This fellow has a high opinion of his line of work:

Dr. LeRoy Carhart, one of the nation’s few providers of late-term abortions, called on the federal government to treat as hate crimes all activities by “anti-choice domestic terrorists.” [He] compared the slain Dr. George Tiller to Martin Luther King and said planting crosses was equivalent to actions by the Ku Klux Klan.

Hold on there, Doc.  Another way of looking at this is to imagine you as a drug pusher in a tough neighborhood.  You get killed, we might say in the line of duty, we put law enforcement at work, finding the killers if we can and prosecuting them, along the way excoriating them as immoral and evil people.  But we don’t glorify you.