[Pflienews] PharmFacts E-News Update: Let's Get our Facts Straight on Tiller and Abortoholics' Violence; more...

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*PharmFacts E-News Update -- 4 Jun 2009 AD

*http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/viewonsite.html?articleid=09060301

*Commentary: Let's Get our Facts Straight about Tiller and Anti-Abortion 
Violence*

Commentary by Brian Clowes, PhD - Human Life International, Research Manager

June 3, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Along with everyone else at Human Life 
International and throughout the legitimate pro-life movement, I 
strongly condemn the murder of abortionist George Tiller in Kansas. The 
Fifth Commandment does not read "Thou shalt not kill, except for 
abortionists."

Not only is it wrong to respond to people like Tiller with the ultimate 
anti-life act of murder, it also sets the entire pro-life movement back 
as good, committed leaders have to scramble to distance themselves from 
an act that they never called for and which is obviously antithetical to 
their philosophy and work.  Pro-abortion legislators seize on the 
opportunity to call for laws restricting legitimate pro-life activities 
such as sidewalk counseling and picketing, knowing the whole time that 
such legislation will do nothing to hinder a maniac with a gun. And, 
worst of all, thousands of people who would otherwise have joined the 
pro-life movement will continue to sit on the sidelines, believing the 
media lie that we are violent.

Pro-lifers should indeed condemn the murder of George Tiller.  But we 
should not play permanent defense as the nonsense snowballs and the 
unfair attacks against the pro-life movement multiply.  Here are some 
facts that should be taken into consideration by all people of good 
will, especially those whose responsibility it is to report on this story.

1)       George Tiller is the first abortionist to be killed in eleven 
years.  If you think that's a "trend," or an "epidemic" as some have 
said, you're just not a serious person.

2)       All of the posturing going on in the pro-abortion movement over 
the safety of abortionists is a ruse.  There are four times as many 
hairdressers and 150 times as many convenience store clerks murdered as 
there are abortionists. Where is the "pro-choice" grieving over them?

3)       George Tiller made his money performing late-term abortions, 
which often involves the killing of a viable human being. According to 
Kansas state statistics, he killed 395 /viable third-trimester/ babies 
in one year -- 2001 -- all for "mental health" reasons (which, as we 
know, is the category for all elective abortions). Not one of those 
abortions was for a mother's physical health or for a medical 
emergency. Americans overwhelmingly believe this disgusting practice 
should not be legal.  If any objective journalist were to look into his 
practice they would see that most people, and all sane people, are 
appalled by what happened in his clinic every day.

4)       Tiller has been tried on criminal indictments for multiple 
abuses of his practice, including breaking state laws requiring another 
medical doctor to verify that certain patients' lives were at risk 
before performing late-term abortions.  This man was no hero or saint, 
and his being held up as a martyr says more about pro-abortionists than 
it does about those they are trying to condemn.

5)       Abortionists are not only widely considered an embarrassment to 
the medical profession, but they are much more likely to commit violence 
than to suffer violence.  You may be surprised to learn that more than a 
dozen abortionists have been convicted of murder and manslaughter -- of 
their wives, of their patients, and even of other abortionists. Yet you 
never hear about these killings in the press (see 
http://www.abortionviolence.com/ for documentation). Abortionists are 
more likely to kill than to be killed.

6)       Whenever an abortionist mutilates, kills or molests a woman, 
the "pro-choice" movement always rushes to his defense, as they did for 
Brian Finkel, the Arizona abortionist who was sent to prison for 35 
years for 22 counts of sexual abuse. So much for caring for women!

7)       The pro-life movement is the most peaceful social movement in 
the history of this country. Most other social movements, including the 
unionization movement, the pro-abortion movement, the homosexualist 
movement, the animal rights movement, and the environmental movement 
have all demonstrated much greater violence. So where is the outcry over 
the violence committed by these movements?

During the predictable surge of publicity over Tiller's murder, we must 
remember that abortion itself is the most cowardly form of murder, 
committed against the most helpless and innocent of all of God's people, 
the unborn. We must also remember those who have died, but who are 
ignored by the media and the pro-abortionists -- the hundreds of women 
who have died of so-called "safe and legal" abortion, and the hundreds 
of other women who have been murdered by their boyfriends or husbands 
because they would not abort their children (see 
http://www.abortionviolence.com/ for documentation).

Let's not be bullied or silenced by those who are trying to tar the 
whole pro-life movement by cynically exploiting the murder of George 
Tiller.  Let's instead reply with facts which add context to the 
"abortionists are heroes, pro-lifers are violent" narrative that the 
"mainstream" media seems too willing to parrot.

Not that I expect the media to suddenly start reporting the truth of 
abortion.  If they did that, there would be no legal abortion in the 
first place.  But we can try, and the facts are on our side.  Let's 
pray, too, for the soul of George Tiller, his family, and his murderer, 
as well as for the conversion of all pro-aborts that they see how 
destructive abortion is for all human life, not just the child who is 
killed and the mother who is wounded.

One thing you can do is forward this information and the address of the 
abortion violence Web site to your friends so that we can reach those of 
good will -- those who aren't just mindlessly screaming bloody murder 
but who can actually think and listen to reason -- and show them that 
the story they've been told about supposedly "violent" pro-life 
activists is just that -- a story.

