Snarkastic

"Tiller is not the first abortion provider to be shot to death. Hell, this wasn't even the first time an anti-abortion extremist tried to shoot George Tiller to death."

Emotionally, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense right, now, but read this for context and it does begin to add up:

This was, in other words, a political act. Tiller was murdered so that those in his line of work would be intimidated. In conversations with folks yesterday, I heard well-meaning variants on the idea that it would be unseemly to push legislation in the emotional aftermath of Tiller's execution. I disagree. Roeder was acting in direct competition with the United States Congress. And it's quite likely that he changed the status quo. Legislative language and judicial rulings had made abortive procedures legal and thus accessible. Yesterday's killing was meant to render abortive procedures unsafe for doctors to conduct and thus inaccessible.

Achieving through guns what they can't through legislation...lemme guess, these guys fancy the rest of the world as Redcoats, right?

Posted by Nastinchka at June 1, 2009 11:46 PM