A lot has been made lately about this latest extreme-late-term, post-natal abortion done by an unlicensed practitioner. We should all feel ashamed that our country has so denied the rights of a poor man to choose that he was forced to place his body in harms way in order to make what must have been an agonizing decision between himself and his god: “It is in deciding between what we consider morally near-equal alternatives that we are forced to make agonizing appraisals. The decision between competing evils or competing goods - these are the judgments that may burn in your mind and live forever in your memory, that fry your soul.” Stopping someone who practices infanticide is good. Taking a life is bad. How does one make this decision? “And it matters not whether one believes [this new expanded definition of abortion] a good or an evil, for every [post-natal abortion] decision is made between self-perceived competing goods or competing evils, not between obvious good and self-evident evil.” Since taking life is about self-perceived goods and evils, not intrinsic right or wrong, he was free to act morally, just constrained legally, according to this quote (by local abortionist Dr. Harrison).
This episode in Kansas involved a man who was unlicensed, but needed to perform an extreme-late-term post-natal abortion on Dr. Tiller, a baby murderer, out in public at great personal risk to himself and to others due to draconian and sexist laws by our very own government. The right to choose termination during the traditional terms of a pregnancy were hard fought and finally won through the democratic process (i.e. nine appointed members of the Supreme Court overturning the 10th amendment in Roe vs. Wade), but so far, this right has only applied to women, and only to the first 9 months of a traditional pregnancy. This is an abomination of justice! Have we not learned how sexist that is? How limiting this is?
Why, even the large tissue mass known as Dr. Tiller pushed the envelope of rights of post-natal abortion! He would actually induce birth, take the child – er, fetus, while its big toe was still inside the mother, he would scissor open its neck, severing the spinal cord, then vacuum out its perfectly functional brain, collapsing its head.
So, in a brave act of selflessness, he gave his own life for the expansion of this right of choice to be applied to even later post-natal terms. Unfortunately, since there was no safe and legal place for a licensed practitioner to perform this right, our laws forced it to happen in back-alley, unsanitary conditions.
Some complain that a living human is lost in this process, and that is indeed regrettable. However, we should all seek the common ground, working together to reduce the number of post natal abortions, but fighting to protect the basic human right to choose safe and legal havens where both men and women can choose to terminate abortion doctors safely. Progress demands it.



























