Pro Doctor Killing?

Pro Life or Pro Choice? That seems to be the buzzing question nowadays. As if the arguments behind abortion weren't complicated enough, our pals down in Tennessee have decided to kick it up a notch. A new bill entitled The Life Defense Act of 2012 is currently making its way through the Tennessee House of Representatives. This bill would make it mandatory for the state to publish the names of every doctor who performs an abortion and detailed statistics about the women who have undergone the procedure. Tennessee wishes to pass this bill in hopes of frightening abortion doctors into discontinuing their practice. 

If you have not yet realized how dangerous this bill could potentially be, allow me to explain. 

Abortion doctor George Tiller was shot to death as he entered
his church in Wichita, Kansas in 2009.

In the past 35 years, abortion doctors have faced, 8 murders, 17 attempted murders, 42 bombs, 176 cases of arson, 99 cases of attempted arson, 191 cases of assault and battery, 420 death threats, 524 cases of stalking, and 4 kidnappings (NFA).

If this bill passes  these numbers will only increase. The state, regardless of their viewpoints, should not be able to utilize the threat of illegal violence onto doctors for doing something legal. I'm aware that some of you reading this blog may be morally opposed to abortions and support pro life, but shouldn't you also support the lives of the doctors that have now been put under threat by their state government? Why aren't the doctors' lives considered as important as the life of a fetus in the eyes of the politicians who wrote The Life Defense Act of 2012?

I don't care who you are, what your views are, or where you're from, I think we can all agree here that the government in no context should accommodate crimes and criminals.