Dr. George Tiller – by Hilton Brown
Dr. George Tiller was murdered while participating in the Church in which he was participating in the worship service. According to some of the murderer’s supporters, not only did Tiller deserve to be murdered, but the congregation of the Reformed Lutheran Church in which Tiller was serving as an usher was “…properly indicted by your (the murder’s) actions.”
A few days earlier at the Notre Dame commencement, President Barack Obama asked, “As citizens of a vibrant and varied democracy, how do we engage in vigorous debate? How does each of us remain firm in our principles, and fight for what we consider right, without demonizing those with just as strongly held convictions on the other side?”
The actual murderer in Dr. Tiller’s murder may well be a deranged person, but he only represented the fringe of organizations making no effort to come to debate in President Obama’s phrase. Dr. Tiller is only the most recent of a string of barbarous murders of Doctors, bombing of clinics, harassment of women, all in the name of protecting life.
Dr. Tiller’s alleged criminal acts were the performing of lawful late term abortions. I find it very hard to believe that many women will carry a pregnancy into the third trimester and then frivolously decide to end the pregnancy. I image that decision to be one of the most grievous possible. In my eyes, Dr Tiller is a hero who knowingly risked his life to relieve the suffering of many, many women, and avoid bringing into the world the horribly maimed and injured.
Filed under: Discussion
Thanks to the assassination of George Tiller, I have become a believer in late-term abortion.
“Trust Women.”