Dr. George Tiller

“Late term abortion” is merely a term meant to obfuscate what exactly is being done. It is the killing of a human being. A late term viable baby has all the attributes of those babies who have just left the womb. Nevertheless these pre-born babies, who are on the doorstep of their independent existence, are killed by some abortionists. Babies who are as human as you and I and a lot more innocent. That is why even the Supreme Court in its ill-advised opinion of Roe v. Wade stated that a baby in the third stage of the pregnancy should not be killed except when the protection of the mother’s health requires it. Therein lies the loophole. The right to have an abortion in the last trimester of a pregnancy is not limited only to the preservation of the mother’s life but is extended to the open ended concept of protecting the mother’s health. For some of these doctors, in order to justify the killing of these viable babies, the mother’s health can mean any malady or perceived malady- no matter how outlandish.
Dr. George Tiller was one of these late term abortionists. He was no hero. He killed thousands of these babies and got rich doing so. He was killed by a mad man who also is not a hero.
Occasionally history has called upon the mentally deranged, doing an insane act, to wake up the rest of society regarding an intolerable situation. Thus it was with John Brown and slavery and so it is here with the killing of Dr. Tiller and the issue of late term abortions. What is disconcerting is that Dr. Tiller was allowed to kill these babies for a long time and we did nothing to stop him. Like most of the Germans after World War II, we cannot now honestly say that we know nothing about the killing that is going on. We know. The question remains. Do we pretend that we don’t know or that it is none of our business or do we listen to our conscience and the crying of these little babies and resolve to do something to end it? That is the dilemma that the German people faced under Hitler and that is the dilemma that we in the U.S. face now.
The fact that these abortions are done under color of law is no justification. Hitler and his cohorts acted under the color of law and so did the slave owners. But no more. The same fate should happen to the present law permitting late term abortions for virtually any reason. Preserving the life of the mother is one thing, killing a baby because the mother has a headache is quite another.
There are people- usually hard core fanatics- who agree that late term abortions are killing viable babies but are nevertheless in favor of killing these children because they want no limitations whatsoever on a woman’s ability to abort her child. They want abortions in this country to be unrestricted- even when the baby is late term and viable.
However, if you agree that these late term babies must be protected, then you must act. Contact your local Right to Life or other pro life organizations. Call your Congressman. Call your Senators. Do something. These babies are still dying and it’s time to stop it. It’s time to save a life.