With Tiller slaying, abortion opponents lose their moral standing

Kansas City Star ^ | May. 31, 2009 | Mike Hendricks

[Lorianne]

By midafternoon Sunday, authorities had a 50-something man in custody in connection with the murder of Wichita abortion doctor George Tiller, killed while serving as an usher at his church.

However, the motive for the crime we can all surmise, given the vitriolic rhetoric aimed at Tiller these past couple of decades by anti-abortion activists.

And if we’re right about that, then we know the identities of his accomplices.

They include everyone who has ever called Tiller’s late-term abortion clinic a murder mill.

Whoever called Tiller “Tiller the Killer.”

Groups that fomented hate toward a man who, rightly or wrongly, believed he was serving a noble purpose by being one of the few doctors in the country who performed late-term abortions.

Hate. Not heated opposition. Not strong disagreement.

But blind hatred.

The kind of hate that would prompt some maniac to take a gun into a church and shoot a man to death in front of friends and family.

His accomplices know they have blood on their hands, which might explain why they were quick to issue statements expressing disapproval of Tiller’s murder.

Among them, the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue, whose words drip with hypocrisy: “We are shocked at this morning’s disturbing news that Mr. Tiller was gunned down. Operation Rescue has worked for years through peaceful, legal means, and through the proper channels to see him brought to justice. We denounce vigilantism and the cowardly act that took place this morning. We pray for Mr. Tiller’s family that they will find comfort and healing that can only be found in Jesus Christ.”

Shocked? Are any of us really shocked that it would come to this after the many years of demonizing one man? Certainly the group’s founder, Randall Terry, didn’t seem shocked when he issued this statement on Sunday:

[the invisib1e hand]

Look for speaking out against abortion to soon become a hate crime.

Then prepare to be a criminal.

[jessduntno]

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss4911a1.htm

[3catsanadog]

What would a leftist rant against the right be without the word “vitriol”?

[hatfieldmccoy]

I’m surprised the murderer didn’t just pull Tiller out of the church by his feet, punch a hole in the back his skull and vacuum his brains out with a shop vac. In Kansas it’s legal if your the right age.....

[Lorianne]

Minority Report

[prismsinc]

I sware, this is all staged by the administration. This is all too convenient for them.

And the sick disgusting media. May they all rot in hell.

[Let's Roll]

Hardly.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Mike Hendricks, another loser from the KC Star!! What would any animal writing for that rag know about moral standing?

[Beowulf9]

“Tiller the killer did kill viable babies. Baby killers like Tiller also had a list of baby body parts that they sold. I saw the list. It had parts like eyes for $900.00, backbone- $500.00, brain- $1,000.00 etc. Baby killers are heinous.”

Man, that is chilling. Talk about Burke and Hare!

[PzLdr]

Wonder if the author would like his logic about Tiller [believed rightly or wrongly] applied retroactively to Rudolf Hoess, Otto Ohlendorf or any of several dozen SS officers and doctors?

[skr]

By the author’s logic, “pro-choicers” are as guilty of stabbing babies’ skulls and suctioning out their brains as Tiller was. Hmmm...

[4Godsoloved..Hegave]

Following this writer’s logic is well....isn’t logical.
Following yours is logical... a pro- choicer taking out one of their own.

[stentorian conservative]

Thanks champ but that was no typo.

***And if we’re right about that, then we know the identities of his accomplices.
They include everyone who has ever called Tiller’s late-term abortion clinic a murder mill.
Whoever called Tiller “Tiller the Killer.”***

The author is taking a ton of leeway in assuming they are "right" but it is still a serious smack at numero uno.

[Lou Budvis]

Funny, LHO’s murder of JFK didn’t cause Marxists to lose their ‘moral standing.’ Sirhan’s murder of RFK didn’t cause the Palestinians to lose their ‘moral standing.’ The PLO’s murder of the Israeli Olympians didn’t....

Wait. I’m sorry, I forgot about THE RULES.

[Selmore]

I guess I was right.

one million, two hundred and ninety thousand abortions in 1997.

sigh

[LostInBayport]

This from libs who say not to paint all Koranimals with the same brush, even though they all read from the same filthy tome that calls for murder, mutilation and misogyny.

Great point and great analogy...bears repeating. All we heard from the left after 9/11 was that not everyone who follows Islam advocates terrorism and mass murder...yet the author of this screed is making the opposite case about pro-lifers. It is always the same with the left...they will flush their dignity and credibility down the drain to blindly defend their favored groups and positions. It is a psychosis.

[wardaddy]

oh bullshite

what a effed up world the media inhabits

anti-abortion doesn’t mean pacifist anymore than it means murder

[denydenydeny]

Tell me again, why did the Islamic faith not lose its moral standing on 9/11, or why did environmentalism not lose its moral standing when the Unabomber killed people?

[4Godsoloved..Hegave]

Huh????

[DennisR]

So one nut kills someone and we are all to blame? It is the MSM that is sick...