Juan Cole – Abortion Clinics, White Christian Terrorism and GOP Candidates

Americans are more at risk from violence by armed white Christian fanatics than they ever were from Muslims. Abortion clinics have been targeted for violence by fundamentalist Christians of a violent bent for decades.  In 2009, Dr. George Tiller was relentlessly shot to death by Scott Roeder, who insisted that the good doctor was satanic because he performed abortions.  Dr. …

This Can’t Be Happening – 05.20.15

Dr. Kris Neuhaus, an associate of the murdered Kansas abortion doctor George Tiller, has been the target for since his death of rabid anti-abortionists in that state. She talks with host Dave Lindorff about a new law passed in Kansas that bars a standard, safe procedure for second-term abortions, jeopardizing the health of many Kansas women. Dr. Neuhaus also talks about her struggle to regain the medical license stolen from her by the state’s so-called Board of Healing Arts (a body stacked with non doctors whose only qualification is their anti-abortion stance), and her struggle to save the family farm in the face of a $100,000 bill by that board for the “costs” of their hearing to cancel her license. (For those who’d like to contribute to her fight, go to: www. indiegogo.com/at/drneuhaus2)