May 31 2009
Abortion Doc Murdered
Controversial abortion doctor George Tiller was murdered today while serving as an usher in his church. Dr. Tiller was one of the few physicians in the country who performed late term abortions, sometimes as late as the ninth month of pregnancy. His willingness to perform such procedures made him a frequent target of pro-life protests and had earned him the dubious nickname of “Tiller the baby killer.”
It was not his first brush with violence. Previously he had survived a shooting 16 years ago when he was shot in both arms. His clinic has been vandalized and bombed. Earlier this year, Tiller was charged and acquitted for breaking a Kansas law that prohibits abortions to babies that could survive outside of the womb unless two doctor’s certified that the pregnancy would cause major harm to the mother.
Regardless of where you stand on the abortion issue, murder is not the answer. I personally am opposed to abortion (with some limited exceptions), because I believe your actions have consequences. If you don’t want to have a baby, then either don’t have sex or make sure to use birth control. As the old saying goes, two wrongs don’t make a right. If you are pro-life, the person who committed this crime is as guilty as the abortionist, and is really no better than a radical Muslim extremist.
I do find it somewhat ironic that the doctor was serving as an usher in a church service. Most of the mainstream Christian churches would take a pro-life stand and would find Dr. Tiller’s abortion procedures to a blatant sin. Not that any member of a church would be without sin, but most of the churches that I have ever attended would not allow someone to serve if they were blatantly involved in what they consider a sinful act.
Len, I hope that I was not coming across as judging Dr. Tiller’s actions. I for one would never pass judgment on the eternal destination of someone’s soul.
The law in Kansas and most of the US is just as you state, late term only for the safety of the mother is a late term abortion justified. Dr. Tiller’s actions were at least questionable enough to have the state press charges against him that he had allegedly broken that law. It is reported that he also performed abortions in the ninth month of pregnancy. At that point, the baby certainly could have survived outside the womb. We do not know the circumstances behind those cases, but it would seem that somehow the child could have been saved as well as the mother.
Harrison-true that.
Most in the anti-abortion movement believe in the sanctity of life from conception until death.
Most people who believe in the “sanctity” of “life” should have enough respect for both God and life to not kill somebody in a church.
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Most is not all inclusive, and most would not kill anybody, in church or otherwise. There will always be extremists on both sides and you can not judge a whole movement by the actions of the less than 1% .