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A candlelight vigil will be held in Loring Park at 9 pm on Tuesday evening, June 2, to honor the life of Dr. George Tiller, a reproductive health physician who was gunned down in his church on Sunday by an anti-abortion gunman.
While the candlelight vigils have become an important way for the community to remember the people slain by pro-life extremists, some say they are not enough.
“It is good and necessary that people gather together at a candlelight vigil to honor the memory of Dr. George Tiller, murdered in cold blood… But I myself am done with candlelight vigils,” said Gloria Feldt, former president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. “I have participated in too many of them, from 1993 with the murder of Dr. David Gunn in Pensacola through the seven doctors, patient escorts and staff murdered over the horrifying five-year period thereafter.”
Feldt says what’s needed is strong statements from President Obama and members Congress condemning not only the murder but also the intimidation of women seeking reproductive services.
The vigil Tuesday night will not be political. “There will be no speaking program, no bullhorns, no chanting and no political rhetoric,” said the Minnesota Pro-choice Coalition in a press release. “We just want to gather to silently reflect on one man’s life and contribution to the pro-choice movement, and to mourn among other pro-choice supporters.”
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Comment posted June 2, 2009 @ 11:10 am
Is the vigil, tonite, June 2, or next Tues., June 9?? Thanks
Comment posted June 2, 2009 @ 11:18 am
wish more on TV would show how many lives Dr Tiller saved and some of the stories behind the abortions. He was a very brave and caring man. Many of the doctors are caring. Millions of our tax dollars are spent on killing children in other countries in horrific ways. MN is home to one of the larges cluster bomb making companies “Alliant Tech” the tears apart babies and children. Who is trying to execute that CEO or those engineers who make the horrific devices?
They can call it colateral damage but it is still a baby and child.
Comment posted June 9, 2009 @ 12:21 pm
Here is a description of how Tiller did his “work”. A woman, according to Kansas law, could claim she needed an abortion because of “mental distress”. Tiller, in order to perform one of these procedures would inject a saline solution into the mother’s womb. This chemical cocktail would literally burn the child within–before the baby succumbed to suffocation. Then the woman was induced into labor and instructed to sit on something most of us would describe as a toilet. The abortion was completed when the baby was delivered by the mother, who was quickly ushered out of the area, so she wouldn’t see the results of Dr. Tiller’s labor and what should have been her own.
Yes, many pregnancies are terminated in dire medical circumstances. But these represent a tiny fraction of the million-plus abortions that take place in this country every year. (Almost half of that number are repeat abortions; around a quarter are third or fourth procedures.) The same is true of the more than 100,000 abortions that are performed after the first trimester: Very few involve medical complications of any kind. Even the now-outlawed “partial-birth” procedure, which abortion-rights supporters initially argued was only employed in the direst of dire situations, turned out to be used primarily for purely elective abortions.
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