The Christian right didn't murder George Tiller, said James Kirchick in The Wall Street Journal. The killing of the late-term abortion doctor in a Wichita church was the work of a lone gunman. The Left is using the attack to smear religious conservatives as a sort of American Taliban, but the truth is that "every anti-abortion group in the country" has denounced the violent methods of "Judeo-Christian extremists."
It's not enough that "most—though not all—of the anti-abortion movement's leaders were quick to condemn Tiller's murder," said Tim Rutten in the Los Angeles Times. The man accused of gunning down Tiller, Scott Roeder, had the phone number of a leader of anti-abortion protest group Operation Rescue in his pocket. Everybody who has ever said that voluntarily ending a pregnancy is murder can now see "the influence their inflammatory rhetoric" can have on an "unstable" fanatic.
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