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Abortion Clinic Doctor’s murder praised by Pro-lifers

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06/01/2009

It should not surprise you that abortion rights extremists are praising the murder of abortion clinic doctor George Tiller this week.   Dr. Tiller was shot and killed while he was serving as an usher at his home church in Kansas.  The killer was motivated to shoot Tiller on account of his day job.

Pro-life advocates are now publicly lauding the actions of Tiller’s killer because they claim that the murder was justified.   This should not come as a shock to the non-religious, as the typical pro-lifer is Christian and a follower of the bronze age book of morals, the bible.  The bible has an interesting story in Judges 11 where a man named Jephthah asks his god to help him commit mass genocide on a neighboring tribe because they have a practice of offering child sacrifices to their gods.  Because Jephthah’s god has ordered that “Thou Shalt Not Kill”, Jephthah finds it his duty to stop their murderous acts.  But get this: he does so by killing the entire tribe.  Murder.  Yes, Jephthah justifies answering murder with murder.  To top it off, Jephthah had made a deal with god so that if Jephthah was successful in his genocide, he promised to sacrifice to his god the first thing that walks through his door upon returning home. (He of course hoping it might be a servant or slave).  Instead, his daughter greets him.  So he keeps his promise to the lord of “Thou shalt not kill” and  murders her as well (after she bewails her virginity).

To all those who applaud what Dr. Tiller’s killer has done, I would like for them to personally tell his wife and children that they think he deserved to die.  Unbelievable behavior….

  • Fitz

    This is yet another disgusting story written by the religious. This doctor was seemingly a religious man who simply saw a way to earn a living. I doubt any medical student goes into school thinking “Hey, I want to be a doctor so I can kill fetuses.” No, he found a niche and was good at it. These fundies are making a rod for their own back when the act like this. They claim that abortion is “against god.” But how do they square the circle that god orders and sanctions the killing of suckling infants, babies, and children? They don’t (and can’t).

  • Jessica

    Hi,
    do you have any links of articles or blogs pro-lifer advocates who have praised Dr. Tiller’s death? Just looking for some facts!
    Thanks,
    jessica

  • http://liberatedmind.com LiberatedMind

    QUOTE:
    Although mainstream antiabortion groups largely condemned Sunday’s shooting, Operation Rescue founder Randall A. Terry called Tiller a mass murderer who “reaped what he sowed.” Terry said the antiabortion movement is facing irrelevance and must use “confrontational” tactics and “highly charged rhetoric.”
    Fellow abortion opponents described Roeder as a foot soldier convinced that killing an abortion doctor is not a crime because it saves the lives of unborn children. In a 2007 Internet posting, a person identifying himself as “Scott Roeder” said Tiller is “the concentration camp ‘Mengele’ of our day and needs to be stopped.”
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/01/AR2009060100612.html?wprss=rss_politics

    QUOTE
    In 1993, Rachelle Shannon, from rural Oregon, shot Dr. Tiller in both arms. Two years earlier, during Operation Rescue’s “Summer of Mercy” protests, thousands of anti-abortion protesters tried to block off the clinic, the site of a bombing in 1986.
    Family members, including 4 children and 10 grandchildren, issued a statement through Dr. Tiller’s lawyer, which read in part: “George dedicated his life to providing women with high-quality health care despite frequent threats and violence. We ask that he be remembered as a good husband, father and grandfather and a dedicated servant on behalf of the rights of women everywhere.”
    http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/t/george_r_tiller/index.html?inline=nyt-per

    QUOTE
    Wichita Deputy Police Chief Tom Stolz said Tiller apparently did not have a bodyguard with him in church, although the doctor was routinely accompanied by one. An attorney for Tiller, Dan Monnat, said the doctor’s wife, Jeanne, was in the choir at the time of the shooting.

    Monnat said in early May that Tiller had asked federal prosecutors to step up investigations of vandalism and other threats against the clinic out of fear that the incidents were increasing and that Tiller’s safety was in jeopardy.
    ….
    “Many of those have been terrorized and run off by protesters,” he said about other abortion providers.
    http://onenewsnow.com/AP/Search/US/Default.aspx?id=550596

    The bottom line is that the anti-abortion groups foster an environment of hate towards abortion clinic workers and doctors. By protesting at the clinics, terrorizing the clinics and staff, bombing clinics, and shooting doctors the groups send a message of violence. The best way to resolve this issue is through legal means. If a movement cannot gather enough public support for their point of view on the issue of abortion, then the law should rightly reflect the majority opinion of the society. Operation rescue is an anti-abortion group that has used violent rhetoric towards Tiller and fostered an atmosphere of hatred towards him.

    http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/t/george_r_tiller/index.html?inline=nyt-per

  • http://liberatedmind.com LiberatedMind

    Here’s another prolifer’s opinion:
    “Tiller was killed by a pro-choice act. Pro-lifers need make no apologies.”
    http://www.gingiedmonds.com/

  • Jessica

    Thanks! I also didn’t realize at in your first line, you referred to “anti-abortion rights extremists;” I read too quickly and was objecting to your description of the “pro-life advocates” in the second paragraph. Randall Terry is crazy and even Operation Rescue is clarifying that he has not been associated with them since 1991. Using Terry as an example is still a sort of cheap rhetoric, in my opinion: it’s just like close-minded Americans who said “muslims” were responsible for 9/11 or celebrated the result. Technically true (“muslim” is one accurate adjective describing the group of people who supported 9/11), but rather an unfair characterization of a wide-spread and diverse movement, and a more precise adjective would not put up more barriers to constructive dialogue.

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  • http://www.rfmodulator.info Robert Collins

    I am always against abortion because it is a sin to kill an innocent child.-~:

  • http://liberatedmind.com LiberatedMind.com

    Sin is defined as doing what you say your brand of god does not like. Sin does not define what is positive or negative for a particular group of people or person in a particular circumstance. That is what modern morality offers.

    Saying it is a “sin” to kill a child offers no reason other than “because my version of a mythical being told me it is bad”.

  • http://www.impotenceremedy.org Hannah Hall

    we should ban all forms of abortion because it is not right to kill an unborn child-~”

  • http://www.photonicslab.org Niamh Carter

    Abortion must not be allowed and banned in all countries`:”

  • http://www.wallheater.info Wall Heater

    what i can say is that abortion is a sin and it should be deemed illegal by all means ;::

  • http://liberatedmind.com LiberatedMind.com

    What is a sin? Sin is doing something that your flavor of god does not like. It does not accurately describe the laws that modern humans choose to conduct ourselves by.
    For example, in the bible, God says it is ok to own slaves (Ex 21:7, 21:20, Col 3:22, 1 Peter 2:18) or that disobedient children should be put to death (Exodus 21:17, Lev 20:9, Matt 15:4). Yet in modern secular society, we recognize that these bronze age laws of a biblical god are cruel and inhumane. By the definition of sin, it would not be in your best interest to oppose slavery or refrain from killing your disobedient child, as this would displease god by the nature of contradicting his word.
    The issue of abortion should not be decided by the whims of a cruel bronze age god, but rather by the advanced moral society we live in today.

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