Professor at Catholic University Blames Pro-Life Advocates for Tiller's Death

[juliee]

Madison, WI – A Marquette University theology professor is coming under fire for blaming pro-life advocates for the death of late-term abortion practitioner George Tiller. The comments come even though alleged shooter Scott Roeder has no connection to pro-life groups and has been denounced by them.

Daniel Maguire, a former Jesuit priest who has been criticized before for advocating abortion, is the man behind the attacks.

ACTION: Contact Marquette University president Rev. Robert Wild, S.J. about Maguire’s comments about pro-life advocates at: Marquette University, O’Hara Hall, 101/102, P.O. Box 1881, Milwaukee, WI 53233, call 414-288-7223, fax 414-288-3161, or email robert.wild@marquette.edu

Full story at LifeNews.com/state4200.html

 

[musicality]

This is the equivalent of blaming all Muslims for the terrorist acts of extremist Muslims across the globe. Absolutely ludicrous.

 

[Palm_Tree]

Madison, WI – A Marquette University theology professor is coming under fire for blaming pro-life advocates for the death of late-term abortion practitioner George Tiller. The comments come even though alleged shooter Scott Roeder has no connection to pro-life groups and has been denounced by them.

Daniel Maguire, a former Jesuit priest who has been criticized before for advocating abortion, is the man behind the attacks.

ACTION: Contact Marquette University president Rev. Robert Wild, S.J. about Maguire’s comments about pro-life advocates at: Marquette University, O’Hara Hall, 101/102, P.O. Box 1881, Milwaukee, WI 53233, call 414-288-7223, fax 414-288-3161, or email robert.wild@marquette.edu

Full story at LifeNews.com/state4200.html

That is quite a dishonest stretch to claim that Daniel Maguire “blamed pro-life advocates for the death of late-term abortion practitioner George Tiller.”

Daniel Maguire wrote: “Religious and political leaders **who fan the flames of **anti-choice, anti-woman fanaticism are not without guilt.”

He’s not blaming pro-life advocates, he’s saying that the people who try to whip pro-life people into a hysterical fanaticism, into irrational obsessiveness, are not without guilt. Only a small portion of pro-life advocates are trying to get people all hysterically obssessive and irrationally fanatic about it… just like only a small portion of Muslims are trying to get Muslims all hysterically obssessive and irrationally fanatic.

Here’s the full article that Life News is twisting and distorting with the intent to mislead others:

*George Tiller, M.D., R.I.P.

It has become American policy to use torture, bombing, and killing to
achieve our ends. George Tiller believed that women must be able to
exercise their legal and constitutional right to abortion in problem
pregnancies. For honoring the law of the land, he and his family and
medical staff were for years tortured, even bombed, and now he is now
killed. He is not the first doctor to so die and unless we get serious
about this form of terrorism, he will not be the last. Religious and
political leaders who fan the flames of anti-choice, anti-woman
fanaticism are not without guilt.

Daniel C. Maguire
2823 N. Summit Avenue
Milwaukee WI 53211
414 961 0139
fax 414 961 2150*

religiousconsultation.org/NEWS/very_American_murder.htm

 

[Sean_Boyle]

What if the deranged murderer were actually pro-choice, would that be news?

I’m guessing, no, it wouldn’t be.

 

[fix]

That is quite a dishonest stretch to claim that Daniel Maguire “blamed pro-life advocates for the death of late-term abortion practitioner George Tiller.”

Daniel Maguire wrote: “Religious and political leaders **who fan the flames of **anti-choice, anti-woman fanaticism are not without guilt.”

He’s not blaming pro-life advocates, he’s blaming the people who try to whip pro-life people into a hysterical fanaticism, into irrational obsessiveness. Only a small portion of pro-life advocates are into trying to get people all hysterically obssessive about it… just like only a small portion of Muslims are trying to get Muslims all hysterically obssessive and irrationally fanatic.

Here’s the full article that Life News is twisting and distorting with the intent to mislead others:

*George Tiller, M.D., R.I.P.

It has become American policy to use torture, bombing, and killing to
achieve our ends. George Tiller believed that women must be able to
exercise their legal and constitutional right to abortion in problem
pregnancies. For honoring the law of the land, he and his family and
medical staff were for years tortured, even bombed, and now he is now
killed. He is not the first doctor to so die and unless we get serious
about this form of terrorism, he will not be the last. Religious and
political leaders who fan the flames of anti-choice, anti-woman
fanaticism are not without guilt.

Daniel C. Maguire
2823 N. Summit Avenue
Milwaukee WI 53211
414 961 0139
fax 414 961 2150*

religiousconsultation.org/NEWS/very_American_murder.htm

Anti choice? Does the baby get a choice?

