Let’s Hope This Bullet Did It

The other day, a celebrated man with a long life-history of helping and healing others completed his life in a truly awe-inspiring fashion:  By losing his life to a bullet fired in a Christian Church, Dr. George Tiller became the ultimate symbol of the moral bankruptcy and core illegitimacy of the so-called “pro-life” movement.

Martrydom is never a solace to the loved ones left behind, and presumably Dr. Tiller’s wife of 45 years, his four children and ten grandchildren won’t be able to be happy about what his death stands for.  They will have to struggle, not only with the cold-blooded murder of their loved one, but also with the poisonous rhetoric that will try to claim, in truly Orwellian fashion, that somehow this murder was about saving lives.  I can’t imagine how that must hurt.  Then again, they knew firsthand how passionate he was about women’s rights and reproductive health, so perhaps in time they’ll find some comfort in what he accomplished, in death as well as in life.

Make no mistake:  There have been other murders.  There have been bombings (one of which targeted Dr. Tiller’s clinic in the 80’s).  There have been minor riots; acts of terrorism against innocent women, volunteers, and medical workers; and an endless stream of harassment, assault and behavior designed to incite violence.  But sometimes it takes a really loud example to drive something home…and what could be louder than a 51-year-old white Kansas man killing a doctor in cold blood, while the doctor volunteered in a mainstream church?

Scott Roeder, the killer who I predict will go down in history as taking the entire anti-abortion movement with him, was a member of Operation Rescue — an organization that had this to say about the cold-blooded murder of a beloved family-man and selfless healer of the sick:

Randall Terry, founder of Operation Rescue, has issued a statement:

“George Tiller was a mass-murderer. We grieve for him that he did not have time to properly prepare his soul to face God. I am more concerned that the Obama Administration will use Tiller’s killing to intimidate pro-lifers into surrendering our most effective rhetoric and actions. Abortion is still murder. And we still must call abortion by its proper name; murder. Those men and women who slaughter the unborn are murderers according to the Law of God. We must continue to expose them in our communities and peacefully protest them at their offices and homes, and yes, even their churches.”

Mr. Terry is available for comment at 904-687-9804.

(Thanks to jblaque for that info!)

Here we see how smoothly “pro-lifers” are able to capitulate, demur and completely fail to apologize or accept any responsibility for FIRST DEGREE MURDER.  But it is nice to know that the murderer himself isn’t alone in trying to bring down the radical anti-abortion movement:  He’s got the top brass helping him out, by showing everyone at this sensitive time exactly what kind of monsters we’re dealing with here.  Surely there can be no doubt left, now.

(There will be some cries of “but I and some other people are good people and we’re anti-abortion too!”  To which the answer is simple; the President said it a few weeks ago:  If you’re anti-abortion, get out there and help prevent unwanted pregnancies, or help improve adoption services.  There’s nothing morally bankrupt about trying to prevent abortions by helping women avoid needing them.  But if you’re “pro-life”, then you’ve got a choice, ironically — you can change, or you can admit to siding with terrorists and cold-blooded murderers, plain and simple. Your group–by which I mean the entire ideological cadre of victim-bashing and victim-creating extremist anti-abortionites–has shown everyone what they really are.  It’s officially time to change your tune…or face the music.)

Now.  Let’s hope that Dr. Tiller didn’t die in vain.  Let’s hope that people everywhere finally see the absurdity of calling a movement of violent racicals “pro-life”, and that the last shreds of their pathetic fantasy-based arguments against women’s reproductive rights are blown away on the wake of what, God(s) willing, will be the last bullet they fire.

I’m saying it one more time:

Pro-lifers no longer hold any moral or political legitimacy.

Their one and only legacy is as homegrown terrorists and murderers.

It’s time to make that known and let this violent, radical movement die, before it takes any more productive members of our society (be they women, children or doctors) with it.

I say this as a mother:  No fetus in the world is worth the price of letting this shit continue.

Amen.

Originally published at *Transcendental *Logic. You can comment here or there.