Son: Dad was a woman-hater, not a martyr (Owosso, Michigan)

Dad JAMES M. POUILLON, a "pro-life activitist" who was shot to death on September 11, is no martyr, according to his son. The son says Dad didn't even care about abortion; picketing and screaming at women was something he enjoyed because he was a batterer who hated women.

Frankly, I have always been suspect of the true motives of so-called pro-life activists. The international data is absolutely very clear on what countries have the lowest abortion rates (if this is a concern for you), and it's NOT the countries where it's illegal. It's the countries where it's LEGAL, and where women have well-established rights to education and employment. It's countries with readily available birth control, established maternity leaves, and universal health care regardless of income or employment status. Women who have access to these rights and services tend not to have unwanted pregnancies, and are able to carry their pregnancies to term without being economically devastated or socially ostracized. But you don't see OUR so-called pro-life people talking about health care reform, do you? What fun is that when you can wave pictures of bloody fetuses in the faces of high school girls?

http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2009/09/james_m_pouillon_criticizes_fa.html

James M. Pouillon criticizes father, slain pro-life activist James L. Pouillon, in online post
By Laura Angus
September 17, 2009, 4:58AM

OWOSSO, Michigan — Dr. James M. Pouillon, a Grand Rapids podiatrist who had not spoken to his father since 2001, criticized him and the attention he's getting in a post on a story about Harlan Drake, the man accused of killing Pouillon's father, James L. Pouillon, on Sept. 11.

The whole nation is debating if Pouillon was a martyr. Here is what the younger Pouillon had to say in an mlive.com post on mlive.com on Sept. 13:

"It will be impossible for some to believe, but my dad really didn't care about aborton.
He did this to stalk, harass, terrorize, scream at, threaten, frighten, and verbally abuse women. He had a pathologic hatred of women: his mom, my mom, everyone.

After my mom finally left him and he lost his favorite punching bag the violence and abuse that was always contained within our 4 walls was unleased on the people of Owosso.

My dad used the pro-life movement and 1st Amendments foundations to defend him, support him, and enable him. He fooled them all.

He was at the high shool because my niece was there, and female family members were always his favorite targets.

Again, my dad didn't care about abortion. He wanted to hurt people, upset people. He enjoyed making people suffer.

His goal was to be shot on a sidewalk. His goal was to make someone so angry, to make them feel so terrorized, to make them feel the only way they could make him stop was to kill him.

His pro-life stance was the most perfect crime I personally know of. He hid behind the 1st Amendment and was allowed to stalk, terrorise, harass, be obsene, ect. These things are crimes. Offending people isn't a crime, and having different political views isn't a crime, but he committed several crimes over the last 20 years and got away with it.

Yes I really am his oldest son. Owosso is now rid of a mad man."