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June 08, 2009 06:26 PM UTC

More on the terrorism in Wichita

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  • by: Aristotle

(The most interesting, and frightening, quote is near the bottom of the post. – promoted by Colorado Pols)

NYT:

For the first time in years, only a Wichita police car has been waiting outside the abortion clinic of Dr. George R. Tiller, who was shot to death a week ago. Gone are the trucks bearing enormous images of bloody fetuses, the signs offering the home addresses of clinic workers, the crowd of protesters yelling to women as they enter….

This city of 358,000 people, once the focal point of protests because of four abortion clinics – most significantly Dr. Tiller’s, which provided rare late-term abortions – last week had no abortion facility open for business, no target in chief, no immediate reason for this network of anti-abortion forces to be based here….

Although Operation Rescue worked for years to close down Dr. Tiller’s clinic, his death was never the outcome Mr. Newman [president of Operation Rescue] wished for, he said. Of the man charged with killing Dr. Tiller, he tearfully said, “This idiot did more to damage the pro-life movement than you can imagine.”

Well, I certainly hope Newman was being sincere. But he’s blind and a fool if he doesn’t see the role he played in this tragedy.

The NYT article goes on to break down the differences among anti-choicers in Wichita.

Not all anti-abortion advocates… favored the bloody “truth truck” (“Abortion is an ObamaNation,” it reads) [classy! -Aristotle] parked outside his house or agreed on what protesters should call out to women going inside the clinic (obscenity filled insults or offers of help) and how loudly.

Even now, Mr. Gietzen [head of another organization] said, they were not of one mind about statements many groups here have issued condemning the killing of Dr. Tiller. “You can’t be pro-life and go around killing people, but some people are really mad at me for saying that,” he said.

Read the whole thing at the link at the top.

What does the bloody assassin have to say?

he man charged with murdering a high-profile abortion doctor claimed from his jail cell Sunday that similar violence was planned around the nation for as long as the procedure remained legal, a threat that comes days after a federal investigation launched into his possible accomplices….

“I know there are many other similar events planned around the country as long as abortion remains legal,” Roeder said. When asked by the AP what he meant and if he was referring to another shooting, he refused to elaborate further.[Pols emphasis]

Time will tell if he’s just being a blowhard here, but it’s clear that he claims membership to a larger movement.

Anyway, congratulations to the anti-choice terrorists on the closure of the clinics in Wichita. When the law isn’t on your side, violence is.

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    1. This has been their path for decades. They took a breather with a sympathetic president in the White House, but they’ve been on this path for a long time.

  2. If they did not acticipate the result being death or physical assault, were they expecting people to send the employees gifts?  Why would they have displayed:

    “the signs offering the home addresses of clinic workers”.  Employment records, unlike campaign contributions, are not a matter of pulic record.

    1. that all the stalking and harassment and vandalism — would actually lead to someone getting hurt?! Anti-abortion activists are shocked! shocked! to find violent nuts in their ranks.

  3. The right to life tactics, up to and including killing abortion doctors, have worked beautifully.  There are fewer abortion doctors every year.  Abortions only take place in abortion clinics, because hospitals and doctors offices can’t take the heat.  This means the protesters can concentrate on a few targets, and take a few more down every year.  Last time I looked, there were states with only one abortion clinic.  Soon there will be states with none.

    Abortion will always be available to people who have the money to travel for it, but poor rural women are out of luck.

      1. About half of OB-GYN programs surveyed offer some kind of course in abortion, though a number of the courses seem less than “full-service”.  Most schools that offer courses report the courses are poorly attended.

        Of course the anti-abortion campaign has succeeded, and it has succeeded almost entirely through terror.

    2. Despite the fact that violent “pro-life” (ha) actors help tilt public opinion to the pro-choice position, it doesn’t matter if the practical outcome is to discourage every sane OB-GYN med student from offering any abortion services.  If abortion is completely unavailable, the fact that it’s legal doesn’t mean a thing.

  4. .

    including some who participate in prayer meetings outside Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood in the Springs on Saturday mornings.

    Not one of them supports violence or even threats against either the mothers or the clinic staff.  Not even one.

    Though I haven’t specifically asked, I don’t think any of them supports the death penalty, either.  

    Maybe there are two separate pro-life movements ?

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        1. At the very least, it can only be to draw attention. Is it to shame women who find themselves in the position of needing or wanting an abortion? You can hold a prayer meeting anywhere. So why in front of the clinic?

          Whatever your intentions, you are holding your meetings in a milieu where women are harassed, workers are threatened, and doctors are murdered. How can any of them tell your peaceful intentions from murderous rage seething within? Your public displays are just more fuel for the fire and I’m surprised that you can’t acknowledge that.

          The guy that killed Tiller went so far as to attend his church. How was one to divine his intentions?  

  5. back when support for the Iraq war was stronger, even demonstrating against the war led the Manatees and Rushiots to bluster and froth about terrorist-defenders, America haters, etc.

    The connections there were much less obvious than between this nutcase and the ‘mainstream’ anti-choice folks…  He was a well-known presence at some of these ‘prayer’ meetings, had the leader of ‘Operation Rescue’ contact info on his dashboard when arrested, and is lauded as a hero on several anti-choice website.  

    People have a right (even responsibility) to express their views…  but harassing clinic workers and clients creates the climate that creates folks like Roeder

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