OR calls on New Kansas AG to reopen Tiller investigation

[Below is a report on evidence gathered by Operation Rescue in their investigation of late-term abortions at George R. Tiller's Women's Health Care Services in Wichita, KS. This report was released to the public at a press conference held on Monday, January 21, 2008.]

Operation Rescue has long had reason to believe that late-term abortionist George R. Tiller has been violating Kansas law that prohibits post-viability abortions except under the strictest conditions. Over the past two years, Operation Rescue conducted an investigation into post-22 week abortions at Tiller’s Women’s Health Care Services. This report will discuss the findings of that investigation and release never-before seen evidence that abortions of questionable legality are continuing at Tiller’s Wichita abortion mill, Women’s Health Care Services.

Before before that evidence and be properly discussed, some background information is required to put the evidence into context.

The Law

Kansas law, passed in 1998, bans prohibits abortions after 22 weeks when the baby is viable. K.S.A. 65-6703(a) states:

No person shall perform or induce an abortion when the fetus is viable unless such person is a physician and has a documented referral from another physician not legally or financially affiliated with the physician performing or inducing the abortion and both physicians determine that: (1) The abortion is necessary to preserve the life of the pregnant woman; or (2) a continuation of the pregnancy will cause a substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function of the pregnant woman.

After the passage of this law, there was some public debate about whether or not “a major bodily function” stated in the law included mental health risks. While the authors of the bill argued that it did not, former Attorney General Carla Stovall released her opinion in 2000 that, in order to pass constitutional muster, the law must include mental health exceptions as long as the mental health risks were “substantial and irreversible.”

Abortions that take place after the 21st week of gestation must be reported to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDH&E) that, according to statute, must contain the “reason and basis” for each abortion. According to KDH&E records, no abortion past 22 weeks has ever been done to save the life of the mother since K.S.A. 65-6703 was passed.

Full text of K.S.A. 65-6703
Attorney General Opinion No. 2000-20 issued by Carla Stovall, March 21, 2000
KDH&E Abortion Reports

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Also known as the “MOLD Technique”

The induction abortion with the use of digoxin injection was pioneered by late-term abortionist George R. Tiller* of Wichita, Kansas, and is now widely used throughout the United States by the few abortionists who are still willing to do the late-term procedures. It has replaced the live partial birth abortion method since the Partial Birth Abortion Ban act was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in April, 2007. Tiller describes this particular abortion method as the MOLD Technique, which is an acronym for the four products employed in the abortion process: Misoprostol, Oxytocin, Laminaria, and Digoxin.

“We think the process is safe. Nothing is perfect.” – George Tiller

The Induction abortion takes 3-4 days to complete. On the first day the woman is given an ultrasound to determine the gestational age of her baby. Then, with the aid of the ultrasound to guide the abortionist, a lethal dose of the heart medication Digoxin is injected into the baby’s heart directly through the woman’s abdomen. Digoxin gives the baby a fatal heart attack. This is an off-label application of the drug, which was developed and approved as a treatment for heart disease
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Wichita, KS — A new documentary produced by Life Dynamics, Inc. of Denton, Texas, reveals the filthy, and unsafe conditions that existed at Central Women’s Services, a former Wichita abortion mill that was purchased by Operation Rescue earlier this year.

Within hours of taking possession of the building that had housed an abortion clinic since 1983, OR President Troy Newman guided LDI’s Mark Crutcher and his production team on a tour of the facility, where they filmed and documented the shocking conditions that existed there. The mill was a member of the National Abortion Federation, an association of shoddy abortion mills around the country, some of which have recently been closed for their unsafe conditions and practices by the states of Florida and Alabama.

Video clip documenting the condition of the Central Women’s Services abortion mill, now owned by Operation Rescue. Produced by Life Dynamics, Inc. (23 minutes, 25.5 MB)

The documentary was originally part of LDI’s monthly video magazine, LifeTalk, but has been edited here to include only the segment on the conditions at Central Women’s Services. To obtain a full copy of LifeTalk, please click here.

Operation Rescue has plans to renovate the building to include a memorial to the estimated 50,000 pre-born babies who lost their lives there. It will also serve as OR’s national headquarters, where they plan to continue their work to close more abortion mills across the country. For more information about this endeavor, and how you can help OR redeem this former killing center for God’s glory and purposes, please click here.