Dr. Tiller, Abortion, O'Reilly, The Supreme Court and God
Posted: June 2nd, 2009, 12:01 am
Yesterday an abortion doctor in Wichita, Kansas was assassinated in his church by Scott Roeder, a man with a dubious past as far as his mental health.
Mr. Roeder, like so many others that reject abortion, feels like a spokesperson for the aborted and to affirm that position they seem to invoke the name of Jesus when doing their protesting. Protesting is a right in America covered by the Bill of Rights, First Amendment which covers the right of people to peaceably assemble (among other rights). This covers the peaceful assembly for people who are against abortion to gather and air their protests for the public at hand.
Our First Amendment also covers the Freedom of Press, which of course includes the 'electronic press', i.e. radio, t.v. and internet news. What the Amendment does not cover is inciting public outrage to include murder. Re: Bill O'Reilly of Fox News has led an ongoing campaign against the abortion doctor, Dr. Tiller, over 28 times on his show invariably referring to the doctor as "Tiller the Baby Killer" and even stating the doctor has performed over 60,000 abortions! Obviously a ghastly over-assertion that simply could not have ever been (unless the doctor performed 35 abortions a week for 36 years with one month off a year for those 36 years since the Supreme Court's decision). It certainly has to be questioned if Bill O'Reilly, with his incessant rantings against this one abortion doctor over the 28 times he brought his name up had anything to do with Scott Roeder's actions Sunday. Remember, Scott Roeder was what most would refer to as 'anti-government' to include anti-taxation, anti-anything the government does, and more than likely a listener to someone as vocal against the government as Bill O'Reilly (and his ilk - Rush, Hannity, Beck, et al..). Hopefully this will be investigated legally.
In 1973 the U.S. Supreme Court the decision was made in Wade vs Roe to legalize abortion as "most laws against abortion in the United States violated a constitutional right to privacy under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment." It's now been 36 years since that landmark ruling and those against the decision include many who were not even born a the time of this decision.
I happen to have been around and know a bit about this decision - during those years before 1973 women who found themselves pregnant and for personal and very private reasons of their own, chose to eliminate their pregnancies. The choices were many with the results often injurious to the woman at best and deadly at worst. Imagine yourself a woman in a position where you unexpectedly found yourself pregnant (in the days before birth control, mind you), and after going through many decisions to do the right thing you chose to abort... not an easy decision for any woman, but like most folks in our country, you had to have the freedom to decide.... who among us would not want our personal freedom to decide for ourselves, especially without government interference? Many I'm sure. The stories of women aborting in back alley sheds by inexperienced people using coat hangers or other makeshift instruments, probably contaminated, to end a woman's pregnancy were probably the root cause for the uproar of giving women the right of abortion in a clean and sanctioned, healthy environment with medical care... not an unreasonable request by women and one that was finally brought to a conclusion with Wade vs Roe. Women now had an alternative to having a child by making their own decision and knowing their decision could be had legally, without moral condemnation towards the women who has already wrestled with her conscience for weeks prior to their decision.
Thirty-six years later we have another case of an abortion doctor, a person given the legal right to perform what a woman has personally decided to do about her pregnancy, being assassinated by a mentally unstable man, who is congratulated by anti-abortion groups as some type of hero who God will allow to sit on his right side for all eternity for the good deed Mr Roeder has performed. These anti-abortion folks have no concern with a woman's rights (abortion is legal, remember), could obviously care less what decision a woman would want as long as it's the decision the anti-abortionists approve of, and these same radical, terrorists think nothing of murder while in the same breath belittle a woman for "killing a child." These radicals want you to know that they have a direct line to Jesus and Jesus tells them that they should murder doctors that are doing their jobs legally for the decision and safety of the woman.
Even though women still have the freedom of choice when it comes to their own pregnancies, the irony of that is over 87% of American counties have no abortion providers. Even though abortion is a woman's right there are not enough providers for women who choose to abort. Are the back street shacks with bent coat hangers in the future, once again? Let's hope not.
Mr. Roeder, like so many others that reject abortion, feels like a spokesperson for the aborted and to affirm that position they seem to invoke the name of Jesus when doing their protesting. Protesting is a right in America covered by the Bill of Rights, First Amendment which covers the right of people to peaceably assemble (among other rights). This covers the peaceful assembly for people who are against abortion to gather and air their protests for the public at hand.
Our First Amendment also covers the Freedom of Press, which of course includes the 'electronic press', i.e. radio, t.v. and internet news. What the Amendment does not cover is inciting public outrage to include murder. Re: Bill O'Reilly of Fox News has led an ongoing campaign against the abortion doctor, Dr. Tiller, over 28 times on his show invariably referring to the doctor as "Tiller the Baby Killer" and even stating the doctor has performed over 60,000 abortions! Obviously a ghastly over-assertion that simply could not have ever been (unless the doctor performed 35 abortions a week for 36 years with one month off a year for those 36 years since the Supreme Court's decision). It certainly has to be questioned if Bill O'Reilly, with his incessant rantings against this one abortion doctor over the 28 times he brought his name up had anything to do with Scott Roeder's actions Sunday. Remember, Scott Roeder was what most would refer to as 'anti-government' to include anti-taxation, anti-anything the government does, and more than likely a listener to someone as vocal against the government as Bill O'Reilly (and his ilk - Rush, Hannity, Beck, et al..). Hopefully this will be investigated legally.
In 1973 the U.S. Supreme Court the decision was made in Wade vs Roe to legalize abortion as "most laws against abortion in the United States violated a constitutional right to privacy under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment." It's now been 36 years since that landmark ruling and those against the decision include many who were not even born a the time of this decision.
I happen to have been around and know a bit about this decision - during those years before 1973 women who found themselves pregnant and for personal and very private reasons of their own, chose to eliminate their pregnancies. The choices were many with the results often injurious to the woman at best and deadly at worst. Imagine yourself a woman in a position where you unexpectedly found yourself pregnant (in the days before birth control, mind you), and after going through many decisions to do the right thing you chose to abort... not an easy decision for any woman, but like most folks in our country, you had to have the freedom to decide.... who among us would not want our personal freedom to decide for ourselves, especially without government interference? Many I'm sure. The stories of women aborting in back alley sheds by inexperienced people using coat hangers or other makeshift instruments, probably contaminated, to end a woman's pregnancy were probably the root cause for the uproar of giving women the right of abortion in a clean and sanctioned, healthy environment with medical care... not an unreasonable request by women and one that was finally brought to a conclusion with Wade vs Roe. Women now had an alternative to having a child by making their own decision and knowing their decision could be had legally, without moral condemnation towards the women who has already wrestled with her conscience for weeks prior to their decision.
Thirty-six years later we have another case of an abortion doctor, a person given the legal right to perform what a woman has personally decided to do about her pregnancy, being assassinated by a mentally unstable man, who is congratulated by anti-abortion groups as some type of hero who God will allow to sit on his right side for all eternity for the good deed Mr Roeder has performed. These anti-abortion folks have no concern with a woman's rights (abortion is legal, remember), could obviously care less what decision a woman would want as long as it's the decision the anti-abortionists approve of, and these same radical, terrorists think nothing of murder while in the same breath belittle a woman for "killing a child." These radicals want you to know that they have a direct line to Jesus and Jesus tells them that they should murder doctors that are doing their jobs legally for the decision and safety of the woman.
Even though women still have the freedom of choice when it comes to their own pregnancies, the irony of that is over 87% of American counties have no abortion providers. Even though abortion is a woman's right there are not enough providers for women who choose to abort. Are the back street shacks with bent coat hangers in the future, once again? Let's hope not.
