You may not know this, but Your Editor is one of The Poors. As it’s coming up to the festive season, and because he’s running out of organs to sell on the black market, he’s decided to vomit up some new pitches for all the major television networks in the US, because – let’s face it – they’ll put fucking anything on the TV these days. If anyone here works in television, feel free to pitch these whenever you can and make me financially stable for the first time in years.

A few months ago, I penned a Wordsmoker post celebrating the 36th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade in which I coined the term “forced-birth movement” to describe that tiny minority of people in the United States that doesn’t believe in a woman’s right to make her own reproductive choices.

Since then, tragically, one of the only doctors who was willing to perform late-term abortions in the U.S, Dr. George Tiller, was assassinated by a member of the forced-birth movement.

I can honestly say that I felt physically ill when I read that news. As MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow has stated repeatedly on her nightly news magazine over the past week, the forced-birth movement is a domestic terrorist operation that has been largely successful in meeting its goals.

It’s just a fact that almost nothing gets you murdered more quickly in the U.S. than running an abortion clinic.