Priest Chastised for Proposal to Kill Abortionists
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MOBILE, Ala. — A Roman Catholic priest drew an ultimatum from church officials Tuesday for trying to run a newspaper ad that advocates killing doctors who do abortions: recant or resign.
Archbishop Oscar H. Lipscomb issued a statement saying he had given Father David Trosch “the alternative of publicly abiding by my judgment on this erroneous teaching or relinquishing his public position in the church.”
He added that Trosch indicated he would recant.
Trosch, who tried to place the ad in the Mobile Register, did not return phone messages seeking comment.
In an interview published Sunday in the Register, Trosch said he designed the ad, which shows a man pointing a gun at a doctor who is holding a knife over a pregnant woman.
Two words accompany the picture: “Justifiable homicide.”
“If 100 doctors need to die to save over 1 million babies a year, I see it as a fair trade,” he said.
Trosch, 57, is pastor of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Magnolia Springs.
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