I’ve had a few ugly comments thrown my way, both here and on another blog where I left comments (see here). Most of the pro-choice blogs and commentors are using this incident to bash pro-lifers and lump them all into the same “right-wing, militant, religious, wacko” basket. Obviously, as it’s turning out, the shooter acted alone. The important thing that these pro-abortion folks are glossing over is the fact that all of the major pro-life organizations have come out with nothing but condemnation for the shooter and sympathy for the abortionist’s family and church. This entire incident is a tragedy all around. The doctor was prevented from repenting his lifestyle of death (as some of the folks who used to work for him did) and becoming a voice for life instead. Thousands of babies were killed by the man. And the cowardly act of the shooter is not doing anything positive for the pro-life movement. We don’t need violence to win the hearts of our country. We’ve got logic and morality on our side.
I like Annie’s post at Generations for Life.
But the truth is that the kind of peaceful prayer witness, compassionate sidewalk counseling and lawful protest that the Pro-Life Action League and Generations for Life promote has NOTHING to do with violence.
The sort of person who will go out to humbly pray at an abortion clinic week after week or reach out to abortion-bound mothers with hope and love has nothing in common with someone who would turn to
violence.
Let’s pray that God will be able to use this terrible act to open the eyes of America to the truth of what abortion is doing to our collective soul.
No babies were killed by Tiller. That would have been against the law. I wish we could have an intelligent, reasonable discussion about abortion, but you refuse to. Therefore, if there’s any “killing” going on, it’s because folks like you don’t want to be a part of the solution.
p of v,
Hmmm…interesting logic you use. He couldn’t have killed any babies because that’s illegal. So if something is illegal, it is therefore impossible to do? Using that logic, you could say that Tiller wasn’t killed by the shooter because that would have been illegal.
As far as I can remember, this is the first time you’ve left a comment, so how can you say I refuse to have an intelligent conversation with you? So here’s my first attempt…what do you call the living beings that Tiller killed? At what point do you finally call them babies?
From http://abort73.com/index.php?/abortion/medical_testimony...
“David Noonin, in his book, A Defense of Abortion, makes this startling admission:
“In the top drawer of my desk, I keep [a picture of my son]. This picture was taken on September 7, 1993, 24 weeks before he was born. The sonogram image is murky, but it reveals clear enough a small head tilted back slightly, and an arm raised up and bent, with the hand pointing back toward the face and the thumb extended out toward the mouth. There is no doubt in my mind that this picture, too, shows [my son] at a very early stage in his physical development. And there is no question that the position I defend in this book entails that it would have been morally permissible to end his life at this point.” (p. xiv)”
See that? An abortion proponent uses the phrase “end his life” when talking about his son at 24 weeks in the womb. I would recommend reading more at that abort73.com link. They point out how many modern medical teaching texts show that life begins much earlier than you sound like you’re willing to admit. These are textbooks–not just an opinion piece on a right-wing website.
I eagerly await your reply. Maybe we can have a respectful conversation.
Thanks,
Mike
p of v,
I don’t understand you when you say that “No babies were killed by Tiller.” If that is true, then why did he hold memorial services for his patients?
Pastor Adam Briggs
Damascus Road Bible Fellowship
Indianapolis, IN
He was tried and acquitted in a court of law. According to our laws, he did nothing illegal. Why is this so hard for you to understand?
Just because something is legal doesn’t mean that it is right. Slavery was legal in the U.S., but is obviously was wrong.