I could not let the Gene Lyons’ column (The World, June 17), go unchallenged.

Like all abortion apologetics it consisted of misrepresentations, half-truths and outright lies.

Lyons implied the lives of murdered late-term abortionist George Tiller’s clients were somehow at risk. If this is true, why didn’t Tiller follow accepted medical protocol and perform a cesarean? Instead, he subjected them to a grueling three-day procedure beginning with a deadly dose of chemicals injected into their infant’s beating heart.

A year ago, my daughter experienced a true emergency when her uterus began to rupture during labor. It threatened to kill her and the unborn child. Her doctors performed an immediate C-section and both mother and baby survived. Tiller, of course, never considered this an option. His goal was to murder children, not save them.

He portrayed the late Tiller as a valiant trauma team leader rushing from one life-threatening emergency to another. He more closely resembled a mugger preying on little old ladies in wheelchairs. Tiller took the Hippocratic Oath “to do no harm” then violated it 60,000 times. Though the idea sickens decent people, Tiller deserved his moniker “the Killer.” He earned enormous sums of money killing healthy, viable babies.

Lyons disingenuously asks, “Then why did that Kansas jury acquit Tiller?” The jury acquitted Tiller because of inept prosecution facilitated by Gov. Kathleen Sibelius. Aided by Tiller-funded PACs, she manipulated the previous year’s election. Despite Tiller’s much ballyhooed acquittal, the Kansas Medical Board was moving to revoke Tiller’s medical license when he died. 

Let’s not kid ourselves. Tiller, like Adolf Eichmann, gave seminars extolling the efficiency of his killing process. To his eternal detriment, his case unexpectedly moved to a higher court. One in which politics counted for nothing and 60,000 souls stood as witnesses to his atrocities.

Your readers deserve better than Gene Lyons. When you publish nonsense like this, you not only betray your journalistic principles, you become part of the ongoing media deception which allows others to follow in Tiller’s bloody footsteps.

Edward G. Lewis

North Bend