Tiller

I've been thinking long and hard about how I feel/think about the murder of George Tiller (you know, the abortionist in Kansas who performed 3rd trimester abortions). I've come to the conclusion that while his murder was an awful event and it was completely wrong and entirely unjustified, I can't bring myself to shed too many tears about the guy. Yes, that's probably not the most Christian thing to say, and I'm sure that there's going to be at least one person who will read that and think to themselves, "what a hypocritical, heartless bastard." Oh well.
Let's look at the facts. This guy was an abortionist, for starters. He clearly didn't think that unborn babies were valuable lives, if they could even be considered 'lives' at all (and if he did, he didn't think that they had rights, which in my mind is worse than not thinking someone human at all. Does the three-fifths compromise come to mind? Slavery? Hmm...). He also performed 3rd trimester abortions, which only a scant few people in this country do. It's even illegal in some states. So we're talking about babies that are as close to being born as you can get without waiting until the mother gives birth and then ripping their brains out, or injecting them with saline, or tossing them in a bucket where they can slowly starve to death, or whatever; pick your poison. And this guy did them because, as a commenter on Big Hollywood dryly put it, the mother "can't fit in her prom dress."
And -irony of ironies- Tiller was murdered at his church. Think about that for a minute: a 3rd trimester abortionist was serving at a church. The other churchgoers seemingly didn't have any qualms about such a guy attending their church, much less being one of their ushers. What he was doing in a church is beyond me.
So what's my conclusion? George Tiller was a despicable human being, and his murder was precisely that, but I'm not too torn up about it, for better or worse. It's awful hard to feel sorry for a guy who wantonly killed babies. The only thing that really worries me is what the Obama administration is going to do in the aftermath of this situation. Judging from the recent DHS memo about returning vets, anti-abortion advocates, and anti-illegal immigration activists all being susceptible to committing terrorist acts, this just might be the witch-hunters' ace in the hole. Naturallly, it would be very cynical of them to use this as an excuse to crack down on abortion protesters and organizations nationwide, and you can bet that there would be a giant backlash if the slightest rumors of such surfaced. But anything is possible.