Still lots to say...

The analysts in the women's health and reproductive rights arenas are still sorting out exactly what Dr. Tiller's death will mean for women who need late-term abortion services. It looks pretty dire, unfortunately, as anti-abortion extremists have been pretty effective at intimidating providers out of taking on these necessary services. The article I linked is particularly effective, I think, in putting the lie to the anti-choice notion that Tiller performed abortions on women who woke up in their eighth month and decided not to have a baby. (Activists who pushed this lie, by the way, are undoubtedly at least partially responsible for Tiller's death.)

There's been some pretty heated discussion going on in the local blogosphere about all of this as well - Todd Epp first sounded the alarm, and I think Cory really hits the nail on the head regarding some of the concern that bloggers have about DooHickey's reaction to all of this. For all of his bitching to the contrary, he really hasn't issued a condemnation of the murder that wasn't couched in a bunch of other language that essentially praises it. When called on it, he whines and stomps his feet, but his words are out there for everyone to see - as Todd and Cory both pointed out, probably more eloquently than I can right now. Cory boils it down in the comments to his post:

Your message is completely mixed, couched in language that lets future killers pick out the justificatory messages they want and lets you pick out the excuses you need when we call you on it.

DooHickey seems to be part of the happy little right wing family that filled the suspect's head with the rhetoric that led him to kill.