The family of George Tiller announced yesterday that his abortion clinic would remain closed:
The clinic of Dr. George R. Tiller, in Wichita, had been one of a few in the country to provide abortions to women late in their pregnancies, and for decades, women had traveled there from all over the nation and overseas. The office, Women's Health Care Services Inc., was also the state's only remaining clinic, even for abortions performed early in pregnancy, outside the Kansas City area.
"Notice is being given today to all concerned that the Tiller family is ceasing operation of the clinic and any involvement by family members in any other similar clinic," a statement issued by Dr. Tiller's lawyers read. The lawyers said the Tiller family would offer no additional comments.
In the meantime, LeRoy Carhart, an abortionist who testified in federal courts in favor of partial-birth abortion, says that killing abortion providers--or even protesting against abortion--is a hate crime:
Nebraska abortion doctor LeRoy Carhart called on the federal government Monday to treat all activities by "anti-choice domestic terrorists" as hate crimes after last week's fatal shooting of Dr. George Tiller.
"This is the equivalent of Martin Luther King being assassinated," he said of the killing of one of the nation's best known late-term abortion doctors. "This is the equivalent of Pearl Harbor, the sinking of the Lusitania and any other major historic event where we've tolerated the intolerable for too long." [...]"I think there is absolutely no difference in putting a cross in front of a person's home because of what race they belong to than there is putting a cross in front of our homes because we do abortions," he said.
I have to wonder what these African-American pro-life leaders would think of that analogy.
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A week or two ago, there was a thread here in which Rod expressed his disdain for the New York Times taking 400 words to get around to identifying the alleged synagogue attackers as Muslims. The plotters were African-American converts to Islam whose anti-semitism seemed to have pre-dated their conversion, which to me at least made their putative Islam less likely to be a real factor in their actions and more a convenient ideological framework to rationalize their existing hostilities. Rod's insistence on their identity as Muslims seemed at best to misunderstand who these guys really were. Similarly, I think Roeder and the other terrorists mentioned seem to be lethally anti-social cranks who incorporate strands of Christian belief into their underlying mental disorder.
ALL murders are driven by hate. Not just some.
Anti-abortion protesters have the right to peaceably protest, but they should expect any hint of a threat of violence to be taken very, very seriously. Clinic staff and patients have every right to report any threatening statement, and law enforcement has a duty to investigate.
Erin has compared anti-abortion Christians to Muslim groups that have had to deal with the reality that some American Muslims have crossed the line from protest to terror. Interesting. The reality is that, despite liberal protests, Muslim groups are under the federal government's microscope. Self-described "pro-lifers" should expect similar treatment given the very real terrorist violence committed by members of their movement.
i hate abortions,it makes me wanna puke just thinkin about the idea of murdering a baby... wtf.........
why have a baby if you know you don't want it.
just think, aren't you glad that you mom didn't aboard you?
i know that i'm pretty grateful.
i can't imagine wat it would be like if i weren't alive.
if u know someone who aborted a child, imagine what they would be like as they grew up. a loving child, holding your hand, making you smile, and knowing that they would always love you.
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