• Kansas Abortion Doctor Murdered
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[quote]WICHITA, Kan. — It did not take long for anti-abortion leaders to realize that George R. Tiller was more formidable than other doctors they had tried to shut down. Shrewd and resourceful, Dr. Tiller made himself the nation’s pre-eminent abortion practitioner, advertising widely and drawing women to Wichita from all over with his willingness to perform late-term abortions, hundreds each year. As anti-abortion activists discovered, he gave as good as he got, wearing their contempt as a badge of honor. A “warrior,” they called him with grudging respect. And so for more than 30 years the anti-abortion movement threw everything into driving Dr. Tiller out of business, certain that his defeat would deal a devastating blow to the “abortion industry” that has terminated roughly 50 million pregnancies since Roe v. Wade in 1973. They blockaded his clinic; campaigned to have him prosecuted; boycotted his suppliers; tailed him with hidden cameras; branded him “Tiller the baby killer”; hit him with lawsuits, legislation and regulatory complaints; and protested relentlessly, even at his church. Some sent flowers pleading for him to quit. Some sent death threats. One bombed his clinic. Another tried to kill him in 1993, firing five shots, wounding both arms. In short, they made George Tiller’s clinic the nation’s most visible abortion battleground, a magnet for activists from all corners of the country. Dr. Tiller would not budge. Instead he dug in, pouring his considerable profits into expanding his clinic and installing security cameras, bulletproof glass, metal detectors, fencing and floodlights. He hired armed guards, bought a bulletproof vest and drove an armored S.U.V. He spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on some of the state’s best lawyers and recruited an intensely loyal staff that dubbed itself Team Tiller. He lobbied politicians with large donations and photographs of severely deformed fetuses. Confident and dryly mischievous, he told friends he had come to see himself as a general in an epic cultural war to keep abortion legal, to the point of giving employees plaques designating them “Freedom Fighters.” His willingness to abort fetuses so late in pregnancies put him at the medical and moral outer limits of abortion. Yet he portrayed those arrayed against him as religious zealots engaged in a campaign whose aim was nothing less than to subjugate women. “If a stake has to be driven through the heart of the anti-abortion movement,” he said, “I want to have my hand on the hammer.” The son of a prominent Wichita physician, married 45 years, the father of 4 and grandfather of 10, a former Navy flight surgeon, a longtime Republican, Dr. Tiller, 67, insisted that he would not be driven from his hometown, where he belonged to its oldest country club, was a devoted member of one of its largest churches, was active in Alcoholics Anonymous, was deeply involved in his alma mater, the University of Kansas, and adored his local Dairy Queen. Indeed, he made a point of performing abortions the day after he was shot in the arms. “His is the only abortion clinic we’ve never been able to close,” Troy Newman, president of Operation Rescue, said in an interview. Yet what thousands could not achieve in three decades of relentless effort, a gunman accomplished on July 25 when he shot Dr. Tiller in the head at point-blank range while the doctor was ushering at church. Scott Roeder, an abortion foe with the e-mail name “ServantofMessiah,” awaits trial in the murder. In a jailhouse interview, Mr. Roeder did not admit guilt but told a reporter that if he is convicted, his motive was to protect the unborn, a goal seemingly advanced when the Tiller family closed the clinic. But in the weeks since the killing, supporters and opponents of Dr. Tiller have been measuring the larger ramifications. Implacably divided for so long, they now agree on a fundamental point: Dr. Tiller’s death represents an enormous loss for each side. Abortion opponents are bracing for a drop in support, especially from those in the murky middle ground of the debate. Worse yet, after years of persuading supporters to work within the law, they say they have already lost credibility among the most ardent abortion opponents who cannot help pointing out that one gunman achieved what all their protests and prayers could not. “The credit is going to go to him,” Mark S. Gietzen, chairman of the Kansas Coalition for Life, said of Mr. Roeder. “There are people who are agreeing with him.” Advocates of abortion rights, meanwhile, are reeling from the loss of one of their most experienced and savviest leaders. One of only three doctors in the United States who openly and regularly performed late-term abortions, Dr. Tiller mentored abortion providers across the country. Some of the nation’s most influential women’s groups celebrated him as an American hero. “This is so much more than just a murder in Wichita,” said Gloria Allred, a prominent women’s rights lawyer.[/quote] Sauce: [url]http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/us/26tiller.html?_r=1&hp[/url] Those damn Anti-Abortionists and their methods to promoting life :downs:
Ironic.
Woah, oh my god. They are going to kill people for making bad vidya gaems soon.
