Murder of a Doctor

Another doctor who provided women with reproductive health care, to include abortions, has been killed.

Instead of shooting this one in his own kitchen, they shot him while he was at church. 

Dr. George Tiller, one of three late-term abortion providers - a doctor who did not let being shot once before deter him from providing women with quality health care - is gone.

Those who know me, know that I am pro-choice.  I believe that women should make the choices about what happens in their bodies, in their reproductive lives.

I am pro-choice, because as a friend says, pregnancy is for volunteers.  It is a life-changing, body-changing process - the nine months of pregnancy, the labor and delivery, and the rest of your life.  It can, in fact, kill you.  A friend and former colleague recently experienced this - after the main artery in her uterus ruptured during her premature labor, she required an emergency hysterectomy and quite a lot of blood. 

She almost died in March. 

She chose to become pregnant, and it almost killed her.  She is not the only one.

A woman who is having a late-term abortion is likely doing so because something has gone wrong in a wanted pregnancy.  It is probably the most painful decision she has ever made.

And there are those who would take women's right to make that decision because they feel we can't be trusted, or we're too emotional.

I have already donated to Planned Parenthood, and plan to donate to another organization that supports this fight.  In Dr. Tiller's death, let there be some benefit to the cause that he believed in enough to risk his life.

Some links from friends with more eloquence than I:

pecunium on Context
archangelbeth  on Pregnancy By Volunteers Only
pecunium on Domestic Terrorism

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