Woman Hospitalized From Botched Abortion Dies From Complications

From LifeNews.com (Hat Tip: Steve Ertelt, author of this article and head of LifeNews.com, who used to be a regular correspondent of mine and still sends me his e-mail updates. Thanks, Steve.)

Let's see--a woman has to go to the hospital after an abortion--not done in a hospital setting--goes sour. Now she's dead. And who operates that abortion mill? George Tiller--and this is the fourth such case out of his mill in thirteen months.

I have heard about George Tiller, off and on, for years. He does late-term abortions, and has a history of abortions going sour that goes way, way back. This case frankly stinks, and the stink is of gross medical incompetence, not just by Dr. Tiller but by everyone on his staff. Here's the 911 transcript! Here are some excerpts:

TXT: CP BEING VERY EVASIVE, PUT ON HOLD

TXT: CP IS [name and phone number withheld]
TXT: CP REFUSED TO GIVE ANY INFORMATION, JUST SAYING NEED EMS, CONFIRMED THAT PD IS NOT NEEDED
TXT: EMS ENTER THE REAR OF THE STRUCTURE OFF [street name withheld]

Come in by the back way? Oh, yeah--it might be embarrassing to see a big ol' ambulance with its flashing lights in front of your "safe and legal" abortion mill.

I have withheld the information, primarily because I don't have any mandate for encouraging people to call some abortion mill and rag on them. If you want to rag on someone, rag on your United States Senators and Representative--or if you're in Kansas, rag on your State Senator(s) and assembly members--not to mention your State's governor.

But George Tiller is not the only one. During my medical training, I saw lots of women--too many to count--brought into Saint Luke's Episcopal Hospital in Houston, TX and typically landing in intensive care and requiring the consultation of the crack team of lung specialists with whom I was taking an elective at the time. This sort of thing happens all the time! Why? Because abortion is an inherently dangerous procedure. Many hospitals won't allow abortions on their premises, to be sure--but that didn't strike me as being the case when I saw all those women in that ICU.

At least fifty percent of the patients who enter an abortion clinic don't come out alive--and now, it would appear, it's a lot more than that. To any woman who thinks she "just can't have this baby," I say this: Is it really worth your life not to have the baby anyway? How safe is abortion, even for you? Besides--whatever mistake you've made, sometimes the cover-up is worse--not merely more reprehensible but positively dangerous to your life and health--than the original mistake. You should call The Doctor and Lawyer Who already gave His life for you. He's always standing by--and He doesn't even need operators as you know them.

And to George Tiller: What you did here is worse than therapeutic misadventure. This is manslaughter--or rather, woman-slaughter--laying aside the deaths of all those babies at your hands. Repent, Dr. Tiller. Repent, repent, repent.