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Were there to be no support in the whole history of ethical and moral thought, were there no acknowledged confirmation from medical science, were the history of legal opinion to the contrary, we would still have to conclude on the basis of God's Holy Word that the unborn child is a person in the sight of God. He is protected by the sanctity of life graciously given to each individual by the Creator, Who alone places His image upon man and grants them any right to life which they have.

Monday, June 22, 2009

“Terrorists”: What Late Term Abortionists Leroy Carhart and Warren Hern Call the Pro-Life Movement

June 19, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – PBS recently conducted interviews with notorious late-term abortionists Leroy Carhart and Warren Hern, in which both men labeled the pro-life movement a “terrorist movement.”
“This is domestic terrorism, this is a terrorist movement,” said Hern.
“The anti-abortion people have no decency. They will stop at nothing,” Hern said. “They'll hurt people that you love in order to hurt you and they do not believe that other people have the right to be left alone.”
He continued, saying that the pro-life message is “designed to kill.”
“It’s part of the message that it’s ok to kill a doctor who does abortions. That's the message, that's what [they] want to happen. That's what happened to Dr. Tiller,” he said.
“This is not an abortion debate, there's no debate,” Hern then stated. “This is a civil war. The anti-abortion people are using bombs and bullets, and they've been doing this for thirty years.”
“The message from the anti-abortion movement is 'do what we tell you or we'll kill you,' and that's what they do.”
Carhart also commented that he believes the debate about abortion “is a war.”
Joe Scheidler from the Pro-Life Action League commented to LSN that he “couldn't help but think how silly their arguments about conspiracy sounded in the face of several dozen prayerful pro-lifers singing outside an abortion mill, and yet are each and every one of them is a terrorist at heart!”
“I wonder that the abortionists don't stop long enough to take a good look at what they are doing, and see it as the worst kind of terrorism imaginable -- terrorism against helpless children -- and mothers,” he said.
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“Pro-life groups, as such, don't condone the murdering of abortionists, and always regret that it happens,” said Scheidler.
In the aftermath of George Tiller’s murder, every mainstream pro-life group in North America condemned the murder, saying that violence is not the answer to the abortion issue. Both abortionists, however, still accused the pro-life movement of being complicit in the murder of Tiller.
Carhart said that the pro-life movement may “claim innocence, and they may be, technically under the law, innocent but their heart was certainly with Scott Roeder the day he shot Dr. Tiller.”
Hern said he believes that the murder is “what they wanted to happen and it happened.”
Hern also accused the pro-life movement of making him a target of this so-called terrorism, “Being a target is not my fault. I am a physician, I'm practicing medicine. I am offering an important service for women who need it. This is what we do.”
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“It's not unusual for them to have pictures of all our vehicles, and have pictures of all our license plates, preying on the fact that somebody somewhere that's a little bit off will take this information and use it to hurt someone,” Carhart said, calling it an “invitation for somebody to do harm.”
“There's no reason in the world why I should have to fear for my life or the women should have to be subject to the harassment and intimidation of the anti-abortion protesters in front of my office, just for walking in the door,” Hern said.
“This is a whole movement to make abortion unavailable to women,” Carhart said, noting that the murder of Tiller was “just one step.”
“You don't have to make abortion illegal if you make it impossible, and the point is that if you kill enough doctors then nobody's going to be doing the abortions,” said Hern, “so this is part of the anti-abortion doctors, terrorize them and make them afraid to do this.”
Scheidler, however, defended the tactics of the mainstream pro-life movement, including pointing out that the intentional taking the life of unborn children constitutes murder. “We who are doing it the right way will continue doing it that way, and if that entails calling a baby-killer a baby-killers once in a while, so be it. That isn't what leads some righteous misfit waiting in the wings to bump off an abortionist.”
“While the PBS program was supposed to elicit sympathy for so-called caretakers, I think it failed miserably,” Scheidler said, “What most people are asking is, if it's so dangerous to be an abortionist, why do you do it? And softly in the background there is the jingle of coins. It's business.”
“I suspect these guys would kill three-years-olds for enough cash, and they'd make up a plausible excuse for doing it,” he said. “The whole sob story stinks.”

Related LifeSiteNews.com Coverage:
Commentary: Let’s Get our Facts Straight about Tiller and Anti-Abortion Violence
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/jun/09060301.html
Abortion Proponents “Exploit” Tiller Killing, Label Pro-Life Advocates “Domestic Terrorists”
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/jun/09060110.html
National Post Columnist Blames Pro-Life Movement for Tiller Murder
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/jun/09060210.html
MSNBC Host Keith Olbermann Names Pro-Life Activist Jill Stanek "Worst Person in the World"
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/jun/09060513.html