Randall Terry, the controversial former head of Operation Rescue, is predicting that extremists would retaliate with violence if a health care overhaul allows taxpayers to foot the bill for abortions.
Terry offered his forecast during an unusual meeting on Tuesday between two dozen or so anti-abortion activists and an aide to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., during which Terry spilled hundreds of miniature plastic babies from a small faux casket onto a conference table in a room adjacent to Pelosi's personal office in the Cannon Building.
During the meeting, Terry warned of ominous repercussions from extremists if House provisions that would expand insurance coverage for abortions are made into law.
"If you force people to pay their money" he said afterward, "there are people who will resort to acts of violence."
Terry's comments come less than two months after he distanced himself from many leaders in the anti-abortion movement by refusing to condemn the murder of abortion doctor George Tiller in Kansas.
"George Tiller was a mass murderer. We grieve for him that he did not have time to properly prepare his soul to face God," Terry said at the time. "I am more concerned that the Obama administration will use Tiller's killing to intimidate pro-lifers into surrendering our most effective rhetoric and actions."
Terry's small group included Norma McCorvey, the "Jane Roe" in the Supreme Court's landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion.
McCorvey, who has since become an abortion foe, said Pelosi should be shunned by her own Catholic church, echoing a sentiment she expressed about Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor recently.
"[Pelosi] shouldn't be allowed to take communion," said McCorvey, a convert to Catholocism.
The Pelosi aide said almost nothing during the brief meeting, letting the activists vent and promising to pass their words and sentiments on to the Speaker.
As she turned to leave the meeting, one of the activists called after her to "Remind [Pelosi], as a Catholic, there is a place called hell."
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Randal Terry sounds so much like the Taliban threatening to cut off people's fingers if they vote. Any group that is associated with Tiller's killer needs to be investigated for involvement.
A few years ago the KKK in Alabama lost their headquarters to the mother of a teenager in Mobile Alabama who was lynched because the killers were connected to the KKK.
Posted by: twinkie
| August 25, 2009 9:25 PM
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