Thank you. ;-) I hope it makes a difference, too. And I'm not ashamed; haven't been for years. But I had to get there. With better support and a community willing to deal with sexual assault head-on, it wouldn't have taken so long.

LaRita Cooper-Stokes won.

That's a non sequitur, scrappy. Who can't identify religion of terrorists and mass murderers? This happens all the time. It's been reported over and over again that the 911 terrorists proclaim to be Muslims and that Timothy McVeigh and that other dude claimed to be Christians.

I agree with you that most mass murderers are fringe lunatics and all faiths have some that claim those faiths.

As for goldeneagle's point, you didn't address it at all. In our country, mass murderers and gunmen who shoot up crowds are overwhelmingly white. Using your logic, that would indicate that white men are more likely to be fringe lunatics looking for personal notoriety. I don't think I agree with such a simplistic assessment.

Awful. And he was a former med student, and booby-trapped his apartment.

I remember being a journalist in Colorado during Columbine and covering a silent march of families and children around a hotel in downtown Denver where the NRA was having their convention.

And here we are again.

He didn't have a record; it will be interesting to find out where he got his arsenal.

Cheers to intern Darnell Jackson for his hard work on this press release! Talk about a young man to watch.

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Also, does Guttmacher make it clear how many of those abortions it reports are from the clinic and how many in the privacy of doctors' offices? I'd guess most are from the clinic due to socio-economic issues but, of course, that would bolster my original point about economic discrimination.

Scrappy, I don't know how to explain this to you: These women are exercising their constitutional right to choose to terminate a pregnancy. You insult every victim of actual genocide when you nonsensically try to compare the wholesale slaughter of a people to women choosing not to have a child for reasons that are none of your, or my, business.

As for why many people of color choose to have abortions—not that it's any of your business—you need to look not much farther than economic data: many people terminate pregnancies because they cannot afford to feed or clothe more children. Also, our poorest citizens have the least access to affordable birth control (and a lot of people are working very hard to keep it away from them).

All of those, and others, are issues we need to deal with societally to help lower the incidence of unwanted pregnancy as well as birth control, not to mention other societal problems.

However, it is not genocide.

Back to my original point, though: I do wonder why so many people who are against abortion, including elected officials, are only focusing on Mississippi's one clinic instead of private doctor's offices. That there's some hypocrisy.

She's not kidding. When I told her there was a guest speaker, she nearly jumped for joy. I love this in an intern. Or anyone. ;-)

Cedric always has this effect. Bless his big ole heart.