At the outset of this article I want to say clearly that I abhor the medical procedure that is called “abortion”.  I abhor it because it is the taking of a human life.  Life is precious and is in the hands of our Creator God to determine when it begins and when it ends.  I abhor abortion so much that after I was married, Gail and I went to her Gynecologist and expressed our concern about the birth control pill she had prescribed.  We spoke to her and told her our convictions and she changed Gail’s prescription to a drug that was not an abortafacia.

During this time of the year we are reminded of the Supreme Court decision of Roe v. Wade.  This decision legalized abortion in America and the debate has been zealously argued every since.  I stand firmly that we should not take the life of an unborn child in the womb of his/her mother.  That is a human being in that womb it is not a potential human being.  Abortions in the first trimester vary in techniques.  One common technique is the Suction Aspiration.  In this technique we are told:  “Great care must be taken to prevent the uterus from being punctured during this procedure, which may cause hemorrhage and necessitate further surgery. Also, infection can easily develop if any fetal or placental tissue is left behind in the uterus. This is the most frequent post-abortion complication.” This is one of four various techniques used in the first trimester.  You can read about the others here. This violence to the unborn we have legalized in the first trimester must stop.

In the second and third trimester chemical and surgical procedures are used in combination to extract the baby from his/her mother.  These procedures vary. During the chemical procedure technique the physician would inject a harsh saline solution or/and other chemicals into the amniotic sac thus causing death to the infant and promoting premature birth before the baby has the chance to live.  The surgical procedures range from Partial Birth Abortions (which are exactly what they sound like; see here for a graphic detail) to a Hysteronomy (which is basically a Caesarean Section used after the chemical abortion has failed).  The violence to the unborn we have legalized in the second and third trimester must Stop.

In Kansas there is a case in which a judge has ruled Scott Roeder, the man accused of murdering Dr. George Tiller, will be able to argue his case was an act of voluntary manslaughter.  Voluntary manslaughter is defined in Kansas as one having “an unreasonable but honest belief that circumstances existed that justified deadly force.”  Roeder, believed that his actions were required in order to put an end to partial birth abortions performed by the Kansas physician he is accused of killing.  My heart breaks for Mr. Roeder if he truly believes his deadly force was justified.  I would like to take our readers to the events that led to this trial.  According to the Associated Press;

The facts of the case are not in dispute: On a balmy Sunday morning, Roeder got up from a pew at Wichita’s Reformation Lutheran Church at the start of services and walked to the foyer, where Tiller and a fellow usher were chatting. Wordlessly, he pressed the barrel of a .22-caliber handgun to Tiller’s forehead and pulled the trigger.

If these are the facts of the case no one has a right to place the barrel of any gun to the head of any living human being, pulling the trigger to end his/her life, especially in church.  It seems that if Mr. Roeder truly believed his actions would prevent further abortions from being performed,after he used deadly force, he would have remained at the church until the police arrived.  Instead he took of running and allegedly pointed his weapon at those chasing him trying to subdue him.  If preachers are silent on the facts of a murder in the vestibule of a church, then we are hypocrites.  We cannot publicly condemn abortion procedures, especially the partial birth procedures, and remain silent when one takes the laws into their own hands to become judge, jury, and executioner.  This is just as much abortion violence as partial birth abortion and it too must Stop.