OR Calls for Wesley Medical Center to Halt Tiller’s Hospital Privileges
WICHITA, KS — Operation Rescue launched a new campaign to expose Wesley Medical Center’s participation in late-term abortionist George Tiller’s abortion business. The multi-faceted campaign began with a protest on January 19, 2005, in front of Wesley located at Central and Hillside in Wichita. OR spokesperson Cheryl Sullenger promised that future activities will include community educational mailings, residential prayer walks near the homes of Wesley board members, and other public exposure tactics protected by the First Amendment.
Two counter protesters showed up and displayed signs for a few minutes before moving on. The response from passers-by on the busy street corner was mostly positive.
Tiller has a long history with Wesley Medical Center and currently boasts of his association with the hospital as a member of the Medical Staff on his web site http://www.drtiller.com/medir.html.
Operation Rescue has documented evidence that at least four women injured during abortions at Tiller’s late-term abortion mill have been transported to Wesley Medical Center by ambulance in the past 12 months. OR has further documentation that it is Tiller’s standard operating procedure to only transport women to Wesley who have received life-threatening injuries that cannot be managed at his “state-of-the-art” abortion mill.
“We have two issues with Wesley Medical Center,” said OR president Troy Newman. “First, they have displayed a wanton disregard for human life by extending staff privileges to a man whose business it is to kill, not heal. Secondly, Wesley allows Tiller to cover up his botched abortion there. Although Wesley probably believes they are helping women injured by Tiller and his associates, they are really doing them a great disservice by allowing a man who provides routine life-endangering procedures to continue to operate under their covering.”
“We want the good people of Wichita to be aware of this unholy alliance,” said OR Outreach Coordinator Cheryl Sullenger. “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. I have personally witnessed injured women being wheeled into the hospital, sometimes writhing in pain. We are very motivated, on behalf of women like these, to continue to educate the public about the Tiller/ Wesley ‘Web of Death’ until Tiller is no longer allowed to darken the doors of what should be a place of healing.”
Latest stories of botched abortions from Tiller?s mill:
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September, 2004
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Since there is such great concern over the potential for women to be physically damaged at “sub-standard” clinics, surely no one could object to all abortions being performed in hospitals. To that end, women could certainly be safeguarded and managed in a hospital environment, thereby reducing the complication rate of abortion to significantly less than the current rate of 1%. Let me also take this opportunity to point you to some remarkable Christian families waiting to adopt the children that none of your protesters seem to have considered in the process of trying to discourage abortion. These people are actually willing to comprise most of their family with adoptive children of different nationalities and sometimes with serious handicaps. How many of you have the willingness to adopt several special needs children into your homes? These people are true Christians, you are pseudo-Christians who can only aspire to their level of compassion.
http://www.chask.org/adoptivefamilybio.htm
Simeon:
Let us not forget: adoption requires financial stability. Has it ever occurred to you that many persons who would like to adopt (myself included) cannot do so, either because of layoffs, financial constraints and/or health concerns?
I’ve faced all three of those challenges during the past year: I’ve overcome one of ‘em – but am certainly not in a position to adopt anyone – not even a stray kitten. (And I love cats more than life itself…….)
And, in all candor: I cannot blame any anti-abortion activist (past or present) for my youthful mistake which resulted in my untimely pregnancy. Wouldn’t that reek of cop-out-ism on my part? It was my responsibility not to have become pregnant in the first place – and to avoid another pregnancy by exhibiting personal responsibility and maturity.
Adoption is a miraculous, wonderful sacrifice – and I mightily respect those who give of themselves in this manner. In fact, I now regard adoption as the only morally licit course of action that I should have undertaken so many years ago. It would have been excruciating, to be sure. But it would have been morally blameless.
