Like father, like son: Tiller family criminal conduct spans seven decades
Wichita, KS — Operation Rescue has uncovered three source documents that reveal a pattern of illegal abortions by the Tiller family of Wichita, Kansas, spanning seven decades.
“George Tiller himself has a documented pattern of disregard for the law across four decades,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. “It gives further urgency to the need to allow the criminal case filed against Tiller in December to move forward without further delay.”
Late-term abortionist George R. Tiller has admitted in a signed statement that he has a history of committing illegal abortions.
A statement, released by Voices of Choice in July, 2005, regarding the impending appointment of a replacement for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor states in part, “As physicians who provided or facilitated abortions before Roe v. Wade, we saw the horrors of illegal abortion first-hand.” Fourteen abortionists, including George R. Tiller, signed the statement. (Read full statement.)
In two other documents, an undated interview published by Voices of Choice and an article from the Wichita Eagle dated Sept. 8, 1991, Tiller describes in his own words that his father, Jack Tiller, provided illegal abortions for women in his family practice as far back as the 1940s. Tiller admits that his discovery of this fact inspired him to abandon a career in dermatology and pursue a career as an abortionist.
In December, 2006, George Tiller was charged with 30 counts related to the commission of illegal late-term abortions. Those charges were dismissed on dubious jurisdictional grounds, and stonewalling tactics have been employed by Attorney General Paul Morrison, including the firing of a special prosecutor, to keep the case out of court.
Meanwhile, witnesses say that illegal abortions continue at Tiller’s Wichita late-term abortion mill, Women’s Health Care Services.
One witness, sidewalk counselor Donna Lampkin, told Operation Rescue on March 23, 2007, that she was personally spoke to one woman who admitted that both she and her pre-born baby were perfectly healthy, but that she was seeking a late-term abortion at Tiller’s WHCS solely due to financial reasons. This abortion violated K.S.A. 65-6703, which bans post-viability abortions, with narrow exceptions, financial considerations not being one of them.
On April 14, 2007, Dawn McClelland posted the following comment at ChargeTiller.com, a website supporting the reinstatement of criminal charges against Tiller:
As a director of a crisis pregnancy center, I have worked directly with women/girls who have gone to Tiller. One was 32 weeks pregnant, under the care of one of our doctors. Her health and the health of the baby were both good. Her family told her she would be disowned if she had the baby. She panicked. Planned Parenthood directed her to Tiller, where this perfectly healthy little baby was killed and the mother scarred for life. We are barbarians to let this happen.
“This information about Tiller’s long history and continuing practice of committing illegal abortions establishes a pattern of criminality on Tiller’s part,” said Newman.
“These documents and eyewitness accounts also give us a glimpse into his frame of mind. Tiller returned to Wichita after his father’s death and took up the family practice, following in his dad’s footsteps. Now we see that the Tiller legacy includes violating the law by providing illegal abortions.”
Operation Rescue believes that the documents show more that a casual disregard for Kansas Statutes. “They show a brazen contempt for the law as well as for the lives of his innocent victims,” said Newman.
“Every man and woman in authority in Kansas who has blatantly ignored Tiller’s illegal killing of viable babies has innocent blood on their hands. No amount of political payoffs is worth the lives of these precious children, or the bloodguilt that haunts the consciences of those who betrayed them. We appeal to Kansas authorities to stop this brutality, and immediately bring Tiller to justice in a court of law.”
House Speaker Melvin Neufeld has the ability to move to reinstate criminal charges against George Tiller. Please urgently contact with your concerns:
House Speaker Melvin Neufeld
Phone: 620-335-5316
E-Mail: mneufeld@ink.org
Alternate E-mail: neufeld@house.state.ks.us
I’m surprised noone has commented on this sexist remark that Tiller made on his sign. He sais, “Women need abortions.” That statement in itself makes me very angry. Why does he think that all women need abortions? That generalization about women displays his attitude in general about women! Since I am a woman, I then can make a generalized statement about
what “all abortionists need,” and he doesn’t want to hear that! These abortionists all lumped together are deranged and have psychological issues related to either their mother or women. They obviously hate women and motherhood and want to destroy the product of conception due to a severe mental abberation connected to hate and possibly jealousy of women. Women represent the creators of life , the mysteries of the unknown, the womb. Tiller expresses his anger at women very well when he says, “Women need abortions.” This statement is lacking in any intelligence or substance whatsoever. Why does he want to abort every woman? What would he think if I put a sign out that said, “Men need vasectomies, and I’m going to do them!” I’m sure Tiller would run the other way, as I”m not qualified and I might make a mistake. ha! ha! This is just some Saturday night humor, but truth.
Recently I needed to provide a copy of my birth certificate for purposes related to retirement. I retrieved it from its usual undisturbed place and at one point casually began reading the document. When I came to the bottom and saw the signature, my heart stopped. The certificate was signed by Dr. Jack Tiller! I felt I knew who this man was! I searched this site, and the above article confirms. Yes I knew. Dear God!
My mother would never, ever have gone to a doctor who also performed abortions had she known! To think that this man presented himself as an honorable physician, while secretly and unbeknownst to patients like my mother was at the same time destroying babies, murdering them. How is this possible! Barbarous inhumanity.
I am shaken, stunned, to know that my dear mother and I were both in the hands of an executioner of innocent preborn babies. And to think how the Deceiver so persuaded him and his son that they were and are being “kind” in their demonic work. What a family legacy! Hundreds of lives deliberately destroyed for filthy lucre. That is what it really is. Not altruistic, if ever such a thing could be. No it is about gated communities, bank accounts, etc., etc.
No doubt “Doctor” Jack Tiller delivered many babies. I know I’m not alone. Still, after all the years of knowing of his son and standing against all he does in every way that I can, it is a profound shock to me to learn that there is a connection, as it were. It makes the reality of the “killer Tillers” all the more so!
For the father it is too late. For the son, pray that in one shining moment he may be convicted and stop, please God, the slaughter!