Posted by
Billy on Monday, June 01, 2009 2:28:56 PM
(Below are some thoughts from pro life leaders on the muder in church of Kansas abortionist George Tiller:)
Press release from Vital Signs Ministries regarding the murder of Kansas abortionist George Tiller:
Denny Hartford, long time pro-life activist, the Director of Vital Signs Ministries and a co-founder of a local pregnancy care center, decried the disturbing news that Kansas abortionist George Tiller had been murdered Sunday morning. Hartford has himself participated in peaceful protests of Tiller's abortion business in Wichita.
"Having been involved with the pro-life community across the United States for three decades, I can testify that those who truly care about saving preborn babies from abortion also care about serving their parents and extended families, " Hartford said. "But as dedicated as we are about these goals, we are equally devoted to insuring that our activities (even those involving the protest of abortion) are peaceful, prayerful and compassionate."
"Such viciousness as that directed at George Tiller on Sunday is outrageous, unjust and deplorable. Genuine pro-life advocates seek, through prayer and education, to convert abortionists -- not to physically harm them. To act otherwise would be to severely damage our cause. (More can be found on the Vital Signs blog
Statement on the Murder of George Tiller.)
Judy Smith of
Concerned Women for America-Kansas had this reaction this afternoon.
"...[A]s a person who has spent a lot of time defending the sanctity of life, I really felt sorrow that his life did not have that same sanctity," states Smith. "We're not talking about just certain lives, we're talking about everyone's life -- and it's never right to do something wrong."
(
Abortion, murder both wrong, say pro-lifers )
Smith says the pro-life movement will continue to work diligently to protect the unborn through legal and peaceful means, not with deadly weapons. No one who is truly pro-life, she says, will take another person's life.
"I will continue to rely on the fact that there is only one judge in this world, and we will all stand before him someday," Smith shares.
Randy Thomasson, president of
SaveAmerica.com, also condemns Tiller's murder.
"Although Tiller killed thousands of unborn babies through late-term and partial-birth abortions, murder is murder and wrong is wrong,"
(Pray we will soon see the end of abortion in America and pray for Dr. George Tiller's family
because I am sure to them he was a father, husband, etc. Pray also for the people including the children who might have saw him murdered in church. Pray too this will not hurt the pro life or Christian message.)