.A Sunday Morning Tragedy.

President Obama said it all when he said, "However profound our differences as Americans over difficult issues such as abortion, they cannot be resolved by heinous acts of violence."

I believe a woman should have the right to choose if she wants to keep her child or not. Abortion is a personal choice that every woman should have the right to. I am not saying that every time you pop up pregnant that this should be your run to answer if the pregnancy was not planned but if you were raped for instance and did not want the constant reminder of what happened to you it should be your choice. If you are not in a healthy state of mind or in a secure financial state to provide for a child then perhaps you should contemplate bringing an innocent life into your screwed up world. Whatever your opinion is on abortion, it is just that. Your opinion.

But sadly this weekend a 51 year old man by the name of Scott Roeder took upon himself to shot Doctor George Tiller who has been the center of the abortion controversy for years for his practice of performing late-term abortions, meaning if a woman was at the twenty-second week or further along. Doctor Tiller's clinic is located in Kansas which, as we all know is in the heart of the bible belt. Mid-West states are crazy with religion and evangelistic residences of the Mid-West have been after him for years. In 1986, his clinic was bombed. In 1991, it was blockaded for six weeks. In 1993, he was shot in both arms. In March, Kansas prosecutors tried him on charges of breaking an abortion law; he was acquitted. In May, vandals cut wires to security cameras and made holes in the roof of Tiller's clinic.

The most disturbing factor of this assassination is that Doctor Tiller was attending church on Sunday where he was working as an usher and his wife, Jeanne, was in the choir when he was gunned down at about 10 a.m. CHURCH people. He was at church! How fucked up of a person do you have to be to commit any act of violence in a church. This man was the father of four and a grandfather to ten. No matter what Mr. Roeder's view on abortion was he had no right to take away someones husband, father, grandfather and friend. This is the first assassination of an abortion doctor since Dr. Barnett Slepian was killed by a sniper at his home in Amherst, N.Y., in 1998.

My thoughts are with the Tiller family as they grieve this unforeseen tragedy.