Our society plummets further when it starts giving prestigious “achievement awards” for destroying the lives of our most innocent fellow humans. I am referring to the recent article about Susan Cahill’s winning the “risk taker category” at a “Women Changing the World” ceremony.

       I too appreciate the rare quality of taking risks for one's beliefs. However, I cannot view it as noble or just when suicide bombers, abortionists, and others destroy innocent human lives as a core portion of that risk-taking. According to Proverbs 6:17, one of the seven abominations detestable to God is “hands that shed innocent blood”. By performing abortions under the guise of “pro-privacy” and “reproductive rights”, Susan Cahill and “her mentor Dr. James Armstrong” have killed thousands of children in the Flathead Valley. Susan calls her office a "happy healing place" where this grisly activity occurs.

      No matter how heinous the crime, no matter how long its duration, the perpetrator who turns from it can reap the benefits of our God who perfectly combines justice and mercy and Whose loving compassion knows no bounds. A good thing about Susan’s returning to the Valley is that she will become the recipient of an increase in focused prayer for her. Having violent thoughts, words or actions against Susan Cahill or her property is wrong and will only serve to fuel her cause. It will take voluminous fervent and loving prayers to pierce through darkness so dense that she can actually convince herself that she is slaughtering innocents for a good cause.

Annie Bukacek MD