Rabid Anti-Abortionist Tries to Use Sotomayor Hearings for Comeback

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Rabid Anti-Abortionist Tries to Use Sotomayor Hearings for Comeback

By Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. Posted July 14, 2009.

Infamous Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry employs his gory protest tactics in Washington to assail Sotomayor's record on reproductive rights.


WASHINGTON -- "What about the unborn?" That was the shout, made repeatedly, from the floor as Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., attempted to read her opening statement at the hearing before the Senate Judiciary committee on the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. The shouting man was removed, prompting a stern admonition from committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., but the heckler's point was made.

Outside the Hart Senate Office Building, where the hearing was taking place, Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry took press calls on his cell phone amid a handful of the followers of his new organization, Operation Rescue/Insurrecta Nex. I found him escorting Norma McCorvey, the "Jane Roe" of Roe v. Wade, who now crusades against legalized abortion, to her place on the line for those ticketed to view the hearings.

"I see you have blood on your dress," I observed. "It's fake blood," Terry interjected.

"The guy who was removed from the hearing -- is he one of yours?" I asked. "Yes," Terry replied. "And we'll have another one later." He declined to offer the name of the offenders. (Sure enough, in the afternoon session, as Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., read his statement in his first appearance on the Judicial Committee, he was disrupted by a group of Terry's followers.)

Say what you will about Randall Terry, but the man knows how to get attention for his cause. And this week, his cause -- the end to legal abortion in America -- is hitched to Sotomayor nomination. While even Sotomayor's supporters are unclear about her position on abortion, Terry is certain he knows: to him, she stands for "the murder of innocent children," just as the slain gynecologist, Dr. George Tiller, was, in Terry's words, "a mass murderer."

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1. Murder, how easily this asshole uses that word, how easily he discards the life of the born.