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Holmans’ stance endorses violence
The Gazette Opinion Staff
May. 9, 2011 1:26 pm
Donna Holman wrote this forum (April 22), adopting a pious stance against abortion. However, if you visit her website (www.armyofgod.com/DanHolmanDonnaHolmanWebpageCourt.html) and read her own words, a different image emerges. Describing the women who prosecuted her for harassment at the Planned Parenthood clinic, and Planned Parenthood workers she says:
“Two fe-he-male (sic) prosecutors refused to produce the subpoenaed murdering mother who accused donna (sic) of harassment. Don't you know that abortion clinics have a right to kill in private? The fe-he-male (sic) judge allowed the lying hearsay testimony of 3 fe-he-male (sic) Planned Parenthood workers and 2 fe-he-male police into evidence.”
It seems the Holmans do not respect women who fail to live up to their standards of femininity.
Holman chose these words when she addressed the court at her sentencing: “I find it especially strange and abhorrent that a female judge would somehow think it is normal for Planned Parenthood to systematically kill babies in the womb, but abnormal for me to oppose these serial killers.”
When interviewed in 2009 by CNN after Scott Roeder murdered abortion provider George Tiller, Holman's husband Dan was “cheered” by news of Roeder's crime (http://articles.cnn.com/2009-06-01/justice/abortion.dan.
holman_1_dr-george-tiller-preborn-child-abortion-rallies?_s=PM: CRIME): “I believe that all abortionists are deserving of death, and they are not the only ones. There are politicians and judges and others who support this murder that are also deserving of death.”
The Holmans are not sincere activists. Their perspective is fanatical, and endorses the use of terror to deny women reproductive freedom.
Jeff Klinzman
Coralville
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