Slain abortion doctor specialized in fetuses with abnormalities
June 1st, 2009
Dr. George R. Tiller, who ran one of just three clinics in the nation that performed late-term abortions, was shot to death yesterday in the lobby of his Lutheran church in Wichita.
From the New York Daily News:
Tiller specialized in the 1% of abortions performed in the third trimester, usually on women who discover their fetus is so badly damaged that the baby would be stillborn or suffer. He also took patients with healthy fetuses who had been raped or whose health was in danger.
Because most doctors will not abort a fetus after 21 weeks, women from all over the world came to Wichita after learning their babies would be born with abnormalities.
From the Associated Press:
Tiller … said abortion was as socially divisive as slavery or prohibition.
But he said the issue was about giving women a choice when dealing with technology that can diagnose severe fetal abnormalities before a baby is born.
“Prenatal testing without prenatal choices is medical fraud,” Tiller once said.
See also: Abortion provider shot dead in church — The Washington Post
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June 1st, 2009 at 12:17 pm
I was unfamiliar with this man. But from the Wikipedia site, it seems he performed a late-term abortion on a young woman with Down Syndrome who had been raped. Not only did the fetus die, so did the mother.
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Christin Gilbert
Christin Gilbert, a 19-year-old woman with Down Syndrome from Keller, Texas, died in January 2005 after a multi-day abortion procedure performed at Tiller’s facility, though reports conflict as to whether the abortion was performed by Tiller himself or by LeRoy Carhart. Gilbert had been 28 weeks pregnant. The autopsy stated that Gilbert died of sepsis following the abortion.[18] Tiller was cleared of any wrongdoing by the Kansas Board of Healing Arts. After a petition from Operation Rescue, a grand jury was convened to probe the death,[19][20] which resulted in no indictments against Tiller.”
Would there have been no indictment against Tiller if Christin Gilbert had not had Down Syndrome?