One mentally ill man, a man with a gun, has done what opponents and the law couldn’t do. He caused the closing of George Tiller‘s controversial clinic where abortions were performed, leaving Tiller’s supporters saddened, hurt and wondering who will now serve women who desire the abortion choice or solution.
Scott Roeder showed up at Tiller’s church one Sunday and gunned the doctor down. Roeder will surely be imprisoned, if not, one day executed for his crime against all humanity, which murder is if fully fleshed out.
Tiller’s life was taken from him and he from his wife, children and grandchildren. That kind of loss can never be compensated.
What also changes, at least temporarily in Wichita and Kansas, is, regardless of your political or moral conviction, the cessation of late-term abortions or at least legal ones.
For supporters of life, this is a positive result out of something so heinous, the taking of a man’s life.
For supporters of abortion as a legal right, this is the realization of a worst nightmare, a fight to be accelerated in the media and courtrooms.
The story of late-term abortions didn’t die with Tiller. He now becomes a martyr. The story is just beginning.
How it ends no one knows but the anger and disgust between the two sides will be as passionate as ever.
