Scott P. Roeder, 51, of Merriam, KS, has been arrested for the shooting of abortion provider Dr. George Tiller.
According to McClatchy:
“Those who know Roeder said he believed that killing abortion doctors was an act of justifiable homicide.
"I know that he believed in justifiable homicide," said Regina Dinwiddie, a Kansas City anti-abortion activist who made headlines in 1995 when she was ordered by a federal judge to stop using a bullhorn within 500 feet of any abortion clinic. "I know he very strongly believed that abortion was murder and that you ought to defend the little ones, both born and unborn."
Dinwiddie said she met Roeder while picketing outside the Kansas City Planned Parenthood clinic in 1996. Roeder walked into the clinic and asked to see the doctor, Robert Crist, she said.
"Robert Crist came out and he stared at him for approximately 45 seconds," she said. "Then he (Roeder) said, 'I've seen you now.' Then he turned his back and walked away, and they were scared to death. On the way out, he gave me a great big hug and he said, 'I've seen you in the newspaper. I just love what you're doing.'^"
These kinds of people have been more than welcomed in the “pro-life” movement.
From KansasCity.com:
“Tiller is fourth doctor killed in abortion-related violence
With his death Sunday, George Tiller became the eighth person and the fourth doctor killed in abortion-related attacks.”
The article goes on to name the other three doctors killed, Barnett Slepian, John Britton, David Gunn. It also mentions staff and security guards who died from clinic attacks.”
Violence has been a natural part of the “pro-life” movement. Just earlier this month there were major acts of vandalism and renewed threats against Tiller’s Wichita clinic. Possible due to a sense that the “pro-life” movement has lost ground politically, activists seem to be more willing to resort to vandalism and violence to further their agenda.
Operation Rescue leader Randall Terry issued a statement that seemed completely devoid of any remorse over Tiller’s murder.
According to The Huffington Post:
"George Tiller was a mass-murderer. We grieve for him that he did not have time to properly prepare his soul to face God. I am more concerned that the Obama Administration will use Tiller's killing to intimidate pro-lifers into surrendering our most effective rhetoric and actions. Abortion is still murder. And we still must call abortion by its proper name; murder.
Those men and women who slaughter the unborn are murderers according to the Law of God. We must continue to expose them in our communities and peacefully protest them at their offices and homes, and yes, even their churches."
Such conservative reactions seem common place all along the conservative blogs and opinion pieces of the internet. Consider a blog called La Shawn Barber’s Corner:
“A pro-death Twitterer called me twisted for reminding people that Tiller killed infants, since his killer is still on the loose. Huh? You’ve got to dig that irony thing.”
At a vigil held in Tiller’s honor, in Wichita, Sunday night, there were a handful of followers of the Rev. Fred Phelps. They blatantly praised the killing of Tiller and mocked those who came to morn his death.
The reality is that Roeder is now the face of the majority of “pro-life” activists. These are people who believe they are above the law and have no respect for the rights of those who get in the way of their agenda.
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