The assassination of Dr. George Tiller in church last week presents the anti-abortion movement with an unexpected dilemma: There is almost nobody left to hate.
For the first time in years, only a Wichita police car has been waiting outside the abortion clinic of Dr. George R. Tiller, who was shot to death a week ago. Gone are the trucks bearing enormous images of bloody fetuses, the signs offering the home addresses of clinic workers, the crowd of protesters yelling to women as they enter.
Over almost 20 years, a vocal, diverse constellation of anti-abortion forces has grown up in this conservative city with an intensity rarely seen elsewhere, converging around Dr. Tiller’s practice. With his death, its future suddenly seems uncertain, too.
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“I don’t know what the future holds,” said Troy Newman, the president of Operation Rescue, one of the most well-known anti-abortion organizations.
But, of course, the poor sad characters (mis)used by the pro-life movement still have all their psychoses and anxieties and anger, and somebody’ll pick ‘em up; the gay haters, I’m guessing.
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