Letters from an Abortion Doctor

If you believe in abortion rights, and are angry and frustrated by the harrassment, threats and violence against abortion providers, this story is a must read. Its a hair-raising,and ultimately inspiring story of one man fighting back; the community that rallies around him; and the power of a blogger (Moiv) to not only tell the story well, but to reach people who would never have heard the story any other way.

The story is posted over at Talk to Action and elsewhere around the blogosphere:

"Every summer Operation Save America takes a massive, weeklong protest to some fortunate city in America where their director, Flip Benham, leads them in “storming the gates of hell." A couple of weeks ago, OSA swarmed Colorado in Operation Save Denver. But when Benham's "saints" and "gentle Christian warriors" pack up to go marauding, they carry along so much hellfire and brimstone that they had plenty left over for Boulder, where they focused the wrath of their angry God upon Dr. Warren Hern."

Dr. Hern is a provider of exemplary abortion care. He is also a renowned anthropologist, as well as an internationally recognized authority in his highly specialized field of medicine. Together with Dr. George Tiller of Wichita, Dr. Hern has been at the top of the antiabortion mob's hit list for over 20 years.

And this time was no exception....

Read the whole story at Talk to Action