Abortion docs say ‘wanted’ posters are bait for their murder

By David Edwards
Wednesday, October 27, 2010 12:57 EST
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“Wanted” posters are giving abortion doctors in North Carolina something to be concerned about.

CBS News reports that Operation Save America is responsible for putting up Wanted posters with the faces of abortion doctors. One flyer even cites a home address.

“It doesn’t say ‘Wanted Dead or Alive’ but the implications are clearly there,” said one doctor who wished to remain anonymous.

“These ‘Wanted’ posters are a call for my murder,” the doctor told CBS News.

“The posters are meant to call for my murder by that borderline person,” said the doctor. “They are putting out the bait, they are putting out the message, the call, and hope that somebody will respond.”

In the 1990s several doctors were killed after appearing on Wanted posters. In 1993, Dr. David Gunn and Dr. George Patterson were murdered. A year later, Dr. John Britton was also shot and killed.

An assassination attempt was made on Dr. George Tiller’s life in 1993. Tiller was later killed by an abortion activist in 2009.

But Flip Benham, the founder of Operation Save America, denies that the posters invite violence.

“If you read the writing in there, it’s wanted by Christ,” he said. “We want them to meet Jesus.”

In 2002, a US Appeals Court ruled that Wanted posters were a violation of a federal law that makes it a crime to prevent people for having access to clinics.

But CBS News legal correspondent Jan Crawford says the 2002 ruling was for a limited area and doesn’t apply to the new Wanted posters.

“It doesn’t affect the posters in Charlotte that are at issue now,” she said.

Katherine Spillar, executive vice president of Feminist Majority Foundation, has asked the Justice Department to investigate the new flyers.

“We know what the pattern has been year after year,” said Spillar. “We need tough prosecution before more doctors are murdered.”

“I am always looking over my shoulder,” one doctor said. “I know they know my car. They know my face. They’ve been to my house. They’ve put these posters in my neighborhood. So yeah, I look over my shoulder.”

This video is from CBS News, broadcast Oct. 26, 2010.

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David Edwards has served as an editor at Raw Story since 2006. His work can also be found at Crooks & Liars, and he's also been published at The BRAD BLOG. He came to Raw Story after working as a network manager for the state of North Carolina and as as engineer developing enterprise resource planning software. Follow him on Twitter at @DavidEdwards.
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  • Anonymous

    Operation Save America – Their tactics would make Hitler proud.

  • Anonymous

    “We want them to meet Jesus.”

    Isn’t that like saying “Kill them all and let god sort them out”?

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    pretty scary stuff.

  • Stina

    That’s EXACTLY what they’re saying.

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    =[

  • Whatever_happened_to_courtesy

    Who’s Pro-Life? By their actions, obviously not these people. If they really want to get biblical, they must support polygamy (and marrying your brother-in-law when widowed), must not eat shellfish, must not wear poly-cotton blend clothing, must be anti-war, and should hold to the belief that life begins at breath, just as life was “breathed” into Adam in Genesis.

  • Anonymous

    Christian patriots want to kill people and burn down the country. If you’re not prepared for another civil war, you’d better get on the stick.

  • Anonymous

    If these low life chicken shit scum really wanted to limit the number of abortions in this country they would be supporting full and comprehensive sex education, free condoms and plentiful family planning centers. But they would rather pose and threaten and kill.

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    Let me tell Old flip that he is what is wrong with this country. The intolerance practiced by the religious right is what’s wrong with this country. The duplicitous behavior of the religious right is what’s wrong with this country. The narrow religious right has no concept of empathy. They worry about the fetus yet they believe in killing the Doctors who have dedicated their lives to healing and saving humans. The don’t just perform abortions but actually cure many diseases that can actually kill patients if left unattended. They supported bush’s war that maimed and killed thousands. Yes, bush’s war actually killed pregnant women and their fetus’s and yet they are okay with that. The are phony and hateful. They don’t practice what their” beloved” religion teaches. They pick and choose which commandments they want to honor. They have newt gingrich’s philosophy “do as I say not as I do”. And of course it is the men who like to carry the anti-abortion banner that bothers me the most. They are fanatical about it yet really don’t care about other women’s issues. They don’t care about the little girl who is impregnated by a relative. They want her to carry this fetus to term and give birth. The Line they always give is it’s gods plan. So the rapist is gods plan? Or the Devils? If it’s the devil than shouldn’t it be okay for the abortion of the devils spawn? The other argument is it affects only about1%. Tell that to the 9 year old little girl who came into our clinic after after being raped by her uncle. I’m sure that will comfort her and make everything alright. Piss on you and yours flip, you are a perfect reason for abortion.

