To the editor:

I don’t know whether they say what they think. I hear pro-life voices that deplore the murder of George Tiller and some that do not.

Of the latter, one “grieves” not that Dr. Tiller was killed, but that he “did not have time to properly prepare his soul to face God.” He warns “the Obama administration will use Tiller’s killing to intimidate pro-lifers.”

“George Tiller,” he says, “was a mass-murderer. Abortion is still murder. And we still must call abortion by its proper name: murder.”

But referring to Tiller’s death he pointedly did not use the word “murder;” he said “killing.” A “murderer,” George Tiller, was “killed.” Did he need to say the killer had stopped a murderer?

And who is this killer? Obsessed with abortion, he studied scripture and held Bible meetings at his house. His 51 years produced a short marriage, and one child who was young when he left years ago.

How does he describe himself? As a man of faith, a “believer”? But belief in what? Words from a book? Was he too busy “believing” to focus on “living”? How did belief square with the unremitting necessity of diapers that need changing? I suspect a few more dirty diapers might have changed him.

I am helplessly angry; “pro-life” politics taking life. Shame to those who use the label “murder” to incite it and to those who care more for words than for the world and to those who claim the authority of God!