Not in the eyes of the law. He was just an ordinary doctor performing needed surgical procedures to help women.
By that I mean the authority of a State, that of judging and administering punishment, has been taken up by an individual in contrast to the existing laws.
You continue to misread what I have been saying. IMO Roeder was not acting as a judge, but as a citizen. Tiller was scheduled to murder 5 children on Monday morning and nobody was doing anything to stop him. Roeder acted "in defense of others."
Now if we admit that we don't believe that Abortion is murder, then Roeder is just another slimy murderer and deserves to be sentenced to death. But if we believe that Abortion is murder, then Roeder not only saved the lives of 5 children on monday, but now that the clinic is closed, due to Roeder's actions, 5 children a day will be saved from now on.
Nobody has the right to take the law into their own hands to extract "justice". Every citizen has the right to exercise whatever force is necessary to protect children from being murdered.
Therefore, if you believe that Abortion is murder, then you owe Roeder a debt of gratitude for what he did. If you don't believe abortion is murder, then you should call for his execution, as he is, in fact, a cold blooded murderer and Tiller was not.
Chew on that.
“Therefore, if you believe that Abortion is murder, then you owe Roeder a debt of gratitude for what he did.”
P-Marlowe, you are wrong. There are SO many things Roeder could have done short of murdering Tiller. More pertinently, there are SO many things we can all do short of murdering abortionists.
If we all DID them, we’d stop abortion in its tracks.
P-M - do you not think it relevant to stop most abortions, or just the particularly gruesome 3rd trimester ones?
We owe Roeder no debt of gratitude for the molasses barrel of a moral quagmire he’s left us all in to climb back out of. We owe him our prayers.
There have been dozens of abortions in Wichita since 5/31/09. What are you/I doing about it?
“Therefore, if you believe that Abortion is murder, then you owe Roeder a debt of gratitude for what he did.”
We owe him no such thing, for the reasons that I've laid out, and that you've ignored. LOL.
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