Today, Sedgwick County (Kansas) District Judge Warren Wilbert sentenced anti-abortion killer Scott Roeder to life in prison for the murder of Dr. George Tiller. Judge Wilbert could have given the convicted murderer a lesser sentence, opening up the possibility of parole in 25 years, but in a remarkable example of responsible jurisprudence, he recognized that Mr. Roeder is not only a murderer, but an evil miscreant who believes he can kill people in the name of his god.
Spurred on by organizations like Operation Rescue, former Republican Congressman Bob Dornan, and thuggish talking heads like Bill O’Reilly, who referred to the late doctor as “Tiller the Baby Killer” at least 28 times from his bully pulpit on Fox News, radical anti-abortion opponents terrorized Dr. Tiller’s family, staff, and patients for years.
Inspired by a belief that women had a right to safe, clinical abortions, Dr. Tiller endured thirty years of death threats, a fire-bombing of his clinic in 1986, and survived after being shot five times by Shelley Shannon in 1993. Scott Roeder, after months of stalking the doctor, finally succeeded in the name of the radical anti-abortion movement, murdering him in cold blood during services at a Lutheran Church in Wichita, KS., on May 31, 2009.
Abortion is legal in the United States, and Dr. Tiller provided a lawful medical service to the women of central Kansas. Mr. Roeder, age 52, will not be eligible for parole until 2060, when he will be 102 years-old. I hope he takes a long hard look at the walls of his prison cell, because he’s going to die there.
Spurred on by organizations like Operation Rescue, former Republican Congressman Bob Dornan, and thuggish talking heads like Bill O’Reilly, who referred to the late doctor as “Tiller the Baby Killer” at least 28 times from his bully pulpit on Fox News, radical anti-abortion opponents terrorized Dr. Tiller’s family, staff, and patients for years.
Inspired by a belief that women had a right to safe, clinical abortions, Dr. Tiller endured thirty years of death threats, a fire-bombing of his clinic in 1986, and survived after being shot five times by Shelley Shannon in 1993. Scott Roeder, after months of stalking the doctor, finally succeeded in the name of the radical anti-abortion movement, murdering him in cold blood during services at a Lutheran Church in Wichita, KS., on May 31, 2009.
Abortion is legal in the United States, and Dr. Tiller provided a lawful medical service to the women of central Kansas. Mr. Roeder, age 52, will not be eligible for parole until 2060, when he will be 102 years-old. I hope he takes a long hard look at the walls of his prison cell, because he’s going to die there.
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