{"id":223,"date":"2010-01-28T18:29:29","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T23:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/random-musings.org\/?p=223"},"modified":"2024-07-31T13:49:34","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T18:49:34","slug":"unclear-on-the-concept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/2010\/01\/28\/unclear-on-the-concept\/","title":{"rendered":"Unclear On The Concept"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Scott Roeder is on trial for the murder of George Tiller, M.D.&nbsp; Dr. Tiller was an abortion provider.&nbsp; Mr. Roeder claims to be a Christian.&nbsp; He has no regrets at having murdered Dr. Tiller, since the doctor was killing unborn children.&nbsp; Roeder felt he had to take action to save the lives of other unborn children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">According to Mr. Roeder, abortion is wrong.&nbsp; He feels that in the event of the mother&#8217;s life being seriously threatened by the fetus, an abortion might possibly be justified.&nbsp; Otherwise, not.&nbsp; Even in the cases of incest or rape, abortion would not be justified.&nbsp; As Mr. Roeder said (as quoted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/CRIME\/01\/28\/abortion.roeder.testifies\/?hpt=T1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CNN<\/a>), &#8220;It isn&#8217;t our duty to take life, it&#8217;s our heavenly father&#8217;s.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Mr. Roeder felt so strongly about this &#8211; that it&#8217;s wrong to take a life &#8211; that he put a gun to Dr. Tiller&#8217;s head and blew his brains out in a church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Roeder is on trial for the murder of George Tiller, M.D.&nbsp; Dr. Tiller was an abortion provider.&nbsp; Mr. Roeder claims to be a Christian.&nbsp; He has no regrets at having murdered Dr. Tiller, since the doctor was killing unborn &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/2010\/01\/28\/unclear-on-the-concept\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-social-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1001,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions\/1001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}