An abortionist who specializes in late-term abortion has been murdered in church.
Dr. George Tiller, one of the nation’s few providers of late-term abortions despite decades of protests and attacks, was shot and killed Sunday in a church where he was serving as an usher.
It was, of course, morally wrong to kill the abortionist. However, if there are so “few providers of late-term abortions,” they must be awfully busy to do the 10,000 or so abortions that are done each year after 21 weeks development in the womb.
Survival Rates
* Babies born at 23 weeks have a 17% chance of survival
* Babies born at 24 weeks have a 39% chance of survival
* Babies born at 25 weeks have a 50% chance of survival
* From 32 weeks onwards, most babies are able to survive with the help of medical Technology [EPICure data]
Continuing with the report:
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Police did not release a motive for the shooting. But the doctor’s violent death was the latest in a string of shootings and bombings over two decades directed against abortion clinics, doctors and staff.
I always thought a “string” meant something that happened often enough to have a pattern with some kind of frequency. Can you remember the last time something like this happened? Be honest now… what year was it? What happened? Did you have to look it up on Wikipedia to remember? I thought so.
Stolz said all indications were that the gunman acted alone, although authorities were investigating whether he had any connection to anti-abortion groups.
Well, of course. Anti-abortion groups are full of well-known killers, aren’t they?
Tiller’s Women’s Health Care Services clinic is one of just three in the nation where abortions are performed after the 21st week of pregnancy.
This is a flat lie. Open your telephone book. Look up abortion providers in the Yellow Pages, in any reasonably large city. You’ll find “clinics” advertising “procedures to 24 weeks” and some to 28 weeks. In any case, most hospitals will do late abortions that are truly required to save the life of the mother. These specialized late term clinics serve women who have some “reason” other than saving their lives. And this glaring error alone should create doubt in your mind about the accuracy of the rest of the reporting.
“We are shocked at this morning’s disturbing news that Mr. Tiller was gunned down,” Troy Newman, Operation Rescue’s president, said in a statement. “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.”
And you can be pretty sure they mean it, since these people tend to take the ten commandments reasonably seriously.
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The last killing of an abortion doctor was in October 1998 when Dr. Barnett Slepian was fatally shot in his home in a suburb of Buffalo, N.Y. A militant abortion opponent was convicted of the murder.
Wait… didn’t someone say there was a “string” of this sort of thing? From where I sit, it seems to be safer to be an abortionist than a university professor. Several have been murdered on campus in pretty recent times. And it’s LOTS more dangerous to do research on animal subjects than to do abortions…. those animal rights people are SERIOUS.
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Federal marshals protected Tiller during the 1991 Summer of Mercy protests, and he was protected again between 1994 and 1998 after another abortion provider was assassinated and federal authorities reported finding Tiller’s name on an assassination list.
Another flat lie. The “assassination list” was merely a list of late-term abortion providers, and the text accompanying the list specifically “accused them of ‘crimes against humanity’ and offered a $5,000 reward for the ‘arrest, conviction and revocation of license to practice medicine’ of these physicians.” If it was an “assassination” list, why have there been no murders of abortionists since 1998? If abortion foes have ANY significant percentage of people in their ranks who are capable of doing an act like this, how is it that the last one was 1998? Calling that list an “assassination list” is a capitulation to the PR strategy of the abortionists… of course, that’s exactly what the media have done, isn’t it?
So don’t look for reason or balance in the coverage of this murder. Look for over-heated rhetoric, fulminating with barely concealed hatred for anyone who simply wants to save the lives of the most innocent and vulnerable among us. Look for an attempt to connect pro-life groups to incitement to murder, without any factual predicate.
While you’re at it, consider this: because of the confluence of political issues, and the fact that anti-abortion people tend to hold traditional values on a range of issues, a larger percentage of them than the general population are also gun owners. Does anyone think, if any measurable percentage of pro-lifers were willing to kill abortionists, that there would be very many abortionists left?
I am guessing that more abortionists and abortion mill employees have died in car accidents driving to work, since 1998, than this single murder. There are a LOT of them (abortion providers, that is). I don’t expect any news coverage of that fact, however.
But that’s the measure of the actual risk of what they do (risk to themselves, that is). They’re in more danger from tailgaters than rabid pro-lifers.
Tags: abortion, media, society
