"Roeder is asking the court to conclude that 'vigilantism is okay if you really mean it.'"
Four years ago today, the ACLU and the National Abortion Federation (NAF) filed a friend-of-the-court brief to ask the court not to support Roeder's plea for voluntary manslaughter. We filed another in today's proceedings, joined by the Center for Reproductive Rights. Holding Roeder accountable for his violent action is not only imperative to ensuring that all abortion providers enjoy the full protection of the law; finding Roeder to be less culpable of murder simply because he sincerely believed abortion should not be legal, puts all of us, anyone who has ever exercised a constitutional right, at risk. As the Kansas Supreme Court previously held in a similar case, "[i]f every person were to act upon his or her personal beliefs in this manner, and we were to sanction the act, the result would be utter chaos."
Murder is Murder | American Civil Liberties Union
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