Specific restrictions on the civil rights of abortion protestors constitute belief-based discrimination. The October assassination of abortionist Barnett Slepian in Amherst, N.Y., was antithetical to all that I stand for as a peaceful pro-life person. There is no justification for shooting someone in cold blood.
Abortionists make their money by destroying the lives of innocent infants in the womb.
Yet, as offensive as the violence inside the clinics may be, it can never justify acts of vigilantism outside the clinics, much less inside the abortionist's home. The shooting of Slepian was a deplorable, despicable, cowardly and unjustifiable act. These superfluous and biased measures would undermine the civil rights of all. Personally, I am not the public-demonstration type. But I have many pro-lift friends and colleagues who pray the Rosary or peacefully protest on the sidewalk.