[Millee]

The flyers labeled Hern a "baby killer" and were placed in the doors of a Boulder neighborhood.

They called an abortion doctor a baby killer????? Gasp!!! How could they????? (barf)

[dsc]

"picketed women's health clinics"

Picketed what?

What kind of "health clinic" is it where there is a 50% patient mortality rate?

[hiredhand]

People who hide what they do which they know is wrong, always react this way when exposed.

Although this man is a murderer of the unborn, he is attempting to turn it around and paint the pro-life side in a negative way.

If what he's done is so bad that somebody should want to kill him on account of his exposure, then one would "think" that he would stop doing the thing which is so bad.

[wideawake]

Uh-oh. Sounds like someone's lucrative business as a baby buttonman is being impacted.

[Augie76]

"Dr." Hern is well-known for performing late-term abortions for out of state patients.

[End Times Sentinel]

In his ad, he called the group fascist 

Exactly when did fascism go from a political ideology that threatened the world to a word meaning "someone I don't like"?

Owl_Eagle

(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,

 it was probably sarcasm)

[chimera]

In his ad, he called the group fascist and said, "They would stop at nothing to impose their views on other people."

Ah, yes, "impose their views on other people", that wonderful, focus group-tested, hackneyed liberal phrase. Rates right up there with their other snide comments, like "shoving blatz down our (throats, wazoos, whatever)". Like I guess being opposed to murder, robbery, rape, child abuse, treason, burglary, embezzlement, etc. is "imposing your views on others".

Hey, give the libs credit. They know their focus groups, and if slaughtering millions of unborn children every year is what is popular among focus groups, the libs will go with it, especially since it avoids "shoving down our throats" quaint notions like cherishing life, and having some sense of responsibility for one's actions when choosing to engage in activity that can lead to procreation. When one lives in a moral vacuum, relying on focus groups to define your morality is about the best you can do. Talk about fascist...

[Wallace T.]

The pro-lifers are taking the battle into Boulder, a big college town and accordingly enemy territory. Good for them!

[Sloth]

Frank Gannon, P.I. P.I.: Politically Incorrect Private Investigator. -- Saturday Night Live

FRANK GANNON, P.I. P.I.: "Ah, now let's have a look at the damage.. [ looks around, taking notes ] Hmm.. ahh.. it's terrible. Well, you're lucky about one thing - at least whoever did his had the decency to leave the Baby Killer sign untouched."

DR. MCANDREWS: "Sign? What are you talking about, sign?"

FRANK GANNON, P.I. P.I.: "Well, you know, your sign that says what you do here at the clinic." [ points to "Baby Killers" graffiti on the wall ]

DR. MCANDREWS: "That isn't a sign! That's a criminal act! An outrage!"

FRANK GANNON, P.I. P.I.: "Well, you know, I admit that that.. "S" in "Killers" is a little crooked.. but, uh.. look - I'm not here to argue the asthetics of the sign. I'm here to solve a crime..."

[FormerACLUmember]

Many of these abortionists make seven figure incomes. In an extremely wealthy area like Boulder, with a huge University nearby, I would be surprised if this creep made less than $1 million per year.

The protesters must be having an effect on this dude's income. Hence the hystrionics.

[roylene]

In stead of "baby killer" should we call him "baby dismember"?

[Aquinasfan]

Dr. Warren Hern said the flyers, distributed by a group that calls itself Operation Save America, were designed to cause hate and fear and to get someone to kill him.

He's the guy who's killing babies, right? Just checking.

[Salvation]

Keep up the prayers and picketing! They work!

Lawrence (KS) abortion clinic closes because of funding woes

Eugene abortion clinic closes; surprising many (Hooray !!!)

