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• Monday, June 1, 2009 04:48 AM

  Terrorism to tje right, terrorism to the left...

  ...terrorism, terrorism, terrorism! How about we drop the terrorism terminology and stick with labels like "murder" and "heinous crime" instead? Invoking "terrorism" for crime only invites additional extremism from people on both sides as well as from our own government because the word "terrorism" apparently turns off many people's ability to think rationally.

  We do need to act to protect doctors and clinic workers at the relatively few clinics that are left. And we need to get accurate information about what these procedures were/are out there to the masses so that nutcases and zealots (such as a few of the letter writers here) can't get away with spouting their ignorance and potentially having it believed. A good place to start might be with comments/letters like the one here (http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=22002, or click my sig) where the sort of pain that people facing the difficult choice of late term abortion comes through loud and clear.

  I mourn the doctor who was murdered. This was a heinous crime, killing a doctor going into his church, and it should be prosecuted to the fullest extent. But drop the terrorism label, please. I've heard enough about terrorism and terrorists for the last eight years to last a lifetime.

  The guy who murdered this doctor is scum. Yes, it was terrifying. But it was the single act of a misguided zealot, not terrorism.

  —Roman Berry Read Roman Berry's other letters
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