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According to the Wall Street Journal, Scott Roeder, the man who gunned down Dr. George Tiller of Wichita, Kansas, in cold blood in the foyer of Tiller's church, may be allowed to use the "necessity defense" that killing Dr. Tiller as he passed out programs to churchgoers was "necessary" to save "preborn children." Even worse, he may allow the introduction of "evidence" from a legal witchhunt conducted by former Kansas attorney general Phil Kline, who violated the privacy of Tiller's patients in an attempt to find that he was aborting viable fetuses (Tiller wasn't, and was acquitted of all charges barely two months before his death).
If the judge allows this, it is open season on any doctor who performs abortions, for any reason. Dr. Tiller's patients were women who were carrying babies that were either so deformed that they could not live, or women who so ill from their pregnancies that continuing would kill them, or leave unable to bear future children. There are fewer than a dozen doctors who are willing to perform late term abortions, and fewer and fewer hospitals training interns to perform any abortions at all. Doctors and medical schools are terrified of being killed by people who put the life of a fetus above the life of a woman, or a doctor, or a clinic guard.
This is terrorism, pure and simple. It's a lot more immediate and a lot more common than idiots trying to blow up their shoes, or their underwear. And if Scott Roeder gets off, or is convicted of manslaughter because he "had to save the babies," it is terrorism with the collusion of the state of Kansas.
If the judge allows this, it is open season on any doctor who performs abortions, for any reason. Dr. Tiller's patients were women who were carrying babies that were either so deformed that they could not live, or women who so ill from their pregnancies that continuing would kill them, or leave unable to bear future children. There are fewer than a dozen doctors who are willing to perform late term abortions, and fewer and fewer hospitals training interns to perform any abortions at all. Doctors and medical schools are terrified of being killed by people who put the life of a fetus above the life of a woman, or a doctor, or a clinic guard.
This is terrorism, pure and simple. It's a lot more immediate and a lot more common than idiots trying to blow up their shoes, or their underwear. And if Scott Roeder gets off, or is convicted of manslaughter because he "had to save the babies," it is terrorism with the collusion of the state of Kansas.
