Randall Terry: Faux Life Leader
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Showing posts with label George Tiller. Show all posts
Showing posts with label George Tiller. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Sunday, May 31, 2009
An Open Letter to the Prolife Movement, from a Prolifer
The fatal shooting today of Dr. George Tiller is just plain horrific and wrong.
Absolutely *no* human being deserves to be shot down in cold blood...let alone in a house of worship, which should be a place of safety, peace, and refuge for *all* God's children who seek it there...no matter what they do for a living and no matter how objectionable we may find their means of livelihood.
*No* human being should usurp that power of life and death over another.
There is *no* justification or extenuating circumstances for this murder of a fellow member of humankind.
May peace and healing come to George Tiller's loved ones.
Today, and every day, each and every individual and group that identifies with the word "prolife" needs to ask, from a stance of complete humility and openness rather than hard headed and hearted defensive arrogance, questions such as this.
--Have I/we ever said or done anything that demonizes anyone who disagrees with me/us on the issue of abortion?
--Am I/are we willing to humbly learn from prochoicers what they deem to be demonizing words and deeds against them--quite independently of the question of which side is "right" or "wrong" about abortion?
--Have I/we ever failed to challenge anyone who agitates for the killing of abortion providers?
--Have I/we taken a strong, outapoken, unapologetic, unceasing stance against the killing of abortion providers, instead of just saying and hiding behind "well, real prolifers don't do that, and we're real prolifers"?
--Have I/we ever said or done anything that even sounds like it gives justification to the homicide of abortion providers, like "well, so few of them have been killed compared to the number of babies they've killed"--as if their relative fewness somehow makes their forcibly cut-short lives and their unjust deaths somehow unimportant?
--Have I/we ever taken positive steps to alleviate the causes and sources of violence against abortion providers?
--Have I/we ever reached out to prochoicers and tried to work cooperatively and humbly with them on preventing further violence against abortion providers?
Coming up with ethically robust answers to these questions is literally a matter of life and death.
Absolutely *no* human being deserves to be shot down in cold blood...let alone in a house of worship, which should be a place of safety, peace, and refuge for *all* God's children who seek it there...no matter what they do for a living and no matter how objectionable we may find their means of livelihood.
*No* human being should usurp that power of life and death over another.
There is *no* justification or extenuating circumstances for this murder of a fellow member of humankind.
May peace and healing come to George Tiller's loved ones.
Today, and every day, each and every individual and group that identifies with the word "prolife" needs to ask, from a stance of complete humility and openness rather than hard headed and hearted defensive arrogance, questions such as this.
--Have I/we ever said or done anything that demonizes anyone who disagrees with me/us on the issue of abortion?
--Am I/are we willing to humbly learn from prochoicers what they deem to be demonizing words and deeds against them--quite independently of the question of which side is "right" or "wrong" about abortion?
--Have I/we ever failed to challenge anyone who agitates for the killing of abortion providers?
--Have I/we taken a strong, outapoken, unapologetic, unceasing stance against the killing of abortion providers, instead of just saying and hiding behind "well, real prolifers don't do that, and we're real prolifers"?
--Have I/we ever said or done anything that even sounds like it gives justification to the homicide of abortion providers, like "well, so few of them have been killed compared to the number of babies they've killed"--as if their relative fewness somehow makes their forcibly cut-short lives and their unjust deaths somehow unimportant?
--Have I/we ever taken positive steps to alleviate the causes and sources of violence against abortion providers?
--Have I/we ever reached out to prochoicers and tried to work cooperatively and humbly with them on preventing further violence against abortion providers?
Coming up with ethically robust answers to these questions is literally a matter of life and death.
Absolutely Horrified
(crossposted at Marysia's RH Reality Check Diary )
I just heard that George Tiller, the Kansas physician known for providing late-term abortions, was shot to death today.
As much I disagree with the work of abortion providers, such news is absolutely horrifying. Another life squandered by gun violence--and in the same of "prolife," of all things!!
Whoever committed this crime-it makes no sense to call yourself "prolife" and then gun down another human being in cold blood. Any more than it would make sense to oppose the war by opening fire on a recruiting center or military base.
My condolences to all who knew Dr. Tiller, and I will continue to pray for the safety of all clinic workers, to work for gun control, to speak up when I hear antiabortionists demonizing and dehumanizing their "enemies," who belong to the same humankind no matter what deep disagrements exist.
I just heard that George Tiller, the Kansas physician known for providing late-term abortions, was shot to death today.
As much I disagree with the work of abortion providers, such news is absolutely horrifying. Another life squandered by gun violence--and in the same of "prolife," of all things!!
Whoever committed this crime-it makes no sense to call yourself "prolife" and then gun down another human being in cold blood. Any more than it would make sense to oppose the war by opening fire on a recruiting center or military base.
My condolences to all who knew Dr. Tiller, and I will continue to pray for the safety of all clinic workers, to work for gun control, to speak up when I hear antiabortionists demonizing and dehumanizing their "enemies," who belong to the same humankind no matter what deep disagrements exist.
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