From WIMN’S Voices, news that anti-choicers have tried yet again to kill doctors and patients to lodge their protest against women’s rights, and this time in Austin.
AUSTIN — A package left at a women’s clinic that performs abortions contained an explosive device capable of inflicting serious injury or death, investigators said today.
“It was in fact an explosive device,” said David Carter, assistant chief of the Austin Police Department. “It was configured in such a way to cause serious bodily injury or death.”
The package was found Wednesday in a parking lot outside the Austin Women’s Health Center, south of downtown Austin.
Nearby Interstate 35 was briefly closed, and a nearby apartment complex was evacuated while a bomb squad detonated the device.
While Austin is a liberal enclave, our red surroundings have produced a particularly virulent form of batshit crazy anti-choicer over the years. Our nastiest character is a man named Chris Danze, who has engaged in semi-legal racketeering against Planned Parenthood by emailing local construction companies with intimidating letters in an attempt to keep Planned Parenthood from getting built. Not that Danze necessarily had anything to do with this recent attempt at bombing, but his determined harassment of abortion clinics and relentless antagonism to the very idea of women having reproductive health care is indicative of the sort of problems people who are supportive of women’s health face in this city. Louis Black put it succiently in his January 2004 column opposing Danze’s attempts to intimidate women out of getting care and doctors out of providing it:
Chris Danze and the gang determined to outlaw safe and legal abortion, stop contraception, end sex education, limit sexual equality, and restrict personal and religious freedoms. They want their religious beliefs to be the guidelines to control your behavior, their morality to provide the strictures by which you live. These folks are so close to God they can ignore his teachings: “Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.”
College towns attract the batshit crazies who use their religion as a guise to push their misogyny. The campus stuffed full of fertile white women spending their days studying and socializing instead of submitting their wombs to be conquered is like catnip to the Jeebus-hated-the-bitches crowd. Anti-choicers like to protest on campus as much as anywhere, setting up where they can simultaneously ogle the girls and tell them they’re going to hell for being ogle-able while shoving bloody fetus pictures in their faces. That non-stop hating creates the perfect atmosphere for violence like this; let’s be glad that the asshole who set this bomb didn’t get to enjoy punishing some fornicating women for not choosing him or for rejecting his belief that her role in life is to be a fetal incubator. Let’s hope he never succeeds.
For more reading, check out Jill’s post about a guy who explains that he’d be downright eager to sacrifice his wife’s life for a fetus, on the theory that the fetus is half his genes and his wife none. Thus, even a girl fetus is half human in his estimation. But this is about BAYBEEZ, and has nothing to do with male dominance.
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Amanda, this is EXACTLY why “pro-life” groups should be designated as terrorist organizations.
It’s not terrorism if liberals are the victims, y’know. Besides, how can you tell? Liberals are always claiming they’re the victims . .
Don’t they know that the real victim is Jeebus for us all, and all those pre-born babies?
“It’s not terrorism if liberals are the victims, y’know.”
It’s just a variation on the Nixon Principle: If a wingnut does it, it’s not a crime…
Write! I herd Osama bin Laden runs berthwrite and otther prolife groops out of his cave in Irack!!!
just ban the stupid fuck already.
Jesus is NOT a victim of abortion. Crucifixion, yes. Abortion, no. No one is a victim of legalized abortion. Women are the vicitms of illegal abortions.
I’m enjoying the idea that there’s something ridiculous about the notion that Osama bin Laden is a tad patriarchal.
Why so choleric Jeff? Are gerbils on backorder at your local pet store?
what a shock, an anti-gay bigot on top of a misogynist. They do tend to go together, though.
“Are gerbils on backorder at your local pet store?”
NOW he needs to be banned. Direct, personal (and unrelated to the thread) attacks on another commenter are over the line…
“liberal atheist”, MAJeff is certainly a better person than you could hope to be, if that’s an example of how you like to talk to people around here…
I’m banning him.
Just held my nose and looked at littlegreenfootballs…it being a site devoted to “fighting terrorism,” presumably regardless of religious persuasion or interest, thought there’d be a discussion about this inundated with hundreds of comments. Nope.
Kept holding my nose and searched freerepublic, another “anti-terror” site for Austin…soonest result was an Austin state rep charged with a DUI who was a Democrat, dated 4/20.
Searched for abortion…no related results.