Yes, let us respect those who adopt. But equally, let us not point fingers at those who cannot do so.
simeon
please don’t try to claim to be able to discern a “true” Christian from a “pseudo” Christian, using your own little contrived yardstick. that is ridiculous….
we’ve all heard your tired, pathetic argument before….but no matter how you try to spin it, abortion is still killing, no matter who adopts who or who doesn’t adopt who. do you really think that abortion (the intentional killing of a child made in the image of God) is any less wrong or offensive or evil if performed in a hospital? but beyond that, abortion is not a “safe” procedure anyway, no matter what you prodeath types say. the evidence is massive and irrefutable, as it pertains to emotional health, the breast cancer link, and other complications that do not surface for years. that’s if the abortionist does not perforate the woman’s uterus, or cause permanent sterility.
but beyond that, hospitals are places for healing. doctors are healers, not life takers.
the medical field, dating back to hippocrates, is one that concerns the saving of lives, with respect for all human life as a cornerstone.
to bring killing into such a field is a gross perversion of all that medicine is about.
abortion isn’t medicine, and abortionists aren’t doctors.
simeon
oh, and one other thing….
your so-called 1% complication rate is probably based on REPORTED complications, compiled by the abortion industry, not on how many complications and deaths there truly are, which is widely underreported, for obvious reasons.
i suggest you begin doing some actual research on this before you weigh in again. to get your “facts” from a prodeath source and then rely on that to make your case puts you on rather thin ice indeed. these people kill babies for a living – do you really expect them to honestly report their screw-ups?
Simeon,
How many have you adopted, or tried to, since that’s your standard? Or is that just a line you throw at people who represent a reality that you don’t want to deal with, a false excuse behind which you avoid dealing with your own complicity in the abortion holocaust ?
Let me put it to you another way: suppose you were walking down the street and a total stranger, walking towards you, happened to see someone else coming silently behind you, eyeing, you, pulling a knife, with obvious malevolent, murderous intent. The person coming towards you yelled for you to get out of harm’s way; since you do not yet perceive the danger you are in (the unborn don’t, nor do most, if not all, of their mothers), you thumb your nose…then that person separates you from your would-be assailant just in the nick of time to save you injury at least, and in time for you to see the danger, . Do you then deride, demean, and seek to discredit your rescuer for doing what (s)he could because (s)he cannot then provide for you for the rest of your life? I very much doubt it…So why do you then do so to those trying to thus rescue others you don’t even know?
Speaking of adoption, though, thanks for giving me the set-up for unashamedly encouraging all pro-lifers to continue to share the word that all children are wanted children…by someone other than child-killers.
There are people waiting to adopt every kind of “special needs” baby there is…from biracial to spina bifida to Downs to crack to AIDS. I mentioned this to a friend the other day and when asked why this was, I think I had found the answer just recently in listening to Michael Card’s “Come to the Cradle”. In his notes, Card writes that a child’s cry to “come to the cradle” is not just a summons to change a diaper or provide a repast for the child; it is a summons to leave one’s comfort zone (in this case the warm bed). It evokes the priest/Levite mindset vs. the Samaritan attitude, the former being concerned principally with “what will happen to me if I get involved”, the latter with “what will happen to the hurting one if I don’t get involved.” While most of us struggle to some degree or other with the Levite in us all since the fall, I think we all agree which attitude we would want to prevail if it were us in the ditch…or in the cradle.
I think the more of a Samaritan heart one has, the more one will, given the means to do so, reach out to adopt the more challenging infants;
the likelihood of the handicaps they already face being compounded by unwantedness on account of problems beyond their control would naturally, of itself, elicit an additional measure of compassion of those of that disposition…given the means.
Simeon, please turn around.
THE HAND THAT WRECKS THE CRADLE RUINS THE WORLD,
for
ABORTION KILLS MUCH MORE THAN A BABY.
ORW, KEEP IT UP!
Jessica, a little fairness, or is that as alien to your ideology as real compassion?
For such a champion of truth, you certainly show an inordinate, inappropriate desire to suppress the vital truths exposed by the ORW trucks.
Yes, many of us think it’s a shame for children to see “those pictures”; but believe me, if it’s handled right by the parent or caretaker of the child, a child can not only get over, but benefit from seeing them. The pictures evoke two main responses in small children: the first is a sense of horror that something very wrong has been done to a BABY; the second is a fear that a similar fate will befall them. If you affirm the first sense, and assure them that you will do all you can to protect them, then their natural concerns will then turn to helping it not happen to other children. Children who are forced to BE those pictures never get over it, and are never bettered by it. If you actually give a flying fig about children’s welfare, you’ll be going after the root of children seeing these pictures, which is children BEING these pictures.
