Reclaiming Our Children: A Blog About Healing After Abortion

For those of you who may not know who Tiller is, he is a late term abortionist who has somehow managed to evade authorities until now. He not only does abortions, he also tries to make the killing of these babies "normal"  by dressing them up after he has killed then, in some cases he "baptize" them and he will takes pictures of them with their parents….the people who go to him are often so confused and traumatized ….please God may he never open again….

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
August 2,  2007
         

 Wichita  KS (LifeNews.com) — The controversial late-term abortion facility in Wichita is closed this weekend next while abortion practitioner George Tiller is arraigned on charges he did illegal abortions. Tiller has  been charged by the state’s attorney general with violating a law requiring the signature of a doctor vouching that the abortion is medically necessary.
         

Tiller is scheduled to be arraigned next Tuesday on 19 criminal counts of  abortions in violation of the law and he could face 19 years in jail if convicted and sentenced to the maximum prison time.

As a result of the legal proceedings, Tiller is temporarily closing his Women’s Health Care Services abortion business and referring women to abortion centers in Kansas City and Oklahoma.

Operation Rescue President Troy Newman, based in Wichita, applauded the closing  in a statement sent to LifeNews.com.

"We are rejoicing that for two straight weeks, Wichita, Kansas, the nation’s abortion capital, will be abortion free for the first time since abortions began here," he said. "We pray that abortions will never
   resume."

He  explained it is unclear when and if abortions will resume.

Tiller’s clinic was also closed for abortions the first week in July and last 
month more than 500 pro-life people stood outside in a prayer rally hoping it would close again.

As the first response to the new charges, attorneys for Tiller have filed a lawsuit claiming the Kansas law is unconstitutional. Tiller’s attorneys  argue that the provision of the law that requires two or more doctors  to sign off on late-term abortions is invalid.

In their July 5 motion, they also sought to dismiss the 19 misdemeanor  charges Attorney General Dan Morrison filed that would have Tiller  in jail as long as 19 years if convicted. He could also be fined $2500  per violation and lose his medical license.

Morrison filed charges alleging that before performing 19 late-term abortions  in 2003, Tiller received a second opinion from abortion practitioner Ann Kristin Neuhaus, who Morrison said had financial ties with Tiller.

A 1998 Kansas law says that before an abortion of a baby 21 weeks or 
older, two physicians must determine if continuation of a pregnancy will lead to death or "substantial and irreversible" harm
            to a "major bodily function."

The  consulting doctor can have no financial or legal ties to the abortion 
practitioner.

Newman said the closing is the latest in a string of good news.

 "Because of public pressure brought by Operation Rescue, over a dozen clinic 
workers have quit their jobs with Tiller and dozens of companies will  no long do business with him," said Newman.