Monday, January 11, 2010

Pro-(all) life?

Jury selection begins today for the trial of a pro-life advocate who killed a doctor that provided late-term abortions (http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/01/11/roeder.abortion.murder.trial/index.html).
I find this dichotomy fascinating and always have.

How can someone who calls himself "pro-life" commit pre-meditated murder and not feel hypocritical? Isn't killing someone in the name of protecting life a contradiction in philosophies?

I guess that these fanatics can throw the Hitler argument back at me. "Would you have killed Hitler if you had the chance in order to stop his genocide campaign?"

It's an interesting discussion that leads back to thoughts on when life actually begins. And is there a difference between lawful abortions and lawless genocide when the result is loss of life (in the eyes of the murderer)?

I still can't help but think that cold blooded murder of a doctor who is performing a procedure that is not taken lightly by either the doctor or the patient AND is sanctioned by law, is somehow still murder. Not some valiant crusade to protect society from itself.

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