stalking patients at medical facilities. Stalking physicians. Murdering doctors and nurses. Blowing up buildings. Airlift these criminals to Afghanistan.

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So, if it’s legal for these asshats, what’s to keep the pro-choice individuals from doing the exact same thing and then standing in front of the homes of the anti-abortionists and picket, sing, pray and otherwise give them a complete dose of their own medicine. In particular, I think the protests should be held when they have their children with them … like going to school? Whats good for the goose is good for the gander.

These terrorists roam free while the FBI hunts down vegans protesting at cooked ham stores or entraps any rube they can.

I don’t know much about Texas, thankfully. But here in the north, these are general gynecology clinics rather than abortion-specific practices. IMO it’s absurd and dangerous to assume that women visiting them are there for abortions when they could, in fact, be seeking a wide variety of other medical advice or treatment. It’s really unfortunate that our ultra conservative Supreme Court justices seem to be allowing the anti-choice people to do pretty much whatever they want, a practice that has already had consequences up to and including murder.

You know… all of this sounds like it has the potential to be HIPAA violation territory. That could be construed (under the circumstances) to be personal medical information they’re collecting and “tracking”.

I will go you one further. Notice where they were having this meeting

“at the state Capitol.”

That opens up a whole case of cans of worms.