On June 4, the Quad City Times printed an editorial cartoon equating the unfortunate killing of Dr. George Tiller, a notorious late-term abortionist in Wichita, Kansas, with the actions of all pro-lifers. Quad City Right to Life takes special affront at this cartoon since we actually have a Planned Parenthood killing center here in the Quad Cities, but Quad Cities pro-lifers' response has never been anything but peaceful, prayerful, and helpful to the second victim of abortion, the mother.
A response was submitted to the Times, under the signature of both Quad City Right to Life and Helpers of God's Precious Infants, the organization standing outside the abortion clinic every abortion day, rain or shine, since the clinic opened in 1999, ready to offer help to any woman in a distressed pregnancy. A Times-edited version was printed on June 8. Unfortunately, in addition to editing the letter, the Times also edited out the names of both organizations submitting the letter, substituting instead the name and city of Lorrie Bowman personally. A correction was to be made to the letter online, but it has not been done yet.
Click here for the letter (also below)
Anyone wishing to comment or to simply vote "thumbs up" in agreement with the letter from QCRTL.
Cartoon Offended Pro-lifers
from the Quad City Times
By Lorrie Bowman, Bettendorf
Posted: Monday, June 8, 2009
(55 Comments)
Your political cartoon of Thursday, June 4, equating pro-lifers with murderers was not clever or funny. It was a slap in the face to pro-lifers who generously give their money and their time to try to stop someone from making the biggest mistake of her life, killing her unborn child. We also work peacefully and lawfully trying to change the law, not violate it. We do not condone violence, which hurts our cause.
It appears the killer acted alone. His brother and ex-wife, say he's suffered from mental illness and is an anarchist.
Dr. Tiller was the most notorious abortion doctor in the country. By his own admission, he killed tens of thousands of unborn babies, many of them late term. However, we sought his conversion, not his death.
Two years ago, he was visited by post-abortive Dr. Alveda King, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s niece, in an attempt to change his mind.
There has never been a single act of violence like this connected to a mainstream pro-life organization, and we challenge you to put our movement up against any other social reform movement in American history. It was grossly unfair of the Quad-City Times to print this cartoon considering we have an abortion clinic in the Quad-Cities and pro-lifers' conduct there has never been anything but loving and helpful.
Source: Quad City Right to Life
Publish Date: June 10, 2009
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