The Final Review

Dr. George Tiller, America’s renowned late-term abortion specialist, was murdered in church a few weeks ago. It was a sad end to a sad life. It’s difficult to fathom why a person would spend so many grueling years studying medicine and then dedicate his life to killing the unborn.

No one can prove that there is a God, or a heaven and hell. If the existence of a Supreme Being is a religious myth and the final judgment was concocted by the clergy to control the masses and enrich the church leadership, Dr. Tiller’s life and death were merely biological incidents.

An atheist performing abortions could reasonably see himself or herself as performing a task that corrects accidents. In this context the abortion specialist has more in common with a vehicle repair shop than the practice of medicine.

But Dr. Tiller was a practicing Christian. That’s what is interesting. He believed in God. In light of this, he had to morally justify his occupation. It can be logically assumed that he saw himself as a Good Samaritan; as a man willing to help women in distress despite condemnation by the majority of his peers and the public.

The mainstream media reached this conclusion. It portrayed him as an unselfish man nobly protecting the rights of women guaranteed by the Supreme Court in its 1973 Roe vs. Wade ruling. But that’s not true. The decision didn’t guarantee women the right to an abortion.

Rather, it gave women the right to seek an abortion from a medical practitioner. The ruling gave doctors the choice to perform, or not perform, abortions without legal consequences. The final decision to abort a life was never granted pregnant women.

It was Dr. Tiller, not the women who entered his clinic seeking an abortion, who made the ultimate decision to end a life.

The only choices Tiller’s clients made were to request his services and grant him permission to perform the surgery. They were willing accomplices and share the responsibility, but he alone had the power to facilitate the final solution.

The media branded his murderer as a terrorist. That case can be made, if Dr. Tiller was murdered to discourage other physicians from performing abortions. It’s equally possible that in the murderer’s twisted and deranged mind, he thought the death of Dr. Tiller would save the lives of thousands of unborn children.

The definition of terrorism in the Merriam-Webster dictionary is “the systematic use of terror, especially as a means of coercion.”
Of course, that pretty much defines the day-to-day routine of a doctor specializing in abortion.

Describing the social stigmas, personal hardships and financial sacrifice entailed in child-raising, could easily terrify an expectant, un-wed woman into having an abortion. That’s the systematic use of terror as a means of coercion.

If there is a God and a final reckoning, Dr. Tiller and his murderer will get a final review. So here is a question to ponder.

Would an all merciful and wise God be more willing to forgive a man who deliberately killed hundreds of babies capable of surviving outside their mother’s womb, or a demented man tormented by the slaughter of these innocents?

Lucky for Dr. Tiller, God will make this decision rather than a jury of his peers.