Extremist Anti-Choice Groups In Full CYA Mode - Rush To Condemn Killing of Tiller

[jefferson_dem]

The National Right to Life Committee does the right thing:

NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE CONDEMNS THE KILLING

OF DR. GEORGE TILLER

WASHINGTON – The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the nation's largest pro-life group, today condemned the killing of Dr. George Tiller. The following statement may be attributed to NRLC Executive Director, David N. O'Steen, Ph.D.:

National Right to Life extends its sympathies to Dr. Tiller's family over this loss of life.


Further, the National Right to Life Committee unequivocally condemns any such acts of violence regardless of motivation. The pro-life movement works to protect the right to life and increase respect for human life. The unlawful use of violence is directly contrary to that goal.


The National Right to Life Committee has always been involved in peaceful, legal activities to protect human lives threatened by abortion, infanticide and euthanasia. We always have and will continue to oppose any form of violence to fight the violence of abortion. NRLC has had a policy of forbidding violence or illegal activity by its staff, directors, officers, affiliated state organizations and chapters. NRLC's sole purpose is to protect innocent human life.


NRLC will continue to work through educational and legislative activities to ensure the right to life for unborn children, people with disabilities and older people. NRLC will continue to work for peaceful solutions to aid pregnant women and their unborn children. These solutions involve helping women and their children and do not involve violence against anyone.

UPDATE: More:

Washington, D.C. – Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser offered the following statement in response to the death of abortionist George Tiller as the result of a morning attack by an unidentified gunman today:

“The Susan B. Anthony List condemns this anti-life act in the strongest of terms. The heart of the pro-life movement is one founded in love. Without this driving powerful center no justice can possibly be achieved. Authentic progress in women’s rights has always encompassed the protection of human rights of every person across the board. The rights of one human being can never be honored by diminishing or ignoring the rights of another. This week as we gather for our annual June Tea event, themed Love Lets Live, we will lift up George Tiller’s loved ones in prayer.”

And more:

Washington, D.C. - News reports today have announced that Kansas late-term abortionist George Tiller was shot and murdered this morning as he entered church.

Tony Perkins, President of Family Research Council, had this to say:

"We are stunned at today's news. As Christians we pray and look toward the end of all violence and for the saving of souls, not the taking of human life. George Tiller was a man who we publicly sought to stop through legal and peaceful means. We strongly condemn the actions taken today by this vigilante killer and we pray for the Tiller family and for the nation that we might once again be a nation that values all human, both born and unborn."

http://corner.nationalreview.com/

[Adsos Letter]

1. Yeah...they just plant the seeds...and hate-radio does the watering.

:puke:

[bluestateguy]

2. About as convincing as a radical Muslim's condemnation of 9/11

all they care about is whether it makes them "look bad" or how it will affect their "movement" or how they can regroup from the bad publicity.

[Raine1967]

3. Total CYA.

Stunned huh?

I am waiting to see who this person is that they arrested. Didn't they also distance themselves from Eric Rudolph?



Do these people not know what they have wrought?

[Adsos Letter]

4. !

"This week as we gather for our annual June Tea event, themed Love Lets Live, we will lift up George Tiller’s loved ones in prayer.”

I'm sure the Tiller family will be so happy to know they are praying for them... :sarcasm:

[Buzz Clik]

5. What would your response be if some pro-choice advocate murdered Bill O'Reilly?

Would you celebrate his murder, or condemn it?

[jefferson_dem]

6. Is that a rhetorical question?

If not, why do you ask it? It's a red herring and totally irrelevant to this circumstance.

[Buzz Clik]

7. It is neither a red herring nor a rhetorical question.

Condemning the doctor's murder was the absolute correct thing to do. Anyone with a conscience or moral fiber will be doing likewise. It has nothing to do with CYA; it is the correct thing to do. Period.

Feel free to condemn the pro-lifers for their endless list of glaring flaws, but this is not one of them.

EDIT: (Given how DU has a history of dancing on the graves of recently deceased enemies, O'Reilly's murder would NOT be consistently condemned here. In that regard, my question was semi-rhetorical. But I was asking YOU, not DU in general)

[jefferson_dem]

8. Of course, condemning the murder is the correct thing to do...

Nobody disputes that.

