An American Hero

Please take a few minutes today and consider one Dr. Warren Hern.

Dr. Hern is an ob-gyn in Boulder, Colorado, who has been at or near the top of the "Operation Save America" (sic) hit list for years. You see, Dr. Hern believes that women have a right to control their own bodies, and among the other health care services he provides, he also provides abortions.

Recently, Dr. Hern took out a full page newspaper advertisement decrying the group's tactics, and drawing the parallels between groups like OSA, which are trying to fire up the fetus-worshipping crowd enough so that one of them takes a shot at doctors like Dr. Hern, and George W. Bush's "culture of life" rhetoric. He notes that there is a direct line between the kind of theocratic rhetoric being used by Republicans like Bush, Bill Frist, and Rick Santorum, and homicidal lunatics like Paul Hill.

Surprisingly enough, much of the mail Dr. Hern received in response was supportive.

Read the story of this man's courage in the face of the American Taliban at Liberal Street Fighter, and sear Dr. Hern's words into your memory:

The fundamentalist “Christians” who make up “Operation Save America” are fascists. “Operation Save America” is the face of fascism in America. Americans need to understand fascism. This is how fascists create an atmosphere of fear, suspicion, intolerance, hatred, bigotry, repression, destruction of individual lives, and the destruction of a free society.