"Dr." George Tiller: The "Martyr"

The news is buzzing about the death of one of the last practitioners of late term abortions. George Tiller was shot dead in church today as he was ushering...his wife was in the choir.

The news outlets have some interesting takes on this incident, such as this one from Yahoo!

Police did not release a motive for the shooting. But the doctor's violent death was the latest in a string of shootings and bombings over two decades directed against abortion clinics, doctors and staff.

A nice, objective summary, eh? This is the "latest" in a string of blood-thirsty deaths perpetrated by those crazy anti-abortionists...and just when was the last shooting? Well, let's look several paragraphs later in the Yahoo article:

The last killing of an abortion doctor was in October 1998 when Dr. Barnett Slepian was fatally shot in his home in a suburb of Buffalo, N.Y. A militant abortion opponent was convicted of the murder.

So it's been nearly 11 years? I wonder how many children have died at the hands of Tiller in those 11 years?

Sadly, the wife of the peddlar of death said:

"This is particularly heart-wrenching because George was shot down in his house of worship, a place of peace."

Of course, the womb has been considered a place of peace for Christians throughout history. Every work day, Tiller invaded the quiet place where children are being knit together...fearfully and wonderfully...and ripped infants to shreds.

George Tiller was a member of Reformation Lutheran Church in Wichita, KS. Not surprisingly, it is an ELCA congregation. I decided to send a message to the senior pastor. I will reproduce it below:

I pray your church will no longer harbor those that kill children. I do not approve of vigillante justice, but neither do I approve of churches that allow unrepentant murderers full membership and the freedom to serve.

While George Tiller's murderer will have to face justice and lose many night's worth of sleep...there are many infants that will be able to rest better, tucked safely in their mother's womb as God intended.