Hypocrisy in the Abortion Debate

How many of us saw this headline covered on the news?  “Report: Anti-Abortion [Pro-Life] Activist Gunned Down Outside Michigan High School” (source).  How many blogs have we seen written about it?  How many networks have brought us this “breaking news”?  How many politicians have come out condemning this vicious and malicious murder?

But how many of us saw this one:  “George Tiller Killed: Abortion Doctor Shot at Church” (source)  How many saw so much coverage of this particular murder that we knew that those who didn’t see it had to be living under a rock?  How many of us saw blogs that were nothing short of hero-worship of Dr. Tiller and slanderous of pro-lifers?  Do you have any doubt in your mind that this event (yes, although tragic) was being used by the pro-abortion propagandists?

Need I go on?  There is a blatant hypocrisy out there in the media, whether it be on network television, cable television, or print journalism.  Abortion is too serious of a subject to be used for political propaganda and most pro-life activists are too civil and too passionate and heartfelt about the sanctity of human life to be treated with such disdain and to be the victims of so much hypocrisy.

Let’s not be shy to make our voices heard in the media and to our representatives and senators.  Yes, we are misrepresented and de-emphasized many days, and that may be the way it goes for a long time to come, but let’s not cower or run for cover.  Let’s keep standing up for truth, for those innocent babies, and for many of those women who are being used, deceived, and talked into something that will most likely haunt them for decades to come.

Get Ready for the Backlash

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.