Found one related thread when I searched for clinic, and of course easily the MAJORITY of posters accused the clinic of staging the attack on itself, related it to fake anthrax, etc. Not going to dredge up this site with more specific quotes than necessary, but LOL at the PCness card and some other stuff here:
‘There are certainly incidents of boy crying wolf in PC crime.
Eric Rudolph was never considered a “trouble young manâ€? the way Cho was. We were told what “issuesâ€? had aggravated him to attack random people and why anyone who held opposition views to the PC party line should/could be considered an “extremist”.’
‘Bingo. The madness of the left has become increasingly visible over the past few weeks, and I suspect they could use a little relief. Likewise, the Supremes upholding the PBA ban probably left a lot of the baby killers thirsty for sympathy.’
‘Until they can produce and convict a perp that’s a rogue anti-abortion activist, I’m going to continue to think so, too. The timing is just a little too convenient.’
‘I won’t deny that a ER Rudolph type might have set it, and I won’t rule out that possibility; however, as you say, the timing of it, combined with Austin’s increasing reputation as a leftist stronghold, the fact it was not detonated and other factors make me consider that this was a pro-abort ploy a much more likely possibility.’
‘Much of what was reported to be arson and destruction by pro-lifers in the 90’s, was perpetrated by the abortion clinic owners themselves because they were in dire financial straits.’
‘WRONG! Antoninus was NOT condoning attacks on abortionists, nor attacks on clinics. He was only stating that the violence perpetrated in those abortuaries could cause some weak-minded fool to go over the edge. He was not saying that it would have been the right thing to do; quite the opposite. He was just saying he understood how it could happen.’
^^ Gee, where have we heard this one before? It’s sort of like “Coulter didn’t really want Murtha fragged/Stevens poisoned/call Edwards gay.”
‘Did you miss my point? Dems scream that we can’t win against terrorism and they stampede over each other to explain why the terrorists have a legitimate grievance that must be met before the terrorism will end, EXCEPT when the terrorism is aimed at one of their sacred cows.’
I hope it wasn’t his buying all the gerbils so there were none left for me that got him banned.
Instead, I hope it was the consistent misogyny and bullshit parody. Not even an interesting troll.
MAJeff, the stupid misspellings, and the attitude were mere irritations to me. I haven’t intereated with him on a lot of threads, but I seen a few of his comments - meh…
But when he got nasty with you, that made me angry. Calling someone stupid is no big deal, but dragging up a nasty anti-gay comment that was bad “back in the day”, that was over the line for me.
(’course I don’t have banning privileges…
thanks, Mike….I just can’t believe there are people other than the idiots who make South Park that would still bring something like that up….we’re talking about a raving hate monger…..and a stupid one at that.
and sorry, Amanda, for being so strident and demanding in the call for banning…I do realize it’s your place.
MAJeff - Sometimes strident is necessary. Good call.
I guess it would be pointless to ask what serious steps law enforcement authorities, say, the FBI, are doing in response to yet another act of domestic terrorism when they’ve got adult porn and medical marijuana use to prosecute.
No worries, MA. If the commenters didn’t keep track of the worst ones, I wouldn’t know who to ban.
Thanks for that, Ace. I love how they think because Austin is “liberal”, that means anything. Like I said in the post, what that means is we attract the crazies, who correctly understand this town is infested with women and gay men who think of ourselves as fully human.
Christian Terrorists strikes again!
paul, yes it would be “pointless”. The FBI is our ONLY firewall against the predations of the purveyors of pr0n and weed.
On the other hand, since abortion shouldn’t be legal anyway, it really isn’t important if people are leaving IEDs in front of clinics…
[snark[/snark]
Yes, it does matter, Mike! Women and men go to Planned Parenthood everyday for a variety of reasons — from abortion services to prostate checkups.
I have a question for you…would it matter if an IED was left in front of a hospital or OB-GYN clinics where they give live births everyday?
Jovan1984, what I said was snark…I’m on your side…
I absolutely want the people who do things like that found and punished. The problem is that particular government function seems to be working about as well as all the other government function have under the Bush/Cheney junta - not well at all, if not outright criminal…
Jovan, did you miss the snark tags?
ok. I’m sorry. I overreacted.
“ok. I’m sorry. I overreacted.”
