Either because of laziness or dishonesty, Jill of Feministe has a post which falsely claims the head of "Virginia Right to Life" supports the actions of people who sent letters containing white powder and threatening notes to Planned Parenthood.
All from extremists, right?Jill is trying to argue that not all organizations which support violence and threats of violence are shunned by the mainstream prolife movement. Unfortunately for Jill, the article she links to as evidence says,
On the same radio station, Donald Spitz, head of Pro-Life Virginia said he supported the action of the person who had sent the letters.If Jill had read the article carefully and done 10 seconds of research she could have easily discovered that "Pro-Life Virginia" isn't "Virginia Right to Life" but seemingly just another name for the Army of God, a radical, violence-promoting organization.
If Jill had taken the time to even look up "Virginia Right to Life" she would have discovered that "Virginia Right to Life" isn't even the name of National Right to Life Committee's affiliate for Virginia. NRLC's affiliate is the Virginia Society for Human Life and their president is a woman named Brenda Fastabend. Jill would have also discovered that the Virginia Society for Human Life has a statement against violence.
I've posted a comment on her blog so hopefully she will correct her error and apologize.
UPDATE: Jill has updated her post to correct her errors but I see nothing noting the update or apologizing for her frivolous attack in either the post or in the comments.
This is simply a sign of a weak position on the part of these pro-choice authors. Apparently it is more effective to define pro-lifers by a few wackos - whose actions and ideology are condemned over and over by pro-life groups - than to interact with the ideology that pro-lifers actually subscribe to.