Powerful article and worth the read:
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‘Dr. Satan, come out!’
A Fayetteville doctor, himself a target of abortion protestors, says law officers failed to protect Dr. George Tiller
As the whole world knows, my friend, Dr. George R. Tiller, was murdered on Sunday morning, May 31, 2009, while he was doing his regular Sunday activity, ushering in his Lutheran church in Wichita, Kan.
Like Tiller, I too am an abortion provider. Since I stopped doing later abortions, between 18 and 24 weeks, I have sent most of my patients seeking late second trimester abortion to Dr. Tiller's office. Some were women who faced a major threat to their life or health if they were to continue with what had been a wanted pregnancy. Or their wanted baby was diagnosed with a major anomaly incompatible with survival for more than a few days or years and only then, a life of suffering and incredible pain.
George took them when they were not able to pay for his services. He accepted patients for whom we sometimes had to give money to even make the trip. George's colleagues who knew of his deep religious faith, generosity, kindness and love called him St. George when we spoke among ourselves, though we knew it embarrassed him to hear himself addressed this way.
America's, and the world's, women have lost a champion in Dr. George R. Tiller. And Wichita and Kansas have embarrassed themselves by not protecting one of their brightest, bravest, kindest, and most generous and most faithful sons. And I have lost a friend and colleague.
Arkansas Times
‘Dr. Satan, come out!’
Re: ‘Dr. Satan, come out!’
Dr. Harrison also wrote a letter to the editor that was printed in the NWA Times recently:
First impression doesn't change
In the June 10 edition of the Northwest Arkansas Times, Jay Cole, Jr. has a letter to the editor about the murder of Dr. George Tiller. He criticizes the media for paying great attention to this shooting of Dr. Tiller, and says, "But it doesn't seem to bother them when Christians get shot in church."
Uh, Jay Jr. - Dr. Tiller was a Christian!
Or maybe Lutherans are like, as Jay writes, "the religions of this world (that are) no help on such subjects" - such subjects being who goes to heaven and who goes to hell. As Jay Jr. says, "as usual we can turn to God's word, the Bible, for answers." And after turning to his ever-present Bible, Jay Jr. knows exactly who is going to heaven, and whom to hell. What a comfort that must be!
I first met Jay Jr. when his father, Jay Sr., was one of the organizers of the demonstrations at my office from January 1985 to July 1989. Sometime in the fall of 1985, Jay Jr., who appeared to be a crazy-as-a-loon teenager, asked if he could speak to me. I invited him into my office and gave him about an hour after work. His family had recently arrived in Fayetteville and his father immediately began a series of silly TV ads, ending each one with, "I'm Jay Cole," as if that would make a great impression on the viewer. He, like his son today, began to write letters to the editor, which in those days appeared almost weekly, or perhaps a little more often, in this newspaper.
As I wanted to know more about his father, I asked Jay Jr. where the family had come from and what his father did. Jay Jr. told me that his father, before coming to Fayetteville, had been in "Christian aviation" in South America before bringing his family to Fayetteville, where he was "now in Christian electronics."
I suppose under Jay's criteria, I could say that my friend, Dr. George Tiller, was in Christian abortion. Or maybe Jay Jr. doesn't consider Lutherans to be Christian.
I never discovered exactly what branch of the Christian community Jay Jr. and his father belonged to, though I do know that Jay Sr. had his own church, with services in the hanger he built on his property. This was attended by Jay Jr. and Mrs. Cole, Jay Jr.'s mother, and sometimes a few of the demonstrators from in front of my office.
However, I am pretty sure that Jay Jr. is a true believer. I am more than a little afraid that he might be a true believer of the variety that Osama bin Laden and Scott Roeder are, like the "good Catholic boy" John Salvi and Presbyterian minister Paul Hill, and poor crazies James Kopp and Michael Griffin. This makes me a little nervous. I don't think I will invite Jay Jr. into my office again.
William Harrison, MD
Fayetteville
http://nwarktimes.com/nwat/Editorial/77377
First impression doesn't change
In the June 10 edition of the Northwest Arkansas Times, Jay Cole, Jr. has a letter to the editor about the murder of Dr. George Tiller. He criticizes the media for paying great attention to this shooting of Dr. Tiller, and says, "But it doesn't seem to bother them when Christians get shot in church."
Uh, Jay Jr. - Dr. Tiller was a Christian!
Or maybe Lutherans are like, as Jay writes, "the religions of this world (that are) no help on such subjects" - such subjects being who goes to heaven and who goes to hell. As Jay Jr. says, "as usual we can turn to God's word, the Bible, for answers." And after turning to his ever-present Bible, Jay Jr. knows exactly who is going to heaven, and whom to hell. What a comfort that must be!
I first met Jay Jr. when his father, Jay Sr., was one of the organizers of the demonstrations at my office from January 1985 to July 1989. Sometime in the fall of 1985, Jay Jr., who appeared to be a crazy-as-a-loon teenager, asked if he could speak to me. I invited him into my office and gave him about an hour after work. His family had recently arrived in Fayetteville and his father immediately began a series of silly TV ads, ending each one with, "I'm Jay Cole," as if that would make a great impression on the viewer. He, like his son today, began to write letters to the editor, which in those days appeared almost weekly, or perhaps a little more often, in this newspaper.
As I wanted to know more about his father, I asked Jay Jr. where the family had come from and what his father did. Jay Jr. told me that his father, before coming to Fayetteville, had been in "Christian aviation" in South America before bringing his family to Fayetteville, where he was "now in Christian electronics."
I suppose under Jay's criteria, I could say that my friend, Dr. George Tiller, was in Christian abortion. Or maybe Jay Jr. doesn't consider Lutherans to be Christian.
I never discovered exactly what branch of the Christian community Jay Jr. and his father belonged to, though I do know that Jay Sr. had his own church, with services in the hanger he built on his property. This was attended by Jay Jr. and Mrs. Cole, Jay Jr.'s mother, and sometimes a few of the demonstrators from in front of my office.
However, I am pretty sure that Jay Jr. is a true believer. I am more than a little afraid that he might be a true believer of the variety that Osama bin Laden and Scott Roeder are, like the "good Catholic boy" John Salvi and Presbyterian minister Paul Hill, and poor crazies James Kopp and Michael Griffin. This makes me a little nervous. I don't think I will invite Jay Jr. into my office again.
William Harrison, MD
Fayetteville
http://nwarktimes.com/nwat/Editorial/77377