Arizona Legislator Ties Loughner’s Actions to Roe v. Wade

Arizona State Senator Linda Gray opined on a local radio show that the Roe v. Wade decision has created a culture of “disrespect for human life” that might have influenced Jared Loughner’s shooting spree.

This point of view is not new, as Steve M. reminds us:

Brian Rohrbough, the father of one of the victims of the Columbine massacre, became well known in anti-abortion circles for arguing that legal abortion helped make Columbine possible. He insisted that a memorial to his son near the site of the massacre bear the following inscription:

Dad, I have a question. Why?

My son in a Nation that legalized the killing of innocent children in the womb; in a County where authorities would lie and cover up what they knew and what they did; in a Godless school system your life was taken … Dan I’m sorry.

I love you dad I’ll see you tomorrow.

7:00 p.m., April 19, 1999.

There is no peace, says the Lord, for the wicked.