American Taliban reveals its terrorist heart again

I remember doing clinic defense in Iowa City back in the late ‘80s, when I would help the local women’s reproductive health center withstand the bused-in anti-abortion hordes. Coming face-to-face with members of the American Taliban, I saw murder in their eyes. Of course, I didn’t know the term “Taliban” back then. I knew that all fundamentalisms are united by their desire to control sexuality, and by extension reproduction, which means, in their primitive minds, a focus on women as those most in need in segregation, control, and regulation. Not that gays, lesbians, and, heaven forbid, more non-canonical manifestations of sexuality like the transgenders, are to be left out of the religious loop. Nor, of course, are men, since you only have to scratch the surface of the “pro-life” (a euphemism that beats “enhanced interrogation methods” hands down) crowd to see their desire to ban all forms of contraception.