Further thoughts on the Tiller murder
Jun. 1st, 2009 06:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mamagotchaA woman on a message board I hang out on posted the following:
"The pro-life side is also praying for (Dr. Tiller). Of course, we also pray for those whose lives he tragically affected."
My response:
(Poster's name), what exactly do you think Dr. Tiller did, wander around in a preschool picking off kids with a six-shooter?
Rest assured that if there were ways to prevent ending a pregnancy of a viable and healthy fetus, he pursued them with the parents. The lives he ended were lives that were already doomed, or endangering their mothers, or some other horrific situation that I'm certain beyond a shadow of a doubt that you and I have neither experience with nor any place to second-guess the decision of those involved.
Who are you -- who is anybody -- to say that ending a pregnancy early is more tragic than the alternative? You and your fellow petitioners have got to understand one thing: the lives involved were ALREADY tragically affected. All Dr. Tiller did was help people mitigate that tragedy in some way.
Yes, keep praying. Keep praying for those poor little lost babies, and while you're at it, maybe pray for those mothers who have had to make the choice between the unthinkable and the impossible... and make sure you add a prayer that you never become one of them, because their path has just become a LOT harder to walk.
"The pro-life side is also praying for (Dr. Tiller). Of course, we also pray for those whose lives he tragically affected."
My response:
(Poster's name), what exactly do you think Dr. Tiller did, wander around in a preschool picking off kids with a six-shooter?
Rest assured that if there were ways to prevent ending a pregnancy of a viable and healthy fetus, he pursued them with the parents. The lives he ended were lives that were already doomed, or endangering their mothers, or some other horrific situation that I'm certain beyond a shadow of a doubt that you and I have neither experience with nor any place to second-guess the decision of those involved.
Who are you -- who is anybody -- to say that ending a pregnancy early is more tragic than the alternative? You and your fellow petitioners have got to understand one thing: the lives involved were ALREADY tragically affected. All Dr. Tiller did was help people mitigate that tragedy in some way.
Yes, keep praying. Keep praying for those poor little lost babies, and while you're at it, maybe pray for those mothers who have had to make the choice between the unthinkable and the impossible... and make sure you add a prayer that you never become one of them, because their path has just become a LOT harder to walk.
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