Charlotte Ostermann

Lawrence Journal-World

January, 2002

Permit me to address only the Christians of Kansas:

Dear sisters and brothers in Christ, I am sure you noticed the news of the recent abortion give-away. One quote was particularly chilling because of its nearness to truth.

Tiller gloats:"Jesus says, this clinic stays open" ('cause his button told him so, presumably). Where's the 'truth' in that bald-faced lie, you may be wondering. To paraphrase the late Francis Schaeffer: Every abortuary in America should have a sign above it that reads, "Open, by permission of the people of Christ." Am I agreeing Christ is content that babies be torn violently from the safe haven in which He knits them together lovingly? Heavens no! But I am saying that, as His representatives on earth, we need to speak up more about what He does want. This holocaust could be stopped if all who call Him Lord refused to bow down to the gods of political correctness, offering babies as sacrifices to someone's good opinion of us.

Do you work in His name for peace and justice, but deny the justice of citizenship and the peace of prenatal development to the least among us? Do you champion racial equality, religious freedom, and cultural diversity in the name of Christ and then ignore the civil rights of the unborn? Then I beg you to consider how He loved and defended the children near him, asking His followers to suffer their dependent and inconvenient presence with tender compassion. Jesus taught that a religion that does not help the helpless, save those bound for death, and give to the lowliest as to the Lord is a dead religion in complicity with death itself

You are hoping, as I am, to live with our Lord in endless eternity, presenting our lives, our works, our sufferings as an offering at His feet. How can we approach that holy throne with the blood of over 1000 infants per day on our hands? This so dwarfs everything else we may work for in our lives that we must address it courageously. I pray you will let Tiller and his followers know that you, for one, cannot remain silent while they accuse Jesus Christ of complicity in the murders they are committing.