hypocrisy in action

My views of abortion probably differ from the vast majority of my conservative counterparts… In my not-so-humble opinion, the government should not get involved in the debate, whatsoever. If a fetus cannot survive outside of the womb, then I have a very difficult time viewing it as an independently-living organism (the term “parasite” seems more appropriate, though people seem to get annoyed when you use it), and if it cannot live on its own nor could ever live on its own previously, I cannot see how it would be covered by current laws and statues. If a woman wants to have an abortion before the fetus is capable of self-sustaining life outside her womb, that is a matter between her and her god(s), and the government should have no say in the matter whatsoever. Something about “lack of jurisdiction” comes to mind… However, once the fetus is capable of surviving outside the womb, I am totally against abortions at that point, and consider such an action to be murder.
I am not going to address the religiosity aspects of abortion, simply because those are things best left to individuals and their respective interpretations of their religions. However, when it comes to the federal government of the United States of America, I have yet to see a plausible scientific argument put forward as to why that organization should do anything more than it has concerning abortion… apart from the addition of “late-term abortion” under the category of “murder”, that is.
All this said, all my readers somehow offended in one way or another, and all the details dispensed with, I am completely and entirely against the murder of late-term abortion doctor George Tiller, just as I oppose all of the various forms of violence brought against him over the past 20+ years.
It has always struck me as amazingly hypocritical how supposed-champions of the sanctity of life seem to have no compunctions about murdering/maiming/injuring other humans. You may disagree with what he is doing. You may find what he is doing to be morally deficient. You may think your god(s) disagree with what he is doing. But unless the man is attempting to force your wife or yourself to have an abortion against your will, then you have absolutely no cause or basis to go off on some murderous impulse and unlawfully end the life of another human being.
I find it further amazing that a “pro-life” (oh, the irony) activist, who are almost universally religiously-motivated (though I have no evidence or proof that this particular murderer was, in any way, religious), would go out of his way to murder Dr. Tiller in a church. Yeah… so much for “sanctuary”. (In the interests of honesty, I, of course, have no qualms about defending one’s self from violence, potentially with violence, in a church. But self-defense is self-defense, and an entirely different animal from murder. Executing a man, with malice aforethought, in his own church? That is a special level of “sick”.)
Yes, I believe what Dr. Tiller did to be murder (at least in terms of the late-term abortions he performed). However, murdering a murderer is still murder itself, both in terms of the American judicial system, and in terms of the Christian religion. Murdering Dr. Tiller was wrong in both contexts, and any “pro-life” advocates who are reading this and just itching to disagree, I would recommend you look up the definition of that “life” you are supposedly trying to protect.