Hello Birmingham – Ani DiFranco
William Saletan writes a column today with the title: Is it wrong to murder an abortionist?
Yes. Yes it is.
This has been another installment of simple answers to not-remotely-complicated questions.
I guess I should be happy that Saletan is, for once, tossing his “why can’t we all get along and adopt precisely the moral position that appeals to me personally” accusations at the right instead of the left.
You’d think it wouldn’t take a horrific murder for him to do so, given that his position already IS the pro-choice position.
And while we’re feeling sad about humanity, how about this response to the Tiller murder:
I am saddened to hear of the killing of George Tiller this morning. At this point, we do not know the motives of this act, or who is behind it, whether an angry post-abortive man or woman, or a misguided activist, or an enemy within the abortion industry, or a political enemy frustrated with the way Tiller has escaped prosecution. We should not jump to conclusions or rush to judgment.
Sometimes I just don’t know…