Who Is Responsible For The Death of George Tiller?

The Cypress Times ^ | 06/08/09 | Terry L. Brown

[ravinson]

inflames those passions by...
“casually refer[ring] to abortion as murder”

But it is murder.

If that's really what you believe (i.e. that abortion is murder, not just abortion should be legally defined as a murder), then you and anyone else with your beliefs should also be willing to accept joint moral responsibility for the death of Dr. Tiller (which by your interpretation would be a justifiable homocide).

[muawiyah]

Ellen Goodman was in that church that day and people saw her pull the trigger. It's all part of a conspiracy to agitate the Regime to come down hard on the RTL people in this country.

[muawiyah]

The semantic differential doesn't work here. It's not that abortion ceased to be murder. Rather, the court decided no one could be prosecuted for it.

With a single ruling the USSC can reinstate the effect of the existing laws!

[ravinson]

The semantic differential doesn't work here.

There's more than a semantical difference between considering something to be murder versus merely advocating that someone should change the law (or the established interpretation of it).

With a single ruling the USSC can reinstate the effect of the existing laws!

The "existing laws" are ambiguous Constitutional provisions that make no reference to abortion, so the question you have to answer now is whether to obey what you consider an unjust USSC decision or not until you can get it changed. If you answer "no", then you're assuming joint moral responsibility for the death of Dr. Tiller.

[muawiyah]

The "existing laws" are the laws that were in place the day before Roe V. Wade was issued. It's just a court order, not a "law" as such a thing should be understood in a Democratic society.