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What The Media Never Told You About Dr. George Tiller

I got this letter last week from The Life Advocate in Houston where I live. about Dr. Tiller.  My dealings with him in Houston were few.

We would like to reflect not only on the loss of Dr. Tiller's life but on the lives of those he took. Dr Tiller had boasted about aborting "60,000 fetuses over 24 weeks". For the past several years , to mark the Roe vs. Wade anniversary, he offered free first-trimester abortions to underprivileged women.. However, his specialty was late-term abortions for "defective fetuses". In five years alone, he performed 10,000 late-term abortions, of which only 800 had fetal "anomalies" ( an anomaly could be cleft palet, down syndrome, or even twins). The 9,200 others were healthy babies, whose only "defect" was being unwanted. Even more sickening is that he presented his practice as "humane and Christian". He would give the aborted baby's parents a certificate of premature miscarriage" with "closure services" including dressing the dead baby in a Christening gown and having pictures taken with his or hers parents. One woman who worked for Dr. Tiller said, "As I sat and worked at the computer, I could not help but notice the horrible smell of burning flesh". The employee. who had no previous problem with abortion before, became so disgusted with Dr. Tiller's practices that she left and spoke out against him.

As happy as we are that Tiller's abortion clinic has been permanently closed, it is bittersweet because it did not happen through legal means, but through violence and a loss of life. Pro lifers throughout the country were harshly criticized in the days and weeks follow Dr. Tiller's death. The violent act of one person resulted in the condemnation of millions of Americans who have worked tirelessly, through legal and peaceful means, in an attempt to restore the right to life to the unborn. Unlike Dr. Tiller., we are in the business of saving lifes, not taking them.