It is a hate crime as well.  Hate against women.  Think of the women who are in dire straits — maybe they have discovered in their sixth month of pregnancy that they have cancer — who will no longer be able to find a doctor to perform the procedure that may save their lives.  There was a woman who discovered that her fetus was developing without a brain and would be stillborn and opted for a late term abortion instead of suffering through three more months of futile pregnancy.  I just don’t think these "pro-life" people realize that they are trying to turn over to government decisions that are complicated, personal and agonizing, and that they would not do that with any of their own most difficult decisions.  Some things should be worked out by the woman and her doctor.  

Anyway, a person who kills a doctor for doctoring kills more than the doctor.  George Tiller was a hero to the women he helped.    

The man who methodically planned and carried out the murder of Dr. Tiller has been charged with First Degree Murder.  A capital offense.  Why is the murder, politically charged, of this man more offensive than a woman killed in a ‘crime of passion’ (is that a hate crime as well?)  Or a teller shot in a bank robbery (would that be a murder perpetrated by the economy?)…it sort of spins out of control as we caveat the motivations of all criminals.  Pre-meditated murder, be it politically charged or a love affair gone wrong, is pre-meditated murder. 

Murder and capital crimes have been ‘dealt’ with by our existing criminal justice system.  Weighing some crimes as more egregious tips the balance of all criminal justice.  First Degree Murder is the charge.  Period.

I find the bandying about of the term ‘terrorism’ most interesting.  Didn’t Janet Napalitano ‘remove’ ‘terrorism/ist’ from the lexicon?  Aren’t they now (the rediculous) ‘man-made disasterists?’