Military Abortion

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http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1126-04.htm


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Bill Moyers recently interviewed Sister Joan Chittister, a Benedictine nun and National Catholic Reporter columnist:

Moyers: Depending on the sources, Sister Joan, there have been some 37,000 civilians killed in Iraq, or maybe 100,000. Why is abortion a higher moral issue with many American Christians than the invasion of Iraq and the loss of life there?

Chittister: Could I ask you that question? Because that is the moral question that brings me closest to tears. I do not understand that, Bill. You see, I'm absolutely certain that some of the people that we're killing over there are pregnant women. Now what do you do? Now what do you do? That's military abortion.

Moyers: That's what?

Chittister: That's military abortion. Why is that morally acceptable?

Moyers: Somebody said to me the other day that Americans don't behead, but we do drop smart bombs that do it for us.

Chittister: And that are not as smart as we think they are.

Moyers: What do you mean?

Chittister: Well, what is this smart bomb stuff? We've still got an image in our head from 1991 of this little golf ball dropping down a furnace. It's not working that way.

Moyers: So you think more people should get out and protest. Take to the street with this?

Chittister: I think each of us should become part of the conversation any way we can.

That's your cue, Americans. Be skeptical, be conspiracy-minded. Sport your peace sign proudly. Think outside the mainstream U.S. media. Write and call Congress. Boycott businesses that are run counter to your principles. Pay someone's fine who's been arrested at a protest. Money talks loudest of all.

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[Sporadicus]

1. Dispersal of Depleted Uranium

constitutes another form of 'military abortion' that will persist for generations.

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2. I agree the use of DU in battle is a war crime and should be stopped

at all cost. It is one of the prime causes of Gulf War Syndrome