Killing is legal in Kansas

“We specialize in ‘late’ abortion care.  We are able to perform elective abortions to the time in the pregnancy when the fetus is viable.  We manage the pregnancy by the premature birth of a stillborn.  We have more experience than anyone else currently practicing in the Western Hemisphere, Europe and Australia.” 

In layman’s language this says, “We will end your pregnancy so late in the pregnancy that you could have had a live, healthy baby.  We get rid of the baby by first killing him or her while still inside you, and then give you drugs so you deliver a dead baby.  We have killed more babies this way than anyone else in the Western Hemisphere, Europe and Australia.”

Dr. George Tiller’s Internet site continues, “Kansas law allows for post-viability abortion procedures when continuing the pregnancy is detrimental to the pregnant woman’s health (including mental health).”  Translated, “Kansas law allows us to kill perfectly healthy babies as long as two physicians agree on a plausible reason so the woman can have what she is paying for.”

And how do they kill the baby? “An injection of a medication is made into the fetus to assure that it will be stillborn and will not experience any discomfort during the procedure.”  Translated, “We use drugs to kill the baby before he or she is born so we do not have to hear any cries or whimpers after delivery that might suggest this is a human being.”

Dr. Tiller even has a full-time chaplain available to bless or baptize the dead babies as they are born.  I have no words to describe my confusion and bewilderment.  How is a man of faith able to justify participating in this?      

Dr. Tiller’s accomplishments and record breaking work have earned him two awards.  He received the Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights’ Faith and Freedom Award and the National Abortion Federation’s highest honor, the Christopher Tietze Humanitarian Award.  His parents, his wife and his family must be very proud; 60,000 abortions in only 25 years.

How did our society or how does any society get to a point like this?  Well, it happens one tiny step at a time.  A group demands their rights, requiring only a “minor” change in the country’s values.  People who openly disagree with them face criticism with accusations of lack of caring, lack of compassion, intolerance, discrimination, and the like.  After a long war with many battles, the opposition loses.  The group finally gets the change they wanted. 

The line separating right and wrong is erased and re-drawn not too far away; just a small change needed for fairness and tolerance. 

But then there is another issue, another group and more supporters.  And again, the line is erased and re-drawn, again just a small change needed for fairness and tolerance.

Eventually, society ends up with a set of values they never imagined, never envisioned.  They look at their new values, confused and surprised, not sure how it happened.  The line between right and wrong is blurred from so many changes. 

How did our country, the best in the history of the world, end up where we are today with a Dr. George Tiller in Kansas?  How did we end up so far down the path of Sir John Glubb’s “Age of Decadence” that we are killing babies, babies we would all agree are human beings?   

Will Glubb’s predictions, detailed in the “Fate of Empires” come true for the United States of America?  Will our empire come to an end with no values, accommodating every group’s personal definition of right and wrong?  Will we exit with no resemblance to the greatness our Founding Fathers gifted us?

Will our values degrade to the point that morality is nothing more than an abstract concept, discussed in history and philosophy classes? 

We face difficult choices.

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