Posted on 07/26/2005 7:30:52 AM PDT by Millee
The head of the Boulder Abortion Clinic said that an anti-abortion group's neighborhood leaflet campaign is an effort to get him killed.
In a full-page ad published in local newspapers over the weekend, Dr. Warren Hern said the flyers, distributed by a group that calls itself Operation Save America, were designed to cause hate and fear and to get someone to kill him.
As proof, Hern points to other abortion doctors who have been killed after neighborhood flyers identified them.
The flyers labeled Hern a "baby killer" and were placed in the doors of a Boulder neighborhood.
"It's not freedom of speech," said Hern on Monday. "This is terrorism. The purpose of the flyers is to get somebody to kill me."
In his ad, he called the group fascist and said, "They would stop at nothing to impose their views on other people."
A member of Operation Save America disputed Hern's claim and said distribution of the leaflets in the neighborhood was not meant to intimidate Hern with the threat of violence.
"This is certainly not a threat of violence against abortionist Hern, but hopefully it is a wake-up call to him," Joseph Parente told the Colorado Daily newspaper.
The anti-abortion group held a convention in Denver that ended on Saturday. Members of the group, who signed pledges of non-violence, picketed women's health clinics in Boulder, Denver and Colorado Springs.
ABORTION IS LEGAL. Threatening people's lives isn't. You obviously don't GET IT.
In stead of "baby killer" should we call him "baby dismember"?
Since we're talking about leftists, Lunar, obviously.
I'll health clinic. No one is sick when they arrive, but half leave dead.
Excellent comment.
He's the guy who's killing babies, right? Just checking.
PMJI, but the point as I see it is that there is a difference between pushing a little old lady out of the path of a speeding bus and pushing a little old lady into the path of a speeding bus.
People who would like to see Bush dead for defending Christendom against Islam's war on civilization are failing to make that distinction.
Their wrongheaded opinions are not on the same moral plane with those of people who oppose abortion, and need be accorded neither credibility nor courtesy.
Allow me to restate the earlier exchange in accordance with that view.
hiredhand (restated):
"If decent, reasonable people become so angry at your actions that you are afraid for your safety, perhaps you should think about what you're doing."
Hildy (restated):
"But utter scumbags who are completely wrong, malicious, and unreasonable become so angry at decent people for doing good things that they wish the decent people dead, so your argument fails."
There is, in my view, no reason to treat the bone-headed, mean-spirited, and utterly lunatic ravings of leftists as if they were possessed of the slightest validity or utility. They can be mocked, reviled, or ignored, certainly, but error can never stand in rebuttal of truth.
(Of course, God forbids murder, so all people are strictly forbidden to take the lives of baby-killers.)
Ah, but how can it be a 50% mortality rate when you don't acknowledge that the victims are even human? Abortioneers view it no differently than an appendectomy.
"Abortioneers view it"
I think my #30 speaks to that point.
A question truly reflective of the age we live in. I may have to use it.
Here's these nice civic-minded, door-to-door volunteers trying to give the 'doc' some free advertising, and he objects! I'm trying to think what would be the reaction of the average real doctor if folks went around neighborhoods and gave that doc some exposure of what his specialty is.
I don't exactly think Hern is complaining about the lack of professional quality of his mug shot on the leaflets.
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"mercy is better than justice"
Ever read Shakespeare on that? Merchant of Venice, Act 4 Scene 1, Portia to Shylock?
The quality of mercy is not strain'd,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:
'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown;
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
But mercy is above this sceptred sway;
It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,
It is an attribute to God himself;
And earthly power doth then show likest God's
When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew,
Though justice be thy plea, consider this,
That, in the course of justice, none of us
Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy;
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
The deeds of mercy. I have spoke thus much
To mitigate the justice of thy plea;
Which if thou follow, this strict court of Venice
Must needs give sentence 'gainst the merchant there.
Freedom of speech, which protects not merely public recitations of Mary Had a Little Lamb but also statements of fact, among manyother kinds of statements, is right there explicitly stated in the First Amendment for even pro-aborts and SCOTUS justices to see and read if they have a constitution, some reading lessons and reading glasses as necessary.
Slicing, dicing and hamburgerizing 1.5 million innocent unborn babies cannot be found under protected constitutional rights in the constitution, not under abortion, not under "termination of pregnancy", not under convenience killing, not under agist discriminatory killing, not under mercy killing, not under slicing, not under dicing and not under hamburgerization. If you disagree, please cite the appropriate portion of the constitution and its SPECIFIC LANGUAGE.
Of course, you are also arguing that threatening to kill is illegal (not that brochures identifying Killer Hern as what he is ought be construed as a threat), but that actual killing by Killer Hern is an afternoon in the park if not actually praiseworthy.
And, NO, it doesn't matter if a handful of lawless elitists in black robes on SCOTUS CLAIM it is legal to mass assassinate the innocent unborn any more than it mattered that Hitler had the collaboration of HIS courts in the slaughter of the innocent. Abortion is less acceptable than slavery because most slaves were allowed to live, however miserably. The Dred Scott case exceeded the authority of the SCOTUS and so did Roe vs. Wade. By whatever means necessary, Roe vs. Wade will be removed as Scalia has so eloquently written.
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