The Killing of Dr. George R. Tiller being yet another assassination of an abortion Doctor by a Pro-Life Movement fanatic, this time in Wichita, Kansas. This is not the first time someone put a little bird in someone's ear and tragic consequences have followed. Once again the Pro-Life Movement's inflammatory rhetoric has borne the fruit of tragedy compounding tragedy. Some who frequented Dr. George R. Tiller's clinic were in dire straits enough to have to seek the services of Dr. Tiller's controversial practices. Some women sought him out for other Health Services not so controversial and now they have all been robbed of this Man who sacrificed for them each and every day he drew breath. His Family has been robbed of the one they dearly loved and the community and the Nation as a whole has been robbed of one who knew the meaning of the word Service. Dr. Tiller had already been shot and wounded in both arms in the line of his duties in 1993 by a murderous fanatic and he knew well the risks associated with the vehemently dedicated protesters who stalked him from his clinic to his church. Once the kettle boiled over and a lonely soul driven by some mad mission to save lives by taking a life, the Pro-Life Organizations he stood shoulder to shoulder with for so many days in Wichita were quick to run for cover, disavowing any relation to the person pulling the trigger. You can whisper in someone's ear how fun it would be to shout "fire" in a theatre and when they actually holler the words aloud... you can say "hey, I didn't make him do it"! These organization that showered the assassin with pictures of abortions and lurid tales of unborn children may not have given him the gun but they helped him load it and shaped him from the lonely malleable clay he was when he first happened upon their movement. The Pro-Life Movement has forsaken any moral ground they had left to stand on if they ever had any at all as a result of this latest heinous act of Terror. My stance used to be I have no womb therefore what business is it of mine to say whether a woman should or should not seek abortion as a right... I am forced to stand on the side of Choice wholeheartedly in the face of this bald proclamation of where the fanatics in the Pro-Life Movement drive their minions.
As a short addendum, I am tempted to compare the National Right to Life Academy to the Dominicans of the Inquisition... Educated to go forth into the community to seek out and punish the heretics. Take a look at their Academic Schedule and see the for yourself. It looks to me like a six week brain-washing like a Muslim Madrassa. http://www.nrlc.org/Academy/AcademicProgram.html Please don't sign up.. I'd be sad to see you in a orange jumpsuit on CNN.
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