There’s nothing classy or compassionate about torturing innocent little children to death, or about LYING to women about vital health matters, knowingly misleading them into harm’s way to exploit them for the sake of fattening your own coffers or grinding your own political axe, as you so ardently seek to do when you ask ORW to remove the graphic truth about abortion WHILE THESE ATROCITIES ARE STILL BEING PERPETRATED.
You do all women, men, and children a huge disservice in thus seeking to blind them. Your request might make some sense if America were abortion free; I personally know and have worked with a number of truth truck drivers, and other graphic sign holders in several states and don’t think that any of us get some perverse kick out of affronting people for the sake of it. Confronting a nation over it’s eyeballs in innocent blood is an entirely different and, unfortunately still necessary, thing.
I’ve heard a number of people refer to those of us who thus refuse to suppress the truth in unrighteousness (Please see Romans 1:16-32) as “Nazis”; in spite of the documented fact that the Nazi regime did all within it’s power to suppress graphic exposure of it’s genocidal handiwork…they may have gone to greater extremes than you are presently able to get by with…but the spirit and aim is the same.
Suggestion: We will remove the warnings when we have cause to believe that the danger is past. In the meantime, why not come over and help us work ourselves out of this job? The fact that you can’t distinguish between capricious, gratuitous effrontery and life-saving confrontation is evidence that alignment with the crowd you’re with hasn’t done a whole lot to sharpen the mind, or any other positive quality you may yet attain to and actually use to help humanity.
As for the length of time you spent protesting ORW, it’s a comparatively small matter. They haven’t denied that you were there; in fact, you are included in the photos posted here of that event (or did you conveniently overlook that fact in order to mislead…say it isn’t so!)… Surely if you insist on taking your whining wackobunk to the Eagle you will have sufficient honesty to mention that…won’t you?!
Finally, the wrath of God is revealed against all who suppress the truth in unrighteousness. If you do not repent your complicity in this holocaust, you will face that wrath, and you will wish you had not spent so much as a split second trying to hinder ORW’s work. And then, whether you spent a minute, an hour, or a day at it, you will spend an eternity regretting it.
Sincerely hoping and praying for better things for and from you in the future, Jessica, for the sake of all concerned…
WHAT IN THE WOLRD!??!?? I am appalled. Wow. Ok, let me start out by saying that I am pro-life 10000000000000%. Hello, that is what hospitals are for, to save lives. If no hospitals will take botched abortion patients, where will these women go when something goes wrong? Should they be left to die just because the mistake they are making is extraordinarily huge? Do hospitals turn away overdosers just because they are drug users and we as a society don’t agree with that? Certainly not. Wesley CANNOT turn anyone away, and that is the wonderful thing about America, we are all treated equal!
chad
appreciate your comments…however, this goes much deeper than treating women who’ve been harmed. no one, least of all those at ORW, is opposed to wesley treating these women.
what prolifers object to is the fact that tiller the killer has privelages at this hospital, as if he were a doctor or something, and there is an unholy alliance between his killing center and the board of directors and management of the hospital. THAT is the reason that wesley is being targeted – not because they treat the sick, bleeding, or dying person who may have just made the terrible mistake of doing business with george tiller.
No offense, but you need to get your facts straight before you say comments such as “what prolifers object to is the fact that tiller the killer has privelages at this hospital, as if he were a doctor or something.” I hate to break it to you, but he is a doctor. And, as far as to why Wesley offers privelages, Tiller has long been involved with them. He was president of their medical staff in 1979 even. Here, go to this website: http://www.drtiller.com/medir.html and that’ll tell you more about this man. Once again, I do not support abortion at all, for ANY reason, but I also don’t support unreasonable, and ridiculous protests. Maybe we should protest wal-mart since he shops there. Oh wait, that may inconvenience you all. Ha, ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous.
Chad,
Ok, you’ve said it yourself. HOSPITALS ARE FOR SAVING LIVES. That is why is it so inappropriate about them giving admitting privileges (spelling corrected)to a known serial killer.
We don’t think that any hospital should turn away a botched abortion victim; indeed, we don’t know of any that would on the very principles you cited, though not all Emergency Rooms are equipped with Trauma Units, which are essential to effectively treating many botched abortion victims. (Abortion is, physically and psychologically, one of the worst, most violent traumas to which a woman can be subjected.)
