Get Ready for the Backlash
June 1, 2009 by Standing on Truth
Filed under Culture
Sunday afternoon, George Tiller, the well-known late-term abortion doctor, was gunned down in Wichita, Kansas. As a pro-life advocate who has, from a very early age, stood up for the rights of the unborn in the public arena, I would like to personally condemn this act of murder. The truth in the Word of God is this: “Do not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: ‘It is mine to avenge, I will repay,’” says the Lord (Romans 12:19).
You will read and hear many “pro-choice” talking points in the next day or two. You will watch as the left-leaning media paints all pro-life advocates with a very broad brush–a brush that is now defined by this one man (Scott Roeder) who took the law into his own hands and committed an act of violence that 99.99% of pro-life proponents will also condemn. You will hear statistics such as how there have been 17 attempted murders on abortion providers since 1977 and 7 murders in that same time. Although those 7 lives that were lost were precious to God, let me draw attention to the number of babies murdered in roughly that same amount of time: 49, 915,603. So as you listen to bloggers (I’ve already read some), media reports (read those too), and talking heads on the news, keep this in perspective. Yes, we adamantly distance ourselves from taking the life of any abortion provider, no matter how heinous his practices, but we also cannot shy away from the good fight of protecting those innocent babies from their own untimely death. Let’s resolve to continue the work, but in a respectable, legal, and non-violent way.
