Reclaiming Our Children: A Blog About Healing After Abortion

Ok, I cannot seem to let go. I am very upset today about the show being aired tonight. I know I should not be, it is really nothing new or something that should not be expected, but the thought of the show, “The Assassination of  Dr. Tiller”, being aired tonight at 9pm in place of the Rachel Maddow show, makes me want to cry.

In my work with those who are post abortive I have met a few couples who made the trip to Kansas where Tiller was ready and willing to abort their babies. Baby’s that society deemed unworthy to live. I have heard about the pressures they underwent by the medical community who poured on the guilt for even thinking of bringing the pregnancy to term, and the speedy quest for a decision, not allowing them time to think of what they were really doing, because they were in shock from receiving an adverse prenatal diagnosis. So often they are made to believe being a good parent meant not allowing this child to live. We have a long way to go both as a society and a church, in offering these couples the support they need in this difficult time.

 I have been privileged to stand at the foot of the cross with these couples as they began to look at what had happened and came to the realization of the horror not only of the death of their child but in knowing they participated. It often takes years for them to thaw out from the shock and put together all of the contributing dynamics.

I will never forget the day that one of them said to me “I looked at my daughter after. She was just a baby.”

I consider myself blessed, to have been trusted enough for some of them to share the picture Tiller took of them and their aborted child. In spite of the facts, it is often something they treasure, the only picture they will ever have. It was a common procedure for him to dress up the baby he had just killed and place it in its parents arms for pictures.  It all becomes very personal once you know these wonderful couples, share their excruciating pain, and gaze at their children who you know by name.

 So, tonight, the show will speak of Tillers assassination. God knows it was wrong, all killing is wrong including the innocent life this man took in the so called name of compassion. he is lauded as a hero because so few would do this as if it were an honorable thing to do, kill innocent unborn babies. How is it anyone can  declare him a “hero”? How has his death become more important then the lives of all the babies he has taken in such a horrific way and all the families he has hurt beyond measure?

 I will probably pass on the show tonight. I do not think I will have the stomach to watch knowing the truth of his work which they are sure to proclaim as wonderful. I would prefer to spend the time in prayer, asking for the intercession of the babies for the healing of their parents and for an end to the atrocity of abortion by which thousands are assassinated in our country everyday.

Jesus, I trust in you!