Symposium: Dr. Tiller: Who will mourn your casualties?

The unexamined life is not worth living.

~ Socrates

Socrates (470-399 B.C.) was a famous Greek philosopher from Athens who taught Plato, and Plato taught Aristotle, and Aristotle taught Alexander the Great. Socrates used a method of teaching by asking questions. The Greeks called this form "dialectic" – starting from a thesis or question, then discussing ideas and moving back and forth between points of view to determine how well ideas stand up to critical review with the ultimate principle of the dialogue being Veritas – Truth.

Characters

• Socrates
  
• Dr. George Tiller, recently murdered abortion doctor
• Guardian Angels (mute part)
• Aborted Souls (mute part)

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{Setting: Heaven}

Prelude

Socrates: We are gathered here at this Symposium this day before your eternal destiny will be determined. God has allowed me this unusual dialogue to ask you a few questions, Dr. Tiller; to fully examine this life you lived in the light of Veritas (Truth).

Dialogue

Dr. Tiller: {confident} Yes, Socrates, I fully understand that abortion was as socially divisive as slavery or prohibition, but my sole reason for providing abortions services was about giving women a choice when dealing with technology that can diagnose severe fetal abnormalities before a baby is born.

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Socrates: So you disparaged the solemn Hippocratic Oath that all doctors must take? – First do no harm.

Dr. Tiller: {robotic tone, defensive} I have many respected members of society that will vouch for me, people who have said many honorable things on my behalf:

• Tiller's killing is "an unspeakable tragedy," my widow, four children and 10 grandchildren said in statement issued by my attorney, Dan Monnat.
• The family said its loss "is also a loss for the city of Wichita and women across America. George dedicated his life to providing women with high-quality health care despite frequent threats and violence."

Socrates: How is it, Dr. Tiller, that you willfully and wantonly mocked the Holy Scriptures of your God and brought infamy to your church where you and your family worshipped on the very day you were murdered?

Dr. Tiller: {robotic tone} I have many respected members of society that will vouch for me, people who have said many honorable things on my behalf:

• New York University Professor Jacob Appel described Tiller as "a genuine hero who ranks alongside Susan B. Anthony and Martin Luther King Jr. in the pantheon of defenders of human liberty."

Socrates: A hero? Dr. Tiller, you willfully and wantonly disregarded the sacred promise Thomas Jefferson and the Constitution's framers immortalized for all Americans, even the preborn – Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Dr. Tiller: {robotic tone} I have many respected members of society that will vouch for me, people who have said many honorable things on my behalf:

• "Dr. Tiller's murder will send a chill down the spines of the brave and courageous providers and other professionals who are part of reproductive-health centers that serve women across this country," said Nancy Keenan, president of abortion-rights group NARAL Pro-Choice America. "We want them to know that they have our support as they move forward in providing these essential services in the aftermath of the shocking news from Wichita," Keenan said.
• "Anti-abortion groups denounced the shooting and stressed that they support only nonviolent protest. The movement's leaders fear the killing could create a backlash just as they are scrutinizing U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, whose views on abortion rights are not publicly known."

Socrates: Dr. Tiller, on your way to the judgment throne of God, it would be most prudent if you would be more concerned about the destiny of your eternal soul and the innocent 72,000 babies you murdered, a number which I deduced from your own estimate of 2,000 abortions per year over 36 years – from Roe v. Wade (1973), when abortion was legalized, to 2009.

Leave to us your concern about whether or not your death will adversely affect the nomination to the Supreme Court of Judge Sotomayor.

Dr. Tiller: {resignation, utter despair, profound silence}

Socrates: The unexamined life is not worth living is one of my most famous aphorisms. Dr. Tiller, here at the eve of the eternal destiny of your soul, we have done a systematic examination of your worldview, your career and all that you dedicated your life to. On earth you may call yourself a doctor and possess all of the requisite degrees and certifications from prestigious universities, medical schools and medical associations, but here in heaven, the totality of your body of work is summed up in the words of the prophet Isaiah:

But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousness are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

Dr. Tiller: Oh, God! I'm sorry, so very, very sorry. Is there no redemption for me!?

Socrates: Why should I answer your question, Dr. Tiller, when during the entire course of this Symposium you arrogantly answered my questions with robotic, sycophantic platitudes? While millions indeed will mourn your death, Dr. George Tiller: Who will mourn your casualties?

Dr. Tiller: {resignation, utter despair, profound silence}

Postlude

Guardian Angels: This host of 72,000 are the vigilant Guardian Angels, one for each of Dr. Tiller's casualties. These holy and powerful Angels desire nothing more than to visit due justice and unspeakable retribution upon Dr. Tiller for his numerous crimes against humanity, but instead are commanded by God to stay their swords in their sheaths, to sit in profound silence.

Therefore, these Guardian Angels only stare at Dr. Tiller with a mixed expression of righteous indignation and exceeding lachrymose.

Aborted Souls: These are the innocent preborn babies, the 72,000 casualties who sit here in heaven in profound silence, who gaze inquisitively at their zealous tormentor. Their solitary, unspoken expression is fixed for eternity inside the intense sadness of their black, brown, blue and green eyes – eyes that beg an answer to this singular question …Why, Dr. George Tiller? … why?