Abortion Providers Quotes
Dr. Minton was one of the few physicians in Texas who performed abortions. He gets constant death threats by people who claim to be devout Christians. He carries and sleeps with a handgun, and knows how to use it.
Later he too shot and killed a physician who performed abortions and also killed a non-medical assistant of the doctor's. He was executed for murder in 2003. To many in the anti-abortion ranks, he is a martyr. To many others he is a monster whose fanaticism lost site of the very sanctity of life for which they strove.
This is an example of a twisted kind of political logic that says that if there are law breakers who don't like legal behavior of others and will therefore commit violent crimes if they continue to act legally, the law should be changed to make the behavior illegal so they criminals and murderers will not be so angry. However, there are few people who actually believe this. An ironic thing about this man is that his rabid opposition to abortion is based on his interpretation of the Bible (Old Testament) which never mentions abortion as a crime. (The Early Hebrews and Christians practiced abortion and saw no Biblical stricture against it.) However, he claims that the Biblical crime of bestiality—punishable by death—should be normalized. See {583375} for an example of this hypocrisy.