Yes, the title does say "domestic terrorism" because someone was assassinated in the last 24 hours for what they believed was an okay thing to do. Dr. George Tiller was an abortion doctor and one of the few that did late term abortions; he was murdered during a church service he was a attending by a very adamant and extremist pro-life supporter.
Now let's get this straight... Pro-life... means for life or for the right to life, yet this, and many other doctors who do abortions have been assassinated by other extremist pro-lifers. Does anyone not get the picture?!?!?! I thought if you are Pro-life you mean all life! I know I am writing this late at night, but come on, I can even see how much of a farce some of these pro-life stances are! I'm not knocking those who are Pro-life but understand that they can not convince people to not have abortions because they are not that person making that choice. It's just sickening to see some people contradict their very message of Life by killing doctors, blowing up abortion clinics, and constantly protesting about how someone will go to Hell because they decided to rid of an unwanted fetus. It's so sad that this is one of the biggest rights of choice that a woman can have, yet so many people want to take that right away from them.
Don't get me wrong... yes I am pro-choice, but I have my own limits onto what I consider "legal" circumstances for abortion. Ultimately though, I am a male and therefore can not make that judgment. I could only do that if males were the ones getting pregnant, but we don't so we should never have a say in that process.
Going back to the murder of this doctor, the head honcho at Operation Rescue, you know, the organization that has the Roe of Roe v Wade as one of it's members, acting as if this murder was a victory for their side. They show their contradictory stance by saying that his murder was necessary since he aborted so many potential children. I thought these people were Pro-life? If you're pro-life that means all life, not the life of something that is not born yet. If someone wants to abort, let them because it's not your life. That person may feel they made the right decision or could regret the whole thing later on, but it's THEIR choice to make that decision, not yours!
This is AMERICA, not IRAN nor NORTH KOREA. We have FREEDOM OF CHOICE here! It's alright to be Pro-Life or Pro-Choice, just don't go to an extreme about it. A personal opinion is fine (like this blog), but there's no need to protest because you aren't entitled to that person's life and how they run it. For those that think that murdering a doctor is the right thing to do WHILE AT THE SAME TIME condoning those doctors for "murdering" unborn babies is horrendous; what happened to "Practice what you preach?"
I'd say let people ruin their own life if you think what they are doing is such a bad idea. People will guilt-trip themselves, no need to get into their face to tell them they are wrong. You wouldn't want someone that has a pro-choice stance come up to you and say "your parents should have aborted you" would you? I would think not because it isn't right, the same goes with all those stupid anti-abortion protests at abortion clinics. Let women make their choices without fear, there's no need for this extreme Christian stance that almost borderlines how the Taliban treats women. As John Lennon said, Give Peace A Chance.
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I agree with you here; on this particular topic, you have a very Libertarian point of view. I am pro-life, yes. I personally believe that abortions should not happen. Am I going to protest this? No, because it's none of my business. It is a free country (well, freer than anywhere else, anyway), and I strongly believe that people should do what they want to do. And I do think it is extremely hypocritical and stupid for pro-lifers to go assassinate someone. It's just like the John Lennon thing...the Christian didn't like JL's views, right? But then went and broke one of the ten commandments by killing him. Some people just aren't right in the head.
However, I still don't think that abortion should be allowed. Not on the basis of my personal conservative beliefs, but on the basis of common law. At the point of conception, there is a human being inside that woman (okay, you've heard the argument before). In my opinion, if there is a question of where to draw the line, a line should not even be in question. If you do not want to have a baby, don't have sex, or use contraception if you must...because I know it's a little silly to tell people not to have sex. But as I was saying, we are always growing and changing throughout life, so a fetus is just another stage in our lives, right? It is murder, and murder is not justified in common law. It's hard to explain this without going on forever. If our country had a stable law system, abortions would be illegal.
Plus, our population is declining. Have you noticed? People need to have MORE children, not less. The only people having more children are Muslims. Keep it up, and the whole world will be a Muslim world. I'd rather still have my freedom of religion, thank you very much.
There is a lot more I could say on this subject, but I'm going to shut up now.
The problem here is that whenever you have a large enough faction, you get cranks joining in who don't represent the vast majority, and don't necessarily actually hold the beliefs of the group (or not in the same way most of the other people hold them) -- they may be just looking for something to protest, or an excuse for civil disobedience, or even an excuse for killing people.
The other problem is that these cranks then get themselves plastered over the news, smearing the group's reputation, and outraging everyone else in the group (possibly even more than people not involved).
I agree with both of you that out of a certain crowd, no matter what the subject at hand that they are against, there will be a few nutjobs that ruin the image of the others. Personally I think abortions should be allowed...with guidelines of course. I am on Obama's side when he said that people should do more to prevent abortion such as contraceptives or adoptions in order to avoid getting an abortion in the first place.
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