Tiller’s attorneys attempt to pass off unsubstantiated National Inquirer-style accusations as fact
Wichita, KS – Judge Clark Owens has ruled that the scheduled November 17 hearing in the criminal case of late-term abortionist George R. Tiller will not be delayed as prosecutors are ordered to answer almost 500 allegations of misconduct levied by Tiller’s defense team.
Tiller’s lawyers made the allegations in a brief filed September 15 that included unsubstantiated accusations of prosecutorial misconduct on the part of former Attorney General Phill Kline, who denies any wrongdoing.
Tiller is being charged with 19 counts of violating a requirement in the Kansas ban on post-viability abortions that requires the second signature of a physician not legally or financially affiliated with the abortionist before post-viability abortions can be done. Operation Rescue was the first to discover and report that Tiller was violating that requirement in the law.
While the current charges were not filed by Kline, they are based on abortion records obtained by Kline with the permission and oversight of the Kansas Supreme Court.
Attorney General Steve Six removed prosecutor Veronica Dersch from the case last week because she is now a potential witness. Dersch has been replaced by Barry Disney, who asked Judge Owens for permission to file his answer to the Tiller accusations after the November 17 hearing, when the facts of the matter can be determined. The request for a delay in filing the brief was denied at a hearing on Thursday.
“Tiller is now engaging in the ‘smoke and mirrors’ defense, apparently because they have no real legal defense to stand on. They are attempting to pass off huge amounts of unsubstantiated accusations as fact, and cloud the real issue that their client is accused of repeatedly breaking the law,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. “Tiller’s attorneys are willing to risk the lives and safety of women to keep Tiller in business, and their hourly fees rolling in.”
“This prosecution must go on without further delay,” said Newman. “Every day Tiller’s clinic is open is another day when women’s lives are placed at risk from his dangerous abortion business. A conviction could cost Tiller his medical license and literally save lives.”
Wichita, KS – An ambulance arrived at Women’s Health Care Services, a late-term abortion mill owned by George R. Tiller, and transported a woman away with lights flashing and sirens blaring at approximately 6:30 PM on Wednesday, October 1, 2008.
Wednesday’s incident was reported by Brandi Lozier, who was volunteering for the Kansas Coalition for Life outside the WHCS gate. Brandi observed that a clinic employee driving a van registered to Tiller entered the parking lot at high speeds carrying a Caucasian woman who appeared to be in distress. The van pulled around to the back of the building and began to sound the horn.
Lozier called 911 and asked for help. It is unclear if her call summoned the ambulance or if another call was placed from inside WHCS.
According to another witness, John Elmore, an ambulance, a fire truck, and a police cruiser arrived shortly before 6:30 PM and within approximately two minutes the ambulance left WHCS with lights and sirens. It headed northbound on Bleckley then turned west into on-coming traffic on the Kellogg frontage road until it reached Oliver.
Operation Rescue was notified, and Cheryl Sullenger went immediately to Wesley Medical Center where a number of ambulances were in various stages of offloading patients. It is unclear which vehicle may have transported the injured woman.
This is the first time an ambulance has been seen at WHCS since July, 2005, after which Tiller began transporting women with life-threatening emergencies in private vehicles. Last Thursday, Patient S. was taken to Wesley Medical Center in Tiller’s private Jeep after having suffered respiratory distress and cardiac arrest during an abortion.
“We have a crisis situation right now at Tiller’s abortion business, and we are wondering what the body count has to be before the state regulators will close it down,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. “Tiller’s clinic has become little more than a dangerous abortion chop shop. This is intolerable and we demand that Women’s Health Care Services be immediately closed in order to prevent further injury and death. We are exploring every legal action to make sure that happens.”
Most of you are aware that here in Wichita, Kansas, District Attorney Nola Foulston has repeatedly covered up for late-term abortionist George Tiller and aggressively prosecutedpro-lifers for simply standing for Life. From what we have seen and experienced, Foulston’s time in office has been characterized by corruption.
But what you may not know is that since she was first elected to the office of Sedgwick County District Attorney in 1988, she has never been opposed for re-election – until now!
