Like it or not, what Dr Tiller did for a living, was not against the law. Yes “The Law is an Ass”, as Shakespeare put it, but it’s what we have to work with. We must work to get the law changed. But what this numbnut did, was to make it even more difficult to change the law.
That may be. But, the original argument was whether the guy should be taking the law into his own hands. My concern was that in certain circumstances we all would. Yes, it is tragic, but was the doctor a murderer? If the man thought he was saving children, is his excuse less viable than the doctor’s claim he was saving women? Herein lies the dilemma.