It’s all good…
The freepers carping about the timing is just brilliant. Yes, because crazy bomb-throwers never look at things like Supreme Court justices getting their britches in a bunch about how people need to be protected from awful, bloodthirsty insert-group-here as a green light to go murder people.
The timing’s awfully convenient? Tell that to all the people who just had a bigger target painted on their backs by the decision and the surge in anti-choice rhetoric it spawned.
“The timing is just a little too convenient.”
Pfft.. Yeah the timing is “convenient”… riiiiiiight… cause passing the PAB wouldn’t do anything to EMBOLDEN the crazies now would it? Not like they think it’s like “someone gave them $1 mil and told them to go shopping” …. nope, not at all.
/sarcasm
First Mississippi, now North Dakota. When will it stop? They have already passed trigger laws in the event that Roe is overturned.
Colleges also usually have a designated area for doing your screaming and protesting, and it’s usually around where all the students are likely to be congregating between classes. Our “free speach zone” is right outside the student union, and all you have to do to use it it tell the library you want it at x o’clock. In Ohio we get a break for a few months when the cold keeps everyone inside. I’d guess in Austin it’s a year-round thing.
My favorite are the group I call ‘denim aryans,’ a whole passle of thin, crew cut blondes in denim clothes screaming about how they can tell our lives are so meaningless and passing out pamphlets about how they are against education, art, technology, media, entertainment, and organized religion (????!!).
We recently started getting anti-choice trucks driving around campus slowly, too.
“When will it stop?”
When the country as a whole wakes up to the fact that women are actually people and starts giving a rat’s ass about their right to make their own damn medical decisions. As it stands now, the quest for a full-blown abortion ban is a roving one. Once they get the laws they want in one state, the cash, organizers, protesters, and phone banks are trained on a new target. Hell, the bulk of Canada’s crazypants anti-choicers are funded by American organizations. It works because enough of the population is ready and willing to be persuaded that no, really, what women need is the state meddling in an already-difficult time, because otherwise getting medical care might be too easy for them.
It’d be interesting to follow the progress of the investigation of this ‘homegrown’ terrorism. Who’s conducting the investigation locally, what type of forensic analysis is being done and by whom? Why isn’t the crime labeled a terrorist act? It would seem to me to be a good question to continually ask the media and every politician, why, in view of the fact that most terrorist attacks in the US are carried out by christianist/conservative extremists, do none receive the slightest coverage among the MSM or attention in legislation? Where is the ATF, Homeland Security, calls for increased security? Where’s the questioning of christian values, blaming of video games, criticism of inflammatory web sites? Where are the talking heads demanding the rendition these religious radicals?
Jovan1984 says:
But don’t you know? The “pro-life” crowd is considered conservative so they CAN’T be terrorist. At best they’re just misguided and misunderstood.[/snark]
Nothing like being late to the crowd and posting after everyone else. Ah well, first last or all points in between, idiots and hate mongers like whomever planted the device today can only win completely if we let them win. AND THAT AIN’T HAPPENING WHILE I BREATHE! And I’ll get off the soapbox now.
No, see it’s all a big misunderstanding! They were ordering a shipment of IUDs and got IEDs instead. That’s what happens when you order from Amalgamated Anagrams Incorporated. Yeah that’s the ticket!
Sorry, gallows humor. I wonder if anyone’s sent this link to Michelle Malkin after her whining about anti-terrorism drills featuring right-wing american terrorists rather than the International Muslim.
I live just off the Woodland exit where they closed down I35 last night. I literally could not be more pissed off. If you’ve been in Austin for the last 7 or 8 years (I think Amanda has), you’ve seen how the anti-choice activities have escalated from show to open hostility. This is a place where young children (pre-school age!) are trotted out carrying signs with photos of aborted fetuses, and students, faculty, and staff on the UT campus are harassed at every protest. I am convinced that it is only a matter of time until some fucking asshole really hurts a staff member or patient at a women’s clinic here. With a growing conservative upper and upper middle class, complete racial and economic class segregation, growing mega-churches, an increasingly conservative campus (with only token liberal activism these days, especially compared to a few years ago), and an increasingly conservative city government, I really can’t imagine why anyone considers this town liberal anymore. Liberal for Texas, maybe, but in the rest of the country, they’d call this ultra-bourgeois hole middle-right at best.
