Life

As I've stated before, this is not a political blog. I write things down so that those who love my boys can catch a glimpse of their lives, whether to laugh or cry. Besides, I don't really think anyone else wants to really read my views--one of thousands out there. What makes my thinking on those subjects unique?

But this is a topic that moves me, because it does, in a way, relate to them.

The murder of George Tiller, the famous late term abortion provider in Wichita, has been a hot news item in the national and local news (the suspect was apprehended here in KC). Violence against abortion clinics and abortion doctors always angers me--is there anything less pro-life than murder, even if it is someone you disagree with? The egregiousness reaches sky-high levels when you read that he was shot at church, with his wife and friends present. This cannot be tolerated; the man who did this should be brought to full justice.

Last night we were watching TV as this case was discussed, and the commentator mentioned that Dr. Tiller had terminated 60,000 fetuses in his career. Pro-choice or pro-life, this number is enough to take the breath away. Even more, Dr. Tiller was one of only 3 late-term abortion providers in the country. In my understanding, abortion after viability is rarely considered "medically necessary" by those who are pro-choice.

Now, how does that relate to my boys? I will speak kindly, but truthfully, from my heart, because I know that there are those I love who disagree on this political football. Sixty thousand...such information makes me want to retch and curl up in a ball and cry. Now the issue is not a theoretical or abstract moral issue for me, because I carried three lives inside. If I was ever unconvinced by the argument that life begins at conception and is not mine to take, I personally can be so no longer having felt life (13 weeks each time) move inside me.

What hurts even more is that some (most likely, good sized) percentage of this babies were terminated at or beyond the gestational age of others kept alive in isolettes around the country.

This is why, more than ever, I support life. And I see, every day, the lives of the ones God has given me, children full of wonder, creativity, laughter, flaws---utterly and fully human. Lives that are gifts. I can only weep for the children of those others. I pray for those families who lost those little lives at the same time I pray for the family of Dr. Tiller. It is all I can do.