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*http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=32140*

<http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=32140#c1> 
<http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=32140#c1>
**  49 Million to Five **


by  Ann Coulter 
<http://www.humanevents.com/search.php?author_name=Ann+Coulter>


06/03/2009
In the wake of the shooting of late-term abortionist George Tiller, 
President Barack Obama sent out a welcome message that this nation would 
not tolerate attacks on pro-lifers or any other Americans because of 
their religion or beliefs.

Ha ha! Just kidding. That was the lead sentence -- with minor edits -- 
of a New York /Times /editorial warning about theoretical hate crimes 
against Muslims published eight months after 9/11. Can pro-lifers get a 
hate crimes bill passed and oceans of ink devoted to assuring Americans 
that "most pro-lifers are peaceful"?

For years, we've had to hear about the grave threat that Americans might 
overreact to a terrorist attack committed by 19 Muslims shouting "Allahu 
akbar" as they flew commercial jets into American skyscrapers. That 
would be the equivalent of 19 pro-lifers shouting "Abortion kills a 
beating heart!" as they gunned down thousands of innocent citizens in 
Wichita, Kan.

*Why aren't liberals rushing to assure us this time that "most 
pro-lifers are peaceful"? Unlike Muslims, pro-lifers actually /are/ 
peaceful.*

According to recent polling, a majority of Americans oppose abortion -- 
which is consistent with liberals' hysterical refusal to allow us to 
vote on the subject. In a country with approximately 150 million 
pro-lifers, five abortionists have been killed since/ Roe v. Wade/.

*In that same 36 years, more than 49 million babies have been killed by 
abortionists. Let's recap that halftime score, sports fans: 49 million 
to five. *[PFLI comment: and that doesn't include the hundreds of 
millions killed by chemical abortion.]

Meanwhile, fewer than 2 million Muslims live in America and, while 
Muslims are less murderous than abortionists, I'm fairly certain they've 
killed more than five people in the United States in the last 36 years. 
For some reason, the number "3,000" keeps popping into my head.

So in a country that is more than 50 percent pro-life -- and 80 percent 
opposed to the late-term abortions of the sort performed by Tiller -- 
only five abortionists have been killed. And in a country that is less 
than 0.5 percent Muslim, several dozen Muslims have killed thousands of 
Americans.

But the killing of about one abortionist per decade leads liberals to 
condemn the entire pro-life movement as "domestic terrorists." At least 
liberals have finally found some terrorists they'd like to send to 
Guantanamo.

Tiller bragged about performing 60,000 abortions, including abortions of 
viable babies, able to survive outside the mother's womb. He made 
millions of dollars performing late-term abortions so gruesome that only 
two other abortionists -- not a squeamish bunch -- in the entire country 
would perform them.

Kansas law allows late-term abortions only to save the mother's life or 
to prevent "irreversible physical damage" to the mother. But Tiller was 
more than happy to kill viable babies, provided the mothers: (1) forked 
over $5,000; and (2) mentioned "substantial and irreversible 
conditions," which, in Tiller's view, apparently included not being able 
to go to concerts or rodeos or being "temporarily depressed" on account 
of their pregnancies.

In return for blood money from Tiller's profitable abattoir, Democrats 
ran a political protection racket for the late-term abortionist.

*In 1997, The Washington /Post/ reported that Tiller attended one of 
Bill Clinton's White House coffees for major campaign contributors. In 
addition to a $25,000 donation to Clinton, Tiller wanted to thank him 
personally for 30 months of U.S. Marshals' protection paid for by the 
U.S. taxpayer.*

Kansas Democrats who received hundreds of thousands of campaign dollars 
from Tiller repeatedly intervened to block any interference with 
Tiller's abortion mill.

*Kathleen Sebelius, who was the governor of Kansas until Obama made her 
Health and Human Services Secretary, received hundreds of thousands of 
campaign dollars from Tiller.* Sebelius vetoed one bill restricting 
late-term abortions and another one that would have required Tiller to 
turn over his records pertaining to "substantial and irreversible 
conditions" justifying his late-term abortions.

Kansas Attorney General Paul Morrison also got elected with the help of 
Tiller's blood money, replacing a Republican attorney general who was in 
the middle of an investigation of Tiller for various crimes including 
his failure to report statutory rapes, despite performing abortions on 
pregnant girls as young as 11.

But soon after Morrison replaced the Republican attorney general, the 
charges against Tiller were reduced and, in short order, he was 
acquitted of a few misdemeanors. In what is a not uncommon cost of doing 
business with Democrats, Morrison is now gone, having been forced to 
resign when his mistress charged him with sexual harassment and corruption.

Tiller was protected not only by a praetorian guard of elected 
Democrats, but also by the protective coloration of the Evangelical 
Lutheran Church in America -- coincidentally, the same church belonged 
to by Tiller's fellow Wichita executioner, the BTK killer.

The official Web page of the ELCA instructs: "A developing life in the 
womb does not have an absolute right to be born." As long as we're 
deciding who does and doesn't have an "absolute right to be born," who's 
to say late-term abortionists have an "absolute right" to live?

I wouldn't kill an abortionist myself, but I wouldn't want to impose my 
moral values on others. No one is /for/ shooting abortionists. But how 
will criminalizing men making difficult, often tragic, decisions be an 
effective means of achieving the goal of reducing the shootings of 
abortionists?

_Following the moral precepts of liberals_, I believe the correct 
position is: If you don't believe in shooting abortionists, then don't 
shoot one.
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