The weekend murder of late-term abortion doctor George Tiller has thrown many in the pro-life community into the same mental quandary in which we always find ourselves when a radical in the movement harms an abortion provider. What to do? What to think? Publicly, we all say that we condemn the lawless execution of Tiller. Privately? We think the same thing, but also feel free to wonder aloud if the doctor might not still be alive had he chosen to indeed adhere to that part of his oath that instructs to “do no harm.”
Tiller was a late-term abortionist, which is like being a real-life slasher-movie sadist. To many of us, only a thin legal line distinguishes late-term abortion from out-and-out infanticide. In the end, the kind of lawlessness that robbed Tiller of his own life diminishes us all, but Tiller was in the state-sanctioned business of slaughtering babies, and, legal or not, that’s a very risky profession to choose. Even ardent pro-abortionists, in their most honest moments, understand the emotional reactions that are evoked by someone who makes his living this way. As for the late-term abortion doctors who remain among us, I fear that their insistence to continue doing that which is unspeakable risks dangerously upsetting another whose regard for the unborn (or in the case of late-termers, almost born) stands greater than his regard for the laws of man.
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Robert G. Yetman, Jr. Editor-At-Large www.ChristianMoney.com
I used to be an ardent supporter of the pro-choice movement...until I saw the ultrasound of my firstborn son. Only 8 weeks into my pregnancy and I could see his face hands, arms, legs and a beating heart. Life clearly begins much earlier than at birth. Having said that, there is another tragedy that resulted when George Tiller was murdered himself: and that is there remains no chance for his salvation. No one knows in those final moments of his life before he died whether or not he confessed and repented to the Lord for his sin of taking the lives of unborn children. I cannot even speak of where he must be in this moment and for all eternity had he not done so. I think this should be an opportunity for us all to reflect on continuing efforts to bring the unsaved to our Lord Jesus before their end. Especially those in the business of ending the lives of our most vulnerable, pre-born infants. That is when there will be an end to the abomination of abortion. There seems to me to be nothing but tragedy in George Tiller's demise; and nothing more urgent than prayer for the unsaved.
Posted by: Liz Combs | June 17, 2009 at 09:26 AM