AUSTRALIA’S pro-life movements have deplored the fatal shooting of a security guard at a Melbourne abortion clinic on July 16.
Steve Rogers, 45, was allegedly shot in a scuffle with a middle-aged man.
Chairwoman of Right to Life Australia, Margaret Tighe of Melbourne, said the gunman was not known to her group.
‘The pro-life movement in Australia and overseas rejects violence as a means of achieving an end to the violence of abortion,’ she said.
‘The incidence was regrettable and very sad for the family of the dead man.
‘But this will not deter the continuation of peaceful presences outside places where another tragedy takes place every day – the deaths of thousands of unborn children.’
Spokeswoman for the Australian federation of Right to Life Associations, alison Hope of Canberra, also condemned the incident.
‘The death of the guard is deplorable,’ she said.
Eight Helpers of God’s Precious Infants, who were keeping a daily vigil outside the melbourne clinic, had left only 15 minutes before the shooting.
The group’s Melbourne spokeswoman said: ‘We are pro-life, so we deplore the use of violence to achieve any end.’