 

[Palm_Tree]

Anti choice? Does the baby get a choice?

Daniel Maguire is pro-choice, and I disagree with him on that. But I agree with him that it’s not cool trying to get others all worked up into a state of irrational fanaticism and hysteria. There are pro-life people that do this, there are pro-choice people that do this, there are Christians that do this, there are Muslims that do this, etc. Every cause has it’s share of immature people who think it is cool trying to get others all worked up into a state of irrational fanaticism and hysteria.

 

[Palm_Tree]

*George Tiller, M.D., R.I.P.

It has become American policy to use torture, bombing, and killing to
achieve our ends. George Tiller believed that women must be able to
exercise their legal and constitutional right to abortion in problem
pregnancies. For honoring the law of the land, he and his family and
medical staff were for years tortured, even bombed, and now he is now
killed*. He is not the first doctor to so die and unless we get serious
about this form of terrorism, he will not be the last. Religious and
political leaders who fan the flames of anti-choice, anti-woman
fanaticism are not without guilt.

Daniel C. Maguire
2823 N. Summit Avenue
Milwaukee WI 53211
414 961 0139
fax 414 961 2150

religiousconsultation.org/NEWS/very_American_murder.htm

I didn’t realize that Tiller had been a previous target of anti-abortion violence. And I didn’t realize that Fox New’s Bill O’Reilley was one of the ones trying to fan the flames of hatred directed specifically at Tiller.

From wikipedia:
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Throughout his career, Tiller was a frequent target of anti-abortion violence. In June 1986, his clinic was bombed.[7] **On August 19, 1993, Tiller was shot in both arms **by Shelley Shannon.[9][10][14] At the time she attacked Tiller, Shannon had been an anti-abortion activist for five years and had written letters of support to Michael Griffin, murderer of David Gunn. She called Griffin “the awesomest, greatest hero of our time.” She traveled to the Wichita clinic, a site of frequent demonstrations by activists on both sides of the abortion debate, and shot Tiller with a semiautomatic pistol.[15]

At her trial in state court, **she testified that there was nothing immoral about trying to kill Tiller. **The jury convicted Shannon of attempted murder, and she was sentenced to 11 years in prison.[15][16] The following year, Shannon was sentenced to an additional 20 years in prison on charges of arson, interference with commerce by force and interstate travel in aid of racketeering in connection to her participation in several fires and acid attacks on abortion clinics.[17][18][19]
…
George Tiller was first discussed on **The O’Reilly Factor **on February 25, 2005. Subsequently Tiller was discussed in at least 28 episodes before his death. On the show he was sometimes described as “Tiller the Baby Killer” and host Bill O’Reilly warned of Tiller’s “judgment day”.[23]

On November 3, 2006, O’Reilly featured an exclusive segment on his The O’Reilly Factor, saying that he had an “inside source” with official clinic documentation indicating that George Tiller performed late-term abortions to alleviate “temporary depression” in the pregnant woman.[24] Tiller responded to O’Reilly’s statements by demanding an investigation into the “inside source” through which the information was leaked, suggesting that Phill Kline, then the Kansas Attorney General, was responsible. Kline denied the charge. O’Reilly also interviewed a woman who got pregnant when she was 13 and received an abortion from Tiller.[25]
…
George Tiller was shot to death on May 31, 2009, during worship services at the Reformation Lutheran Church in Wichita, where he was serving as an usher and handing out the church bulletin.[7] Tiller was shot once in the head at point blank range by a gunman who escaped after threatening two others, then fleeing in a car.[33] Three hours after the shooting, the anti-abortion activist Scott Roeder was arrested about 170 miles away in suburban Kansas City. On June 2, 2009, Roeder was charged with the first-degree murder and two counts of aggravated assault in connection with the shooting.[11]
…**
Southern Baptist minister and radio host Wiley Drake said, “I am glad that he is dead.”**[42][43]*

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Tiller

 

[fix]

Daniel Maguire is pro-choice, and I disagree with him on that. But I agree with him that it’s not cool trying to get others all worked up into a state of irrational fanaticism and hysteria. There are pro-life people that do this, there are pro-choice people that do this, there are Christians that do this, there are Muslims that do this, etc. Every cause has it’s share of immature people who think it is cool trying to get others all worked up into a state of irrational fanaticism and hysteria.

His argument is pro abort propaganda and is disingenuous.

 

[adowcday]

I agree with the Marquette professor, and with Keith Olbermann of MSNBC, that the pro-life movement has used such inflammatory language about abortion doctors for so long that it bears at least some responsibility for the tragic shooting. You can’t call a man a baby-killer and mass-murderer for years without expecting some wingnut to pick up a gun and shoot that man to achieve “proportionate justice.”