Truly horrifying. I'd heard on public radio this AM that police have picked up a suspect who was in the process of leaving the state by car and are questioning him. Whatever punishment -- and I hope it is to the fullest extent of the law -- will never compensate for the life of such a remarkable doctor.
He and his clinic staff absolutely were heroes in my book. They risked their lives every single day for decades to do this job. He'd already been shot in both arms. The clinic was vandalized multiple times. I don't know how many death and bomb threats he was up to by this point; he may have stopped counting after so many. He continued to do it not because he was foolhardy but because it desperately needed to be done and he was one of only a very small handful willing to do it. Understand that the procedures he performed were not elective in any normal sense of that word. What usually brought his patients to him were tragedies occurring late in wanted pregnancies: Serious risks to the life or health to the woman, fetal defects incompatible with life (or at least incompatible with anything other than a very short and tortured life.) That sort of thing. He saved womens' lives, saved their fertility so they could go on to have healthy children, treated them and their terrible situations with compassion. As far as I've seen so far, they
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