I beg to differ. Since Roe v Wade was decided, quite a few abortion doctors have been murdered, and even though the pro-life movement has encountered these setbacks it has reached the point today, according to recent polls, where more people think abortion is wrong. So all these killings and related violence haven't worked against the pro-life movement.
From Wikipedia:
MurdersIn the U.S., violence directed toward abortion providers has killed at least 9 people, including 5 doctors, 2 clinic employees, a security guard, and a clinic escort.
March 10, 1993: Dr. David Gunn of Pensacola, Florida was fatally shot during a protest. He had been the subject of wanted-style posters distributed by Operation Rescue in the summer of the year before. Michael F. Griffin was found guilty of Dr. Gunn's murder and was sentenced to life in prison.
June 29, 1994: Dr. John Britton and James Barrett, a clinic escort, were both shot to death outside of another facility in Pensacola. Rev. Paul Jennings Hill was charged with the killings, received a death sentence, and was executed September 3, 2003.
December 30, 1994: Two receptionists, Shannon Lowney and Lee Ann Nichols, were killed in two clinic attacks in Brookline, Massachusetts. John Salvi, who prior to his arrest was distributing pamphlets from Human Life International,[5] was arrested and confessed to the killings. He committed suicide in prison and guards found his body under his bed with a plastic garbage bag tied around his head. Salvi had also confessed to a non-lethal attack in Norfolk, Virginia days before the Brookline killings.
January 29, 1998: Robert Sanderson, an off-duty police officer who worked as a security guard at an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Alabama, was killed when his workplace was bombed. Eric Robert Rudolph, who was also responsible for the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing, was charged with the crime and received two life sentences as a result.
October 23, 1998: Dr. Barnett Slepian was shot to death at his home in Amherst, New York. His was the last in a series of similar shootings against providers in Canada and northern New York state which were all likely committed by James Kopp. Kopp was convicted of Dr. Slepian's murder after finally being apprehended in France in 2001.
May 31, 2009: Dr. George Tiller was shot and killed as he was entering his church in Wichita, KS.
A fourth doctor, George Patterson, was shot and killed in Mobile, Alabama on August 21, 1993, but it is uncertain whether his death was the direct result of his profession or rather a robbery. Link
That info is credited to NARAL, who wouldn't understate the phenomenon.
The actions of one individual shouldn't be seen as the actions of a whole group of people, and shouldn't cast guilt on the actions of the majority of people who believe abortion is wrong.
The liberal government and their media enablers will do what they can to use this episode to discredit the pro life movement. It's up to us to keep them honest and on point.
A murder like this doesn't bring back the lives of the innocents butchered at the hand of these abortionists, but it certainly brings the abortion issue to the forefront, and whether we like it or not it forces us to think about the issues surrounding the abominable practice of abortion.
We will have to agree to disagree. In either event, I think everyone can agree that the best course of action for conservatives is to decry Roeder’s actions and call for a swift execution if he’s convicted.