Prayer credited for closing of abortion clinic [Eugene, OR]

Planned Parenthood will shut down 3 clinics [Indiana]

Persevering Students Help Close Abortion Clinic [Santa Paula, CA--Thomas Aquinas College]

Abortion Clinic Managers Quit After Being Outed by Operation Rescue [Wichita, Kansas]

One Man's God Squad: Troy Newman's plan to stop abortions in Wichita, Kansas

Baby Saved From Abortion is Baptized [New Orleans]

Thank You Bishop Rhoades: A Personal Account of An Abortion Protest With A Catholic Bishop -- still praying -- Harrisburg, PA

[Past Your Eyes]

"...an effort to get him killed....Well, I suppose he could always stop what he's doing if he's really that worried about it.

[sport]

Sounds kinda like the kitchen cockroaches when the light is turned on to me.

Sounds to me like he knows what he is doing is wrong. It may be legal but it is not right.

[Selkie]

He's not just an antifetalist , he's a vocal abortion rights activist.

Brazil Peace Corps Physician Warren Hern is abortion-rights activist Hern still on front lines By ERIN WIGGINS Colorado Daily Staff

Dr. Warren Hern's objection to HB04-1070 is just another chapter in the Boulder physician's long history as an abortion-rights activist.

Hern's Boulder office, bulletproof since a 1988 assassination attempt, has been home to one of the oldest abortion clinics in Colorado.

He said he never planned it that way.

A graduate of CU's medical school in 1965, Hern served as Peace Corps physician in Brazil for two years before studying epidemiology at the University of North Carolina in order to become a teacher.

"Then I was asked to start the first non-profit abortion clinic in Colorado," he said of his entry into the field in the early 1970's. "I had no intention of practicing medicine. I thought I would [work at the clinic] for a year or two and go back to school. But here we are, 30 years later."

In his 1994 article, "Life on the Frontlines," Hern described an epiphany that kept him going through the many trials and tribulations of his career choice.

After performing his first abortion on a 17-year-old high-school student, he said he discovered his ability to change people's lives.

"I was relieved that this young woman was safe to go on with her life and realize her dreams," he said in the article. "Her tears and the immensity of the moment brought my tears. I had helped her change her life. I had found a new definition of the idea of medicine as an act of compassion and love for one's fellow human beings."

But Hern's realization would vault him onto a difficult and controversial path as one of the most outspoken abortion-rights advocates in the country - and one of the most hated.

Threatening phone calls were a reality from the very beginning in 1973, he said.

He is still met with a lot of hostility today, particularly for his work with late-term abortion.

A 2003 editorial on the National Right to Life Web site, http://www.nrlc.org, described Hern as a "master... of poisoning, dismembering, and otherwise smashing older unborn babies to smithereens."

Two of the more life-threatening events occurred in the past 20 years. In 1988, five shots were fired through the front window of Hern's clinic, and in 1995, the Coalition of Life Activists announced Hern as one of 13 abortion doctors they wished to assassinate. He was placed under 24-hour surveillance by U.S. federal marshals.

Despite the adversity, Hern emphasized that he has never backed down, winning the Carl Schulz Award from the American Health Association for his work in the field in 2002.

He worries that because of the controversy, few younger doctors are entering the field of abortion practice.

"Why would any doctor want to do this?" he asked. "If you want to have a happy, normal life, you shouldn't do this."

Hern, who also dabbles in photography and environmental activism, refused to speculate on whether he would follow the same path if he had it all to do over again.

"That's a moot point," he said, but added: "I [just] felt this was the most important thing I could do with medicine."

[Selkie]

Hern has even written books on performing abortions

Abortion Practice, by Warren M. Hern, M.D., M.P.H. (1990: Alpenglo Graphics, Inc., 1130 Alpine, Boulder, CO 80304

[Coleus]

Colorado Priest busted for Communion wine, Wants variance to Celebrate Mass outside abortion clinic

Queer Orthodoxy at the University of Colorado

Sunken Fires Menace Land and Climate

[Aussie Dasher]

This guys kills babies for a living.We're supposed to like him?

[Conservative til I die]

What is the "doctor" afraid of? Putting leaflets on doorsteps is not imposing views on others. Shouldn't the Boulder community rally in his favor? Is he ashamed to have his occupation known? Doesn't matter, since Boulder is like the Berkeley of the Rockies.