Hundreds gather in Minneapolis to remember Dr. Tiller

This was not a killing, it was an execution. Bottom line; Tiller was a killer. You live by the “sword” you die by the “sword.”

I have no sympathy for money grubbing doctors (Yes, Tiller did it for the money – just follow the money trail) acting like they are doing something good for women but they are no better than a televangelist ripping off widows and orphans for their last cent!

“Pro choice/death” people are such hypocrites; never seeing the forest because of the tree of their selfishness; never shedding a tear for the children torn to shreds by this man’s seared conscience.

javimendogfa@gmail.com you sound like a complete idiot. You talk as if you have something of merit and knowledge to say but all you are doing is representing yourself as a fool.

to javimendogfa: i was just wondering why you think you have the right to tell other people what to do? i think people like you need to mind your own business. im sure that you think your gonna go to heaven so why dont you just let the rest of us live our lives. i mean your gonna be in heaven and the rest of us sinners are gonna be in hell. so my point is you need to just butt out of other peoples lives, live your life, go to heaven, and let the rest of us burn in hell. you dont need to be on a mission to save the rest of us. we can do it ourselves. saving us isn’t gonna help you get to heaven. your not gonna get a closer seat to god because of your views.

Javimendogfa:

Judge ye not lest ye be judged. Oh, and it is the pro-life movment it is hypocritical since a lot of them are pro-war/death penalty/torture.

“because Tiller performed medically necessary late-term abortions?” Obviously no research was done to substantiate that quote.

Roeder committed murder because he is psychologically disturbed. If it was due to the quote above, all doctors would have threats against them. Any doctor can perform medically necessary late-term abortions. It just so happens that late-term abortions are rarely medically necessary–hence, not a profitable business model for specialization.

Tiller was running an abortion mill subjecting his “patients” to deplorable conditions and care. The “nurses” in his clinic are not licensed (even though they dispense medicine, give injections, iv’s, administer anesthesia, etc.) I would think that people in support of women’s health would demand real medicine–not exactly the “care” that Tiller offered. He pushed for women’s reproductive rights and bought politicians so he could stay in his gated community, keep his clinic expenses low and continue to perform substandard service for obscene profits while largely taking advantage of young people and minorities. Do a search for LeRoy Carhart–the guy who wants to take over Tiller’s Wichita clinic–and see pictures of his deplorable facility.

Really, people, this goes beyond whether one is pro-life or pro-choice. These abortionists saw an easy path to a lot of money with little oversight. They hold themselves to medical standards barely better than back-alley standards, yet they hold themselves up as esteemed doctors. People like Tiller do not treat women for any women’s health issues other than aborting pregnancies. See them for who they are, not what you would like to hold them up as. One of Tiller’s slogans he had put on buttons was “Trust Women.” What, to keep your wallet fat and medical regulators off your back? to keep the status quo? To women’s rights activists who support abortionists (I’m not referring here to good doctors who actually practice medicine) and keep them unaccountable to the medical community–you’ve been played. Way to keep the money flowing into their pockets. And way to keep women down!

“Roeder committed murder because he is psychologically disturbed.”

Oh thank you Dr.Phil for your diagnosis on a dead man you did not know personally.

As for the rest of your comment, it is people like Randall Terry and his ilk who wants to keep women down by not allowing them have access to contraceptives or for schools to teach comprehensive sex education.

And for a man to make a comment about keeping women down, you’re just a regular Gloria Steinem aren’t ya?

Did you even read what I wrote? BTW, I was not commenting on Tiller’s mental state. Re-read the post, please. And, I didn’t bring up Randall Terry–you did–and my post had nothing to do with him, either. I think my post is plainly clear that I’m just trying to illuminate the fact that Tiller’s clinic wasn’t the utopian women’s health care center some are trying to portray it as. I believe the way Tiller ran his mill actually was a disservice and dehumanizing to women regardless of where one stands on the issue of abortion. If you can’t respond to what’s written and automatically go to the vitriol and rhetoric, you’re a drone.

It is in incredibly poor taste to add anti-abortion comments to this article. It is about a memorial for a man who was murdered in cold blood. I dont care what your opinion is about how he made his living–at best youre blaming the victim, at worst you are completely insensitive to violence and death when it suits your agenda. Have some respect for the dead and debate abortion elsewhere.

Good riddance to bad trash. The planet is a much better place without the likes of HiTiller. And I mean that in the nicest way.

nicholas, you are a fool.

laurie, I do apologize for veering off on a tangent not pertaining directly to this story. My original point was that Roeder is a maniac and that is why he killed Tiller–to make any other reason for why someone murders someone else gives too much credit to a murderer.

I suppose that’s why they allow anti-abortion comments in this section….to remind us they’re still out there, ready and vicious, ready to bite.

However, and this thought gives me immense satisfaction, unlike Dr. Tiller, who exuded warmth and compassion, these ill-willed people will sink into oblivion. Dr. Tiller will always be remembered as one of the few males who supported, in the face of constant adversity, the civil rights of women. He will be up there with King and others. Dr. Tiller’s murder is the equivalent of a political assassination. It is shocking to learn of the negligence on the part of law enforcement to uphold the law that prohibited intimidation and violence against those who support abortion.