To the Editor:
The killing of Dr. George R. Tiller is not dissonant to the broader American culture. It was a very American murder, very reflective of national policy where torture is seen as a strategic necessity and the bullet as the final arbiter.
Because he was faithful to the law that gives women the right to choose abortion for problem pregnancies, he, his family and his medical staff were for years tortured, even bombed, and then he was murdered. We have more to mourn than the death of this brave man.
Daniel C. Maguire
Milwaukee, June 1, 2009
The writer is a professor of moral theology at Marquette University.
Note from KBJ: It takes a brave man to kill babies for a fee.
