Elizabeth at the Life Training Institute blog writes of the double standard in the media regarding abortion. When later-term abortion doctor George Tiller was murdered by a pro-life man a few months ago, it was a media frenzy. Everybody was talking about it, and speculating that this may be an intimation of where the pro-life movement is heading.
Last Friday, when a 63 year old pro-life activist, Jim Pouillon, was killed by a pro-choicer in Michigan because he didn’t like the man’s pro-life sign (which had a baby on it with the words “life”), crickets could be heard chirping in the major media. No one was suggesting that this is an intimation of the future of the pro-choice movement.
I don’t doubt for a moment that the major media published the daylights out of the George Tiller murder because they knew it would tarnish the pro-life cause, but are mum on the pro-lifer’s murder because that would tarnish their own cause. I guess news is whatever they say it is!
Thinking to Believe 
October 1, 2009 at 8:38 pm
“The man, Harlan J. Drake, is charged with killing James Pouillon, 63, on Sept. 11, shooting him as Mr. Pouillon stood near Owosso High School holding a sign protesting abortion. In an unrelated shooting on the same day, Mr. Drake is charged with killing Mike Fuoss, 61, the owner of a local gravel company.”
From the information we have on this presently it doesn’t appear that this is a hate crime at all. It is more likely that Mr. Drake is mentally ill. So no reputable news agency is going to publish publish this is as a hate crime.
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October 2, 2009 at 9:59 am
Yes, Drake killed someone else before killing Pouillon, and is probably mentally ill. But the reason he chose to kill Pouillon is because he was protesting abortion. That matters. Besides, I didn’t see the media waiting for a mental evaluation of Tiller’s killer before they jumped all over that story!
Jason
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