Coulter: "Unlike Muslims, pro-lifers actually are peaceful"
June 04, 2009 9:32 am ET by Media Matters staff
From Coulter's June 3 syndicated column:
Why aren't liberals rushing to assure us this time that "most pro-lifers are peaceful"? Unlike Muslims, pro-lifers actually are peaceful.
According to recent polling, a majority of Americans oppose abortion - which is consistent with liberals' hysterical refusal to allow us to vote on the subject. In a country with approximately 150 million pro-lifers, five abortionists have been killed since Roe v. Wade.
In that same 36 years, more than 49 million babies have been killed by abortionists. Let's recap that halftime score, sports fans: 49 million to five.
Meanwhile, fewer than 2 million Muslims live in America and, while Muslims are less murderous than abortionists, I'm fairly certain they've killed more than five people in the United States in the last 36 years. For some reason, the number "3,000" keeps popping into my head.
So in a country that is more than 50 percent pro-life - and 80 percent opposed to the late-term abortions of the sort performed by Tiller - only five abortionists have been killed. And in a country that is less than 0.5 percent Muslim, several dozen Muslims have killed thousands of Americans.
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Tiller was protected not only by a praetorian guard of elected Democrats, but also by the protective coloration of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America - coincidentally, the same church belonged to by Tiller's fellow Wichita executioner, the BTK killer.
The official Web page of the ELCA instructs: "A developing life in the womb does not have an absolute right to be born." As long as we're deciding who does and doesn't have an "absolute right to be born," who's to say late-term abortionists have an "absolute right" to live?
I wouldn't kill an abortionist myself, but I wouldn't want to impose my moral values on others. No one is for shooting abortionists. But how will criminalizing men making difficult, often tragic, decisions be an effective means of achieving the goal of reducing the shootings of abortionists?
Following the moral precepts of liberals, I believe the correct position is: If you don't believe in shooting abortionists, then don't shoot one.
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Yes, murder is a such a peaceful way to resolve differences according to terrorist teabagging hicks.
I guess by "most -pro-lifers" she does not include herself.
>>According to recent polling, a majority of Americans oppose abortion - which is consistent with liberals' hysterical refusal to allow us to vote on the subject.
Actually a clear majority opposes a total ban.
>>In a country with approximately 150 million pro-lifers, five abortionists have been killed since Roe v. Wade.
Along with thousands of other incidents.
>>Meanwhile, fewer than 2 million Muslims live in America and, while Muslims are less murderous than abortionists, I'm fairly certain they've killed more than five people in the United States in the last 36 years. For some reason, the number "3,000" keeps popping into my head.
The hijackers weren't citizens. But you knew that.
Teabaggers want to profile brown people at the airports, I hope they don't mind if the government starts profiling "Christians" who sit outside Women's Health Clinics protesting.
So, 150 million "pro-lifers" (I call them anti-choice) is less than half the nation.
As for the killer Muslim strawman, according to the Dept. of Justice at ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homocide.race.htm) only 2.1% of all homoicides are committed by races other than white and black. There are no statistics on Muslim criminals.
Finally, the decision on who has a right to be born and to live, well, that's been determined by our Supreme Court and our Consitution. Unless a Constitutional Amendment is passed, and ratified by 2/3rds of the states, Congress can't simply pass a law changing that determination.
And even if they did pass an amendment, less than half the nation thinks abortion should be illegal. The latest AP and CNN polls in 2009 (see ingreport.com/abortion) show that 52% think abortion should be legal in at least some cases and 68% would not overturn Roe v. Wade.
So, the right to end a pregnancy is consitutional. It isn't illegal under any U.S. or state law when performed by a licensed physician in the first two trimesters. In the third trimester, it is constitutional if performed to save the life or health of the mother, although only a few states provide protections for the physician under a strict statutory standard, like in Kansas. Which is why it is the state in which most are prerformed.
Obviously it should go without saying that killing a physician for performing legal medical procedures is murder in every state. If Coulter wants to make an issue of murdering doctors and a false comparison of that to the personal decision to have an abortion (typical for this nutcase) as her main point, then go ahead. There is no liberal moral precept (she just makes this sh*t up and attributes it to her fictitious liberal who doesn't exist) to kill. Conservative religious white males kill way more people for their point of view than annyone else, including liberals and Muslims. Ask Timothy McVeigh.
Last I checked, THE LAW says abortionists have an absolute right to live.
Wait a moment--since when do we vote on subjects? We vote for people, who in turn vote on subjects. And tell me, Ann, why didn't the conservatives ever try to push through stringent anti-abortion legislation when they controlled everything? If you complained about them, fine, but that doesn't make the liberals' refusal "hysterical" for (not) doing the same thing. And if you didn't complain, then you're the world's most raving hypocrite.
In a country with approximately 150 million pro-lifers, five abortionists have been killed since Roe v. Wade.
Which is it, Ann, "a majority" or "approximately 150 million"? The U.S. population passed 300 million several years ago. Hence I have to wonder about the accuracy of her other numbers.
In that same 36 years, more than 49 million babies have been killed by abortionists. Let's recap that halftime score, sports fans: 49 million to five.
I remember reading an article some years back (no link, sorry) that said that many more millions of unborn babies were miscarried because of their mothers' smoking. Would Ann be in favor of a crackdown on the tobacco industry, a reliable Republican stronghold? If not, then she can't legitimately call herself pro-life.
Meanwhile, fewer than 2 million Muslims live in America and, while Muslims are less murderous than abortionists, I'm fairly certain they've killed more than five people in the United States in the last 36 years. For some reason, the number "3,000" keeps popping into my head.
Actually, more than 4 million Muslims live in America; remember what I said about her use of numbers? Much worse, however, is her trying to tie them with mass murder. How many murders have been committed by American Muslims? It's probably closer to five than to 3,000.
I have to wonder if the popping in her head are the remaining brain cells.
ps the scene you are pointing to is from a movie not real life. The law suit the movie was based on, never proved their case.
Another really bad analogy by the right, always trying to show hypocrisy or a double standard in situations that aren't comparable.
The ELCA Social Statement on Abortion , adopted by the 1991 Churchwide Assembly, acknowledges the issue's complexity, noting that it "evokes strong and varied convictions about ... human life and responsibility, freedom and limits." The statement also offers useful guidance: "A developing life in the womb does not have an absolute right to be born, nor does a pregnant woman have an absolute right to terminate a pregnancy. The concern for both the life of the woman and the developing life in her womb expresses a common commitment to life."
Just like "Faux News" they never tell the whole story or it's twisted.
I guess now Ann Coulter doesn't think that Evangelical Lutherans of America is a christian organization?
Criminy! We are so doomed.