Sad day.

Anti-Abortion Activist Arrested in Killing of Kansas Doctor
In Kansas, police have arrested a fifty-one-year-old anti-abortion activist in connection to the murder of Dr. George Tiller. Tiller was shot dead Sunday as he attended services at his church in Wichita. The National Abortion Federation says Dr. Tiller is the eighth abortion provider to be assassinated in the United States since 1977. President Obama said he is “shocked and outraged” by Tiller’s killing. US Marshals are now being deployed to protect women’s health clinics and doctors across the nation. We’ll have more on this story after headlines.

This is just sad. Would someone please explain to me how it is that Anti-abortion groups can blithely go about accusing abortion doctors and people who are 'pro-choice' of being murderers? I do not know of any abortion doctors or believers in pro-choice who have ever brutally killed in public by bombings, or gunning someone down. Will someone please point out the hypocrasy? I mean jesus. Or whatever.

And for fuck's sake, will these people please grow a brain and read Sam Harris? How hard is it?

Among several points that he makes in 'Letter to a Christian Nation':

- "20 percent of all recognized pregnancies end in miscarriage. There is an obvious truth here that cries out for acknowledgment: if God exists, He is the most prolific abortionist of all.”

- “Almost every cell in your body is a potential human being, given our recent advances in genetic engineering. Every time you scratch your nose, you have committed a Holocaust of potential human beings.”



Buddhism has no single view on abortion. There are many different sects of Buddhism and various sects believe differently. It all comes down to when you believe life begins and in this country (the US), life begins at birth. There are those that disagree with me, but frankly, I don't care.

My question is this - if life begins at conception, why do we not count pregnant women as two people in the census?

I don't believe in some giant puppet-master in the sky keeping tabs on each little thing we as humans do. I don't believe it's my place to judge another's life, but rather it's my place to be compassionate. Black and White does not apply here.

Look, It's a personal choice. It needs to remain a personal choice. Believe what you want, and let other believe what they want, but please stop being a hypocrite and accusing people of being murderers in one breath and killing people yourself in the next.