  • Anonymous

    Yes it is. And who’s fault is that? If the Federal and State government put a tenth of the amount of time into rounding up the people that lead the groups that put out this stuff and running them through the legal wringer as it does the protest groups that they deem “anarchist” or anti-war, that bit of terrorism would fade away. If people can be preemptively rounded up and detained in advance of a G20 meeting why not in a case like this? It doesn’t stick in court but the point on the government’s part is disruption, not prosecution. It’s harassment to achieve a political aim so why not use it on real, proven terrorists?

    Because it serves the government’s interest to have these particular terrorists running free. Whenever there is not equal justice it is because the people making the decisions want the disparity for their own ends. This selective application of the law is not an oversight. Terrorists work to advance the aims OF those in power too.

    What would happen if some one or group started putting up wanted posters on the leaders of Operation Save America (as they should)? Who would be in jail before sundown?

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    If anyone should be the object of “Wanted Dead or Alive” posters it should be the vile Christians who have beshat this country with their psychopathic religion. First they shout their hate sermons against homosexuality only to turn around to sexually brutalize any child they can get their paws on. And then still besmirched with their crimes, they turn to taunting their hapless victims, driving them to suicide. Christians are not good but some try to pretend that they are not evil.

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    It is pretty twisted and pathetic that these so-called Christians have their pals wearing robes in the federal judiciary that have made decisions calling this tripe free speech. This is not free speech but the incitement of murder, and the silly arguments that say it is not are vile and disgusting. America has gone crazy, the fascist brownshirted thugs want a fascist Christian theocracy and somehow believe the “founding fathers” would be all for this lunacy.
    These folks are insane and ignorant not to mention domestic terrorists.

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    Organizations like OSA tend to scare the bejesus out of me.

    I’m just saying that to these religious types, the concept of thou shalt not kill does seem to have has an asterisk next to it.

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    And where are the Wanted posters for these Christofascists?

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    Believing you can make something you believe is a moral wrong right by commiting a moral wrong is twisted logic at its worst and totally belies the rule of law our republic is based on. If law is morality based and says killing a human being is wrong, and we allow exceptions, self defense, war, punishment. Where does it end? The answers are restrain don’t kill. Teaching and practicing restraint, and the univeral truth do unto as you would have done. Helping those in need at any age. If you believe life begins at conception then nutrition and medical help should be available from that point. Love one another. Only then will we live in peace and harmony. Self versus we. Disires and needs of the individual versus the common good. Individuals have rights but not at the expense of or to the detriment of others. It takes highly developed reasoning skills to walk that line. No religious view should be allowed to trump others or reason.

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    Theres legal and illegal. What makes something morally wrong? The bible?

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    That Charlotte, NC area was infested with the fascist mega-church mentality 25 years ago. Their principal requirement for a “pastor” is that he look like a matinee idol and the “associate pastor” look like a former Miss America.

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    Let’s put up wanted posters for every reslugliklan whore-of-a-foreign criminal in the country.

  • Anonymous

    I am pro-life and and against abortion and the death penalty. If pro-lifers would not support the death penalty for a mass murderer (ex. Tim McVie, Ted Bundy) then we cannot support the death penatly for abortion doctors, no matter how much one disagrees with abortion….
    These posters are inflamatory… There are better ways to make your point…

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    Exactly which is why there cannot be and should not be any state religion.

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    Hey “good Christians”, remember this little quote? “Vengeance is MINE, saith the Lord.”??(emphasis mine) We are supposed to love each other, and leave the self-righteous smiting to God.
    I’m not perfect, but I know hypocrisy when I see it. Anybody who advocates killing or fear in the name of the Christian God might as well burn their bible and start worshipping a Golden calf.

  • Anonymous

    Like murdering Dr. Tiller? These doctors should hire armed body guards and shoot the first anti-abortion rights nut who shows up with a gun or a bomb.

  • shineOn

    And I think that wanting them to meet Jesus is really saying, “We want them to meet their maker”? ie they want dead doctors. Really, how are they not accountable for a hate crime?

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    Flip Benham is soliciting a hitman. He won’t have to pay the killer.If he is on the lunatic fringe, and feel that he is doing God’s work, that will be reward enough for him.

    “If you read the writing in there, it’s wanted by Christ,” he said. “We want them to meet Jesus.”

    I don’t know how old Benham is, but he hasn’t learned that Jesus the Christ does not need him. When God picks an earthling for a special purpose, he or she will know. Whoever Benham heard, it wasn’t Jesus.

    His wanted posters should read: Wanted! Experienced psychiatrist to cure me of my delusions!

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