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...abortion providers, the way in which they described killers like Paul A. Hill (who shot to death Dr. John Britton and his armed guard James Barrett in a Pensacola, Fla., women's clinic) belies their words. Both the president of Feminists for Life Serring M. Foster and Dr. Bernard Nathanson called killers like Hill mentally insane, although Hill and others are on death row, not in mental health facilities. Their statements ignore the fact that more mainstream anti-abortionist leaders whipped Hill and other killers into a violent frenzy prior to their acts. The anti-abortion leaders who characterize abortion...
Additionally, during the panel Nathanson compared murderer Hill to John Brown, the abolitionist who died trying to start a war against slavery a few years prior to the Civil War. While Nathanson said of people like Hill, "I consign them to the lunatic fringe," his comparisons of Hill to Brown makes Hill seem like a martyr for a cause that will soon draw the whole country into battle. In fact, Hill would see this comparison as a compliment. He proclaims from his website, "Now is the time to defend the unborn in the same way you'd defend slaves about...
...that the spokespeople for anti-abortionists take these rhetorical easy-outs because they reflect poorly on the vast majority of anti-abortionists who condemn violence. Their tactics prevent meaningful dialogue with abortion activists, who understandably find it hard to engage in civil discourse with Nathanson, and others like him, who insist on heroizing those who have declared literal war against clinics across the nation...
...claimed that Nathanson's "propaganda turned the mentally deranged loose." Simpson asked Baird to stop his comments...
...event went on, Simpson's interruptions and cautions to the participants increased. During one argument between Baird and Nathanson, he advised them to "get on with it or do it in another forum...