He’s Scared Shitless of What’s Coming Next
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Mark Gietzen, who gained prominence as one of the nation’s most zealous grass-roots opponents of abortion, died on Tuesday. He was 69.
The Kansas Republican Party announced his death. The Wichita Eagle reported that Mr. Gietzen died when his Cessna 172 crashed a few miles northeast of Chambers, Neb.
Last August, in what would turn out to be his final large-scale political initiative, Mr. Gietzen (pronounced GEET-zin) spent nearly $120,000 to finance a recount of the decisive vote in Kansas to preserve abortion rights. That month, Mr. Gietzen told The Eagle that the expenditure would make it harder for him to renovate his Cessna, which he said he had been working on for 15 years.
LOL, as if Fate doesn’t have a sense of humor.
And lest you forget what a complete asshole this guy was:
Mr. Gietzen devoted much of his time to an organization of which he was chairman, the Kansas Coalition for Life, and to its protests against Dr. George Tiller, a Wichita abortion doctor. The long-simmering battle against Dr. Tiller’s practice helped make the city a staging ground for the national abortion debate.
Mr. Gietzen presided over a network of hundreds of volunteers who protested against Dr. Tiller in shifts. They tried to persuade patients arriving at his clinic to change their minds — counting “saves” for women who decided not to get abortions.
Activists blockaded his clinic, campaigned to have him prosecuted, tailed him with hidden cameras, sued him, threatened him. One bombed his clinic. Another tried to kill him in 1993, firing five shots, wounding both arms.
Dr. Tiller defiantly dug in, expanding his clinic and beefing up its security.
The battle ended on a Sunday morning in 2009, when Mr. Tiller was shot to death while attending church. His clinic closed, and Mr. Gietzen found himself a frequent interview subject in the national news media.
“It looks like our prayer was answered,” Mr. Gietzen told The New York Times. “We would have liked to have done this a different way, though. Now we have thousands of people bad-mouthing us, refusing to donate, telling us our website incited this.”
Some days your prayers are answered, some days mine are.