I followed the link, and wish I hadn’t. Or, I’m glad I did. I don’t know. But this is recommended because I hope those who defend and support this reprehensible act will also follow the link.

…that we just throw away imperfection, as though unborned babies are consumer goods?

The next step is start deciding the “imperfect” living. And the elderly who have overstayed their welcome. And then people who hold unapproved political or religious beliefs. This was the way of the Nazis – and is going on in North Korea today.

But I do rejoice that Tess has come to the light and is shining light into the darkeness.

Thank you for posting this.

I have a pretty good idea of what the pictures show, and I really don’t want to see a dead mutilated baby. I can’t imagine that the clinic would think pictures of such a ceremony would be a good thing. But then I can’t imagine that the people at the clinic would think that killing babies is a good thing either.

Thank you for telling another side of the Tiller story.

for your work on life issues.

A few days back I was reading a little bit of the lefty blog reaction to the Tiller news. (Probably some of it was linked to from here).

One of the first things I noticed was their characterization of Tiller as a brave saver of lives. I wonder what the ratios of late term abortions were like in Tiller’s clinic over the years.

“well being” of the mother / inconvenient child
actual life of the mother / inconvenient child
“well being” of the mother / actual life of the mother

I also commend this mother for her repentance. Not much speaks more to someone having trusted God than to allow such a story (with pictures) to be shared.

Thank you and God bless you, Mailloux, for spreading the Gospel of Life! I wholeheartedly recommend your post.

I have sometimes wondered about the logistics of our judgement day, when our fitness to realize our heavenly inheritance is decided. We no doubt are aware that God Almighty is the Author of Divine Justice. Still, if we consider how our Lord stated “Whatsoever you do to the least of my brothers, that you do unto Me,” aren’t we possibly saying that a jury of our peers could most certainly be made up of the millions upon millions of aborted children? After all, aren’t unborn children our peers, in that all of us were once unborn children?

Taking it a step further, what would be the charges rendered against the abortionists themselves? Shouldn’t they be tried as paid assassins? As gruesome as the crime Scott Peterson committed against his wife and unborn child, and it most certainly was gruesome and a crime, how does that compare with what the abortionist does? The fact is, the abortionist gets paid and does not get tried for murder; and, as we see, he gets hailed as a hero in many quarters. This, while killing the picture of innocence who has done nothing the least bit negative to him! Nothing, except stand in the way of his “earning” another fee for his services.

In closing, let me ask one simple question of our friends on the left, who believe that the “pro-choice” politicians are “heros” and “principled” in their own right. Suppose, hypothetically of course, that unborn children had the right to vote. Don’t you think that those politicians who, “for principled reasons,” support a woman’s legal right to abort her baby, would find a way to support such babies’ right to life, for the sole purpose of keeping themselves in office? In other words, what is in their demeanor that makes you think that they care about anything, INCLUDING a woman’s right to have a legal abortion, as much as holding power for themselves?

Think about it.

…it was the first thing that came to mind when I heard about the circumstances of Tiller’s murder, while serving as a deacon at his church.

From Hamlet, Act III, scene 3, the King is in his confessional, attempting to pray forgiveness.

KING
36 O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven;
37 It hath the primal eldest curse upon’t,
38 A brother’s murder. Pray can I not,
39 Though inclination be as sharp as will.
40 My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent;
41 And, like a man to double business bound,
42 I stand in pause where I shall first begin,
43 And both neglect. What if this cursed hand
44 Were thicker than itself with brother’s blood,
45 Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens
46 To wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercy
47 But to confront the visage of offence?
48 And what’s in prayer but this two-fold force,
49 To be forestalled ere we come to fall,
50 Or pardon’d being down? Then I’ll look up;
51 My fault is past. But, O, what form of prayer
52 Can serve my turn? “Forgive me my foul murder”?
53 That cannot be; since I am still possess’d
54 Of those effects for which I did the murder,
55 My crown, mine own ambition and my queen.
56 May one be pardon’d and retain th’ offence?
57 In the corrupted currents of this world
58 Offence’s gilded hand may shove by justice,
59 And oft ’tis seen the wicked prize itself
60 Buys out the law: but ’tis not so above;
61 There is no shuffling, there the action lies
62 In his true nature; and we ourselves compell’d,
63 Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults,
64 To give in evidence. What then? what rests?
65 Try what repentance can: what can it not?
66 Yet what can it when one can not repent?
67 O wretched state! O bosom black as death!
68 O limed soul, that, struggling to be free,
69 Art more engaged! Help, angels! Make assay!
70 Bow, stubborn knees; and, heart with strings of steel,
71 Be soft as sinews of the newborn babe!
72 All may be well.
Summary

[Kneels.]

Enter HAMLET.

