Tragedy Has No Common Ground
We need to find some common ground in the murder of Dr. George Tiller.
One guy thought it would be better if the doctor was dead and some others thought it would be better if he stayed alive. Where can we meet in the middle on this one?
Allow me to be the first to say that the above statement is ridiculous, absurd and insulting to anyone who holds life dear. But it is actually the exact same premise upon which the president is calling for abortion foes and supporters to find common ground in the killing of the unborn.
Dr. Tiller was one of the few doctors in the country that held unwavering support for the hideous, heinous procedure innocuously referred to as a late term abortion. He ran one of only three clinics in the entire country that performs this ghastly practice. In this procedure a baby that is almost full term is delivered feet first so only the head remains in the birth canal at which point a shaft is inserted into the baby’s skull and the brain is scrambled like an egg. Even after the doctors death I have no problem saying what he did in these atrocious “medical procedures” was unthinkably savage and wrong in every possible sense. But regardless of his actions, no one had the right to shoot him dead. His life, as misguided as his beliefs were, was also sacred.
I don’t believe, as the media is reporting, that the tragic death of Dr. Tiller at the hands of a militant abortion opponent will truly set back discussions to find this elusive common ground as there truly is no common ground to be found outside of political rhetoric theory. To be sure this murder will be used by those who will exploit Dr. Tiller’s death to try to make him some sort of martyr to further their cause. Folks like Cristina Page, a New York City author and abortion rights advocate who said this will be a “massive setback” in the search for common ground. Ms. Page went on to say “It’s sort of like having a family member murdered and then being asked to make nice with the assassin’s family. It’s unnatural.”
I am hopeful that anyone with the IQ above that of a houseplant will see the complete idiocy in that statement.
The terribly confused logic that allowed the killer of Dr. Tiller to carry out this assassination is not shared by those of us that believe life is a gift. I mourn Dr. Tiller’s death in the same way that I grieve for every baby he subjected to his gruesome procedure. I mourn the loss of their life and the loss of their potential. Even Dr. Tiller had the possibility at some point to have an epiphany that would have brought him clarity as to the repugnance of this abhorrent form of infanticide.
But when all is said and done, another doctor will take Dr. Tiller’s place and the national tragedy of the killing of the unborn will continue. Early term babies will continue to be treated like tumors and late term babies will have their lives snuffed out by doctors who have rewritten or disregarded their Hippocratic Oath.
The struggle will continue because there is no common ground to reach between life and death. It is bigger than the politics that are driving the president’s feigned centrist mantra.
Melody Barnes, head of Obama’s Domestic Policy Council and a former board member of Emily’s List, a group which supports women candidates who favor legal abortion, stated at a recent meeting with abortion foes that it was absolutely not the Obama administration’s goal to reduce the number of abortions.
In his recent speech at Notre Dame, Obama candidly admitted that his words are carefully crafted to obfuscate his real intent. Such was the case he cited on his campaign website and such is the case with his purely political rhetoric of striving for indefinable common ground.
The murder of Dr. Tiller is a tragedy. But we have had in excess of 50,000,000 babies murdered in this country since the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. The loss of each and every one of their lives is equally tragic.
