Authorities said they had a suspect in custody Sunday afternoon in the shooting death of George Tiller, a Wichita doctor who was one of the few doctors in the nation to perform late-term abortions.
Dr. Tiller, who had long been a lightning rod for controversy over the issue of abortion and had survived a shooting more than a decade ago, was shot inside his church here on Sunday morning, the authorities said. Dr. Tiller, 67, was shot with a handgun inside the lobby of his longtime church, Reformation Lutheran Church on the city’s East Side, just after 10 a.m. (Central Time). The service had started minutes earlier.
Dr. Tiller, who had performed abortions since the 1970s, had long been a lightning rod for controversy over the issue of abortion, particularly in Kansas, where abortion opponents regularly protested outside his clinic and sometimes his home and church.
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“Dr. Tiller was a fearless, passionate defender of women’s reproductive health and rights,” said Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights, based in New York, which had worked on a legal case related to Dr. Tiller. “It’s time that this nation stop demonizing these doctors, and start honoring them.”
The killer has been caught.
More domestic terrorism. This is bad.
That’s right. It’s George Bush’s fault. Actually, to comment on your weak argument, we DID take the same action against Adolph Hitler and Hirohito. But I am sure you also are quite sure that ending the war in Japan and saving the lives of all the GIs ready to implement Operation Olympic was the wrong thing to do as well. Correct? Or do you not know anything about history?
I think a proper way to dispose of the killer would be beating him to death with a bible.
good riddance (for both the baby killer and baby killer – killer)
>>If we all took his view, shouldn’t we do the same to those who start wars under false pretenses that lead to soldier and civilian deaths? Or don’t those dead deserve the same as the unborn?
Exactly.
In my experience, most of these people who are so concerned for the American un-born, are incredibly callous to Iraqi and Afghani children.
But you can’t lay this just at the feet of right wingers — most Americans love violence. Especially gun violence.
The killer showed that he is just as guilty as the person he killed. Both have unjustly taken a life.
Curious to see how the comments and other things on the web will use this to misrepresent Christianity to assert that if you follow Jesus then you are a wacko.
Religion kills.
5) Thou shall not kill. Unless it is for some stupid shit that you make up. I do like the beaten to death with a bible idea. Then we can ban it as a dangerous weapon.
War = Good
Killing Muslims = Good
Capital Punishment Good
Abortion = Bad
When are we going to add radical fundamentalist christianity to the axis of evil?
well, if the doctor hadn’t been killing babies, then maybe he wouldn’t have gotten shot! bet he won’t do that again….
#11,
I bet once we stop you from being stupid I bet you aren’t going to be stupid again!!!!
Impossible I know, but I can dream.
No agenda?? 1 show in 4 weeks??
Alfred1 #12:
Tiller killed more babies than Hitler did.
Would you care to expand on that?
Now that’s what I call a “late term abortion”
Alfred1, you are insane.
Alfredone would have defended this event with Those niggers won’t ask for justice ever again.
Another example of religious nutballs, Christian or Taliban, capable of acts of hypocrisy up to and including murder.
Ideologies worthy of no respect whatsoever.
Alfred1, you are a disgusting person.
wow… the nutjobs are out tonight…
(or just someone hoping to get the locals riled up…)
>> Jägermeister said, on May 31st, 2009 at 5:33 pm
>> Religion kills.
I wish you could tell that to my pacifist ancestors who were slaughtered by the communists because they were inconvenient in the religion-less utopia.
“..we all eventually appear before God…”
Hey Alphie, there is no imaginary being, get over it. Why are you so damn stupid?
BTW, you are a disgusting person, just thought I’d mention that again….and again…
You make my skin crawl.
Alfred1,
I have no qualms about calling myself a Christian. I have qualms about you declaring yourself as one with the garbage you spew on this blog. Please stop before everyone thinks every Christian thinks like you do. We do not.
>> Alfred1 said, on May 31st, 2009 at 6:08 pm
>> For a Christian, this is a gray area….on one hand, Christ and His apostles taught to obey the authorities…
I’m a Christian, too. A very active one. I assume this doctor was a Christian, too, and an active one if he was serving in the church.
You right wingers don’t have the only “Christian” position on abortion.
The bible is silent on abortion… at best! Levitical law didn’t recognize the fetus as fully human. (Exodus 21:22-25) The NT is totally silent on the subject.
Conservative Christians are well aware of this, yet they continue to pretend that their anti-abortion doctrine is biblical.
If is FINE that you are anti-abortion, but don’t play the religion card.
Alfred,
You clearly are the one who is “lukewarm” on the biblical teaching against murder!
Alfred1,
Wow, just wow.
Alfred,
Use your noodle.
The penalty of a death of a human fetus is a monetary fine — just like the death of cattle in other laws (if I remember correctly)
The death of human has the penalty of death.
C’mon dude. You know this stuff.
Alfred1, “the Disgusting Person”.
1. These verses clearly show that the mass murder of innocent children by God was premeditated. 11:4-6 (see 12:29-30)
2. God will kill the Egyptian children to show that he puts “a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.” 11:7
3. After God has sufficiently hardened the Pharaoh’s heart, he kills all the firstborn Egyptian children. When he was finished “there was not a house where there was not one dead.” Finally, he runs out of little babies to kill, so he slaughters the firstborn cattle, too. 12:29
4. To commemorate the divine massacre of the Egyptian children, Moses instructs the Israelites to “sacrifice to the Lord all that openeth the matrix” — all the males, that is. God has no use for dead, burnt female bodies. 13:2, 12, 15
5. After a woman gives birth, a priest must kill a lamb, pigeon, or dove as a sin offering. This is because having children is sinful and God likes it when things are killed for him. 12:6-8
6. God describes the torments that he has planned for those who displease him. The usual stuff: plagues, burning fevers that will consume the eyes, etc. but he reserves the worst for the little children. He says “ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it,” “I will send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children,” and “ye shall eat the flesh of your sons and daughters.” 26:16-39
7. The Israelites, with God’s help, kill all the men, women, and children of every city. 3:3-6
8. “The tender and delicate woman” will be forced to eat her own children “that cometh out from between her feet.” 28:56-57
9. Joshua, at God’s command, kills everyone and everything that he can find (including babies and little children)– or, as the Bible puts it, he “utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the Lord commanded.” 10:28-32
10. God offers David a choice of punishments for having conducted the census: 1) seven years of famine ( 1 Chr.21:1 says three years), 2) three months fleeing from enemies, or 3) three days of pestilence. David can’t decide, so God chooses for him and sends a pestilence, killing 70,000 men (and probably around 200,000 women and children). 24:13
11. God sends two bears to rip up 42 little children for making fun of Elisha’s bald head. 2:23-24
Oh yes, Alfred1, the Disgusting Person, you support a real humanitarian.
ALfred1, the Disgusting Person, don’t forget to mention all the “out of context” references of the above or you won’t be a good Christian.
Alfred1,
I take the bible VERY seriously — it my main moral guide in life. I read it often and read it today. I learned Greek so that I could better read the NT.
But tell me where I am wrong on this abortion issue!
You conservatives have replaced the WHOLE SCRIPTURE with a convenient short-list, half of which isn’t even in the bible!