Really? Nothing?

In regard to the murder of George Tiller, the abortionist killed by a pro-life zealot, I don’t have too much to add to the conversation. I think his killer should get the death penalty, since this is first degree murder and that is the harshest sanction we can enforce as a society. Though pro-choice myself (certainly through the first trimester, probably through most of the second), I have to say I find nothing particularly noble about his work: some partial-birth procedures are one step up from infanticide, as far as I’m concerned, if not literally infanticide. I find it kind of discomforting when people I tend to agree with on the issue say things like “I genuinely find nothing objectionable about Tiller’s practice.” Really? You find nothing discomforting about half-delivering a living human and vacuuming its brain out? Nothing at all? That’s cold-blooded, man…

Anyway, I hope they throw the book at the guy that did this and he gets what’s coming to him. There’s no place for this kind of behavior in society, and a society that starts making excuses for murder is a society that has ceased to function.