"Even though I disagree with [abortion opponents] engaged in the common-ground talks, I don't want to tar them with the same brush as the people responsible for this violence," added Ragsdale. "But I also don't want to exonerate a host of people who are responsible, even though they never pulled the trigger. And if you want to know who they are, look at the ones who ran most quickly to publish press releases trying to distance themselves from [Tiller's murder]. It's the guys who called him 'Tiller the Baby Killer' " — e.g., Fox News' Bill O'Reilly. "It's the ones who said he ran an abortion mill, and protested outside his clinic. They're the ones who created a climate that made violence inevitable."
Adam Reilly can be reached at areilly[a]phx.com.
Editor's Note: In a previous version of this article Rowan Williams was misidentified as Rowan Williamson. The correction has been made above. And in another version of this article, Williams was misidentified as an Englishman, he is actually from Wales. The correction has also been made above.
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