As a Canadian woman, I am thankful that our religious crazies and fetus-humpers aren’t as numerous or vocal or powerful as the ones you all have to suffer in your country. I’m amazed and awed at the pure hatred spewed by these arrogant buttinskis who consider themselves to be “good Christians”. When did Christianity become about hate and control? That isn’t how I remember it from my childhood Sunday school classes–somewhere amongst the cookies and juice and making play-do crosses I seem to recall something about loving your fellow man, not judging others, and being a good neighbour.
These people are embarrassing Jesus.
The timing’s awfully convenient? Tell that to all the people who just had a bigger target painted on their backs by the decision and the surge in anti-choice rhetoric it spawned.
yeah, no shit. you’d have to be a real asshole to let your abortion-facility colleagues around the country read the news and feel anxious at work just for some “sympathy” — and kinda moronic not to worry that it might embolden *actual* anti-choice terrorists. so, i am pretty sure no.
toonces, thank you for saying “fetus humpers”. imagining how much that would annoy an anti alleviates the freaked-out feeling a little.
When did Christianity become about hate and control?
19 June, 325. Happy to help.
Thanks for the heads-up Amanda (and everyone else for that matter)–I thought I’d get a lot of criticism for either quoting that filth too much, or just plain doing too much hit-and-run copying.
Hit-and-run copying is rightly criticized in some cases (it’s true that a board comment, or its slowness in deletion, in neither case necessarily represent the opinion of the board owner,) but it’s sometimes needed to survive in the blogosphere. And blocking open or all registration, etc. on major blogs often comes across as an admission that you can’t control your site.
In this case, it’s pretty damning that the “they staged it” line of thinking was OVERWHELMINGLY pervasive. It’s not scattered posters or “trolls” from opposite-leaning sites (lgfers frequently do that stuff on dkos and, thanks to the uid feature, get banned quickly, and the left side of the blogosphere is hardly innocent, either–I wish that the famous “lgf quiz” was actually legit. Although it AMAZES me how quickly lgf and Rush get to every controversial liberal blog post or WaPo comment.)
So this is pervasive enough that it’s not “arguing by anecdote” (as the term came up when Glenn Greenwald pointed out how several lgf posters advocated Jimmy Carter’s death.)
[…] For some reason, terrorism doesn’t count if it’s directed against women and their health care providers. It’s just not news, and the fact that it goes unremarked in the national media — and hell, even in the local media, as in the case of the Austin bomb — contributes to the idea that women are not important and that violence directed at women is not only to be expected, but to be dismissed. As Keely Savoie noted on WIMN’s Voices, The national press? Aside from 97 words from the AP and a brief mention from CNN — nothing (according to a Nexis search at 5:15 pm today). In that lone CNN mention, we’re told that “Officials from the Homeland Defense Team, which includes police officers, also other Austin officers, the Department of Emergency Ordnance Disposal unit and the FBI and the U.S. Bureau of the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and Explosivesâ€? were on the scene. Yet still, not a peep from the national press. Now, imagine if this clinic had been a bank, or a high school, or a sports arena. I bet we would have heard something about it then. […]
Oh wow, the Dumbass POV is amazing, ain’t it?
Translator to Their View:
- Rape accusation = Revenge
- Rape victim = Asked For It
- Hanged Black People = Arrogant Savages That Incited The Whites
- Woman with a black eye = Woman who couldn’t shout up
- Emotionally Traumatized Children = Oversensitive Attention Seekers
- Holocaust = Jew Conspiracy (some wingnuts won’t say it, but they’ll think it.)
- Israel’s Atrocity Against Palestine = Rag-head terrorist propaganda (Because the wingnuts only want the alliance of Israel and appear Jew-friendly, they openly decry Holocaust without really getting it, they’ll blindly support everything Israel does because 1)Allies can do no wrong, 2)Arabs aren’t people anyways and at least Jews are mostly white, and 3)Because Jews aren’t people, just like Arabs, we shouldn’t expect the same human rights respect we demand of everyone else. They aren’t people, diverse individuals many of whom are opposing the mess Israel is making, they are just Sharon, all of them.)
Okay, I can’t bear to go on now…but I realise that everything can be twisted to be the exact opposite, (though it doesn’t have to make sense).
- MG
[…] Pandagon’s Amanda Marcotte writes about the Pro-Life Death Cult. […]
Does this mean that if we ban abortion that the terrorists win?
