Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 10:46:53 -0500 From: Venantius J Pinto <[email protected]>
"Dr. Tiller was a very gentle man to my husband and me. He wasn't the villain that people, me included, had often painted him. He was soft-spoken. He held our hands while we mourned our loss. He even prayed with us." http://www.alternet.org/story/144396/what_happened_when_an_anti-choice_catholic_woman_needed_an_abortion_at_dr._tiller's_clinic?page=2 Mario observes: I'm not sure what the insinuation is here by referring to a Catholic woman faced with a horrific problem of a foetus that was seriously ill in her womb and not expected to survive, as "anti-choice". The "choice" being referred to is the choice of aborting an unwanted human life, mostly for convenience. If you look at the websites of the foremost pro-abortion organizations in the US, the "choice" of adoption, the only win-win option in such cases, is never mentioned. Dr. George Tiller was one of the most vicious legal killers of late term unborn babies in the history of the US, eventually earning the nickname, "Tiller The Baby Killler". He may have been a "very gentle man" as many other killers have also been, but he was making millions while doing just enough to skirt the law requiring a second medical opinion by using a person on his payroll to provide it. Most Obstetrecians, even those who perform early term abortions, would never dream of doing what Tiller did routinely. http://www.dr-tiller.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Tiller Dr. Tiller was eventually assassinated by an anti-abortion fanatic, which was as wrong as all the mostly healthy late-term foetuses that were well on their way to living until they were brutally killed by him. Regarding the woman referred to here, this was not a simple choice to abort a foetus for the sake of personal convenience as most abortions are given the freely available option these days of giving up a baby for adoption through the Sisters of Charity or any number of Catholic and Protestant organizations. This woman's foetus had serious medical complications and was not expected to survive as the following excerpt from the article linked to illustrates: Quote: Gail would be forced to deliver her child through c-section, as the stress of a traditional birth would be too much for their baby's body to handle. Their baby would need to be on life-support machines for months until able to have the surgeries required that could repair the damage of the child's suffocated heart and remove the masses from the undeveloped lung. As painful was it was for the Andersons to hear that this child they wanted so badly might not live even after the surgeries intended to repair damage, they were forced to make a decision that not only challenged their personal strength, but where they fit into their Catholic faith. Unquote:
