Robin Abcarian has a story in the Los Angeles Times explaining that late-term abortion doctor George Tiller’s clinic will be closing following his murder at his church. Here’s the subhed:
Running the numbers
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Bells that raise strange questions
Here is another one of those strange little — repeat “little” — church-state stories that a few readers continue to ask about, via personal emails.
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Stories have more than one side
A few years ago, Los Angeles Times editor John Carroll sent a memo to all section editors expressing his concern that the paper had covered a story about abortion in a remarkably one-sided manner:
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A "notion" or two about eternity
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This should have been very interesting
As several readers have written to let us know, this USA Today mini-package seemed like a great idea. I mean, GetReligion readers ought to want to dig into a feature that runs under the headline: “A window into the faith of religion reporters.”
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Tiller's missing excommunication
Last Sunday, late-term abortion doctor George Tiller was gunned down in the foyer of his Lutheran church, where he served as an usher. As anyone with even a cursory understanding of Lutheranism in America could surmise, that church was a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. Of the various Lutheran church bodies in America, the ELCA is the most mainline and has the most supportive position on legalized abortion.
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From our "no comment" department
Newsweek‘s Evan Thomas, badly misremembering Reagan’s famous Boys of Pointe du Hoc speech, and opining about President Barack Obama:
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Moving past the bumper stickers
Following the murder of prominent late-term abortion doctor George Tiller, gunned down in the foyer of his church, many mainstream media outlets have run articles about the controversial practice of late-term abortions and the doctors who perform them. This is a good thing. On a public policy issue as heated as late-term abortion, it’s good to provide readers with more information about the practice and who is involved.
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R.I.P., Carol Whitehead -- you've earned it
One certainty in coverage of George Till’s murder has been Randall Terry’s consistent reference to Tiller as a mass murderer. Terry repeated that message again Wednesday as part of a summer lecture series sponsored by The Rutherford Institute.
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