{"id":4486,"date":"2009-06-02T15:13:02","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T19:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=4486"},"modified":"2009-06-02T15:13:02","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T19:13:02","slug":"the-celebrity-abortionist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-celebrity-abortionist\/","title":{"rendered":"The celebrity abortionist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every day in the USA there are:<\/p>\n<p>45 murders<\/p>\n<p>3,500 abortions<\/p>\n<p>134 deaths by traffic accident<\/p>\n<p>1,200 deaths caused by smoking<\/p>\n<p>13 deaths due to heroin overdose<\/p>\n<p>And this year so far:<br \/>\n1 abortionist murdered.<\/p>\n<p>Even though George Tiller\u2019s murder was wrong, why is it getting all this attention? Rev. Katherine Ragsdale calls him a \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/washingtontimes.com\/news\/2009\/jun\/02\/slain-abortionist-mourned-as-saint-martyr\/?c=106028\" target=\"_blank\">saint and a martyr<\/a> \u201c, Katherine Jefferts-Schori allocates a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.episcopalchurch.org\/81803_108830_ENG_HTM.htm\" target=\"_blank\">moment of hand-wringing<\/a>, Keith Olbermann says it is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Af-kE-iu3hg\" target=\"_blank\">all Fox News\u2019s fault<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What sort of society have we made for ourselves when the one murder of 2009 that garners such disproportionate attention from news media, pundits and churches is that of a man who made his living by killing babies. For all the cries of horror and outrage, Tiller\u2019s murder was no worse than the 44 others that occurred on May 31, 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every day in the USA there are: 45 murders 3,500 abortions 134 deaths by traffic accident 1,200 deaths caused by smoking 13 deaths due to heroin overdose And this year so far: 1 abortionist murdered. Even though George Tiller\u2019s murder &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-celebrity-abortionist\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2022],"class_list":["post-4486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","tag-abortion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}