Word: shannon
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...open the front door. The Choices Women's Medical Center in New York City, which is already patrolled by armed guards, made plans to install a metal detector. Even Dr. George Tiller of Wichita, Kansas, who has practiced under the tightest security since he was shot by Rachelle Shannon in 1993, felt a new level of anxiety. "The turning point in our profession occurred last week," he said, "when innocent bystanders, as it were, were slaughtered...
...December 30, 1994, in Brook-line, John C. Salvi III, a "Scripture-quoting believer," entered the Planned Parenthood health care clinic and shot and killed Shannon Lowney, a 25-year-old clinic receptionist, and seriously injured three others. Fifteen minutes later, Salvi entered the Preterm Health Services Clinic down the street, where he shot and killed receptionist Leanne Nichols and wounded two others. The reaction? Massachusetts Citizens for Life said: "We are absolutely heartsick at the news of the shootings. We are praying for those persons who have fallen prey to the action of an obviously deranged individual. Such acts...
...aftermath of the violence, we are left with the question, "What should be done about it?" If all factions of the anti-choice movement continue their "baby-killer" rhetoric, we will have more John Salvis, and tragically, more Shannon Lowneys and Leanne Nichols. Obviously, something must be done. But what? DO we cut off the anti-choicers' First Amendment rights to free speech? Or do we allow the freedom to incite violence as we mourn the deaths of more doctors and health care workers...
...pray that this so-called "deeply religious" movement follows Cardinal Law's advice. The dangers that ignoring it will bring are real. Just ask the families of Shannon Lowney and Leanne Nichols...
Even if this argument holds, the killings of Shannon Lowney and Leanne Nichols are still not defensible; the two women were clinic receptionists, and were not involved directly with the actual medical procedure of abortion. But the argument does not hold, for a very simple reason: activists must not only have a morally justified goal, but they must pursue that goal through methods that are also just. The well-worn adage holds true: the end does not justify the means...