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Abortion rights pioneer dies at 61
Raleigh News & Observer ^ | February 6, 2010 | Leah Friedman

Posted on 02/06/2010 5:56:33 AM PST by Zakeet

Susan Hill, a national women's rights advocate and the owner of several abortion clinics around the country, died last week from breast cancer.

Hill, who made her home in Raleigh, was 61.

Hill focused on establishing clinics in rural areas, where women had no access to abortion services, and opened more than anyone else in the United States, sometimes drawing 1,000 protesters at a time. She sued protesters 34 times for blocking entrances and physically preventing women from going in.

"She's probably the toughest person I ever knew," said her older brother Dan Hill, who lives in Durham. "She's the only person I knew who wore a bulletproof vest to work or was supposed to wear one to work. People really wanted to kill her, and she never flinched."

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Hill, who was born in Durham and graduated from Meredith College with a social work degree in 1970, began her career in 1973 in a Florida abortion clinic outside Miami one week after the Supreme Court decision, Roe v. Wade, made abortion legal.

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One of Hill's doctors in Florida, David Gunn, was killed in 1993 after being shot three times in the back by a protester, Michael Frederick Griffin, who is now serving a life sentence. Last year, Hill appeared on the "Rachel Maddow Show" on MSNBC after Dr. George Tiller was shot and killed in his church where he was serving as an usher. Tiller was one of the nation's few providers of late-term abortions.

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Another baby killer bites the dust.
1 posted on 02/06/2010 5:56:33 AM PST by Zakeet
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Ironic cause of death. Breast cancer is a killer of those who have had abortions, so some science would suggest


2 posted on 02/06/2010 5:58:44 AM PST by silverleaf (My Proposed Federal Budget is $29.99)
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To: Zakeet

Abortion rights. Who in their right mind thinks it’s a right to kill an innocent human being, their own child? That phrase always strikes me as being ridiculous and evil.


3 posted on 02/06/2010 5:59:41 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: Zakeet

“Abortion rights pioneer dies at 61”

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Just call this a late term abortion.


4 posted on 02/06/2010 6:00:19 AM PST by HighWheeler
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To: Zakeet

Susan, give our regards to Hitler and Stalin down there.


5 posted on 02/06/2010 6:01:33 AM PST by JusPasenThru (Why won't those knuckle-dragging tea-bagging right-wing bastards just negotiate with me?)
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She's the only person I knew who wore a bulletproof vest to work....

Now she needs Nomex.

6 posted on 02/06/2010 6:01:38 AM PST by reg45
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To: Zakeet

I’ve just skipped denial, anger, bargaining, and depression, and gone straight to acceptance.


8 posted on 02/06/2010 6:02:08 AM PST by VoiceOfBruck (Was "Hussein" a common American Christian name in Hawaii in 1961? Just askin...)
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Good.


9 posted on 02/06/2010 6:02:27 AM PST by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: Zakeet

I’m certain that Susan Hill is now learning the true meaning of “Global Warming”.


10 posted on 02/06/2010 6:05:03 AM PST by MortMan (Stubbing one's toes is a valid (if painful) way of locating furniture in the dark.)
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To: pnh102

That’s one final judgement I wouldn’t want to face.


11 posted on 02/06/2010 6:05:37 AM PST by traderrob6
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To: VoiceOfBruck

It’s gonna be okay, Bruck.

We’ll all make it through this together. (sniff)


12 posted on 02/06/2010 6:06:28 AM PST by incredulous joe ("We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be." ~ Kurt Vonnegut)
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Yo Susan how is the weather in hell?


13 posted on 02/06/2010 6:06:52 AM PST by GUNGAGALUNGA (Democratus Suckus Teatus is the Latin root for Democrat and it means to tax)
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I can’t be sad about it. She wasn’t really a person, just some inanimate tissue.


14 posted on 02/06/2010 6:08:32 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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She wasn’t really a person, just some inanimate tissue.

LOL.

15 posted on 02/06/2010 6:14:37 AM PST by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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Susan, give our regards to Hitler and Stalin down there.

....and Ted Kennedy

16 posted on 02/06/2010 6:15:39 AM PST by massmike (...So this is what happens when OJ's jury elects the president....)
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“She’s probably the toughest person I ever knew,”


And a serial Murderess.


17 posted on 02/06/2010 6:16:27 AM PST by Venturer
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To: VoiceOfBruck

ROFL


18 posted on 02/06/2010 6:20:02 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Your wallet: Where Democrats want to drill)
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To: Zakeet

What is the percentage of women who have had an abortion that also have breast cancer?


19 posted on 02/06/2010 6:20:17 AM PST by Ditter
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A woman who chooses to abort her own baby is an aberration - but a woman whose life is dedicated to aborting other womens’ babies is an abomination.

RIP? NO!

She has ripped too many from the wombs of others.


20 posted on 02/06/2010 6:28:05 AM PST by sodpoodle (Despair - Man's surrender. Laughter - God's redemption.)
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