Posted on 11/09/2009 1:03:03 PM PST by Former Military Chick
WICHITA | Scott Roeder has confessed to the shooting of a Kansas abortion provider.
The 51-year-old Kansas City man told The Associated Press in a telephone call from jail Monday that he plans to use the so-called necessity defense at his trial.
Roeder contends the killing of George Tiller in May at a Wichita church was justified to protect the lives of unborn children.
His confession comes as abortion opponents across the nation release a new “Defensive Action Statement” arguing for the same force to protect the unborn as is justified to protect born children. The 21 signers want jurors to be allowed to consider that defense at Roeder’s Jan. 11 trial.
(Excerpt) Read more at kansascity.com ...
< If one wants that service, they can find another clinic >
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There are about 500-2000 of these late term abortions, depending on how you tweak the factors. Going by Tiller’s rate, one doctor could handle that in a year, and the pro-aborts HAVE that one doctor, the one in Nebraska. Anyone here calling for shooting him?
That is the best strategy, going about it in a thoughtful manner. Otherwise you’re justifying and excusing murder with the best of them (the moral relativists).
He should have yelled “Allahu Akbar” before killing.
The left would have a hard time not defending him… or it would at least send them in a tailspin trying to figure out where they stand.
Why call them abortion DOCTORS? Real DOCTORS take an oath AGAINST Abortion! Let’s call these ABORTIONISTS. I remember when the US Supreme Court said you COULD NOT require Abortionists to be Doctors, because that would infringe on women’s rights to have abortions!! LOL. Unbelievable, but TRUE.
The SECULAR “Courts” do NOT want him to be able to PRESENT any defense, much less this one.
You put that VERY concisely, yet ELOQUENTLY!
They just need a lawyer to PRESENT it...MAKE the case to the jury, BEFORE being muzzled by the bailiffs and hustled off to the Democratic Gulag!
Good point! Hussein Obama’s friend!
Exodus 1:15 And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one [was] Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:
Exodus 1:17 But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.
Exodus 1:18 And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children alive?
Exodus 1:19 And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women [are] not as the Egyptian women; for they [are] lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.
Exodus 1:20 Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.
Exodus 1:21 And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.
How many children were saved by obedient midwives in the OT?
I don’t think there is any question that there is a deterrent effect.
“I’m appalled that people are finding reasons to justify first degree murder or show casual acceptance of it: “I don’t have a problem with it.””
Observing the deterrent effect doesn’t necessarily mean anyone is justifying it.
I think the violence of the Earth First group against animal testing deters animal testing, too. That doesn’t mean I think they are doing a good thing.
I don’t know how I’d vote, but I would certainly take into consideration what his motives were.
The Commandment is often mistranslated as "thou shalt not kill" when it really reads "thou shalt not murder."
There is a huge difference between the two. If it really was "thou shalt not kill," then forget about being allowed to use deadly force to protect your family from evil (or perhaps try to shoot down a muslim terrorist who is killing our troops on US soil). There are situations in which justifiable homicide is necessary to save oneself or the lives of others. Going further into the Bible, into the New Testament, Jesus personally tells his disciples that they too should be armed with weapons, as they risked their own lives to preach His Word to others.
Call them murderers. That is what they are.
Not for Doctors, but for the soulless Butchers, that murder the unborn.
These vermin long ago ceased to be "Doctors, or Healers".
Feel free to use it as your own. I saw it somewhere.
“...Can you imagine the controversy of a hung jury in which one holdout refuses to convict him? The questioning of potential jurors should be interesting...”
“...The jury won’t be allowed to consider this defense.
You mean a jury of his peers which should be 12 pro-lifers...”
Check out www.fija.org - the Fully Informed Jury Association.
One of the “Four Boxes of Liberty” is the Jury Box.
Despite instructions from the judge, a sympathetic pro-life person may get on the jury and intend to vote not guilty no matter what.
Highly probable. Just one out of twelve is all it takes.
> a sympathetic pro-life person may get on intend to vote not guilty no matter what <
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A stealth juror - just like OJ. And they’d have to lie about the part where they swear to be objective - perjury, just like Clinton. Just lovely.
A Kansas jury acquitted Tiller just this year IIRC. It only takes one prochoicer, too, to let someone off.
Correction, I meant if the whole jury was ready to let him go, it would only take one prochoicer to hang up the jury, and if they can vote for Kathleen Sebelius up there, I’m sure they have that one prochoicer.
You can spot a black person and try to keep them off the OJ jury, but how do you tell a prochoicer just by looking?
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