Birmingham

Parental notification and consent laws are sold as a public good and as protection for teenagers, but are really only about humiliating and punishing them.

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Next week Operation Rescue takes their show on the road to Kansas to Dr. Tiller's clinic and Operation Save America prepares to "commemorate" convicted killer Eric Rudolph's sentencing - at the site of the Birmingham, clinic he bombed; and all of the usual suspects will be there.