Murdering Doctors who perform abortions
Jun. 1st, 2009 07:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hkellickIf you aren't up on the news this week, yesterday Dr. George Tiller was fatally shot while attending services in his Lutheran Church in Wichita. I don't know much about Mr. Tiller and, really, this post isn't about him, but I need to vent my utter disgust at this.
No matter where you fall on the pro-choice/pro-life spectrum, murder and violence are never the way to get your point across. Only wackos choose to make a point by hurting someone or killing someone.
This murder reminds me of another murder not that long ago, one I'm a bit more familiar with, the murder of Dr. Barnett Slepian
In 1998, Dr. Slepian, an OB/GYN and a physician from my hometown of Amherst, NY, who lived not so very far from where I grew up, was murdered inside his own home.
In a city as small as Buffalo was (and possibly as liberal as Buffalo tends to be), the moment crystallized the city. We were horrified, as a whole. No matter what your own personal beliefs were.. to go into a man's house and KILL Him..?
Of course, the crazies came out of the woodwork to 'celebrate' this moment. Even as most of us were reacting in shock and horror at this, a bunch of crazy idiots came from all across America to stage pro-life rallies across Buffalo. So many idiots were there, they spilled into pro-life rallies in Rochester.
To me, the most telling moment about all this.. was two fold.. at the same time as the crazies were coming out of the woodwork to stage their protests and the local pro-life groups BEGGING them to get the hell out before a riot occurred.. the FBI had gotten onto the trail of the murder, James Kopp who had fled to France.
The whole thing, upon memory, was just so surreal. The fact that a man was murdered in his own home for the crime of.. something that was totally legal, that the crazies then came out of the woodwork CELEBRATING the MURDER OF A MAN, and that the murderer himself flew to France to escape justice. Just... seriously seriously Surreal. With more than a bit of a hint of Insanity.
I hope the FBI finds who killed Dr. Tiller. I hope they find him and convict him. And I hope, for the City of Wichita, that this doesn't turn into another call to the Right Wing Anti-Abortion Loons to come to Wichita to stage multiple rallies and otherwise make total asses of themselves. I really do hope so...
No matter where you fall on the pro-choice/pro-life spectrum, murder and violence are never the way to get your point across. Only wackos choose to make a point by hurting someone or killing someone.
This murder reminds me of another murder not that long ago, one I'm a bit more familiar with, the murder of Dr. Barnett Slepian
In 1998, Dr. Slepian, an OB/GYN and a physician from my hometown of Amherst, NY, who lived not so very far from where I grew up, was murdered inside his own home.
In a city as small as Buffalo was (and possibly as liberal as Buffalo tends to be), the moment crystallized the city. We were horrified, as a whole. No matter what your own personal beliefs were.. to go into a man's house and KILL Him..?
Of course, the crazies came out of the woodwork to 'celebrate' this moment. Even as most of us were reacting in shock and horror at this, a bunch of crazy idiots came from all across America to stage pro-life rallies across Buffalo. So many idiots were there, they spilled into pro-life rallies in Rochester.
To me, the most telling moment about all this.. was two fold.. at the same time as the crazies were coming out of the woodwork to stage their protests and the local pro-life groups BEGGING them to get the hell out before a riot occurred.. the FBI had gotten onto the trail of the murder, James Kopp who had fled to France.
The whole thing, upon memory, was just so surreal. The fact that a man was murdered in his own home for the crime of.. something that was totally legal, that the crazies then came out of the woodwork CELEBRATING the MURDER OF A MAN, and that the murderer himself flew to France to escape justice. Just... seriously seriously Surreal. With more than a bit of a hint of Insanity.
I hope the FBI finds who killed Dr. Tiller. I hope they find him and convict him. And I hope, for the City of Wichita, that this doesn't turn into another call to the Right Wing Anti-Abortion Loons to come to Wichita to stage multiple rallies and otherwise make total asses of themselves. I really do hope so...