Yes, yes I do believe it does.
I say, instead of calling these people anti-choice, we should call them pro-slavery. Because, in the end, that is what they are about - enslaving women, LGBT people, anybody that does not fit their worldview.
I want to see a newspaper with the headline “Terrorists plant IED at Austin Medical Clinic.”
[…] Amanda has more. […]
Phoenician in a time of Romans:
Toonces, Sunday School is a lie. I’m sorry to say I learned that one the hard way. Silly me, actually believing the ‘Christianity makes us better people’ line, and worse, actually expecting evidence of that assertation.
I believed it wholeheartedly and it shook my faith to the bedrock when I realized it was false, that religion did nothing but inflate one’s ego.
The words are still there, but with a wink and a nudge. They’re about as real as Santa Claus.
Chris Danze and his ilk are complete douchebags, but I’m just in awe (sense of amazement) over the guy (male homo sapien) that would choose his baby girl (female daughter) over his wife (marital partner) and his excess use (superfluous) use of parentheticals ( ).
Another militia got raided yesterday down here in Alabama with a large cache of weapons, but it’s ok, because
Very little about it outside of the local papers’ web sites, though CNN has something, at least.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/26/weapons.raids.ap/
Completely harmless, I’m sure. Not terrorists or anything, they’re patriots! Can’t find any online pictures of the weapons that they’re showing on the local (Birmingham) news, but they had a bunch of almost cartoon-looking bombs that were apparently homemade grenades.
Not to derail the thread, just another little bit of homegrown terrorists that aren’t getting the news that they would if they weren’t likely good ole white christian boyz.
[…] Posted by Phoenix Woman on April 27th, 2007 When he bombs a women’s clinic, of course. (And he is almost certainly a ‘he’.) As Zuzu sayeth unto all: Had that bomb been found outside a post office or a school, the headlines would have been hysterically running on about ZOMG TERRORISM TERRORISM IS AL QAEDA INVOLVED? And the right-wing warbloggers would be pissing their pants and hyperventilating about profiling Arabs and banning Muslims from public life and dhimmitude and how if they had been there, they’d have stopped it with their concealed carry and their extra-super special powers of righteousness, just like they saw in a movie once and BOMB IRAN! and 9/11 CHANGED EVERYTHING!!! but they still have better things to do than join the military, but they’ll be happy to go into the woods and hunt Russians and shout WOLVERINES!! But it’s an abortion clinic, so. Ho-hum. For some reason, terrorism doesn’t count if it’s directed against women and their health care providers. It’s just not news, and the fact that it goes unremarked in the national media — and hell, even in the local media, as in the case of the Austin bomb — contributes to the idea that women are not important and that violence directed at women is not only to be expected, but to be dismissed. […]
Meanwhile, Cervical cancer has gotten a last minute reprieve from the dangers of vaccination Way to go Texas!
Doesn’t Osama Bin Laden “just have a beef with” us? jeez. I feel safer already.
I do so love my state. And obviously, my state loves me.
Hey, Canada? Can I get
into y’all’s battered women’s shelterpolitical asylum? I’d be a good citizen, really! I even know the first verse of O Canada already.Well, most of it. It’s been a while.
[…] Via Atrios, an excellent post at Feministe on the media’s idiotic treatment of abortion clinic bombings. Just go read her, but here’s an exerpt. For some reason, terrorism doesn’t count if it’s directed against women and their health care providers. It’s just not news, and the fact that it goes unremarked in the national media — and hell, even in the local media, as in the case of the Austin bomb — contributes to the idea that women are not important and that violence directed at women is not only to be expected, but to be dismissed. […]
[…] More at Feministe, Pandagon and Unfogged. […]
Stogoe, you are right. Religion ruined Christianity. I just really wanted to believe my Sunday school teacher, y’know? I’m sure the spirit of Christ shakes his head in disgust when he sees what has been done in his name.
And Moira—come on up! Canada would love to have you.
I really do have a new appreciation for my country, after reading about all this lunacy. We aren’t a utopia by any means, but for the most part, our leadership considers the female population to be human, and trusts that we can make our own decisions regarding our health and reproductive choices. My experience as a Canadian–well, we just don’t get that much into each other’s extremely personal business up here. To assume that we could, and that it would be tolerated—no. I think we tend to respect each other’s privacy. Obviously, your loud, strident fetus-humper terrorist cells do not.
