I keep thinking about George Tiller. He's the reknown late-term abortion doctor in Wichita who was shot yesterday morning while ushering in parishioners at his church.

On one hand, perhaps mercifully today - and maybe only today - a few tiny lives will be given another day to live. Those appointments that were on his calendar today. Maybe this day of grace the moms of those little ones will hear something, hear someone or Someone who calls them to make a better choice. Maybe today, the opportunity can slip in to reveal just how valuable they are and the little one scheduled for death today.

From what I've read, Tiller's purpose in life seems to be to help women facing motherhood in the upcoming weeks or few months bypass that responsibility. From his own statistics to the state of Kansas, many, if not a majority, of small babies he has poisoned (his preferred method of abortion) and slaughtered, were viable (they could live outside the womb) and were removed from the wombs of their mothers for their "mothers health". Her mental health, that is, not because her life was in danger because of the pregnancy - elective abortion.

Among his accomplishments, according to his own admission, are over 2700 abortion done between the 1994 and 1997 with the AVERAGE gestational age of the baby at 27 weeks. On average, of the approximately 600 post-15 week gestational age babies he snuffs out each year, about 150 or so are named as fetal abnormalities. One of his former employees, put that number perhaps higher, testifying that she estimated 95% of the babies she saw aborted were perfectly healthy.

On the other hand, oh how horribly wretchedly tragic for a man who has made his living taking innocent, vulnerable lives specially created by his Maker for the past 36 years to meet his Maker before he had things straightened out with his Maker. Perhaps he did have a last minute opportunity to make amends before 10 a.m. yesterday morning. And how ironic that Mr. Tiller breathed his last while in church.

Most alarming however are the words of a fellow late-term abortionist in Colorado, Dr. Warren Hern who claimed that Tiller's death is the "inevitable and predictable consequence of decades of anti-abortion" rhetoric and violence.

Oh how ironic that men who have profited greatly from the legalized violence and brutality against 40 million+ in the last three and a half decades would decry those who defend the rights of tiny unborn babies and the dignity and significance of their moms, offering hope and a peaceful solution at a difficult point in their lives.