Bode's blame game misses the mark

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June 13, 2009 by indystar | Staff

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Ken Bode (“Blood on their fanatic hands,” June 12) is off the mark in blaming Bill O’Reilly and other conservatives for the death of abortion doctor George Tiller.

O’Reilly and the others he mentioned don’t create people who hate abortion; abortion does. A fabricated constitutional concept that allows mothers to kill their unborn children, and allows some doctors to become wealthy in the process, doesn’t need anyone to whip up emotions against it. The process itself is quite enough.

Bode is quite right when he condemns the killing, but O’Reilly and the others are not to blame. Their reporting only exposed what Tiller was doing; that is what a free press does.

Bode spent three columns lamenting the death of Tiller; he might have spent one sentence lamenting the death of the thousands of infants whose lives Tiller helped end.

Patrick L. Boucher

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