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17 Oct 08
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The center of the American abortion industry is the state of Kansas. This comes as a surprise to many, since Kansans tend to be simple, down-to-earth, conservative people—the kind that one would least expect to find inside the walls of an abortion clinic.
Of all the states in this country, why Kansas? What makes Kansas special when it comes to abortion? The answer is simple: Kansas is home to George Tiller, the most prolific late-term abortionist in the entire western world.
Since 1973, George Tiller—or "Dr. Tiller", as he likes to call himself—has performed thousands upon thousands of late-term abortions. He is renowned among the pro-choice community for his impeccable record of safety: unlike some abortionists, he has yet to kill a woman in the process of terminating a pregnancy. His apparent skill as an abortion practitioner has won him numerous awards, including the National Abortion Federation's highest honor, the Christopher Tietze Humanitarian Award.
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Among pro-life advocates, he is famous for the cruelty with which he treats the unborn. No case illustrates the extent of this cruelty better than the tragedy of Baby Sarah Brown, one of his many victims. In 1993, a pregnant teenager and her parents traveled 900 miles to Tiller's office in Kansas to receive an elective late-term abortion.
Tiller began the abortion by injecting a poisonous syringe through the pregnant teenager's uterus and into the upper left side of the unborn baby's face. He then instructed the teenager to return the next day for the completion of the abortion.
To everyone's dismay, the baby did not die during the intervening hours. After the teenager began to complain of serious abdominal pains, her parents rushed her to a local hospital where the baby was eventually born—alive. The delivery room staff felt that life-support would be futile, so they wrapped the baby in a bassinet without attendance. The teenager and her parents quickly left the scene.
Even without medical care, the baby remained alive. After many hours had passed, the delivery room staff decided to give her treatment. Miraculously, she managed to survive through the entire ordeal. "Sarah", as her adoptive parents later named her, lived until the age of 5, when she succumbed to the developmental harm done to her body during the abortion. The KCl solution that had been injected into the side of her face had left her permanently blind and brain damaged.
Prior to the abortion, Sarah was a perfectly normal baby. The relevant medical records indicate that she had no disabilities or deformities. If Tiller hadn't attempted to poison her, she would be a healthy 9 year old girl with an entire life ahead of her. Instead, she is in a grave.
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In the middle of 1998, the state of Kansas instituted a mandatory reporting policy that required Tiller to submit information about the abortions that he performs. The Kansas Department of Health and Environmental Statistics has recently published this information: http://www.kdhe.state.ks.us/hci/absumm.html.
The information sends a clear message: the majority of late-term abortions are purely elective. They typically involve healthy babies and healthy mothers. If you are inclined to disagree, or if you have a hard time believing that mainstream abortion practitioners would be willing to kill babies that are months from being born, then I ask that you continue reading. You will be amazed—and hopefully outraged—when you see the data for yourself.
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The "health" exceptions built into these statutes make them absolutely meaningless. They haven't restricted a single late-term abortion. All that Tiller has to do to keep his atrocities within the boundaries set by the Kansas Legislature is find one pro-choice psychologist in the United States willing to claim that late-term abortion is necessary to preserve a woman's mental health. If he can do that, he can do whatever he wants. It certainly doesn't seem like a very daunting task, does it?
Since the concept of "health"—especially the concept of "mental health"—has no established legal meaning, virtually every late-term abortion that Tiller performs, no matter how abusive, remains legally invincible. If he wanted to, he could exact a partial birth abortion on a healthy, 40 week old infant. He would get off scot-free. Sadly enough, prosecutors would be powerless to convict him of wrongdoing. As long as he manages to find a mental health professional willing to vouch for his actions, there isn't really any basis for conviction.
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Abortion advocates often deflect negative attention by insisting that late-term abortions are in the best interests of the babies that are aborted. They claim that if the babies are not "terminated", they will live lives scarred by illness. The truth is that the vast majority of the babies condemned to death by late-term abortion are healthy and capable of living meaningful lives.
There also exists a common misconception that late-term abortions are limited to medical emergencies. Nothing could be further from the truth. From 1998 until 2000, only one out of the 1168 abortions that Tiller performed after viability was done during a medical emergency. Upwards of 97% of his late-term patients weren't even from Kansas—they flew in from other states to have abortions that they had scheduled in advance.
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It is inconceivable that the poisoning of a viable unborn baby before an induction could be necessary to avert physical health damage to a pregnant woman. The death of a baby doesn't cure any physical illnesses. What, then, are the "health" problems that are leading to these abortions? Again, the answer lies in the nebulous concept of mental health—a loophole that has been tailor made to legalize elective abortion throughout the nine months of a pregnancy. The argument put forth by the abortion industry is that unwanted babies, if they are allowed to live, pose a threat to the psychological well-being of the mothers who will have to raise them. Consequently, they must die.
Let there be no confusion: the motivation behind these abortions is not the termination of an unwanted pregnancy. Once pregnancy has reached viability, doctors can perform abortion without engaging in an act of killing. The motivation behind these abortions is the destruction of an unwanted fetus, the elimination of an unwanted child. Tiller himself seems willing to concede the point. From his own mouth, "it is unplanned and unwanted motherhood that shipwrecks women's lives, not unplanned pregnancy." (George R. Tiller, Victory Rally and Declaration of Reproductive Independence, Wichita, Kansas, July 13, 2001 <http://www.prochoice.org/Voices/Providers/Tiller.htm>)
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From January of 1999 to December 1999, Tiller performed 574 abortions after 22 weeks. 302 of these abortions were performed on viable babies. All of the abortions were done for "health" reasons; not one was done to preserve the life of the mother.
During the same period, Tiller performed 182 abortions with the PBA method. Every single one of these abortions was performed after viability. As in the previous year, he was asked to indicate, for each patient , whether the procedure was done to protect the patient's physical health or the patient's mental health. His answer in every case was mental health.
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From January of 2001 to December 2001, Tiller performed 635 abortions after 22 weeks. 395 of these abortions were done on viable babies. As usual, all of the abortions were done for "health" reasons. Not one was done to preserve the life of the mother.
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When considering the statistics on post-viability abortion, it is important to remember that they deal with "viability" as it is defined by an abortionist who is definitely no friend of unborn children. George Tiller is well-known for putting the unborn at a disadvantage when making determinations about their chances of survival outside the womb. His own former employee has testified to his deceptive tactics:
"Tiller [would determine the baby’s] BPD (biparietal diameter), which is a measurement of the babies head. Tiller gave me this simple explanation of what a BPD is: at this certain angle, the baby’s head is roughly egg shaped. The ordinary method of measurement is to go from the top of the egg to the bottom of the egg. That is the widest point of the angle. But Tiller said he goes from side to side on the egg and gets a much narrower measurement. He does not keep the photos in the medical records and he disposes of the babies, so there is no way to go back and see what he has done."She was viciously attacked by the abortion industry, but, as the statistics verify, her statements were very close to the truth:
"I was there for about seven months, which is a fairly representative amount of time. In over 95% of these babies, perhaps more, there was nothing wrong at all. Nothing. And these were third trimester abortions."
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He is killing babies that his clients—many of them teenagers—have felt move in their wombs for months. What could be worse for a teenager's "mental health" than to spend the rest of her life with the after thought that she chose to have her baby killed in a grisly late-term abortion? How could a twisted experience like that help the mental outlook of a teenager?
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Elena LaVictoireMany late term abortions ARE elective- despite what you might read on liberal blogs during an election year.
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