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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMulti-Million Dollar "Pro-Life Memorial" As Children Suffer from Budget Cuts
Wichita Anti-Choicer Leaders Raising Funds for Multi-Million Dollar "Pro-Life Memorial" As Children Suffer From Budget Cuts
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Yet while Kansas children may not be getting social support, what the state is getting is a great-big Liberace-esque multi-million dollar "pro-life" memorial for which millions of dollars are being raised. A group led by Wichita anti-choice leaders, Mark Rotola and Mark Holick, has embarked upon what they are calling an ambitious project, but would more aptly be dubbed a monument of their perceived victory by assassination. Wichita is the location of the life, work and ultimate assassination three years ago this past May of Dr. George Tiller, a physician that provided abortion care here. The announcement of the memorial was released just one week after the third anniversary of his murder in his own church.
Dr. Kris Neuhaus was a colleauge of Dr. Tillers, and the physician who provided the second opinions required by Kansas law for women seeking safe abortion care later in pregnancy at Dr. Tiller's practice, Womens Health Care Services.
As an abortion doctor, Dr. Neuahus has been the object of terrorist intimidation. As such a physician and as a friend of Dr. Tillers, she has strong feelings about the proposed memorial. She told RH Reality Check:
At a time when many of its parishioners may be having trouble paying their mortgages and wondering how to survive massive layoffs, this church wants to erect a massively expensive monument to their victory in the murder of Dr. Tiller. Kansas' career anti-choice activists are literally salivating over a "one of a kind" tourist attraction rivaling the Creation Museum, to drive an influx of cash and the credulous.
more . . . http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/article/2012/06/12/wichita-terrorists-raising-funds-multi-million-dollar-pro-life-memorial
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Multi-Million Dollar "Pro-Life Memorial" As Children Suffer from Budget Cuts (Original Post)
proud2BlibKansan
Jun 2012
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(12,287 posts)1. Huh?
What would this memorial hold? Bottles of fetus'? Who would visit this?
On edit: Glad to see no tax money going to this ...yet.
proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)2. Oh they'll get tax money eventually
This IS Kansas, after all