Prometheus 6

Was Dr. Tiller’s Death a ‘Moral’ Murder?
By Eric Etheridge

• Crunchy Con: Rod Dreher writes, “George Tiller was a violent man, and the fact that he died violently, at the hands of a criminal, does not change who he was and what he did for a living.”
• RedState: Commenter takertodd on the murder of George Tiller:

We celebrate the breaking [of] laws every time the media canonizes Rosa Parks. She broke the law. There is no question of that. The question is whether it was the ethical thing to do (it was.) We celebrate the Nazi resistance, we celebrate the Tiananmen Square uprising. I’m sure those were all illegal actions, yet were unquestionably the moral things to do. So how would killing a killer, when all options are exhausted, not also be the right thing to do?

By these standards a surgeon is a violent man. Tiller was investigated and cleared.

Two grand juries, summoned by citizen-led petition drives, looked into Dr. Tiller’s practices, including questions of whether he met a state law requirement that abortions at or after 22 weeks of pregnancy be limited to circumstances where a fetus would not be viable or a woman would otherwise face “substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function” — words whose interpretation were at the root of much debate.

When what you call "killing" is done to save a life, your heroic killer is just a brute and murderer. And you are championing him, you bastards.