The issue of abortion is a slippery slope. I do not, in any way, condone it as a form of birth control, nor do I condone late term abortions. However, in cases of rape or if the mother’s life is at stake, I think it should be an option, if the mother and family so choose.

Unfortunately, too many women use it as a means of birth control. Some are even addicted. 40-year-old Irene Vilar in her memoir “Impossible Motherhood:Testimony of an Abortion Addict,” ”

recounts and reflects on conceiving and terminating the lives of 15 babies over a 17 year period.

There is a huge division between those who are pro-Choice and those who are pro-Life. Pro-Lifers (usually far-right Christians) are often seen demonstrating in front of abortion clinics, which is their right, but sometimes the fanaticism goes too far and turns into violence.

Such is the case of Scott Roeder who gunned down an abortion doctor (George Tiller) at a Church service in Kansas. As usual, his actions were blamed on mental illness, but what it all boils down to is Christian extremism, and both his anti-government and anti-abortion activism led to what amounts to a terrorist act.

In a phone interview with the AP news service he confessed to killing the doctor saying

he did it to protect the lives of innocent children.

He intends to use that as part of his defence when his case goes to trial. He firmly believes he was justified in his actions

“Because of the fact preborn children’s lives were in imminent danger this was the action I chose. ... I want to make sure that the focus is, of course, obviously on the preborn children and the necessity to defend them,” Roeder said. “Defending innocent life — that is what prompted me. It is pretty simple.”

This is what religious fanaticism leads to- be it Christian or Islamic or Hindu. There is never any justification for murder. By killing another human being Roeder is as guilty as what he is condemning.