Incident raises questions about the clinic’s safety

WICHITA, KS — Pro-lifers suspect a botched abortion may have taken place yesterday a Central Women’s Services. Sidewalk counselors observed a sports vehicle with two medical personnel wearing surgical scrubs arrived at the first trimester abortion mill from Wesley Medical Center, which is located just across the street. The pair stayed for approximately one hour before returning to Wesley. Just after that, a man came out and helped an obviously injured women hobble to the car. Sidewalk counselors noted that this was not the car she had arrived in and that her vehicle remained in the clinic parking lot long after all the employees left.

Central Women’s Services has been the center of a recent controversy over the disposal of aborted baby remains, which Rescuers discovered are dumped at a privately owned landfill in Johnson County. (Read Story) It is also one of the four Kansas abortion mills that would have been forced to close if a clinic regulation bill vetoed by Gov. Kathleen Sebelius had been allowed to become law. The clinic fails to meet the standards put forth in the legislation that had passed the Kansas House and Senate with an overwhelming 2/3 majority in April. (Read Story)

The abortionist at Central Women’s Services, Sherman Zaremski, travels to Wichita from Kansas City two days per month to abort babies in the first trimester. Zaremski is the former business partner of fellow Kansas City abortionist Krishna Rajanna, who lost his medical license earlier this year over a scandal involving filthy conditions at his now closed abortion mill, and allegations of cannibalism. (Read Story) Zaremski has also been disciplined by the Kansas Board of Healing Arts for various violations of medical standards.

Wesley Medical Center is currently the focus of frequent pro-life protests because of their association with Wichita’s better-known late-term abortionist George R. Tiller. (Read Story)

“This incident raises more questions about the safety of this particular abortion mill,” said OR President Troy Newman. “It apparently is not adequately equipped to handle complications when they arise, and complications will probably be happening more frequently as time goes by given the fact that Zaremski is 73 and no longer capable of driving himself to work. We believe very firmly that women place their lives and health in danger when they walk through the doors of that abortion mill. It should be closed in the interest of public safety.”

Rescuers keep lunch-hour vigils to expose abortion connection.

Wichita, KS — Undaunted by darkening skies and a light rain, members of Operation Rescue held their noon-hour vigil outside Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, KS. Holding large graphic images of aborted children, the pro-lifers informed Wesley staff and patrons alike of the hospital’s association with the infamous late-term abortionist George R. Tiller.

Tiller is on staff at Wesley with admitting privileges that the Rescuers believe he has been using all to often as of late. In the past 18 months, Operation Rescue has documented six incidents where women were rushed from Tiller’s abortion mill via ambulance to Wesley’s ER. One young lady died in January.

As the summer days have heated up, so has OR’s activism. The Tiller’s association with Wesley has been the subject of flyers, brochures, and pickets on a weekly — sometimes daily — basis. The Truth Truck routinely circles the block, adorned with huge photographs of Tiller with one of his injured abortion patients on a gurney, rushing from the ambulance into Wesley’s ER.

OR President Troy Newman and his Outreach Coordinator, Cheryl Sullenger, had met with Wesley CEO David Nevill before the public exposure part of the campaign began. “Nevill was a nice enough man,” said Newman, “but he made it clear that he either couldn’t or wouldn’t remove Tiller from staff. That was unacceptable to us.”

Although Wesley insists that no abortions are done at their hospital, OR has documentation and eyewitness accounts of Tiller aborting a woman at the hospital on May 11, 2005.

“The plain truth is that Wesley did not object to Tiller’s association with their hospital as long as they thought no one knew,” said Sullenger. “Now that the public is becoming aware, their relationship with Tiller is beginning to give Wesley a black eye.”

“An informed public can better decide if they can trust their health to a hospital that collaborates in the deaths of late-term, viable babies, and enables a dangerous abortionist to continue to maim women by embracing him as a staff member,” said Sullenger. “I have personally witnessed injured women being wheeled into the hospital, sometimes writhing in pain.”

How long will the pickets last?

“We aren’t going anywhere until Tiller does,” said Newman. “We know that there are employees at Wesley who are tired of Tiller tarnishing their reputations. We encourage those inside the hospital to put their own house in order. Once Tiller goes, we go.”

OR educational campaign helps convince 11th employee to quit killing children

WICHITA, KS — The eleventh employee of late-term abortionist George Tiller has quit since Operation Rescue launched its controversial Year of Rebuke Campaign to pray for clinic workers and inform their neighborhoods of the truth about what they do for a living. Abortion nurse Jennifer Van Deest, of Oxford, KS, has quit her job at Women’s Health Care Services in Wichita, the largest late-term abortion mill in the Western Hemisphere.

Van Deest follows a long line of employees who have resigned from Tiller’s abortion business in the past 18 months, including critical employees such as clinic managers and other nurses. Many have not been replaced.

“Tiller is operating understaffed and under pressure,” noted OR President Troy Newman. “Abortions are down at Tiller’s by 20% over the last year and he no longer operates on Saturdays, once one of his busiest abortion days.”

“The departure of Van Deest is a direct answer to our prayers for her,” said Newman. “She seemed to be under stress and conviction for some time. We wish her the best and pray she will have a happy life full of blessings now that she has decided to use her talents to heal instead of kill.”

“The broken-down sign outside Tiller’s mill seems to be a sign of the times,” said sidewalk counselor Cheryl Sullenger. “It is almost as if it reflects the general disarray that is currently plaguing Tiller’s failing abortion business. His employees are abandoning him, he is under investigation for assorted incidents of wrongdoing, and business has never been worse. That is all good news for pregnant women and their babies!”