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After yesterday’s shooting death of late-term abortion doctor George Tiller in Wichita, Kan., a Colorado physician who provides abortion services said Tiller’s assassination was the “absolutely inevitable consequence” of decades of anti-abortion fanaticism, according to an interview with our sister site, the Colorado Independent.
“I’m profoundly sad and I’m furious and I think the American people need to understand that we have a fascist movement in this country,” Dr. Warren Hern of Boulder said Sunday. “We don’t have to invade Iraq to find terrorists. They’re right here killing abortion doctors.”
“Every doctor that does abortions has been under an assassination threat for decades,” Hern said. “The anti-abortion movement message is, ‘Do what we tell you to do or we will kill you,’ and they do. This is a fascist movement.”
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Comment posted June 1, 2009 @ 7:24 pm
Has the Catholic Church made a statement about this murder, this assault against the law of the land? The Church has some responsibility here, fueling the rabid crusade against the law.
Comment posted June 2, 2009 @ 8:58 am
At the moment of conception, a person’s life begins. The killing of a person is murder, and when and only when the concept of personhood is understood, and legislated, the ‘legal’ killing of babies will stop.
Comment posted June 2, 2009 @ 12:17 pm
“Vengeance is mine” sayeth the right-wing nutcases who are cheering the murder of Tiller. So much for strict adherence to the Word..
Comment posted June 5, 2009 @ 1:10 pm
I’m curious about the Catholic Church too. Has it made a statement on the assassination? I wonder what role, if any, the Catholics played in this. Maybe they have no reason to comment on this…they certainly can’t condone the assassination, because that’s condoning murder, and that’s wrong. At least Catholics know how to reason. However, my impression is that these homegrown terrorists are more likely to belong to a radical form of Christianity. Christian fascists, like the good doctor said.
Comment posted June 10, 2009 @ 4:13 pm
According to my Bible God breathed the breath of life into Adam after he was formed from the clay. He did not scoop up the clay and while it was a lump in his hand breath the breath of life into it. The breath of life came only after Adam was fully formed and could do something with the breath. So stop using the Bible to justify when life begins. Label your comments as “your opinion” please and do not try to put words in God’s mouth. If God had had an opinion about abortion, being all knowing about the future controversy that would surround it, He would have clearly and unequivocally stated don’t kill the embryo or fetus. Of course this would have made his orders to Joshua to kill everyone, unless you believe there were no pregnant women in Jericho and the 31 other towns Joshua obliterated, a bit of a problem, you know innocent life and all those clever distinctions that allow us to execute folks, torture folks, and outright kill them for their land (Native Americans killed by Christians) or their oil, or whatever else we want. So it seems clear that He avoided discussing abortion because of His future intentions toward the taking of innocent life to suit His purposes.
Comment posted June 24, 2009 @ 11:20 am
At the moment of conception, a person’s life begins.
Just because you say it, doesn’t make it so, learn the law. The law does not consider a single cell zygote to be the same as a born person. Neither do I, my baby, my grandpa are more valuable than a fertilized egg in a fallopian tube.
Twins (who split after conception) are really just one person?
Or the converse, sometimes twins remerge, where did the second person go?
A vast proportion of fertilized eggs naturally do not cleave to a womb.
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