The Right Decision for Scott Roeder

STORY HIGHLIGHTSScott Roeder convicted of first-degree murderJury reaches verdict after about 40 minutes of deliberation Roeder testified he does not regret killing Dr. George Tiller Tiller ran a women's clinic where he performed abortions in Wichita, Kansas

via www.cnn.com

The verdict is just in on Scott Roeder and I believe it's the right one. The abortion movement is only made stronger when violence occurs. The decision by the jury is, obviously right. As a pro-life person, I also believe that Mr. Roeder's statement is (in a skewed way) right but his actions were very wrong.  In fact, the faulty logic in his thinking is a distant cousin to the strange logic used by the pro-abortion industry to justify their behavior.  Mr. Roeder...

""There was nothing being done, and the legal process had been exhausted, and these babies were dying every day," Roeder said. "I felt that if someone did not do something, he was going to continue.""

We in the pro-life movement need to DO SOMETHING... just not this.

Comments

[Joe]

It was not a just verdict because he should have been convicted of a lesser charge than first degree murder.

Obviously, one can use force as a last resort to save the life of any human being threatened with death, but it must be an absolute last resort. This was clearly not an absolute last resort as Tiller was killed while in church and was not in a position at that point to threaten anyone.

However, there were severe mitigating circumstances. George Tiller was a criminal child killer who had destroyed 60,000 human lives and would have continued killing for many years to come. The federal and state governments had done and would do nothing to stop him. Scott Roeder did not kill for personal gain but to attempt to save the lives of unborn children who otherwise would probably be killed with no one intervening in any way to save them.

Therefore, although his action was unjustified, the mitigating circumstances would dictate that he be convicted of, say, manslaughter and given a 2 year sentence or something similar, rather than life in prison for first degree murder.