Tiller Feared Abortion Would Kill Patient, But Did It Anyway
OR Files Formal Complaint and Demands Investigation
Wichita, KS — Operation Rescue has learned that an ambulance that transported an injured woman from a local abortion mill on May 11, 2005, was summoned by late-term abortionist George Tiller prior to the abortion because Tiller feared life-threatening complications and did not have the facilities to deal with such complications.
A complaint has been filed by OR president Troy Newman with the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts over concerns that Tiller knowingly performed a high-risk abortion procedure without adequate facilities or apparent skill to complete the surgery without endangering his patient’s life.
According to a partially-redacted Computer Aided Dispatch transcript obtained by Operation Rescue, Tiller called 911 and summoned an ambulance to his late-term abortion mill, Women’s Health Care Services at 10:02 AM on Wednesday, May 11. He called back at 10:06 AM to confirm that the ambulance would be on standby for about an hour and may not be needed.
Anonymous sources confirmed the patient had medical issues that could have been life-threatening if she underwent an abortion. “The last thing Tiller wanted was another photo taken by Operation Rescue of him with another dead patient,” said one source.
Although Tiller emphasized to emergency workers that the ambulance might not be needed, the patient was indeed transported on an emergency basis to Via Christi/St. Joseph’s emergency room, at 11:27 AM, according to the CAD transcript.
Via Christa is a Catholic hospital that has refused to work with Tiller in the past. Catholic pro-lifers are investigating the incident and will seek disciplinary action against any physician who may have been working with Tiller to procure an abortion for the injured patient.
This incident took place just two weeks after the Kansas House failed to override Gov. Kathleen Sebelius’ veto of a bill that would have mandated minimum health and safety standards for abortion clinics, which are currently unregulated and uninspected.
“Once again we call on the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts to suspend Tiller’s license pending an independent investigation into his dangerous abortion practices,” said Newman. “Just this year alone there have been three serious injuries at Tiller’s abortion mill, including one abortion death. There have been six injuries requiring emergency hospitalization in the past 16 months. How many body bags does the KSBHA need before it will take proactive steps to protect women from slipshod abortions at George Tiller’s back-alley-style mill?”
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May 25th, 2005 at 7:53 pm
So much for “keeping” abortion “safe & legal”. You can’t make it safe, because it is an inherently dangerous procedure for mothers as well as babies; but serial killers/social engineers/profiteers masquerading as “doctors”, such as Tiller, want it legal despite the fact that they know it isn’t safe.
I do hope that this one- FINALLY- costs him his practice. Ignoring preexisting conditions that contraindicate even a real medical procedure, let alone abortion, is grounds for a whopping malpractice suit.
ORW, DON’T LET GO OF THIS.
Keep broadcasting these events. While I do not hold anyone who participates in deliberately murdering a baby as an innocent victim, I still find the credulity of abortion-bound women heartbreaking. Again, it is a false sense of immunity which is challenged reasonably enough by pointing out that the woman obviously was not immune to pregnancy–an undesired consequence of one choice– so why assume immunity from any abortion-related injury, fatal or not?
Shame on the mainstream media for not reporting these deaths. Out of 50 million legal abortions since RoeDoe, you can bet the farm that the number of women killed by these “safe, simple procedures” has far exceeded the number of Americans killed in the 9-11 attack. Imagine if CBS, NBC, ABC, PBS, et al (Oh, and do let’s throw in MTV just for good measure; might as well dream big as long as we’re dreaming) gave their deaths the same coverage as 9-11 got…
Once again, everybody, don’t forget that that number to call for legal assistance re: abortion malpractice, fraud, or injury is 1-800-U CAN SUE…CONSENT DOES NOT EXCUSE MALPRACTICE.
All the best,
June 5th, 2005 at 5:40 pm
It’s amazing how pro-abortion advocates claim that “health” exceptions are the soluton to people like George Tiller. If you allow late term abortions for any type of depression than under what circumstance will a Liberal like Hilllary Clinton not want a late term abortion to be allowed?. I watched the debate about partial birth abortion on C-Span and none of the senators that opposed banning PBA talked mental health exceptons for Mothers that discovered their baby had mental disorders. Pro-abortion advocates should just admit that they don’t have any problem with post-viability abortions and see if they can get elected from there.