And, (hate to break it to you), but possessing a medical degree/license does not make one a healer that choice is (irony of ironies) a matter of the heart…among other things. Tiller is to the medical profession what the 9-11 hijackers are to the airline transportation industry. The Al-Quaeda reps. abused their pilot’s licenses to target and deliberately destroy innocent human life, which is precisely what Tiller has been doing for years now with his medical license.
If you would not reference the 9-11 thugs as legitimate pilots (by entrusting your life to an airline that would hire them, for example…), then don’t reference Tiller as a real doctor, and don’t try to legitimize a hospital’s doing so, or delegitimize ORW’s protests thereof.
just thinking…
Well, maybe you should stop thinking because your thinking seems to be one-sided, anal, and unforgiving. All you guys are doing with your comments and protests is egging Tiller and his accomplices on. Do you not think that they don’t get a rise everytime someone calls and yells or stands outside and protests, or makes foolish, exagerated websites? Stop pointing the finger at him in anger, and begin to be peaceful. Offer help to the girls, but stop attacking Tiller, I think you know (or should know) by now it will do NO GOOD. He is the only one that can change his own mind. I have met him (attended a few lectures to be better informed), and believe it or not, he has a fantastic attitude as a person. I am not just saying that, he really does. One can only wonder what altered his thinking and caused him to go off the deep end in the area of medicine. He could have been a wonderful family doctor. But, you know what, he views his practice as a service to the community, so no amount of protests will change his mind. The only way to stop abortion for good, is to teach people the value of human life. And, that could take awhile.
Chad,
Careful! The fact that, bereft of a substantial rebuttal to any of my statements re: Tiller’s abuse of his license, you resorted to equally unsubstantiated ad hominem attack, makes me doubt your professed pro-life loyalties, for that is how pro-aborts typically “debate” these matters.
Your request that I, and others who agree with me, “stop thinking” is likewise consistent with that nihilist propagandist mindset/m.o. Yes, it was Hitler who said, “What a mercy for rulers that men don’t think”…
The forgiveness you demand would no doubt be more forthcoming if Tiller & team asked for it themselves…which I’ve yet to hear…thought he, at least, knows exactly what he is doing…more so, probably, than the 9-11 suicide bombers.
Is it changing Tiller’s mind, Chad, or changing your own, that you feel so threatened by? Or both? If you are truly pro-life, you would prefer his becoming a legitimate family practitioner; if you cared a whit for him or the babies or their moms, you would be encouraging him to repent…like ORW…as well as offering help to his quarry…like ORW…so what is your point?
Still thinking…
Chad,
Adolf Hitler also viewed his practices as a service to humanity.
And, the best educators think from time to time; so it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense for you to ask prolifers to refrain from thought, on one hand, and educate the community, on the other…
or hadn’t you thought of that?!
For my own defense, I am pro-life. I do not believe it is a womens right to chose whether her child lives or dies, under no circumstance. I am through with this thread because I am going nowhere, nor do I care to. You are like Tiller, in that your mind is focused on one thing, and it will not be changed. Ironically, so is mine and so no good will be done here. We are both for the same cause but you are much more radical than I. It is like churches of different denominations that argue over petty things like music. I will not argue the fact that Tiller can be compared to Hitler and the hijackers of the 9/11 tragedy. Oh, and just so you know, writing your opinion on a forum board will not alter any views, so that, my friend, is why I am through with you.
Good riddance to the false convert of Pro-life
Amazing, isn’t it? Whether or not to take real steps to save real lives is a “petty”, morally neutral, negotiable matter like hymn selection?!
Sounds to me as though Chad, frustrated at not accomplishing his aim, decided to vent it by spewing that failure at all other comment board writers…people he doesn’t even know.
Sounds encouraging to me, though. Something got under even his schizoid skin; so it’s likely that some minds are changed by reading this. We know they’re engaged!
With “friends” like Chad, the pro-life movement doesn’t need enemas. Let’s hope, though, that he recognizes HIs loss before it’s too late.
The MD (Richard S. Williams) of the Stafforshire County Showground, England, forced his schoolteacher wife to abort their second child by threatening to leave her and their son if she didn’t comply. How is that for someone who strives to be in the public eye?