Posted on 05/31/2009 8:45:43 PM PDT by doug from upland
Pro-Abortion Groups Falsely Blame Pro-Life Movement for George Tiller's Death
by Steven Ertelt LifeNews.com Editor May 31, 2009
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Just hours after the shooting death of late-term abortion practitioner George Tiller and without a potential suspect, leading pro-abortion organizations immediately blamed pro-life advocates for George Tiller's death.
The statements by the pro-abortion leaders appeared to use Tiller's death for political gain by painting the pro-life community with a broad brush and accusing them of fostering a climate leading to Tiller's death.
Vicki Saporta, the president of the National Abortion Federation, a trade group for abortion businesses, claimed "individuals who oppose the right to choose have used violence to try to advance their extreme anti-choice agenda."
Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards relied on the same kind of comments to attack the majority of Americans who are pro-life and also peaceful, law-abiding people.
"He was continually harassed by abortion opponents for much of his career," Richards said.
She pointed out that Tiller was recently "targeted for investigation by a jury," referring to the charges brought against him by a Kansas Attorney General who supports legal abortions but had evidence suspecting Tiller may have been engaging in illegal abortions.
Richards called the late-term abortions that Tiller did, which involved the death of unborn children after viability that most Americans oppose, as "critical reproductive health care."
Eleanor Smeal, the head of the Feminist Majority Foundation, said Tiller was a "hero for women's rights" who "many legal challenges by anti-abortion extremists."
Accusing pro-life advocates of killing Tiller, she said he "was murdered in his church by such an extremist" on Sunday.
NARAL president Nancy Keenan also accused pro-life advocates of being behind the Tiller killing, saying "we suspect it is" a case of "anti-abortion violence."
Other abortion advocates carried on the blame-the-pro-life-movement banner including Andrew Sullivan of The Atlantic newspaper, who went as far as blaming Fox News political commentator Bill O'Reilly for Tiller's death.
He called it the "campaign of domestic terrorism against him" and blasted pro-life advocates for protesting at his abortion center and O'Reilly for calling him Tiller the "so-called baby killer."
Susan Demas of the Capitol Chronicle newspaper in Michigan claimed the killing was the result of the "sick side of the pro-life movement" and said she wasn't surprised by the killing.
"So why wouldn't some "pro-lifer" go off the deep end as another pro-choice justice is poised to join the Supreme Court and take out a doctor who performs abortions?" she wrote.
ACTION: Contact Demas at sjdemas@gmail.com with your comments about her post.
Because they're all on the same distribution list.
That way you won't get your ass shot to death by someone who believes that killing babies is murder.
Problem solved.
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I am surprised this didn’t come sooner. It almost took them a whole afternoon.
Just because these demon spawns who need this insane right to kill their own babies, have guilty consciences, is no reason to slander more than half the nation. It is high time we found ways to shut these people down as soon as they start their spewing.
He wasn’t murdered...he was aborted.
You’ll notice in the cartoon the false equivalence between the killing of the guilty versus the killing of the innocent. The Dems typically oppose the execution of murderers while elevating the killing of the innocent to an inviolable sacrament.
So they react quicker to this than a bunch of jihadist trying to bomb the heck out of NY? These are the same people that do whatever they can to stop serial killers and murders from the death sentence or to stop the them from getting put to death as was ordered. Gotta keep the killers killing innocent children daily I guess. Don’t want to miss a beat there.
Abortion after the fact as Paul Harvey used to say.
Well you beat me to it. Thanks for the share. This makes me ill. I just read the thread where they are sending guards to protect the clinics now on taxpayers dime because of this killing. Makes me ill. As I said in that thread. Who they gonna send to protect the innocent children or babies? No one. They send protection to the killers on our dime nonetheless. Disgusting.
I’ll bet the Libs will protest the death penalty for Tiller’s murderer. </sarc.>
Maybe Hollywood and these people can all make a movie about George Tiller’s life story and his “heroism”. The problem is that they would have to eliminate his notoriety and an All The King’s Men styled ending. Note I do not always believe in political assassination, especially in this one.
Though it does make you wonder what the explosion of stories were like when George Wallace got shot, yet not murdered. I can think of many examples like this, so while it is very bad that a guy got murdered to me it doesn’t make me cry out helpless that this will shift the argument. Rather, it would be like if Dr. Jack Kevorkian got shot and murdered. On one hand it is pretty bad, on another that is the worst example of a martyr for whatever political issue the martyr is invested in.
very few lamented Wallace being shot as I recall
I am surprised this didn’t come sooner. It almost took them a whole afternoon.
I really am not surprised, as I figured the reaction to be so. What if he was murdered and not paralyzed? Part of the problem is that if we transfixed George Tiller onto another person’s psychological profile like say David Duke, there would be a strong feeling of righteousness for the murderer by those who mourn George Tiller right now. Like I said, I mourn the individual but this doesn’t mean that it should hurt the message of those who don’t believe in Abortions, people like me.
The Huffington Post and Daily KOS may think that they have some ground but the message is more powerful than just one person. Nor should it be abused. The Gallup poll gives me hope, and I don’t think that one lone fool should stand in the way of that.
Tiller was far worse in practice than Duke even was in theory.
Agreed. Tiller was worse than Wallace and Duke because of his physical acts and his verging on murder on many, many accounts. The problem is that, that is lost in the agenda. Liberals do not care about that kind of stuff because they dehumanize the process of giving birth so that they can justify somebody like George Tiller’s practices. It is very disgusting, especially since they make an act of caring for the disabled and the weak, but that is the way they think.
To Liberals, it is OK to shoot a guy for what the guy represents not what the guy does. The French Revolution(all Aristocrats were targetted), the Russian Revolution(children and the Czar’s wife were also murdered), George Wallace......because they represent an evil that is beyond barbaric according to Liberals. George Tiller kills babies, it is something that he actually did, but he represents Abortion so that first part is null. George Wallace believed in an outdated segregationist South, and certainly had many very very bad views, but did he murder anybody of Black skin or White skin? Did he deserve being shot at?
I don’t know if I am making any sense on this. I am sort of working my way through understanding the Liberal psychology myself.
too many folks here ...not you...today seems obsessed with letting the media, academia etc frame our culture war for us...
too late for that
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