From the press release for a proposed prolife center, which would be built from privately raised funds (unlike taxpayer funded abortion mills):
Wichita, Kansas will become the home of the National Pro Life Memorial and International Life Center. A large tract of land has been secured at 37th. St. North and North Meridian in Wichita, Kansas to construct the center. An international fund raising effort has been launched. The facility will be operated as a tax exempt 501C3 entity.
Among other things, the Memorial will consist of the National Pro Life Monument entitled "Not Forgotten." An exact replica of the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, and memorial gardens are included as a place of healing for women and families. Additionally, sixty crosses will be strategically placed on the grounds to memorialize the sixty million babies aborted since Roe v. Wade.
The International Life Center facility will include among its activities a 24 hour a day International Pro Life prayer center. An international crisis pregnant hotline and clearinghouse will offer counseling and referral services for women to pro life services in their local communities. Family counseling and job counseling services will also be available.
The International Pro Life Institute will be housed at the center. The International Pro Life Institute's focus will be preserving, promoting and protecting the unborn and families against the international Holocaust being promoted by governments and individuals (including the United States) against the unborn.
The shrieking harpies at Unreality are moaning about how this effort will take food out of the mouths of hungry kids (like they give a shit about hungry kids, ever, except to destroy them before birth) and how this proposed center will taint the memory of their beloved Tiller the Killer. If they're so concerned about memorializing him, why not raise funds to build a Tiller center, complete with crematorium and toilets to squat on and push those dead babies into-maybe a LaQuinta on site for visitors to stay in, so they can experience some of Tiller's famed quality care? (laminaria optional). Doesn't that sound like a vacation destination for the whole family?
I've seen plenty of Tiller-memorial blog posts these past few weeks. And what do the real victims of abortion get - one one-millionth of a cross each? Isn't it possible to regret violence and mourn those it touches on both sides? I have no desire to taint the memory of a murdered man, who was by so many accounts genuinely passionate about the well-being of his patients, even if that passion drove him to do terrible things. But that number, sixty million, that's not something you can shrug aside. It represents not only sixty million people we never got to know, but sixty million people wrestling with conscience and often living with a lifetime of regret. To sweep it all under the rug is to deny the reality of those precious, broken women who might find this center a place of healing.
ReplyDeleteUpon further reflection, I think perhaps my last comment was rather too conciliatory, so I'll clarify: I do not consider Dr. Tiller to have been either an innocent victim or a great hero. I refuse to rejoice in his death, but the work he did was truly contemptible even if he did manage to convince himself it was necessary. He of all people was in a position to know better than most exactly what it was he was doing. His actions are no secret; his motives can be weighed only by the God he claimed to worship, a God who is both just and merciful, who knit him together in his mother's womb and loved him as perfectly as he loved any of those 60 million innocents. I weep not only for the dead, but for what we who live have allowed ourselves to become.
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