A lot of people appear to be absolutely sure of the correctness of their views when it comes to abortion.

The pity about all this is that too often people opposed to abortion fail to recognise that the only real way to prevent babies getting aborted must involve getting rid of the things in society that push women into "choosing" that as a solution to their situation.

True, there are women for whom abortion it is a genuine free choice, but most of the time it's an imposed choice, because of poverty and all kinds of other pressures and distortions. And whether people are "pro-choice" or "pro-life" they should be united in seeing that as a disgrace.

I'd see Paul Hill's resort to murder as a reflection of the fact he was living in a country where reprisal killing of killers is a respected and authorised aspect of the law and the culture.