Warning: Anti-Choicers Hijack the Internet

Sorted under anti-choice extremism on June 17, 2009

I know I haven’t been blogging very much this past week, which is due to the fact that I’ve been working pretty much every chance I get and I have also been experiencing flareups with a medical condition that I have that has caused me to sleep more than 15 hours every day, which I will address in an upcoming post. So because I haven’t been around that often, that also means that I have not had the chance to moderate comments and I swear the anti-choice population waits until Menstrual Poetry has not been updated in a few days and then go on the attack, leaving mindless, vile, and vicious comments on any and all posts addressing reproductive rights and more specifically, my last post about Dr. LeRoy Carhart to begin performing late-term abortions in Kansas to fill the shoes of the late Dr. Tiller due to Dr. Tiller’s family decided to keep the doors of the his clinic closed.

I received a comment on that post (now deleted) about Dr. LeRoy Carhart, informing me to visit LeRoyCarhart.com (I’m not linking this on purpose.) Knowing full well I would most likely not be pleased with what I was about to see, I typed the web address in anyway and confirming my suspicions, I was redirected to thewaytoheaven.com (again, I am not linking this on purpose.)

The Way to Heaven is a site that looks very much like it was made with ‘how to make a scam website to sell products like penile enhancements, weight loss products, and the like’ and of course, includes the quote “Jesus is the only way to Heaven! John 14:6″ Because I love dissecting religious jargon I read the ‘About’ section and wanted to highlight one little portion of the text:

“I felt that the Lord Jesus Christ, through His Holy Spirit, gave me the desire to win souls through a variety of ministries; through tract distribution, street witnessing and through the Internet.”

So here’s the breakdown: Jesus seeks out the uber religious folks and only those who he knows are truly devoted to him and then tells them that they must do whatever possible to convert others to the cause and in the exact words used above, “win souls” also known as brainwashing “through a variety of ministries” also known as any place you can, and “street witnessing” also known as harassment because as someone who has been stopped on the street, in malls, backed into a corner in my place of employment, and so on, I can tell you that when you politely tell these people that you’re not interested in joining them on whatever religious crusade they are trying to get you to join, they refuse to take no for an answer and just keep badgering you until you either tell them what they want to hear so they will leave you alone or until you get very angry and tell them to go fuck themselves, which they then have the nerve to get mad at you about because “you don’t have to be disrespectful/angry/whatever.”

Lastly in the highlighted text above, Jesus is also telling these people that they must take their action the internet and they have taken action in forms that I’m willing to bet their higher power wouldn’t be so proud of… like buying the web addresses of people they dislike for political and religious reasons and redirecting the addresses to religious propaganda websites.

Chances are that if someone is looking for information on Dr. LeRoy Carhart and try to go to LeRoyCarhart.com for information, they’re probably not looking for “the way to heaven.”

But just this one instance of the religious right buying up the web address of a reproductive health provider is not the end of the story. Out of curiosity, I went to georgetiller.com and again had my suspicions confirmed when I was redirected to Operation Rescue’s website.

I find it quite ironic how the original founder of Operation Rescue, Randall Terry felt the need to come out and explicitly state that the anti-choice movement is not responsible for the domestic terrorism and assassination of Dr. George Tiller, along with other horrendously biased and untrue statements that are most likely the reason why Operation Rescue’s website contains an entire section stating that Randall Terry does not speak for Operation Rescue. However, the statements made by Terry and the information currently being displayed on Operation Rescue’s website are not too far off since Operation Rescue currently has a picture of Dr. LeRoy Carhart’s reproductive health care clinic which is obviously a way to support domestic terrorists who take the lives of reproductive health care providers into their own hands.

I for one will not believe the anti-choicers when they state that they are in no way responsible for domestic terrorism, vandalism, murder, and other malicious practices because they are still trying to control anything they can get their hands on, including the web addresses of reproductive health care providers alive and murdered by their own coercion in order to attempt to spread their lies and blatant, dripping hate.



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  • I wonder what that medical condition is that you mentioned. I have been sleeping more and more as well. It's not that I'm just tired...it's like I can't get myself to wake up. I'll sleep 12 or 14 hours and feel like I'm waking up early or something. And if I try to get up after what is a normal night's sleep for most people (like 8 hours) I feel like I'm being strained. Like I'll have a headache or something. That can't be good.
  • williamlivebingo
    i hope you get well soon thanks keep posting.
  • hope you will got healthy soon.
  • I was really speechless upon reading your post. Just get well soon!
  • OMG!! hope you get well soon, thanks for this posting. Im kind of impressed.
  • Sally
    Too bad only 9 or 10 people ever read this.
  • get well soon...........
  • Here's to a fantastic post and a brilliant assessment of the battle ground, as it were. Thank you!
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