Every person has his own idea of justice. There is certainly no consensus among "the masses" on abortion. Moreover we still live in a country where there peaceful means to change public policy. It is far more difficult than it should be when judges usurp power and put policy issues out of the hands of elected representatives, but it is still possible. Again, as far as taking the law into your own hands based on some self-percieved higher morality, that's the same justification used by the Unibomber, Earth First and the Amnimal Liberation Front. Or Al Qaeda for that matter. That can only justifiably be a last resort, when a broad support of the majority beleives there is no alternative. Otherwise, even if you win, it is simply a minority imposing their will by force. That's called tyranny.
I disagree. Every society has to have a moral compass, in which the overwhelming majority of the citizenry must agree, and If not there is only chaos.
While there has always been a minority of people who wish to make abortion legal in any form or for any reason, and at any time in the pregnancy; the majority of Americans ( as well as doctors) disagree vehemently.
Late term abortion has always been illegal, and yet this particular Doctor disregarded this law, and our judicial system allowed ( even facilitated) his ability to do so.
While I do not condone the man who chose to shoot this Doctor, I certainly do not condemn what he did as an act of Murder, as much an act of outrage at our legal system.
IF our legal system actually applied the law equally, then this Doctor would have been stopped long ago, and perhaps the violent act would have been averted.
But because we have legislators who consider their own personal interest above the good of the nation, their corruption of the system leads to justifiable outrage, and sometimes ends in acts such as these.
Perhaps two wrongs don't make a right. But when one wrong is committed, it's only human and natural to expect that some one will eventually react to it in like regard.