An anti abortion crusader in Kansas died in a plane crash.

[JohnnyRingo]

Apparently, he spent his money funding a recount after Kansans overwhelmingly voted to keep abortions legal. It was over $100,000 he had set aside to perform required maintenance on his Cessna. He loved that airplane and decided to fly it anyway and take his chances. Pro life for thee, but not for me.

Anti-Abortion Crusader Dies In Plane Crash After Spending Cessna Budget On Failed Vote Recount
Mark Gietzen claimed he was pro-life, but died anyway

Last summer, voters in Kansas faced a choice: Keep abortion legal, or give the state the chance to ban it? Kansans came out and supported abortion by a wide margin, but that didn’t stop anti-choice folks from trying to undo the vote with a recount. Now, one of the people that funded the recount is dead — after crashing his plane.

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Gietzen, in an August interview with The Eagle, said the nearly $120,000 he spent on the statewide recount would likely complicate his plans to renovate the old Cessna, which he said he flew for the first time in the summer of 2022 after he put 15 years of work into it.

“My only drawback on this Value Them Both recount is that that airplane is going to sit and collect dust for a little while,” he said in August. “Well, not collect dust. I’ll just go fly it in uncontrolled airspace, and we have to put 50 hours on it before you can fly with passengers anyway, which is a necessary and good rule. I’ve already got so much invested in that plane, I want to get finished. I’m so proud of this thing.”

His obituary in the Eagle is full of fawning quotes from other anti-choice politicians, who called him “the hardest-working guy I know in the pro-life movement” and “an irreplaceable figurehead.” Let’s hope so!

https://jalopnik.com/anti-abortion-financier-dies-plane-crash-repair-budget-1850451145

[FoxNewsSucks]

1. gee, what a shame.

[Maru Kitteh]

2. Gee, that's

not too bad, really.

He worked on the junker for 15 years and the best he could do was kill himself with it?


BRILLIANT. There's a metaphor in there somewhere, I'm sure of it.

[SledDriver]

3. Now he's a good anti-abortion crusader

[sakabatou]

4. *sad trombone sound*

[Aristus]

5. I hope he lived long enough to think:

"Shit. I really should have paid for that maintenance..."

[Wingus Dingus]

6. And as the plane crashed down, he thought, "Well isn't this nice?"

Isn't it ironic? Don'tcha think?

[Captain Zero]

7. so it goes. Now he is trapped in the amber of the moment. nt

[MuseRider]

8. What shall we ever do

here in Kansas? One down, many more to go. Where was his Co Pilot God?

Enjoy your breakfast with Jesus.

[dalton99a]

9. Good for him

[kaotikross]

10. I won't cheer his death

But this does expose the kind of thinking- or lack thereof- that GOPers put into things.

[OMGWTF]

11. Play stupid games win stupid prizes.

[lindysalsagal]

12. god votes, again.

[Xavier Breath]

13. Ah, you hate to see that.

Oh look, there's a sale at Penney's.

[Norbert]

14. Tots and pears.