HAMLET
73 Now might I do it pat, now he is praying;
74 And now I’ll do’t. And so he goes to heaven;
75 And so am I revenged. That would be scann’d:
76 A villain kills my father; and for that,
77 I, his sole son, do this same villain send
78 To heaven.
79 O, this is hire and salary, not revenge.
80 He took my father grossly, full of bread;
81 With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May;
82 And how his audit stands who knows save heaven?
83 But in our circumstance and course of thought,
84 ‘Tis heavy with him: and am I then revenged,
85 To take him in the purging of his soul,
86 When he is fit and season’d for his passage?
87 No!
88 Up, sword; and know thou a more horrid hent:
89 When he is drunk asleep, or in his rage,
90 Or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed;
91 At gaming, swearing, or about some act
92 That has no relish of salvation in’t;
93 Then trip him, that his heels may kick at heaven,
94 And that his soul may be as damn’d and black
95 As hell, whereto it goes. My mother stays:
96 This physic but prolongs thy sickly days.

Exit.

KING [Rising.]
97 My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:
98 Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

here…

To a comment board for the Concord Monitor here in NH. There is a story running there entitled The Most Humane Thing I Could Do. I posted the link along with Mom’s quote and challenged the posters to read the story then come back and comment. I want them to know who they are turning into a martyr. Let’s see how long the link stays up on the blog.

diaries to RedState. (I was going to offer a short rant on my view of abortion but I’ll withhold it for now til I gather my thoughts a little better. It just goes along the lines of: to those who favor abortion because of a woman’s right to choose, it’s her body, etc. well, when a woman gets pregnant, it’s no longer just her body, just her life. Someone else is there that also has a body, also has a life.) It’s sad enough when a baby is aborted, regardless of trimester, because of a medical concern, even a life-threatening one, yet far too many abortions are done simply as a means of birth control. My heart goes out to Tess’ mother and God bless her for her repentance.

Alas, in the world that we live in, it is our unfortunate but necessary duty to demonstrate how disturbing and truly evil the practice of abortion is, and oftentimes, people won’t recognize a truth merely through rhetoric, but only if it stares them lifelessly in the face. With that in mind, I want to thank you for posting this to Redstate: I’m sure that looking at those images and asking others to do the same wasn’t enjoyable for you–it certainly wasn’t enjoyable for me.

I’m also glad that the parents of the child chose to use these pictures to help educate others, and hope that they can find comfort.

God bless!

for bringing this story to light. I, like others, could not look at the pictures.
It’s strange, but some of my first thoughts were of Oprah’s outrage over
puppy mills & the public outrage of Vick’s illegal dogfighting activities. All that was valid, but yet no uproar over the killing of babies. Oh Lord, what has
our country come to.

be sickened (which I was; my heart is still aching and my stomach is still in a knot) because I knew that actually *seeing* the horror would transfer the intellectual into the visceral and motivate me to redouble my efforts against the horrors of abortion.

It’s why pro-abortionists have apoplectic fits when abortion protestors show pictures of aborted fetuses, or why Barbara Boxhead had a cow when Rick Santorum had the *audacity* to bring a picture of a partial-birth aborted baby to the floor of the Senate. They know that when/if Americans see the horrors of “choice”, they’re slaughterhouses will come to a screeching halt.

And to think that one of Tiller’s eulogizers referred to him as ‘generous’. I think I’m going to go somewhere and vomit.

to the reality of abortion.

Tess’s story must live on in order to expose the truth which will someday bring the end of these barbarous practices.

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Activists Taking Action: Unified Patriots

In college, 24 years ago in a speech class. I was the moderator of my group with 2 people who were pro-life on one side and 5 pro-abortion students on the left. One man spoke out on the facts of life and abortion. I’ll never forget one young woman in the class broke down and stated in tears in front of the whole class, “I used to be pro-choice. Today I am pro-life.” I was beside myself what God given courage could achieve in a hostile world.

Redemption is powerful and I’m sure that Tess’s story has already saved another child somewhere. Thank you for helping spread the truth.

Tess’s mother reminds me of other great conversions in history. Where would Christianity be if St. Paul had not converted from persecuting Christians? Would William Wilberforce have been successful in abolishing England’s slave trade without the mentorship of former slave ship captain John Newton?

John Newton’s case is interestingly similar to George Tiller’s in that he worshipped God while engaging in the slave trade, and gave himself credit for being a “gentle jailer.” In addition to the aggravations Tiller’s murder has caused the pro-life movement, the world will never know what plans God had for him.

A short biographical sketch of John Newton can be found here:
http://www.cbn.com/special/amazingGrace/Articles/Rosa_Lee_Newton.aspx

Also, here is the link to the official site for the movie Amazing Grace (Newton wrote the hymn). It is a good pick me up for any pro-lifer feeling discouraged.
http://www.amazinggracemovie.com/