fascism??? listen stooopid... fascism brought you forced abortion and ethnic cleansing.
Posted on 05/31/2009 4:52:00 PM PDT by kristinn
Hours after the Sunday morning shooting death of late-term abortion doctor George Tiller in Wichita, Kan., a Boulder physician — who says he could be the only doctor in the world still performing the procedure — said Tiller’s assassination was the “absolutely inevitable consequence” of decades of anti-abortion fanaticism.
“I’m profoundly sad and I’m furious and I think the American people need to understand that we have a fascist movement in this country,” Dr. Warren Hern told The Colorado Independent on Sunday. “We don’t have to invade Iraq to find terrorists. They’re right here killing abortion doctors.”
“Every doctor that does abortions has been under an assassination threat for decades,” Hern said. “The anti-abortion movement message is, ‘Do what we tell you to do or we will kill you,’ and they do. This is a fascist movement.”
Hern laid blame for Tiller’s death at the feet of the anti-abortion movement’s encouragement of violence against abortion providers and the Republican Party’s “exploitation” of the extremist rhetoric.
“Dr. Tiller is dead by an anti-abortion assassin, and this is the absolutely inevitable consequence of 35 years of anti-abortion fanatic rhetoric and intimidation and assassination violence and exploitation by the Republican Party of this movement,” Hern told the Independent.
Hern, who described Tiller as “a good friend of mine,” said he doesn’t “know of any other doctors in the world doing late abortions like I am.” The Boulder Abortion Clinic, run by Hern since he founded the practice in 1975, has as its motto “Specializing in Late Abortions for Fetal Disorders”.
Hern declined to say whether he planned any changes to his security precautions after the killing of Tiller, who was shot to death while ushering at his Lutheran church.
Noting that Tiller is the “fifth American doctor to be assassinated,” Hern told the Los Angeles Times he’s well aware of the dangers. “I get messages from these people saying, ‘Don’t bother wearing a bulletproof vest, we’re going for a head shot.’ ”
A statement on the Boulder Abortion Clinic’s Web site addresses Hern’s concerns about safety for the clinic’s patients:
By its name and continued existence, Boulder Abortion Clinic makes a statement that women are free to make their own choices about their own lives, bodies, and family needs. I have been personally involved from the beginning of my medical career in advocacy of reproductive freedom, and I continue in this commitment. We have survived anti-abortion harassment and violence and shown our determination to provide these services in spite of everything. As a result, our patients are protected by the highest standards of safety and security when they come to my office.
Here’s how CNN is spinning it....
The National Organization for Women, which supports abortion rights, called Tiller’s killing an act of “domestic terrorism.” And NARAL Pro-Choice America said Tiller had worked for years under “intense harassment tinged with persistent threats of violence.”
If Tiller was killed because of his work, he would be the fourth U.S. physician killed over abortion since 1993.
In 1998, a sniper killed Dr. Barnett Slepian in his Amherst, New York, home. Anti-abortion activist James Kopp was later arrested in France and is serving life in prison.
In 1994, Dr. John Bayard Britton and one of his volunteer escorts were shot and killed outside an abortion clinic in Pensacola, Florida. Paul Hill, a former minister, was convicted of the killings and executed in 2003.
And in 1993, another doctor, David Gunn, was shot to death outside another Pensacola clinic. His killer, Michael Griffin, is serving a life sentence.
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In addition, a nurse at a Birmingham, Alabama, clinic was maimed and an off-duty police officer was killed in a 1998 bombing by Eric Rudolph, who included abortion among his list of anti-government grievances.
Rudolph admitted to that attack and three other bombings — including the 1996 attack on the Olympic games in Atlanta, Georgia — and is currently serving life in prison.
Never mind that there have only been a handful of these murders in how many decades, and after each one, the vast majority of the pro-life movement has denounced the murders. But it won't matter to those who will make a political martyr of him.
And of course, it's yet another reason for republicans to denounce their base.
It's going to get a lot worse.
Mark
Maybe Napolitano is about to pull her domestic terrorist profiling report from the wastebasket and implement the liberal loon-a-sphere’s eagerly anticipated round-up of “enemies of the state.”
fascism??? listen stooopid... fascism brought you forced abortion and ethnic cleansing.
its a crime but its also justice in im opinion
How Orwellian that a mass murderer of late term infants in the womb calls anyone fascist. It was the Nazis who perfected the art of mass killings — that is before the Communists took to an even higher plane. How dare he assume the killer was pro-life, for starters.
Must be a good day when he can combine marketing and condolences in the same press release.
Absurd, yes. Of course the logical falicies in this are legion but they will be made by the MSM and, likely, the DHS. They better have biiiig concentration camps ready.
“...this is a fascist movement!”
Obviousy doesn’t know what fascism is. But anyway, methinks he doth protest too much. Probably fears he’s next on the list to be aborted. Dr. Tiller was a 268th trimester abortion, so there’s precedent.
Sounds like he’s trying to capitalize off the murder of Tiller.
The man is scared someone is going to be targeting him.
Well Mr. Warren Hern, I would say it looks more like a one man revolution rather than a fascist movement.
It’s usually what you get when the law of the land is turned on it’s head by the very government that is in place to protect it.
And who is it that commends your bravery?
Hint: pssst.. it aint God.
There you go. Shooting Tiller to death, how ever horrible what he does is, is just not right.
To which Satan replied, “Next”.
That is the view of many I know. I’m about as upset about this as I was when I heard Dahmer was killed in jail.
I was not speaking of Tiller, tho, but of the Boulder doc, ‘the last late-term provider in this country,’ who decried the fascist anti-abortion movement and whined like the victim he is NOT. He is, actually, a perpetrator.
Oh, sorry.
Yes, I gather your point now, and I agree.
That’s true, but the sins of some of us are of a rather large magnitude, and those of others are of a lesser magnitude.
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