There are a few brave insightful souls, who have stepped up already to share valuable insights and to help raise awareness. Dr. Hern has been a physician for 45 years caring for women during the most difficult periods of their lives. He too is concerned by the increasingly malicious Republican manipulation of the abortion issue for political gain.
Abortion is a personal crisis of utmost importance to a woman’s life and it involves her circle of loved ones and her community. It is a personal tragedy, not a state tragedy, the state has no morally justifiable reason for meddling in this issue of a woman’s sovereignty over her own body. Not in a country that boasts about being “free”.
Religious zealots demand it, cynical politicians and dogma driven PR masters use it as a bludgeon. All of them belong to the school of thought that if you don’t like a fact, or the truth of a situation create your own fictional fact and story, then refuse to acknowledge, let along consider, the validity of anyone else’s information, or evidence, or experiences. Rather than exchange constructive information, they’ll label such messengers enemies.
That’s not right and it’s going to get a lot uglier, real soon - seems to me heroes like Dr. Warren Hern at the Boulder Abortion Clinic need to have a huge community of concerned citizens and activists vocally speaking up to support the important work they do. This isn't something for him to do, he's busy being a doctor.
I'm talking about a citizens movement simply because you have a genuine treasure in that man and the services he provides. Not only that, Boulder citizens who value this man might consider helping create a security barrier around his clinic, grassroots neighborhood watch.
That’s not paranoia, that’s paying attention to what the Alt-Right is saying -
