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With Tiller slaying, abortion opponents lose their moral standing
Kansas City Star ^ | May. 31, 2009 | Mike Hendricks

Posted on 05/31/2009 8:51:27 PM PDT by Lorianne

By midafternoon Sunday, authorities had a 50-something man in custody in connection with the murder of Wichita abortion doctor George Tiller, killed while serving as an usher at his church.

However, the motive for the crime we can all surmise, given the vitriolic rhetoric aimed at Tiller these past couple of decades by anti-abortion activists.

And if we’re right about that, then we know the identities of his accomplices.

They include everyone who has ever called Tiller’s late-term abortion clinic a murder mill.

Whoever called Tiller “Tiller the Killer.”

Groups that fomented hate toward a man who, rightly or wrongly, believed he was serving a noble purpose by being one of the few doctors in the country who performed late-term abortions.

Hate. Not heated opposition. Not strong disagreement.

But blind hatred.

The kind of hate that would prompt some maniac to take a gun into a church and shoot a man to death in front of friends and family.

His accomplices know they have blood on their hands, which might explain why they were quick to issue statements expressing disapproval of Tiller’s murder.

Among them, the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue, whose words drip with hypocrisy: “We are shocked at this morning’s disturbing news that Mr. Tiller was gunned down. Operation Rescue has worked for years through peaceful, legal means, and through the proper channels to see him brought to justice. We denounce vigilantism and the cowardly act that took place this morning. We pray for Mr. Tiller’s family that they will find comfort and healing that can only be found in Jesus Christ.”

Shocked? Are any of us really shocked that it would come to this after the many years of demonizing one man? Certainly the group’s founder, Randall Terry, didn’t seem shocked when he issued this statement on Sunday:

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Kansas
KEYWORDS: abortion; tiller
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To: Fichori
Look for speaking out against abortion to soon become a hate crime.

Then prepare to be a criminal.

61 posted on 05/31/2009 9:20:31 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand
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To: jessduntno

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss4911a1.htm


62 posted on 05/31/2009 9:21:49 PM PDT by jessduntno (July 4th, 2009. Washington DC. Gadsden Flags. Be There.)
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To: Lorianne

What would a leftist rant against the right be without the word “vitriol”?


63 posted on 05/31/2009 9:22:25 PM PDT by 3catsanadog (I plan to give the new President the same respect and dignity the other side gave Bush.)
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To: erman

I’m surprised the murderer didn’t just pull Tiller out of the church by his feet, punch a hole in the back his skull and vacuum his brains out with a shop vac. In Kansas it’s legal if your the right age.....


64 posted on 05/31/2009 9:22:54 PM PDT by hatfieldmccoy (Satan has a new name and it is Islam)
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To: Fichori

Minority Report


65 posted on 05/31/2009 9:23:08 PM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

I sware, this is all staged by the administration. This is all too convenient for them.

And the sick disgusting media. May they all rot in hell.


66 posted on 05/31/2009 9:23:26 PM PDT by prismsinc (A.K.A. "The Terminator"!)
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To: Lorianne

Hardly.


67 posted on 05/31/2009 9:23:31 PM PDT by Let's Roll (Stop paying ACORN to destroy America! Cut off their government funding!)
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To: Lorianne

Mike Hendricks, another loser from the KC Star!! What would any animal writing for that rag know about moral standing?


68 posted on 05/31/2009 9:25:09 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: GinaLolaB

“Tiller the killer did kill viable babies. Baby killers like Tiller also had a list of baby body parts that they sold. I saw the list. It had parts like eyes for $900.00, backbone- $500.00, brain- $1,000.00 etc. Baby killers are heinous.”

Man, that is chilling. Talk about Burke and Hare!


69 posted on 05/31/2009 9:25:28 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Lorianne

Wonder if the author would like his logic about Tiller [believed rightly or wrongly] applied retroactively to Rudolf Hoess, Otto Ohlendorf or any of several dozen SS officers and doctors?


70 posted on 05/31/2009 9:25:36 PM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: Lorianne

By the author’s logic, “pro-choicers” are as guilty of stabbing babies’ skulls and suctioning out their brains as Tiller was. Hmmm...


71 posted on 05/31/2009 9:29:44 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance

Following this writer’s logic is well....isn’t logical.
Following yours is logical... a pro- choicer taking out one of their own.


72 posted on 05/31/2009 9:30:20 PM PDT by 4Godsoloved..Hegave
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To: the invisib1e hand
Thanks champ but that was no typo.

***And if we’re right about that, then we know the identities of his accomplices.
They include everyone who has ever called Tiller’s late-term abortion clinic a murder mill.
Whoever called Tiller “Tiller the Killer.”***

The author is taking a ton of leeway in assuming they are "right" but it is still a serious smack at numero uno.
73 posted on 05/31/2009 9:31:34 PM PDT by stentorian conservative (I'm tired of being Johnny B. Goode and I'm gonna start being Johnny Reb.)
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To: Lorianne

Funny, LHO’s murder of JFK didn’t cause Marxists to lose their ‘moral standing.’ Sirhan’s murder of RFK didn’t cause the Palestinians to lose their ‘moral standing.’ The PLO’s murder of the Israeli Olympians didn’t....

Wait. I’m sorry, I forgot about THE RULES.


74 posted on 05/31/2009 9:31:55 PM PDT by Lou Budvis (Palin/Dick, Lynne or Liz Cheney '12)
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To: jessduntno
I guess I was right.

one million, two hundred and ninety thousand abortions in 1997.

sigh

75 posted on 05/31/2009 9:33:21 PM PDT by Selmore (Trying to breath in the World Trade Center was torture)
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To: Enoughofthissocialism
This from libs who say not to paint all Koranimals with the same brush, even though they all read from the same filthy tome that calls for murder, mutilation and misogyny.

Great point and great analogy...bears repeating. All we heard from the left after 9/11 was that not everyone who follows Islam advocates terrorism and mass murder...yet the author of this screed is making the opposite case about pro-lifers. It is always the same with the left...they will flush their dignity and credibility down the drain to blindly defend their favored groups and positions. It is a psychosis.
76 posted on 05/31/2009 9:34:58 PM PDT by LostInBayport (I hope the Supreme Court overturns Sotomayor's incompetent 'opinion' in Ricci as hearings begin...)
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To: Lorianne

oh bullshite

what a effed up world the media inhabits

anti-abortion doesn’t mean pacifist anymore than it means murder


77 posted on 05/31/2009 9:35:09 PM PDT by wardaddy (Obama .....you are not my friend. You are an enemy of this nation and my culture and traditions)
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To: Lorianne

Tell me again, why did the Islamic faith not lose its moral standing on 9/11, or why did environmentalism not lose its moral standing when the Unabomber killed people?


78 posted on 05/31/2009 9:35:38 PM PDT by denydenydeny ("I'm sure this goes against everything you've been taught, but right and wrong do exist"-Dr House)
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To: Glenn

Huh????


79 posted on 05/31/2009 9:35:50 PM PDT by 4Godsoloved..Hegave
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To: Lorianne

So one nut kills someone and we are all to blame? It is the MSM that is sick...


80 posted on 05/31/2009 9:36:03 PM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless, indisputable, and unambiguous clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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