"Now it's your generation's turn"...

By Kierra Johnson, Executive Director, http://choiceusa.org/">Choice USA

“Now it’s your generation’s turn.”

Those were the last words spoken to me by Dr. Tiller on April 26th, 2009 in the barely audible softness of his voice. He gave me the warmest hug, thanked me for my work with young people and I turned and walked away. We were at a conference and we had just finished talking about the students who were organizing in Kansas to write letters in support of Dr. Tiller in the face of attacks from Operation Rescue. I promised to send him copies of the letters and had no reason to believe that he wouldn’t be overjoyed at power being exerted by young activists and warmed by the love and support of young people from his home state of Kansas.

“Now it’s your generation’s turn.”

It keeps echoing in my head because what began as a charge, turned out to be a prophecy. He knew that this battle for true bodily autonomy and self determination wasn’t over. He knew that young leaders would have to take up this fight that had yet to be won. He knew that he wouldn’t get to the promise land with us but with the greatest hope he pronounced us, Generations X and the Millennials, the new stewards of his visions and values.

He valued quality of life, leadership, advocacy, love, objectivity, fairness and the truth. He valued the tenants of democracy. He valued Choice. He also believed in risking everything for what you believe in and he did just that. For decades he battled homegrown terrorists and he endured. He experienced verbal and physical violence and endured. ...

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What did Dr. Tiller tell law enforcement in the weeks leading up to his assassination? What kind of protection did the FBI, the military, an the Obama Admin offer this hero?

as someone else very succinctly pointed out - abortion is LEGAL in this country - but terrorism and murder are NOT.

If the damn LAWS were simply enforced, some (maybe even a lot) of this type of terrorist activity could be prevented. But they ignore it and try to pass it off as "a lone gunman, acting alone - just some crazy" - when these are ENCOURAGED, ORCHESTRATED ATTACKS organized by terrorist cells IN THE US on doctors who are NOT breaking the law or doing anything wrong.