George Tiller

You might think that that commentary about a deranged lone gunman ought to await the facts, but you’re not going to get a job at Fox News with that attitude. Raw Story catches Fox’s Brian Kilmeade asking a guest, “Do you think it’s time for the military to have special debriefings of Muslim Army officers [...]

Adam Serwer has an absolutely sterling post about the dangers of assigning collective guilt to American Muslims for the actions of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan:
In the past few months, we’ve seen a number of shootings performed by white men with right-wing fringe beliefs–but while an attempt to assign the responsibility for the murder of George [...]

Ft. Hood’s commander, Lt. Gen. Robert Cone, said today that there are unconfirmed reports that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan shouted “God is great” in Arabic before opening fire yesterday at the Army base. Again: we will soon be able to hear Hasan’s motivations in his own words. Even if he shouted such a thing, it [...]

Andrew Sullivan posts a must-read excerpt from a reader who considered — but ultimately didn’t have — a late-term abortion provided by Dr. George Tiller, who was murdered last week because he provided that critical medical service.
Here’s how the pregnant reader learned that her fetus had a likely fatal brain deformity, just one day after [...]

Similar to the criminal component of a federal law aimed at preventing abortion violence and intimidation, civil enforcement fell dramatically under President Bush.

Despite delivering on his promise of wings and Guinness, Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry failed to draw a crowd to his news conference at the National Press Club today about, among other things, the recent murder of Kansas abortion provider Dr. George Tiller. Terry repeated his previous statements regarding Tiller’s culpability for “child-killing,” but added [...]

How is it possible that the FBI was told repeatedly just days before the murder of Dr. George Tiller that Scott Roeder, now the leading suspect, had repeatedly broken federal law by vandalizing the women’s health clinic where Tiller worked, including gluing the locks of the clinic, and the FBI did nothing about it?
Meanwhile, if [...]

Anti-abortion activists recall Clinton-era consequences to rise in abortion clinic violence.

Planned Parenthood battled anti-abortion groups in civil court in the 1990s — and won.

The Iowa Independent reports:
Steve Deace, who hosts a drive-time show on WHO-AM, said society helped create Scott Roeder, the man in custody for the killing of Tiller Sunday morning, by refusing to stop abortion by legal methods.
“Maybe the fact that we have a lawless society that has not protected these babies from infanticide created the [...]