As we are fixated on the Boston Marathon Bombing we are asking ourselves; “why would they do this to us?” We’ve spent countless hours, days and now weeks repeating the same question. “Why would they do this to us? Well it’s a good question, but as we look deep into it, we find that the 2nd bomber Dzokhar Tsarnaev says he and his brother acted alone, “wanted to defend Islam”.
He and his brother had plenty of options to “defend Islam” other than choosing to murder by bombing innocent victims. Could they not have been Islamic Evangelists? Spreading the word of Islam? Could they not have been examples of their faith by the way the live their lives and in the works they do?
Instead these two, Tamerlan and Dzokhar Tsarnaev made it a “choice” to use terrorism and killing as their means to “defend Islam”.
I’m gonna now stretch a bit, and many will condemn this post for making this leap.
Kermit Gosnell is a doctor who took the Hippocratic Oath, this oath in one part says “…Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all 
thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God…”
He “chose” to be a doctor who performed abortions. Whether you believe in abortion or not, there’s enough there to debate that in another forum. Isn’t Kermit Gosnell much like Tamerlan and Dzokhar? He believes in what he is doing, believes he is doing the right thing as a doctor giving abortions to those who made a “choice” to abort their child. But just like Tamerlan and Dzokhar, his “choice” to cross that line is where he has gone terribly wrong. He could have told countless pregnant mothers, you are too far along in your pregnancy. I cannot perform this procedure as it’s now a viable human life, it is against my oath as a doctor. But he “chose” another course of action, he “chose” to kill those babies.
Is this killing, especially the way he performed it on live births at his hands any less heinous than those of the bombers? He didn’t lay a “pressure cooker” at the feet of his victims, but he took
scissors and punctured into the back of the skull and cut the spinal column while one of them cried and shook and shuttered. We didn’t hear a bomb going off, but it’s the same result a multitude of innocence was killed at the hands of a murder.
He had a “choice” to defend his profession, to defend his ethics as a doctor, but he “chose” to cross that line and become a murder.
Just like Tamerlan and Dzokhar Tsarnaev had a “choice” as to how they would live a life as a Muslim in the Islamic faith, so too Kermit Gosnell had a “choice” how he was going to be a doctor. In his case he “chose” to be god and make the ultimate decision of life or death.
And don’t we think these child victims would ask the same question as the Boston victims, “Why would they (he) do this to us?”
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