Community | June 01, 2009 | 3 comments

Shooting puts abortion foes on defensive

source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31052274/

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WICHITA, Kan. - The slaying of a Kansas abortion doctor put the anti-abortion movement on the defensive Monday with prominent leaders delicately distancing themselves from the accused killer while positioning their stand as one shared by a majority of Americans.

Already reeling from the failure to dominate last year's election and worried their cause won't be at the center of the hearings on President Obama's first Supreme Court nominee, anti-abortion leaders feared that backlash from George Tiller's death could temporarily silence the abortion debate.

"In the immediate future, it makes it difficult to even speak about an issue we've been speaking about for 365 days a year," said Mary Kay Culp, executive director of Kansans for Life. "Anything you say — somebody is going to pounce on us."

Abortion opponents were swift to condemn Tiller's shooting death Sunday during church services in Wichita. Kansans for Life and Operation Rescue, which is also based in Kansas, said 51-year-old Scott Roeder, who is being held without bail one count of first-degree murder and two counts of aggravated assault, did not belong or donate to either group.

'Operation Rescue condemned the killing as vigilantism and "a cowardly act." But its founder, Randall Terry, stressed that the anti-abortion movement should not tone down its rhetoric. He said the gunman was wrong to kill Tiller, 67, but that abortion opponents bear no responsibility for the action.

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Source: MSNBC

Do you think the senseless murder of Dr. Tiller will hurt the anti-choice movement?
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3 comments // Shooting puts abortion foes on defensive

  • jenniferlane
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      jenniferlane  

    • I do think this will hurt the anti-choice movement, but not because people will equate what happened with the anti-choice movement as a whole, but because this murder brings abortion to the forefront of dialogue once more, and with open discussion comes more understanding, and when people really get down to talking about what Tiller did in his life, they find more and more that he was a helper to women.

    • 2 years ago
  • marQueso
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      marQueso  

    • irony?? guy who wants to stop killing kills someone???

      jesus said not to kill, but man kills other in name of jesus??

      see where i am going with this?

      i dont see how people can subscribe to to this mentality. i have to say that although many christians believe what the murder did was wrong, they are all still reading from words put on a book by a fellow human. Furthermore american christians read from a translation of that written word.

      Lakewood 4 life!!!

    • 2 years ago
  • bishopobispo
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      bishopobispo  

    • Gotta love the "Christian Extremists" tag on this one. It seems as if everyone is so reluctant to don anyone (who isn't Muslim) with the fanatic/extremist title.

    • 2 years ago
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