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Why Not Kill the Baby Killers?

In the end, almost everyone is against killing doctors who practice abortion, though it is a little hard to understand why. The logic of Paul Hill -- that abortion equals baby killing, that there is a "holocaust" going on and that therefore killing an abortionist is "justifiable homicide" -- may be insane, but it is more consistent than the logic of those who share all of Hill's premises but reject his conclusion.

On July 29, Hill shot and killed Dr. John Britton and a clinic volunteer at an abortion clinic in Pensacola, Florida. Almost all elements of the right-to- life movement...

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