Activist urges anti-abortion leaders not to flinch after abortion doctor’s death

Doctor’s murder won’t stop anti-abortion activist

WASHINGTON — Anti-abortion activist Randall Terry says his movement should not tone down its rhetoric despite the killing of abortion doctor George Tiller.

Terry says Tiller’s murder by a gunman during church services on Sunday poses a problem for abortion opponents who might feel pressure not to use highly charged language and tactics.

He says the gunman was wrong to kill Tiller, but that abortion opponents bear no responsibility for the action. Terry says Tiller was “a mass murderer and horrifically, he reaped what he sowed.”

As the founder of anti-abortion group Operation Rescue, Terry frequently targeted Tiller, who was one of the only doctors in the nation to perform late term abortions.

Terry made his remarks at the National Press Club.