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Either abortion is murder, or it’s not

Posted at June 2, 2009

If you truly believe abortion is murder, why is it wrong to kill the doctors who perform them?

I can promise you, if I was walking the streets of 1940s Nazi Germany, and happened to bump into Josef Mengele, I would not think twice about killing him. I would not be able to walk away with the justification that he was killing within the “laws of the land.” I would be morally obligated to stop him at that very moment. 

Hell, if I knew there was a guy in my neighborhood killing one two-year-old child a year, and my government refused to stop him, I would feel morally obligated to stop him by any means necessary. How could I justify simply waiting to change the law someday?

Watch the below video of Randall Terry (president of Operation Rescue):

Here are some of the phrases Mr. Terry chose to use in discussing Dr. George Tiller’s murder:

  • Mass Murderer (several times)
  • Blood all over his hands
  • Everyone deserves a trial, a jury of his peers, and a proper execution
  • Dead babies
  • Evil people
  • Nazi war criminals
  • Truth from Heaven’s vantage point
  • Reaped what he sowed
  • Biblically child killing is a demonic act of murder
  • Demonize what is demonic
  • We are peaceful

I know Randall Terry is an extremist, and the vast majority of pro-lifers don’t agree with his tactics. I also know the vast majority of Operation Resue’s protesting techniques are those of “passive resistance”. But, if abortion is murder, why the hell should anyone be peaceful?

Let me answer my own question.

Many smart and caring people believe life begins at conception. However, almost none of them truly believe this life is equal to the aforementioned two-year-old. If they did, there would be more killing of doctors and bombing of abortion clinics.

It is also true that the vast majority of pro-choicers don’t look at abortion as an easy form of birth control. And even fewer agree in late-term abortion on demand.

The abortion debate will never end. The only thing we can do is find common ground and control the words we use. Words have definitions, and these definitions are powerful. Let’s choose them wisely, and judge people by their words and actions, and not by simply by their intentions.

Brother Richard

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  • Jacob Patel says:
    May 25, 2010 at 1:51 PM

    I am always against abortion because it is a sin to kill an innocent child.`*”

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  • Brooklyn Evans says:
    July 10, 2010 at 10:37 AM

    abortion should really be banned forever and those who do it should be jailed”".

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  • Jayden Scott says:
    August 22, 2010 at 1:49 PM

    we should ban all forms of abortion because it is not right to kill an unborn child,,-

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I am a writer and public speaker living in Atlanta Georgia (the buckle of the Bible Belt).

Formerly, I was a fundamentalist minister, but now I spend my days building nontheist community, and encouraging others to "come out" of the atheist closet.

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