The doctor’s murder is domestic terrorism, and if our leaders don’t act boldly, there will be more violence

By Gloria Feldt 

excerpt: "When it comes to decrying Tiller’s unspeakable murder, I want to hear it from Congress. I want to hear it from clergy, the medical profession, the media and civic leaders: "This kind of violation will not be tolerated. Period." I want to see leaders and people at the grassroots joining hands together in support of those who provide women with reproductive health services, including abortion. I want them to put the yellow armband on, to assume Tiller’s name as so many took on the Obama’s middle name, Hussein, when he was disparaged during the election. Doctors have a special responsibility. David Toub M.D, MBA, who provided abortions when he was a practicing physician in Philadelphia, told me, "This could have been any of us who provide or provided abortion services. I’m just as annoyed by some of my own colleagues and the American Medical Association who marginalized us and even looked down at anyone involved in providing abortion."

The silence overall from leaders so far has been deafening, as attorney and longtime Arizona volunteer for reproductive rights causes Leon Silver pointed out. And if our leaders remain silent, I can tell you with perfect assurance what will happen next. There will be more violence.

Dr. Tiller’s friends, family, patients, colleagues and the many pro-choice activists who have supported him over the years need the vigil in Wichita and those springing up elsewhere to mourn the 67-year-old doctor’s death and celebrate his exceptional life. The larger community of reproductive health professionals and activists, including those who bravely escort women safely into and out of health facilities for abortions, need to cry and hug and lift one another up on the wings of their convictions that they are doing God’s work, saving women’s lives in the fullest sense of the word. I am with them in spirit.

But when it comes to changing a culture that has marginalized abortion by shaming women and hounding, even murdering, the doctors and clinic staff who provide safe abortions, when it comes to changing a culture bent on shaming women who are, in all good conscience, making the most moral of personal decisions — candlelight vigils alone will never be enough."

http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2009/06/01/george_tiller/index.html

I feel for Dr. Tiller’s family, the pain that they must going through right now.  Dr. Tiller was well within his legal rights to provide the services that he provided.  He survived so many threats and to be gunned downed in his church.  Terrible. 

Dr. Tiller believed that women should be allowed choices for their bodies, and he was killed for that.  Absolutely terrible. 

If you disagree with abortion and you live in the US, you have the right to protest it.  You do NOT have the right to kill in order to prove your point.  Once you do that, you delete all the credibility out of your stance.  It reminds me of the PETA people who abuse people wearing fur.  While most PETA people are sane, there are the few who go out there and attack people wearing fur or eating meat.  They just come across as looney.

The perpetrator in this case set back the pro-life cause instead of assisting people in understanding it.  I hope they throw the book at him.