However, if you think these groups' A: actions and rhetoric played no part in generating a culture of hate and violence that helped fuel the tragedy of today; B: condemnations of the murder had nothing to do with covering for their own culpability (as alluded to in point A) ... you are mistaken, in my view.

EDIT: AP report also suggests politics at play in responses offered by anti-abortion leaders.

NEW YORK (AP) - Anti-abortion leaders voiced concern Sunday that the Obama administration and other Democrats may try to capitalize on the murder of Dr. George Tiller to defuse the abortion issue in upcoming Supreme Court confirmation hearings.

Many anti-abortion groups condemned the killing of Tiller, a prominent abortion provider who was shot dead at his church in Wichita, Kan. But they expressed concern that abortion-rights activists would use the occasion to brand the entire anti-abortion movement as extremist.

They also worried that there would now be an effort to stifle anti-abortion viewpoints during questioning of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. Her exact views on abortion aren't known, but conservatives fear she supports abortion rights.

Said the Rev. Patrick Mahoney, an anti-abortion activist: "No one should use this tragedy for political gain."

http://www.dailymail.com/ap/ApTopStories/200905310254

Finally, to answer your question since you insist it was a serious one: I would condemn any such act of violence, regardless of who the target is.

[kestrel91316]

9. Your support for anti-choice mysogynist organizations has been duly noted.

[Buzz Clik]

13. Really? Gee, I'm now a mysogynist pro-lifer. Your insight is astounding.

:applause:

[jefferson_dem]

11. Operation Rescue condemned the murder today too.

"We are shocked at this morning's disturbing news that Mr. Tiller was gunned down," Troy Newman, Operation Rescue's president, said in a statement. "Operation Rescue has worked for years through peaceful, legal means, and through the proper channels to see him brought to justice. We denounce vigilantism and the cowardly act that took place this morning."

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gn0Annr0h-9FIDc_3RXgyXWP40nQD98HG2P00

Never mind that they linked "Tiller the Killer" to President Obama just last Tuesday (See below). After all, they condemned the killing.

This is yet another connection between Obama and late-term abortionist George Tiller. Obama's new Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, had close connections with Tiller. Pulliam was among those who were honored by Sebelius at a party held in Tiller's honor at the Kansas governor's mansion.

Pulliam, at 83, volunteers her time at Tiller's clinic on busy abortion days. She told the Wichita Eagle of her role as a Gold Star Mother, "You really don't want to belong to this club because in order to belong to this club, you have to lose a child. So nobody wants to belong to it."

"How ironic that Pulliam could make such a statement when she has dedicated a large portion of her life to insuring that other women lose their children to abortion. It is hypocrisy at best, and perhaps stems from some sick need to make sure that other women suffer as she has," said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman.

"Abortion, by its very nature, devalues human life. Pulliam's work at Tiller's abortion clinic, which specializes in particularly heinous late-term abortions on healthy, viable babies, is a major contributor to that devaluation. On a day when our country honored those who willingly sacrificed the precious gift of life for the sake of others, Pulliam's work taking innocent lives through abortion dishonors their brave sacrifice."

http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/6996010467.html

[Buzz Clik]

12. Are you really this simple?

Did I show any support for any pro-life organization? No, I did not.

If your skin is so thin that you cannot handle any criticism of your off-the-wall comments, then perhaps you need to keep your feelings a secret. This is a discussion board; it is not an endless affirmation board.

[jefferson_dem]

15. Um...ok.

Now you're just making shit up. No problem.

Cheers.

[Buzz Clik]

16. Again, no.

You said this: "Never mind that they linked 'Tiller the Killer' to President Obama just last Tuesday (See below). After all, they condemned the killing."

But I'm with you -- this conversation is pure bullshit and I'm done with it.

[asphalt.jungle]

20. they are anti-choice, not pro-life organizations. i wish people would stop calling them that.

it's nonsense.

[blueclown]

10. Am I the only one who would do the happy dance?

:bounce:

[Buzz Clik]

14. No. DU is full of people with behavioral problems.

[Ikonoklast]

17. We know.

[blueclown]

18. BillO doesn't post on DU.

What in the world are you talking about?

[Cha]

19. Yeah, too bad they don't

give a shit about them after their born.