George Tiller, one of the only few late-term abortion abortion doctors got shot and killed while he was at his Kansas church.
Even in the past, Tiller's life was threatened by pro-life protesters. Hence, he had bodyguard with him whenever he goes out to public, except when he went to church.
source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/01/us/01tiller.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=abortion&st=cse
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Comment By Taka Laka:
I searched through many forums to see other people's opinions on this incident. If I make everything simple, conservatives said, "he deserved it", while the liberals said, "he got murdered by a religious zealot".
The debate on abortion is too subjective; hence, it will never end. I don't understand why people are still debate on the abortion issue when it is obviously not leading to anywhere. Both pro-choice and pro-life is correct. Life is sacred and people should have right to choose. There are exception to everything, and abortion is one of them.
Let's say a woman who has been pregnant for 8months get medical problem where a child bearing becomes life-threatening, or fetus was dead in first place. Even worse, if 12 years old girl get raped and become pregnant, her underdeveloped hips will most likely kill her while fetus grows inside her uterus.
On other hand, there are people out there who get abortion all the time despite the fact that they have an options to have birth control. So there is an argument that question people's moral value.
People's opinion will vary. The debate on whether abortion should be legal or not should be abandoned completely. Think about it, people really want to "save life", illegalizing abortion is not the solution. Instead of lowering the abortion rate, it will only criminalize the one who perform abortion WITHOUT lowering the actual abortion rate. In addition, performing self-abortion is very easy. Hence, pro-life position to ban abortion to save life is unrealistic. On other hand, pro-choice position to state, "fetus is not a human" is also inhumane.
For these reasons, the better solution to this problem is to actually lower the abortion rate itself through government or church funded program, and make birth control widely available for everyone. That way, the rate of unexpected pregnancy will be much lower; hence, the rate of abortion will go down too.
This is still a challenging task, but that is more realistic approach to solve this problem. If abortion rate is near zero, no one will complain right?
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