What's your take on the shooting of Dr. George Tiller

[blondboinsd]

I agree with Rachel Maddow Statement (below)

There's an anti-abortion terrorist movement in the United States that operates relatively openly. They advocate and their members commit acts of violence, including murder, against Americans who are not breaking the law, who are engaged in protected legal activity on American soil. These acts of violence are politically motivated. They are designed to change American policies and to terrorize Americans. They have succeed in making providing abortion services to American women so dangerous, so intimidating that there are only a handful of doctors in the entire country who provide late-term abortions--as Dr. Tiller did--abortions late in pregnancy.

In other words, this terrorism is working. Violence as a political strategy is working to make abortions so unsafe for doctors that they are unwilling to bear the risk of performing it so women can't actually get one regardless of whether or not it's legal. It's the same outcome as if abortion had been outlawed. They're winning.