How do you get around Paul Hill's argument if we believe that violence is justified in defending the life of one's self or the lives of others?
Paul Hill was a conservative Presbyterian minister that preached and protested outside abortion clinics in FL for years. He eventually shot and killed abortionist John Britton and his security guard at their Pensacola abortion clinic.
There was
1. Immanent danger of innocent lives threatened and in peril in abortion clinics.
2. If the aggressor acts (the doctor in this case), death is very likely for the innocents involved.
My reply would be one of context: If we saw a person killing a baby outside of an abortion clinic, we could shoot them in defense of another. Or if someone on the street were attempting to inject someone with lethal drugs and kill them against their will. However, inside of an abortion clinic or the death row of a prison, done by doctors for that specific task, is a different context protected by the law right now. We can protest the law as unjust right now.But some say we cannot act violently oppose that law. Paul Hill disagreed of course, stating that the laws of the land were to be disobeyed and innocents protected. Yet, many pastors condemned Hill's actions.
Paul Hill was a conservative Presbyterian minister that preached and protested outside abortion clinics in FL for years. He eventually shot and killed abortionist John Britton and his security guard at their Pensacola abortion clinic.
There was
1. Immanent danger of innocent lives threatened and in peril in abortion clinics.
2. If the aggressor acts (the doctor in this case), death is very likely for the innocents involved.
My reply would be one of context: If we saw a person killing a baby outside of an abortion clinic, we could shoot them in defense of another. Or if someone on the street were attempting to inject someone with lethal drugs and kill them against their will. However, inside of an abortion clinic or the death row of a prison, done by doctors for that specific task, is a different context protected by the law right now. We can protest the law as unjust right now.But some say we cannot act violently oppose that law. Paul Hill disagreed of course, stating that the laws of the land were to be disobeyed and innocents protected. Yet, many pastors condemned Hill's actions.