Sonja van Baardwijk wrote:
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> >Or murdering doctors who happen to perform abortions amongst their many other
> >services to their patients.
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> It still strikes me as very contradictory that religious fundamentalists
> in following God's law claim to do so by consciously and most
> determinedly breaking one of the most fundamental of those laws.
The law isn't so much "do not kill" as "do not murder".
I think that in the minds of those extreme enough to kill doctors who
perform abortions, what the doctors do is murder, and what they do in
killing the doctors is justifiable and *not* murder. (I disagree
strongly with that position! Guess I don't have what it takes to be a
bomber or a shooter in that sort of situation....)
One episode of Law & Order that I really like is about a case involving
a bombing at an abortion clinic. The bomber died in the explosion.
They tracked down the person who set her up with the bomb. During the
trial, the instigator defended the practice of killing & injuring to
save the unborn. When it was pointed out to her that the woman she'd
handed the bomb to had been pregnant, and *that* unborn child had died,
she didn't have anything else to say. (That's one of the better
courtroom scenes I've seen in that series, IMO.)
Julia
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