In what may be the first killing of a person protesting abortion, a retired autoworker in Michigan was gunned down Sept. 11 as he held a pro-life placard outside a high school in Owosso, Mich., near Flint.
Over the course of two decades, James Pouillon, 63, stood in public areas holding signs protesting abortion. The particular one he held that day outside the school pictured a chubby-cheeked baby with the word "Life" on one side and an image of an aborted fetus with the word "Abortion" on the other.
President Obama, in a two-sentence statement Sept. 13, called the shooting "deplorable." "Whichever side of a public debate you're on, violence is never the right answer," Obama said....