Religion (good guys) - 1 Dirty immoral science - 0
Nothing says life is sacred more than murdering your pariah.
christianity is a religion of peace :)
I don't see how Abortion is evil, Abortion is a choice made by the person. It isn't forced. These people are sick, they bitch about abortion. Yet they go and kill him, way to go. Religion lol
[QUOTE=MR-X;16276303]I don't see how Abortion is evil, Abortion is a choice made by the person. It isn't forced. These people are sick, they bitch about abortion. Yet they go and kill him, way to go. Religion lol[/QUOTE] thx 4 news
These crazy people should of been aborted :/
Why are you posting this so far after the fact.
He was a martyr for his beliefs. (right?)
Why is it always the people with the wrong opinions that go around killing people? You don't see anti-abortionists getting murdered.
[QUOTE=MR-X;16276303]I don't see how Abortion is evil, Abortion is a choice made by the person. It isn't forced. These people are sick, they bitch about abortion. Yet they go and kill him, way to go. Religion lol[/QUOTE] It was that persons choice to go and kill Tiller. I get what you are saying but you should word it different.
This looks almost identical to the Late-Term Abortion doctors murder just a couple of months ago.
[quote=chippay;16276289]christianity is a religion of peace :)[/quote] radial communist muslims won't keep doctor christ down
[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;16276389]This looks almost identical to the Late-Term Abortion doctors murder just a couple of months ago.[/QUOTE] :banjo:
[QUOTE=Samiam22;16276248]Woah, oh my god. They are going to kill people for making bad vidya gaems soon.[/QUOTE] I don't see that as a bad thing.
Pro life idiots killing someone? wat?
Because clearly all Christians are radical morons. :/
[QUOTE=Tyler_Durden;16276466]Pro life idiots killing someone? wat?[/QUOTE] The needs of the many outweigh that of one. (btw i'm indifferent towards abortion)
[b]Irony.[/b]
[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;16276389]This looks almost identical to the Late-Term Abortion doctors murder just a couple of months ago.[/QUOTE] I was thinking the same thing. If this is a [I]second[/I] murder in the same year, anti-abortionist numbers are gonna drop drastically. Yay! ^_^
[QUOTE=angelangel;16276667]The needs of the many outweigh that of one.[/QUOTE] Well spoken, Dr. Spock. "The needs of the many... outweigh..." "The needs of the few." "Or the one."
[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;16276715]Well spoken, Dr. Spock. "The needs of the many... outweigh..." "The needs of the few." "Or the one."[/QUOTE] Spock wasn't a doctor, nor did he hold a doctorate, he was an officer.
[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;16276756]Spock wasn't a doctor, nor did he hold a doctorate, he was an officer.[/QUOTE] I've probably confused Star Trek Spock and [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Spock][b]Dr. Spock[/b][/url]. But fuck you I stand by what I said. [quote=Wikipedia.org]It is common to see "Dr. Spock" confused with the fictional character "Mr. Spock" of Star Trek fame, particularly in references from people unfamiliar with the field of science fiction. [/quote] Lol.
[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;16276787]I've probably confused Star Trek Spock and [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Spock][b]Dr. Spock[/b][/url]. But fuck you I stand by what I said. Lol.[/QUOTE] Benjamin Spock, the man who somehow managed to fuck up the minds of parents everywhere and taught them to raise their children incorrectly.
LOL SCINC IS KEY PROF CRISTAN MUSLIM AND JEWS R KILLING WORLD HAI GUYS LETS BE KOOL AND HATE ON RELIGON CAUSE IT'S COOL !!!THREAD MUSIC!!! [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ljFaKRTrI&feature=related[/media] ((?Brownie points?)) [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Trolling" - verynicelady))[/highlight]
[QUOTE=StukovCA;16276850]LOL SCINC IS KEY PROF CRISTAN MUSLIM AND JEWS R KILLING WORLD HAI GUYS LETS BE KOOL AND HATE ON RELIGON CAUSE IT'S COOL !!!THREAD MUSIC!!! [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ljFaKRTrI&feature=related[/media] ((?Brownie points?))[/QUOTE] That's odd, because I don't recall anyone in this thread spelling like that.
[quote=lmaoboat;16276883]that's odd, because i don't recall anyone in this thread spelling like that.[/quote] lol u n spell
[QUOTE=StukovCA;16276850]LOL SCINC IS KEY PROF CRISTAN MUSLIM AND JEWS R KILLING WORLD HAI GUYS LETS BE KOOL AND HATE ON RELIGON CAUSE IT'S COOL !!!THREAD MUSIC!!! [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ljFaKRTrI&feature=related[/media] ((?Brownie points?))[/QUOTE] what are you going on about, you on drugs? The abortion doctor was a Christian himself.
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