On the George Tiller murder in Kansas: “The whole point of this story should be, in part, what did George Tiller do that was so horrifying that it drove this man to that extremity?”
In other words, if someone murders an abortion doctor, don’t blame the people who say they deserve to die, blame the victim. Which is just a variation of the same argument terrorists and their supporters always use.
What Tiller did in some cases was save lives of women who were in life or death situation. Or abort babies who had horrifying, probably fatal birth defects.
Tell me, if right to lifers make it impossible for a woman whose pregnancy might kill her to get treatment–and there are only two doctors left in the country who do third-trimester abortions–wouldn’t that make them murder? By their own logic, wouldn’t I be justified in gunning them down to save lives?
I don’t think so, of course. And neither do they. But I think so because nobody has the right to go around handing out vigilante justice for people carrying out lawful acts; they don’t think so because they believe they and they alone are carrying out God’s will (they in this case being everyone who endorses violence as a solution to America allowing women control over their own bodies).
Obsidian Wings has multiple posts on this topic, all worth reading.
