"The Killing of George Tiller : A `` Pro-life `` Murder ? '' Pro-life `` as the self-description of the anti-abortion movement has a fundamental flaw at its heart . The moral absolute of `` life `` is not applied consistently , in my view , by the majority of those in this movement . Many in the `` pro-life `` anti-abortion movement seem to me to only be pro-life in the case of abortion -- unlike those who hold an ethic of life across a range of moral issues , not only abortion but also war and the death penalty , This makes `` pro-life `` in regard to abortion not only an inconsistent ethic , but an unstable one . Nothing exposes this fundamental inconsistency and instability in the ethic of life as a description of the anti-abortion movement more than `` pro-life `` murder . .... Violence has been a part of the anti-abortion movement from the beginning , from the overt violence of the murder of other abortion providers to the covert violence of harassing women trying to get to clinics for reproductive services . Violence is a logical outcome of the extreme self-righteousness of those who claim the `` pro-life `` label as an absolute and yet who do not have an actual , consistent ethic of life such as the views held by pacifists . Dr. Charles Kimball , a Baptist minister and professor of religion at Wake Forest University , well explains this logical connection in his book When Religion Becomes Evil . According to Kimball , two warning signs that indicate a religious viewpoint is becoming evil are `` absolute truth claims `` and `` the end justifies any means. `` Violence , in Kimball 's view , is an evil ."
"On Faith : The Killing of George Tiller : A `` Pro-life `` Murder ? - Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite Murder is murder and abortion is not , to steal a phrase from Rabbi Arthur Waskow :"
"The Killing of George Tiller : A `` Pro-life `` Murder ? '' Pro-life `` as the self-description of the anti-abortion movement has a fundamental flaw at its heart"
"Murder is murder and abortion is not"