In what he said was response to inappropriate tactics of anti-abortion protestors, Todd Stave, the landlord of the Germantown clinic that rents to abortion practitioner , has been calling the homes of anti-abortion protestors, Voice of Choice.
Patch reported on in September 2011, a plan Stave hatched shortly after anti-abortion protestors staged a rally outside his child’s middle school.
The topic is back in the news again — The Baltimore Sun picked up the story in light of a recent lecture Stave gave at a Baltimore-area community college, reopening the discussion of First Amendment Rights and whether those on both sides of the issue have crossed the line.
Some Background
Germantown has been nudged into the broader debate over abortion ever since the arrival of Carhart in 2010. Carhart is one of the few doctors in the U.S. to openly perform late-term abortions. As a result, his office on Wisteria Drive has drawn supporters and protesters, notably the Summer of Mercy 2.0 and the Celebration of Choice last year.
How Far is Too Far?
When it comes to public discourse, debate and executing your rights to free speech, how far is too far? Is calling the homes opponents crossing the line? Is protesting outside the school of the abortion practitioner’s landlord’s child going too far?
Please post your comments below.
In doing his killing Carhart endangers the mothers physically, including hemorrhage, infection, sterility, pieces of the baby left in the womb which must be removed by physicians and even death. Carhart endangers the psychological health of the mother's he aborts including depression, substance abuse and suicide. Carhart by killing their babies and terminating the pregnancy also raises the mother's risk of breast cancer later in life. This is always a trauma to mothers as it can cause disfigurement and even death. Carhart also raises the risk of the mother's he aborts of having a preterm delivery in subsequent pregnancies. This in turn raises the risk of the baby suffering mental impairment, autism, epilepsy and cerebral palsy. Carhart not only kills, he punishes the next generation. The killing of an innocent human being and the harm it does to the mothers of the babies being killed is what should stay in focus and it should not be tolerated by caring people.
While I don't personally support the Anti-Choice platform, I absolutely support their right to peaceful protest. I hope in the future all sides of this highly debated issue will consider choosing to express their beliefs in a way that is not harmful to others.
role they play in this BIG picture. We are ALL children of GOD. We need to do what needs to get done to legally close this late-term abortion mill. It is God whom we need to be worried about offending. Jeanne N.
We need to focus on the babies whose lives are being snuffed out. We should not launch ad hominem attacks on our opposition - or their children - since that is not the way of conversion. LeRoy Cahart has been killing babies in Germantown for far too long. More than a year of peacful protest has not removed this blight on our community. By all means, we should continue the non-violent and legal protests at the abortuary - but "this kind can only come out by prayer and fasting". LeRoy Cahart and Todd Stave practice their wicked business with full protection of Man's law. So our fasting has to be to spurn Man's law. For those who are able, it is time to break Man's law and trespass at the abortuary to save the babies.
Todd Stave, Director of Voice of Choice
We are talking about the killing of innocent children. Whether the protests were right or wrong, there is no question that what Leroy Carhart does is morally wrong. This can all end in a moment, when GRHS shuts down and Carhart no longer comes to our great state of Maryland to kill our most vulnerable citizens.
What hate and violence and you referencing? John
Margaret Ann (Peggy) Clifford Germantown, MD
I presented a paper showing that the preborn are human beings from conception and a pro abortion person presented the usual arguments to justify abortion to the Montgomery College Philosophy Club a couple of years ago at the request of a clinic escort. When I finished one of the students compared gestation of the preborn to baking a cake and said it is not human until the cake is done. This is after I had reviewed over 150 years of physicians biologists and beneticists, including Alan Guttmacher, saying the baby was a human being from conception, presenting the physical evidence of sonography, the proof from embryonic stem cell research, the statements of leading abortion proponents, the proof of invitro fertilization, disease elimination and sex selection prior to implanting a conceptous in the womb and complex fetal surgery, including spina bifida and diaphragmatic hernia repair. People that are pro abortion don't change their minds when presented with the proof that abortion kills a human being. They adhere to the the fabrication that the preborn are just amass of tissue to rationalize the killing. Finally, killing a preborn human being is not a matter to be voted; it is a grotesque action, mostly done at the insistence of the father, to be rejected and stopped.
Ben, now that the medical reports are public when are you going to apologize to your constituents for your sleazy behavior on this issue?
Trying to protect and save the lives of the preborn is never "extremist." Try to stay on point: the preborn, even perfectly normal and viable preborn, are being violently and painfully killed by Leroy Carhart abetted by Todd Stave and somehow you think it is "wacky" to try to stop it? That is extremism!
I hear that Leroy Carhart performs D&E abortions. Go to http://www.nrlc.org/abortion/pba/DEabortiongraphic.html to see the violence of a D&E abortion. That is extreme! Are you doing anything to stop it?
Mr. Stave, will there be "room for compromise" when this scene is played out in the facility that you and your sister own? Note I said "when" and not "if", for that is merely a matter of time.