From an open letter to anti-abortion activists written by Shelley Shannon, an Oregon woman who was sentenced last year to a ten-year prison term for the attempted murder of Dr. George R. Tiller, a doctor at an abortion clinic in Wichita, Kansas. Shannon’s letter was published in April in Prayer & Action Weekly News, a newsletter for anti-abortion activists.

Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed.
—James 5:16

Out of obedience to the verse above, and in spite of problems it may bring her…