[…] Viene esto a cuento de una historia que trae cabreadas a varias blogueras americanas. Resulta que ha habido un atentado (es cosa bastante común) en una clÃnica abortiva americana, en Austin, perpetrado por uno de esos grupúsculos pro-vida (como HazteOir, pero con más dinero). Y lo que cabrea, además -lógicamente- del atentado en sÃ, es la forma que los medios tienen de contarlo. Asà cuenta lo sucedido el Houston Chronicle: Un paquete dejado en una clÃnica femenina que realiza abortos contenÃa un dispositivo explosivo capaz de infligir lesiones serias o la muerte, según los investigadores. […]
I don’t share in all the Council of Nicaea bashing that goes on around here
. I’d suggest that Christianity became irretrievably “hate and control” a few decades later during the reign of this guy, since until then paganism wasn’t completely illegal, Christianity was not yet the state religion, and non-Nicenes could still hold bishoprics within the empire.
Anyway, a resurgence in anti-choice violence is actually good for progressive politics, right? Because it will mobilize pro-choice politicians in a way not seen since the Alito nomination.
No, They’re Not Like The Taliban At All……
Bomb found, detonated outside Austin women’s clinic: AUSTIN – A package left at a women’s clinic that performs abortions contained an explosive device capable of inflicting serious injury or death, investigators said Thursday. It was in fact an exp…
I don’t share in all the Council of Nicaea bashing that goes on around here
I was specifically referring to Constantine plumping down on one side of the Arian dispute.
I got news of this today in the middle of volunteering as an abortion clinic escort. Heh!
On the plus side, we had a longer-than-usual list of appointments for today, and the highest attendance I’ve seen since I started volunteering at the clinic.
kxo -
I’ve been doing clinic escorting for a long time now (welcome btw! we always need more committed people!), and yeah, this occurred to me immediately after the decision came down from SCOTUS … and I will admit, I wasn’t particularly nice to the anti-choice nutjob protesters trying to skirt the law as much as possible that weekend after that decision … my tolerance for their passive-aggressive juvenile hateful behaviour was paper thin …
links for 2007-04-28…
“Pro-lifersâ€? try to kill again in Austin “campus stuffed full of fertile white women spending their days studying and socializing instead of submitting their wombs to be conquered is like catnip to the Jeebus-hated-the-bitches crowd” (tags: abor…
[…] But is a bomb in an abortion clinic the deeply-evil act of a person who is putting his or her personal quest to protect human life above the law of the land, or part of a coordinated attack against the US? For some reason, terrorism doesn’t count if it’s directed against women and their health care providers. […]
[…] Posted by Evil Bender in constiutional issues, wingnuts, reproductive rights, Morality, Religion. trackback Given the increasing violence (political through SCOTUS and many states and physical throughattacks on abortion clinics) against our attempts at reproductive justice* I thought it might be time to touch on more case-studies of what anti-choice positions truly lead to in places where they are the law of the land. I’d previously written about the “culture of life” in El Salvador and the political cost of defending reproductive freedom here in the US, but Jill at Feministe reminds us how high the stakes really are. Exhibit #1–bitches need to die so they’ll learn not to be irresponsible: In Brazil, poor women are routinely maimed and even killed by illegal abortion. But that’s cool with the “pro-lifeâ€? Catholic church, so long as women have to be held “responsibleâ€? for their misbehavior by dying. And that goes for contracting HIV, too. No, really: “We cannot agree with condoms because they turn life into a life without responsibility,â€? Cardinal Geraldo Majella, head of the National Bishops Council, said just before this year’s Carnival celebrations, when the government gave out condoms. […]
[…] salty femme. i’m sure lot’s wife had her reasons. i’m also sure she had a name. « probably not the easiest place to come out as trans salty sunday » connecting the abortion dots April 27th, 2007 WIMN’s Voices and Pandagon both have posts about an explosive device found yesterday at a women’s clinic in Austin, TX. If the actual story wasn’t infuriating enough, both posts are ranting about the paltry news coverage that this story received. (a 97-word AP story is about all there was). Keely Savoie at WIMN only knew about the story because a friend in Austin, “where it was covered with all the fanfare of a traffic accident,â€? passed on the news to her. […]