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[esorlehcar]

A few excellent articles/posts about the murder of Dr. George Tiller, one of the few late-term abortion providers in the U.S., yesterday:

• Homegrown Terrorism, by amilyn
  
  
• Why I Am Done With Candlelight Vigils, by Gloria Feldt
  
  
• The Murder of Dr. Till, a Foreshadowing, by Cristina Page
  
  
• Who Killed George Tiller?, by Jill Flipovic
  
  
• A list of vigils in Dr.

Comments

[esorlehcar]

I'm so glad you got the chance to meet him. From everything I've read, he was an amazing man.

I'm not even stunned, I'm just horrified. The "pro-lifers" (and the hypocrisy of that terms is so ridiculously evident whenever this happens, and as one the article linked above notes, this is so very depressingly far from the first time) stalked and attacked this man, stalked and attacked his family and even businesses he patronized, outright tried to kill him once before, and he didn't stop. He didn't, to use a favorite terms of the same people who encouraged and are now refusing to denounce or outright applauding his murder, let the terrorists win.

And now he's dead and there's no one to take his place and women in situations that are already unthinkable have had one more option ripped away from them in the name of "life." There aren't even words.

[bunnymcfoo]

i've been choking back tears about this all day. rachel, seriously, this breaks my heart and kind of makes me want to abstain from being human for a little while.

[esorlehcar]

*hugs you a lot* I have, incredibly masochistically, been listening to Hello Birmingham on repeat.

[elmathelas]

I've been at work all day with my head down, and then sleep, then up just now. What a horrible thing.

As for the straw man-- why don't people understand that late term abortion isn't sought for convenience, ever. A doctor like George Tillerman wouldn't grant one even if it was. When a fetus dies at 36 weeks, it takes someone willing to do a late term abortion to evacuate the contents of the uterus and spare the woman the horror of going through an entire day of active labor for nothing else than to see her dead baby. Why don't people get that without him all you can do is try to induce someone but it doesn't always work and you have to tell them, well, I'm really sorry, but if you don't go into labor soon the fetus will start breaking down and might come out in pieces. Who thinks that's a good idea? And yet in states that ban late term abortions those kinds of evacuations are often banned or at least unavailable as well.

I've always been afraid of doing terminations, partially because I find them so troublesome (as do most

[meret]

Thanks for the links, especially the article by Christine page. You might be interested in the links I have here.
http://meret.livejournal.com/838649.html

[totalrock1017]

It's like the ultimate irony that a person whose entire position is founded on the inherent value of human life would choose to murder another person to prove that point.

[gobsmacked]

Well, count on PETA to up the irony: http://www.kansas.com/946/story/836204.html