Civil Rights, Politics

Dr. George Tiller, “Juno,” And Why I Hate Andrew Sullivan

By lawyergay
Published: June 07, 2009

A few months ago, I penned a Wordsmoker post celebrating the 36th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade in which I coined the term “forced-birth movement” to describe that tiny minority of people in the United States that doesn’t believe in a woman’s right to make her own reproductive choices.

Since then, tragically, one of the only doctors who was willing to perform late-term abortions in the U.S, Dr. George Tiller, was assassinated by a member of the forced-birth movement.

I can honestly say that I felt physically ill when I read that news. As MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow has stated repeatedly on her nightly news magazine over the past week, the forced-birth movement is a domestic terrorist operation that has been largely successful in meeting its goals.

It’s just a fact that almost nothing gets you murdered more quickly in the U.S. than running an abortion clinic.

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