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Originally Posted by Willravel
Tiller was aquitted legally. If you pay attention to the facts of the case, you'll see why. But none of that is pertinent to the discussion. He was shot simply because he was an "abortion doctor". Anyone that says otherwise is contradicting the admission of Scott Roeder, the man that's being charged with the assassination.
Scott Roeder: The Tiller Murder Suspect - TIME |
Okay. I'll play.
Tiller was "acquitted" because the then district attorney, Paul Morrison, threw the case and refused to put forth the evidence compiled by his predecessor, Philip Kline. The prosecution only called to the stand one witness-- Dr. Neuhaus (Excluding Tiller himself). And when asked if she was financially dependant on Dr. Tiller she responded no. That's the only "evidence" they put forth and, based on that, the jury had no choice but to acquit Tiller.
If you want to mention the facts of the case, then we can most certainly do that. Dr. Paul McHugh, who was a big part of the case against Tiller, was not only not called to the stand, but Paul Morrison threatened to sue him for "interfering with the case" even though he was the one who initially performed the independent review of Dr. Tiller's abortion files and found the reasons given for some of the abortions he performed to be seriously lacking. The fact that Dr. Neuhaus was financially dependant on Dr. Tiller and that the money she earned from him constituted 100% of her pay in 2003, or the fact that the Kansas state law requires that a doctor can only perform an abortion on a viable child if two doctors not financially or otherwise linked find that the mother will suffer "substantial and irreversible damage to a major bodily function if the abortion is not performed" wasn't even brought up by the prosecution. No, these facts got glossed over and were conveniently left out of the proceedings. How, exactly, do you win a case by leaving out the two things which constitute the majority of the argument against Tiller? The answer is that, you don't. Morrison won DA with the help of the PC groups, and as a result scratched their back once he became DA, which is evidenced by his half-assed case against Tiller and the fact that he fairly quickly dropped all charges of falsifying records against Planned Parenthood even though a Kansas court found that there was probable cause that the allegations were indeed true. It's actually funny, because in the end Morrinson ended up resigning amidst a sex scandal which alledged that he was using the woman in question to gain inside information on Philip Kline's case against Tiller, though he was just replaced with someone as equally PC by Sebelius.
Luckily, though, the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts filed a suit against Tiller in December 2008 (You can read the charges
here) and immediately said that they were going to try to either restrict or revoke Tiller's license because of what they considered to be malpractice and fraud after the verdict came down. So why Tiller gets treated as a hero I'll never know, especially when there are testimonies before the Kansas courts from women who received an abortion from Tiller and nurses who watched him perform them.
Anyway, to get back on-topic, I'd read enough about Roeder. In his words, if he's found guilty, he was acting in self-defense of the unborn, not under the idea of striking fear into the hearts of abortion providers and women everywhere. Iirc, there have been four murders tied to abortion in the last sixteen years. Four. I'm sorry, but that doesn't constitute terrorism. Sure, there are loonies out there but they are much rarer than many people would have one believe. Much rarer. And much, much, much rarer than they were twenty years ago.