Let's not forget Dr. George Tiller...

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who saved many women's lives.

He was shot down in cold blood while at church on May 31, 2009.

Women's lives aren't the only ones who are at risk from these draconian measures.

tRump's rhetoric along with his followers are putting doctors, nurses and other health care workers lives at risk who help women.

We must never forget!

[csziggy]

1. K&R

[B Stieg]

2. Nor Dr. Barnett Slepian...

Dr. Slepian, an obstetrician with a practice in this Buffalo suburb, returned home from synagogue Friday night with his wife, Lynn, and greeted his four sons. Then he stepped into his kitchen, where a sniper's bullet crashed through a back window and struck him in the chest, the police said.

He fell to the floor, calling for help, and died within two hours.

Dr. Slepian was one of three doctors who provide abortions in the Buffalo area, and investigators said his killing was the most deadly evidence yet of a pattern of anti-abortion sniper shootings in Canada and western New York. (10-25-1998 NYT)

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10. Anyone ever convicted of killing that dear man?

SO anger making.

[smirkymonkey]

15. Obviously someone who cared very much about the "Sanctity of Life".

These people make me ill with their hypocrisy, stupidity and hatred.

[Archae]

16. Yes, a guy named Kopp.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Charles_Kopp

[Hekate]

3. Never forget

[Tanuki]

4. And Dr. David Gunn and Dr. John Bayard Britton....

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.naplesnews.com/amp/823294001
"The state's Commission on Offender Review set a March 9, 2043, release date for Michael Griffin, who was convicted of shooting Dr. David Gunn three times in the back on March 10, 1993, as Gunn arrived to work at an abortion clinic in Pensacola, Florida.
.....
Months after Gunn was slain, another abortion doctor was shot to death outside another clinic in Pensacola by a gunman who wrote about being inspired by Griffin's actions.

Dr. John Bayard Britton was killed along with a volunteer escort, James H. Barrett, while arriving for work at a clinic in July 1994. Former minister and abortion protester Paul J. Hill was convicted in the slayings and the wounding of Barrett's wife, and was executed in 2003.

The National Abortion Federation says there have been 11 killings, 26 attempted killings, 42 bombings and 186 arsons directed at abortion providers. The most recent death was on Nov. 27, 2015, when Robert Lewis Dear killed a police officer and two people accompanying friends to a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs. Nine others were also wounded.".....(more)

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6. My dad built a house for Dr. Britton

This was in Fernandina Beach, Florida. Dr. Britton wondered how he could ever afford to retire, since he was not wealthy by any means.

There is one thing that Dr. Britton did that was never publicized. His daughter was married to a missionary to the Indians in Central America. Dr Britton took a "vacation" to visit his daughter. At his own expense, he bought and took with him thousands of dollars worth of medical supplies with him to Central America. When the local Indians heard that a doctor was visiting, they came from miles around to be treated for all kinds of ailments and injuries. Treating indigent locals for free was how he spent his "vacation". I don't know of any news outlet that ever wrote about this.

Apparently Paul Hill thought that killing Dr. Britton was the "godly" thing to do.

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8. Wow

Dr. Britton wondered how he could ever afford to retire, since he was not wealthy by any means. .... At his own expense, he bought and took with him thousands of dollars worth of medical supplies with him to Central America. When the local Indians heard that a doctor was visiting, they came from miles around to be treated for all kinds of ailments and injuries. Treating indigent locals for free was how he spent his "vacation".

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11. +1

[NoMoreRepugs]

5. Dr. Tiller in my mind saved my daughter's future 23 years

ago. I drove her to his Kansas office from our home in the great lakes area with the weight of the world on her shoulders... we drove back with it lifted. My entire family was devastated when he was murdered.

[MontanaMama]

7. My goodness.

I’m so sorry. Dr Tiller was a good man. I hold Bill O’Reilly partly responsible for his murder.

[SunSeeker]

9. Dr. Tiller saved many women, like your daughter, before he was cut down. He was a brave hero.

I shudder to think what would happen without doctors like that.

[11 Bravo]

12. And let's not forget Bill Fucking O'Reilly!

The execrable shithead who constantly referred to the doctor as "Tiller the Baby Killer"; yet when someone took him seriously and murdered the man, disavowed any responsibility.
O'Reilly is an accessory to murder, and always will be.

[maxsolomon]

13. The Anti-Choice campaign has used terror tactics for 40 years

yet they've never been targeted or labelled as such.

Assassinations, bombings, arson, intimidation, threats. They still cloak themselves in self-righteousness.

[UTUSN]

14. K&R

[cp]

17. Amen

[demtenjeep]

18. this happened in my hometown. They had to get security for the funeral

it was so horrible!