Planned Parenthood Reflects on Courage, Commitment of Dr. Britton; Paul Hill to Be Executed Sept 3

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Planned Parenthood Reflects on Courage, Commitment of Dr. John Bayard Britton, Colleagues; Paul Hill to Be Executed September 3

9/2/03 12:31:00 PM

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To: National Desk

Contact: Lindsay Moore of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, 202-973-4882

NEW YORK, Sept. 2 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following statement from Planned Parenthood Federation of America on the courage and commitment of Dr. John Bayard Britton and his colleagues was released today:

The Planned Parenthood family reflects today on the courage and commitment of Dr. John Bayard Britton and his colleagues at the Pensacola Ladies Center. Our thoughts are with their families and community. In July 1994, Paul Hill, who is scheduled to be executed on September 3 in Florida, fatally shot Dr. John Bayard Britton, 69, and Britton's volunteer escort, James H. Barrett, 74, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, and wounded Barrett's wife, June, 68, a retired nurse. Paul Hill's horrendous crime is a painful reminder of the threat posed by extremists who will go to any lengths to impose their ideology on others. A survey published earlier this year by the Alan Guttmacher Institute found that 80 percent of facilities that provide abortion services experience some form of harassment or violence, including arson and death threats. Planned Parenthood and Americas pro-choice majority will not tolerate anti-choice terrorism against reproductive health care providers and the women they bravely serve. Planned Parenthood is committed to protecting our clients, staff and volunteers and to ensuring that those who threaten them are brought to justice.

Planned Parenthood Federation of America is the nation's largest voluntary reproductive health care organization with 900 health clinics around the nation. Planned Parenthood affiliates serve nearly five million women, men and teenagers every year.

[chance33_98]

And yet, not a tear from them for the unborn.

[WestPacSailor]

While I am strongly opposed to abortion I can in no way condone what Paul Hill did. His actions bring him lower than the level of the abortionists. At least what they do is legal, even if it is immoral.

[A-teamMom]

God help us. As a pro-lifer, I would never support the killing of doctors. I don't even believe in the death penalty. But to so proudly proclaim the life of a man who murdered babies for a living is nauseating. Are the majority of Americans really pro-abortion or do they just not take the time to care?

[Sir Gawain]

His actions bring him lower than the level of the abortionists.

No they don't. Murder is murder. One cannot be lower than the other, regardless of what is legal.

[At _War_With_Liberals]

"No they don't. Murder is murder. One cannot be lower than the other, regardless of what is legal."

And, the fact that this abortionist could not kill thousands more should be considered. The babies were innocent. He was not.

[RicocheT]

Planned Parenthood gloats over the coming death of Paul Hill. Planned Parenthood would gladly terminate old people on life support if there was a buck in it for them. They already have turned baby killing into a business for profit.

[B.O. Plenty]

"His actions bring him lower than the level of the abortionists....." No they don't....Dr. Britton et al had a choice, didn't they? As far as I cam tell, the babies they killed had no choice except to have their limbs torn off, their little bodies fried, and sisscors stuck in the back of their heads and their brains sucked into a pan.

Nope.....sinking lower than a baby killer is not possible.

[mountaineer]

It takes so much courage to kill a helpless infant.

[WestPacSailor]

Are the majority of Americans really pro-abortion or do they just not take the time to care?

I'm inclined to believe they chose not to care. They chose not to know what really happens in an abortion clinic, and they chose to pretend that it's "a womans right to choose". They chose to forget that it's a childs right to live and not be murdered just as much as it is theirs.

I'm opposed to anyone killing anyone, with the exception of self defense against someone attemping to kill me or my family.

[Sir Gawain]

And, the fact that this abortionist could not kill thousands more should be considered.

Well I doubt it stopped any abortions from happening. They probably just went to another abortionist to get it done.

[WestPacSailor]

"No they don't. Murder is murder. One cannot be lower than the other, regardless of what is legal."

Yes, perhaps you are correct. Murder is Murder, even legal, state sanctioned murder.

[montag813]

God help us. As a pro-lifer, I would never support the killing of doctors. I don't even believe in the death penalty.

You ought to. Is is Thou shalt not MURDER", not "Thou shalt not Kill". Abortion is, unlike capital punishment, the murder of the innocent.

[A-teamMom]

Over half the Catholics who voted in the last presidential election cast their votes for pro-abortion candidates. No one doesn't know what the church teaches on abortion. How can they just ignore that?

Through the eyes of child, all life is sacred and abortion is an abomination. All these abortion providers and supporters were children once. How sad that they exercised a right to "choose" death over life.

[Abe Froman]

I cannot condone what Paul Hill did. The Bible clearly prohibits vigilante or mob justice. However, given the lack of any justice for abortion, I feel little (meaning no) sympathy for the good doctor and I empathise with the frustration of Paul Hill. Thousands of innocent babies died at the hands of this "doctor" and no one would stop him. Surely more would have died by his hands had he lived (though the argument could be made that his death did little to stop women from having abortions.)

If there were real justice, Dr. Britton would be charged with one count of first-degree murder for each aborted baby, and each mother would be charged as an accessory to murder. Frankly, they should all be executed after receiving their due process.

[D Rider]

Also, God requires that a man who sheds a mans blood, by man his blood shall be required of him.

[A-teamMom]

I understand completely, and I don't find fault with those who support capital punishment. It is silly that celebrities and activists get worked into a tizzy over the potential deaths of a handful of convicted killers and care not a whit about innocent unborn children. The order of magnitude is completely out of whack.

I also understand the argument of justifiable homicide. Hitler was stopped after slaughtering 6 million Jews. We're at 43 million babies in the U.S. alone.

[dmz]

And, the fact that this abortionist could not kill thousands more should be considered.
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I find it very difficult to believe that a prolife Christian is using the ends justify the means argument.

[WestPacSailor]

My big issue with capital punishment is this: What IF we get the wrong guy? Sure, 99.99% of the time we get the right one, but what if, after we execute the .01% that we got wrong, we then find evidence that would clearly exonorate the accused?

I also believe that killing them is letting them off too easy. I think life in prison with no posibility of parole, no TV, no gym, no books/magazines/newspapers, and only 1 hour a day out of their cells is a much better punishment than simple lethal injection. The executed do not suffer enough.