Pro-Life vs. Anti-Abortion vs. Pro-Death

Kansas Abortion Provider Killed At Church
Morning Edition (NPR), June 1, 2009 · Dr. George Tiller was one of the nation's few providers of late-term abortions. He was shot and killed in the foyer of his church Sunday, where he was serving as an usher.

I have many problems with the way this news story is being reported.

First, the title, I cannot find one title that says he was murdered. He was murdered. Murder is illegal, killing is not. Why is it "killed", "slain", "gunned down"? The Pro-Death movement in America has always been careful that they call the unborn, a fetus or viable organism. It is a battle of vocabulary. Why isn't it called feticide? "Fetus" is Latin for offspring...I digress. Dr Tiller was murdered, murder is wrong no matter what the victim does for a living. And killing the unborn is wrong because they have no recourse and are the most innocent human beings on earth.

Second, they all harp on the idea that he was murdered in his home church. Since when did NPR care about churchgoers? (Other than His Presidency...oh wait the very wrong Rev. Wright, never mind) It seems that progressives are now concerned with the religious, as long as they are Pro-Death.

Lastly, progressives see a hypocrisy in anti-abortion activist killing an abortion doctor. "Aren't they pro-life?" No. There is a difference. There is no hypocrisy. An anti-abortionist wants to stop abortions, regardless of life. This group is very specific, abortion. So murdering an abortion doctor is not against what an anti-abortionist believes should happen, less opportunities for abortions. Pro-Life activists do not condone abortion, murder, capital punishment or assisted suicide. Operation Rescue has publicly denounced the murder.

Abortion is the immoral, killing of an individual or individuals (the smallest minority in America). They are a separate human being, not a part of the mother that can be thrown away, he/she is a unique human organism with unique DNA. There are only two natural outcomes, a baby or miscarriage/still birth.

BUT, the biggest problem I have with what happened is the fact that Dr. Tiller was at church, let alone an usher. It must have been like Nazi Germany. The Church teaches life and that it mourns the loss of life caused by abortions. So when a prominent abortion doctor is part of your congregation, it seems that is like what the Christians in Germany did when their government and fellow Germans "took care of the Jews" and they did nothing. The blindness is blinding.

"Because we believe that God is the creator of life, the number of induced abortions is a source of deep concern to this church. We mourn the loss of life that God has created.[A] The strong Christian presumption is to preserve and protect life. Abortion ought to be an option only of last resort. Therefore, as a church we seek to reduce the need to turn to abortion as the answer to unintended pregnancies.[B]" - Evangelical Lutheran Church of America website

If the Evangelical Lutheran Church, Dr. Tiller's church is a member, believes in the reduction of abortions why is an abortion doctor a member? Is he reducing abortions? No, that would mean he doesn't work, and he's not a newbie at this. Was he a hypocrite? Or a very, very torn man.