So another physician has been murdered for making it possible for women to actually use their constitutional right to choose an abortion.
All honor to Dr. Tiller, who joins the list of martyrs for ethical decency and human rights, killed for healing with compassion. – In his case, a religious martyr in the fullest classical sense, killed in his own church as he arrived to worship, killed for acting in accord with his religious commitments and his moral and ethical choices.
And all dishonor to those vicious attackers like Bill O'Reilly who have egged on the kind of violence that finally murdered Dr. Tiller. And who have blasphemously invoked the name of God to justify these incitements to murder.
There are two real-life cases of abortion that have shaped my own judgment on the practice, in addition to the Torah's only comment on abortion – which makes utterly clear that it it is not murder.
