Recent Cases Of Abortion-Related Violence

// added May 31, 2009 // 26 comments //
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A look at recent cases of abortion-related violence:

_ May 31, 2009: Prominent late-term abortion provider George Tiller is shot and killed in a Wichita church where he was serving as an usher. The gunman fled but a city official said a suspect is in custody.

_ April 2007: Authorities say Paul Ross Evans placed a homemade bomb in the parking lot of the Austin Women's Health Center in Texas. A bomb squad disposes of the device, which contained two pounds of nails. There are no injuries.

_ Oct. 23, 1998: Dr. Barnett Slepian is fatally shot in his home in a suburb of Buffalo, N.Y. Militant abortion opponent James Kopp is convicted of the murder in 2003 and sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.

_ Jan. 29, 1998: A bomb explodes just outside a Birmingham, Ala., abortion clinic, killing a police officer and wounding several others. Eric Rudolph later pleads guilty to that incident and the deadly bombing at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. He justifies the Alabama bombing in an essay from prison, writing that Jesus would condone "militant action in defense of the innocent."

_ Jan. 16, 1997: Two bomb blasts an hour apart rock an Atlanta building containing an abortion clinic. Seven people are injured. Rudolph is charged by federal authorities in October 1998.

_ Dec. 30, 1994: John Salvi opens fire with a rifle inside two Boston-area abortion clinics, killing two receptionists and wounding five others. Sentenced to life without parole, he kills himself in prison in 1996.

_ Nov. 8, 1994: Dr. Garson Romalis, who performs abortions in Vancouver, Canada, is shot in the leg while eating breakfast at home.

_ July 29, 1994: Dr. John Bayard Britton and his volunteer escort, James H. Barrett, are slain outside a Pensacola, Fla., abortion clinic. Barrett's wife, June, is wounded in the attack. Paul J. Hill, 40, a former minister and anti-abortion activist, is later convicted of murder and sentenced to death.

_ Aug. 19, 1993: Dr. George Tiller is shot in the arms as he drives out of parking lot at his Wichita, Kan., clinic. Rachelle "Shelley" Shannon is later convicted and sentenced to 11 years in prison.

_ March 10, 1993: Dr. David Gunn is shot to death outside Pensacola, Fla., clinic, becoming the first U.S. doctor killed during an anti-abortion demonstration. Michael Griffin is convicted and serving a life sentence.
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26 comments // Recent Cases Of Abortion-Related Violence

  • mgerlach22
  • unclecharlie
  • Nazzareno
  • Nazzareno
  • GodsnLiberals
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      GodsnLiberals  
    • for these pro-choice people THINKS that saving and protecting the rights of criminals and terrorists is a NOBLE CAUSE..

      can they tell the difference between a baby and a terrorist???

    • 8 months ago
  • slarabee
  • Vierotchka
  • slarabee
  • GodsnLiberals
  • slarabee
  • Vierotchka
  • User00
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      User00  
    • slarabee:

      The Ten Commandments say "Do not kill UNJUSTLY!"

      That includes what is found in Judeo-Christian and Islamic Scripture!

      Requires all lawful endeavors to preserve our own life, and the life of others.

      Forbids taking away of our own life, or the life of our neighbor, *unjustly* (Just taking of life includes self-defense, executions by the magistrate and times of war.); and, anything that tends toward depriving life. By extension it condemns even verbal abuse and anger, as exemplified by Christ's interpretation in the sermon on the mount.

    • 8 months ago
  • slarabee
  • User00
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      User00  
    • A passage from the Hippocratic Corpus:

      "I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous. I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion. ..."

      The man was known as *doctor* George Tiller. There comes with that the pedigree and accountability for it.

    • 8 months ago
  • unclecharlie
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      unclecharlie  
    • User00:

      Which was quietly dropped from medical schools and is no longer a requirement to practice medicine, because it specifically tells a doctor he may not perform an abortion, or deliberately cause one.

    • 8 months ago
  • unclecharlie
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      unclecharlie  
    • Naturally, one would conclude that Ant-abortion protesters= killers of abortionists. Fortunately, some of us have more intelligence than that. (BTW, John Salvi was a schizophrenic, not a "pro-lifer", but I'm sure to you all there's no difference......)

    • 8 months ago
  • slarabee
  • FallenMorgan
  • slarabee
  • unimatrix0
  • bandman09
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      bandman09  
    • unimatrix0:

      how is domestic terrorism the fruit of Christian Fundamentalism? Maybe Christian exstremist, but not the core beliefs of the Christians. Same as suicide bombing is not the core beief of Islam.

    • 8 months ago
  • wayseeker
  • WakeUpPeople
  • User00
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      User00  
    • WakeUpPeople:

      No, it is not hypocritical!

      If a madman ran around town randomly shooting people, would it not be just to shoot the shooter?

      Yes, it would be just. By stopping the killer, you save more innocent lives that would have otherwise become victims.

      In the Bible, it says it is a Sin to kill *unjustly*, but not that to kill is a Sin outright.

    • 8 months ago
  • WakeUpPeople
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      WakeUpPeople  
    • WakeUpPeople:

      @user00

      Try commandment 6. Thou shalt not kill.

      And what I think you were trying to justify with the "shooter" scenario was self-defense. Obviously setting a bomb is not self-defense, and shooting an unarmed person is not self-defense.

    • 8 months ago
  • User00
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      User00  
    • WakeUpPeople:

      Saddam Hussein was unarmed when he was hung, yet because of his actions most of the world found his execution as justice.

      As for the Commandments, In the Bible, it says it is a Sin to kill *unjustly*, but not that to kill is a Sin outright.

      The perpetrator need not be armed to be a threat to the lives others, but rather what the perpetrator represents, commissions, condones, orders, or act upon.

      The Nazi officers didn't need to shoot every Jew, but they are guilty for making the order nonetheless.

    • 8 months ago
  • WakeUpPeople
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      WakeUpPeople  
    • WakeUpPeople:

      The death penalty is a separate issue with which I also disagree. That being said, it was a court of law that chose the death penalty, not a vigilante. User00, you might want to talk to someone at your church, or maybe a therapist, about your feelings on this topic. Your ease of justification for the murder of people, whether innocent or not, is very disturbing.

    • 8 months ago
  • User00
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      User00  
    • WakeUpPeople:

      "That being said, it was a court of law that chose the death penalty, not a vigilante."

      That being said, what is the court but the rule of the people? What is the ruling of the court but that which serves to preserve and secure the good of the people?

      By that statement, if there was no court willing the prosecute Saddam Husein or Nazi Officers, should they be allowed to simply walk free?

      Or should the people, failed by a court which was established to serve their Justice, take matters into action themselves?

      I suppose the lesson I'm to learn from you is that "legal means moral." So, if your going to do something "bad," make sure to get a judge to say it's legal first!

      That is the essence of Liberalism -- Moral Relativism!

    • 8 months ago

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