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Listening to Morning Joe as I do the dishes. It's all about how the Republicans are over-reaching and gettin too extreme on abortion. Joe, who was a Republican lawmaker at one time, thinks that now the pro-life movement has become too radical and is damaging Repuublican's chances at political victory.

I just have to comment. No, the pro-life movement has not suddenly become too extreme. It has always been extreme. Perhaps the average person was not paying attention, but the pro-life movement, for decades, has wanted a total nation-wide (world-wide) ban on abortion. It has for decades been opposed to contraception. It has for decades haunted doctors' offices and hospitals and clinics, harassing women patients. It has lied. It has murdered people. It has bombed clinics. For decades.

And for decades people have stood against that religious bigotry and domestic terrorism. Not just places like Planned Parenthood, but also women in the Catholic church, like the Vatican 24 (nuns, but also some priests, theologians and academics), who put a pro-choice piece in The New York Times in 1984 ....

Document 32: Catholics for a Free Choice, "A Diversity of Opinions Regarding Abortions Exists Among Committed Catholics," advertisement, New York Times, 72 (7 October 1984), E7.

The extremism of the pro-life movement isn't a new thing, it's just that now it has finally eaten whole what's left of the Republican party.