Last Sunday, in a church in Kansas, a killer stalked and executed the infamous late-term abortionist Dr. George Tiller who is widely referred to as "Tiller the Killer."  Shortly thereafter, conservatives commented that since legalization, abortion has cost more than 50 million American lives.  This tragic loss of life has left gaping holes in American society's power structure and the secular socialists have done their best to replace traditional families with state-dependent, single-parent households that ...

At the recent Notre Dame commencement, Barack Obama called on Americans to come together and ''bridge the divide'' to find ways to make abortion the last resort in family planning. To pro-abortions secularists and other socialisst, the call was a welcome olive branch over an issue that has divided America for decades.  Conservatives and others who value life, see the situation entirely different however, and as pure politics, in light of his appointing former Kansas governor and pro-abortion activist Kathleen Sebelius to head up the Human and Health Services agency.

Last Sunday one man with a gun mocked the pro-execution lobby when he killed Dr. George Tiller inside the Kansas church the physician attended. Dr. Tiller, one of the few doctors in the nation who provided late-term abortions, long had been a target of the anti-abortion movement. The 67-year-old doctor was the target of decades of often violent protests, including a 1986 bombing at his Wichita clinic. In 1993, a protester shot the doctor in both arms.

Did killer act alone?

The debate now has turned to whether the doctor's accused killer, 51-year-old anti-abortion protester Scott Roeder, acted alone and his actions have been attacked by the pro-execution lobby as those of a strident, often erroneous, demagoguery by anti-abortion forces. They include some cable news hosts, such as Fox News' Bill O'Reilly, who mentioned Dr. Tiller dozens of times during segments on his show over the years, often using ''baby killer'' as part of the introduction, as well as some anti-abortion activists who have gone so far as to compare abortion clinics to Nazis murdering Jews at Auschwitz.

Americans should not turn away from this debate.

Abortion remains legal in this country, and the sad irony is that Dr. Tiller's work performing late-term abortions was not a ''choice'' the women who came to him made with any pleasure. It was foisted on those women by the circumstances of their pregnancy. By law in each state, late-term abortions are rare -- pro-executioners admit that the rate is between 1 and 2 percent of all abortions nationwide.  Rarely, however, do late-term executions involve life-and-death situations for the mother's health or painful decisions about aborting severely deformed fetuses who could not survive outside the womb.  Typically, and in most cases Tiller the Killer handled, the execution was promoted by pecuniary gain of Tiller's vast abortion network.

Thus, by the pro-execution lobby's own estimate, at least 1,000,000 American babies who were either in their last days in their mother's womb, or were actually born live, have been murded for the convenience of the mother.

The Conservatives of the United States must continue fighting execution of our children in every way possible.  While we may abhor the death-camp tactics of killers like Tiller, a civilized society must seek peaceful means to restore the dignity of life across our great nation.