Here’s how CNN is spinning it....
The National Organization for Women, which supports abortion rights, called Tiller’s killing an act of “domestic terrorism.” And NARAL Pro-Choice America said Tiller had worked for years under “intense harassment tinged with persistent threats of violence.”
If Tiller was killed because of his work, he would be the fourth U.S. physician killed over abortion since 1993.
In 1998, a sniper killed Dr. Barnett Slepian in his Amherst, New York, home. Anti-abortion activist James Kopp was later arrested in France and is serving life in prison.
In 1994, Dr. John Bayard Britton and one of his volunteer escorts were shot and killed outside an abortion clinic in Pensacola, Florida. Paul Hill, a former minister, was convicted of the killings and executed in 2003.
And in 1993, another doctor, David Gunn, was shot to death outside another Pensacola clinic. His killer, Michael Griffin, is serving a life sentence.
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In addition, a nurse at a Birmingham, Alabama, clinic was maimed and an off-duty police officer was killed in a 1998 bombing by Eric Rudolph, who included abortion among his list of anti-government grievances.
Rudolph admitted to that attack and three other bombings — including the 1996 attack on the Olympic games in Atlanta, Georgia — and is currently serving life in prison.
Never mind that there have only been a handful of these murders in how many decades, and after each one, the vast majority of the pro-life movement has denounced the murders. But it won't matter to those who will make a political martyr of him.
And of course, it's yet another reason for republicans to denounce their base.
It's going to get a lot worse.
Mark
How Orwellian that a mass murderer of late term infants in the womb calls anyone fascist. It was the Nazis who perfected the art of mass killings — that is before the Communists took to an even higher plane. How dare he assume the killer was pro-life, for starters.
The man is scared someone is going to be targeting him.
Well Mr. Warren Hern, I would say it looks more like a one man revolution rather than a fascist movement.
It’s usually what you get when the law of the land is turned on it’s head by the very government that is in place to protect it.
And who is it that commends your bravery?
Hint: pssst.. it aint God.
Baby killers are a bit more "sinful" wouldn't you say?
My question is what justification did this ghoul have for his religion and the countless live and late term babies he slaughtered and how did he reconcile the two?
We dont have to invade Iraq to find terrorists. Theyre right here killing abortion doctors.
How many abortion doctors have been killed? They are few and far between. Stop the hyperbole.
Don’t get me wrong. Killing the doctor was a horrible act.
Perhaps we should find out if the killer is not pro-abortion. There are likely more than one reason this man was murdered.
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Can I pray for the soul of this man? Could have possibly repented of his monstrous sin in his last millisecond?
“The Boulder Abortion Clinic, run by Hern since he founded the practice in 1975, has as its motto ‘Specializing in Late Abortions for Fetal Disorders’.”
Makes one wonder what he considers to be a “Fetal Disorder.” Could it be just existing when not wanted or inconveinent?
It is amazing how people will justify their heinous actions...just like the Nazis that ran the extermination camps.
Now that being said, I too consider the killing of Tiller by a vigilante to be murder. The person that did this should be prosecuted for murder, even though he killed someone I consider to have been a murderer. Tiller was vile, but I cannot excuse a lawless act. I think Tiller should have been put to death, but it should have been because the people of Kansas declared what he was doing to be murder and used the rule of law to end his evil ways in a court of law. Many in Kansas have blood on their hands just as Tiller did for killing innocent children (because they did not act by law to stop him), as the killer of Tiller does for acting outside the rule of law.
A final note: The use of DHS or DOJ to chase after a non-existent violent, terrorist, anti-abortion “conspiracy” would be an abuse of federal power and a waste of tax payer money. All of us should let members of Congress know we will not allow federal resources to be used/wasted on something that will be used by an amoral/political left wing to suppress a moral/political viewpoint (opposite of theirs) that is NOT intrinsically violent or in any way threatening to the government. This would be a horrible mistake. This is the kind of insanity that spins out of control and causes civil war.
Regardless of the ridiculous Roe vs Wade decision. The abortion issue (unless/until the Constitution is ammended), IS NOT A FEDERAL ISSUE, it belongs under each state as per the 10th Ammendment. If a state wants to keep abortion legal (or make it illegal) that should be their choice. However, the state alone should bear the consequences of their decision. Meaning....they, not the federal government, should enforce their laws.
We DIDN'T have to go there to find them. They plowed planes into the WTC, if you remember, you ass.
No, no Dr. Death (Hearn). Fascism has already come to America and it is wrapped in a rainbow flag and carrying a pink swastika. One man takes the law into his own hands and the left is already talking fascism. No question while they point and yell fascism, three fingers are pointing back at the real fascist.
I'd say it's more like the consequence of PRO-abortion fanaticism. The courts have continually tried to choke off any restrictions to the heinous procedure, and denying the participation of citizens in the process. This has raised up those few folks who get so frustrated and angry, they don't believe they have any other option outside of violence.
(yawn)
We all knew this was going to happen. Tiller is now a martyr for the cause of killing children. The leftists are going to have a field day with anything that has to do with the pro-life movement and Conservatives in general.
This reminds me, as it has been mentioned before, of the Nazis and the Reichstag fire. Those that were “involved” were caught quickly and used to bludgeon the “enemies” of the Reich. History does, indeed, repeat itself.
Sounds like the last partial birth doctor left standing is having a melt down. I guess killing those babies is worth it.
What a mess the Supreme Court has made of life
in America. Too bad he didn’t mention any names of the “TERRORISTS” so he could be sued for libel.
I like the way he tries to get the American people - 70% Christians and 55% prolife - to go after the prolifer Christians who had nothing to do with the murder of doctors like him. Hispanics are going to be real impressed.
Five abortion doctors killed vs. 46 million+ babies killed in the same time period and the five abortion doctor killers constitute a fascist movement? Never mind that fascist means “centralized control by the government” and it is abortion that is sanctioned by our central government not abortion doctor killing. This guy is certifiably insane.
What does the Tiller Murder have to do with government taking over business? (aka "fascism")