Dr. George Tiller

• George Tiller kills children in the ninth month of pregnancy. Don't believe it? Visit his website at http://www.gynpages.com/ [or http://www.drtiller.com/].
  


• Notice that Tiller uses the term "baby" in reference to the little ones he kills for a living.
  


• There are many abortionists on the WWW. But George Tiller is the showman of the lot. German television crews have traveled all the way to Wichita, KS to interview Tiller, who recently tripled the capacity of his slaughterhouse to meet his growing international market.
  


• Tiller kills neonates for (among other reasons) "encephalocele" (hernia of the brain) and "hydrocephalus" (water on the brain). Both are non-fatal disorders with a possibility of mild disabling. Both are reparable. Diseases of the Newborn by Schaffer & Avery, says that with few exceptions "every infant with neonatal hydrocephalus should be treated surgically ... [and] 86 per cent of infants survived following their shunt replacement"
  


• According to "Dr." Tiller, the average baby he kills is in the seventh month of pregnancy. In the neonatal intensive care unit at Via Christi Hospital in Tiller's home base, Wichita, preemies born at 24 and 25 weeks' gestation are nursed carefully to health.
  


• The Kansas City Star (8/26/91) quoted Tiller spokeswoman Peggy Jarman saying that "elective abortions should be considered acceptable into the 26th week because these fetuses are not capable of surviving outside the womb without artificial life supports."
  


• Jarman also admitted that "about three-fourths of Tiller's late-term patients are teenagers who have denied to themselves or their families that they were pregnant until it was too late to hide it". Abortions are performed on their children with no reference to health disorders in the baby or the mother. The inference is clear. George Tiller is slaughtering possibly three healthy late-term babies for every "disabled" child he puts to the knife.
  


• Tiller claims he kills babies with "Trisomy 21," which is the scientific name for Down's Syndrome.
  


• In a letter dated April 19, 1991, Tiller solicited business from referring physicians. The letter said that "Patients are encouraged to speak directly to their baby if they wish, and finally to say 'good-bye'. (Not all patients choose to be involved in this process....)"
  


• Five years later, in a promotional video, Tiller offered women the chance to have a "family photo" taken with them holding their dead baby. He also offered to provide a lock of the baby's hair or a fetal footprint.
  


• Rev. George Gardner, pastor of Wichita's College Hill United Methodist Church, admits to performing post-mortem baptisms on Tiller's victims.