We have the rare opportunity to vote Nola Foulston out of office and replace her with a man of honesty and integrity. Foulston’s opponent is Mark Schoenhofer, a committed Catholic who is very pro-life.
But please don’t think that Mark is a one-note politician. He is an attorney who is dedicated to finding truth and administering justice – someone who believes that the laws should be equitably enforced and that no one is above them. He wants to protect us by putting the bad guys behind bars. We appreciate that about Mark.
Nola Foulston, on the other hand, has repeatedly shown favoritism on the job, and even has used her office to persecute Christians!
Here are just some of the ways Nola Foulston has rescued Tiller:
In December, 2006, then Attorney General Phill Kline filed 30 criminal charges against George Tiller for illegal late-term abortions. Less than 24 hours later, Foulston persuaded a judge (someone she had a long history of supporting with campaign contributions) to dismiss the charges without having even looked at them.
Foulston lied to the media when she told them she had no prior notice of the Kline charges, then changed her story after Kline produced an e-mail from her acknowledging that they had met and discussed the charges before they were filed.
KSBHA also asked to evaluate Tiller’s competence based on poor physical health
Topeka, KS - A complaint has been filed with the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts demanding the emergency suspension of the medical licenses of George R. Tiller and Shelley Sella, whose involvement in a late-term abortion last week nearly cost the life of a 23-year old woman.
Allegations include:
Patient S.’s pregnancy was misdiagnosed by Tiller’s staff to be 19 weeks, even though according to her last menstrual period and previous medical examinations, she was actually 23 weeks pregnant at the time of the abortion, beyond the legal limit.
Patient S. developed severe pain and other complications after having received a digoxin injection from abortionist Sella that was meant to stop her pre-born baby’s heart.
Patient S. spiked a fever of 103.7 degrees, yet was not treated for possible infection by Tiller or his staff.
Patient S. was locked in a room against her will for over 4 hours without treatment for over four hours while feverish and in pain, and was not allowed to communicate with her family.
Tiller threatened to withhold treatment from Patient S., even though she was sick, in pain, and had not yet delivered the baby that was presumed to already be dead.
Tiller threatened to send Patient S. to a hospital in Kansas City, three hours away, in spite of her life-threatening condition and incomplete abortion.
Because of her treatment, Patient S. feared she would be killed while under sedation.
During the final abortion procedure, Patient S. stopped breathing and her heart stopped. She was revived.
Tiller was observed to be shaking excessively, and exhibited extremely poor eyesight during the drive to the hospital.
Tiller refused to call an ambulance and instead personally drove Patient S. to Wesley Medical Center in his private vehicle, further endangering her life.
Tiller never provided follow-up care for Patient S.
In addition to the license suspensions, the complaint urges that the Board evaluate Tiller’s fitness to continue providing surgical procedures due observations of extremely shaky hands and extremely poor eyesight.
“The situation at Tiller’s abortion clinic constitutes a public emergency. This week, other women are submitting late-term abortions that are risky under the best on conditions. Based on what we have heard from Patient S., those women’s lives are in immanent danger. We urge the KSBHA to close Tiller’s clinic pending a full investigation into this complaint, before we see more women maimed or killed,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman.
Patient S. tells from her hospital bed how she was locked in a room against her will for four hours while a raging infection nearly took her life.
Wichita, KS – A life-threatening abortion complication landed a patient of late-term abortionist George R. Tiller in the hospital last Thursday. The woman has come forward to tell of her harrowing, near-death experience at Tiller’s Women’s Health Care Services.
Patient S. has alleged that on Tuesday, September 23, abortionist Shelley Sella may have botched an injection into her abdomen, causing sepsis, a systemic infection that rapidly spreads throughout the body and can cause rapid death.
She also accuses Sella of misdiagnosing her pregnancy at 19 weeks, even though previous medical examinations placed her pregnancy at 23 weeks, beyond the legal limit in Kansas.
On Thursday, while sick, crying, and running a fever of 103.7°, she returned to WHCS where she was isolated in a locked room for four hours, during which time her pleas for release were ignored.
Patient S. was told that she should be quiet because she was upsetting the other women, and was threatened that unless her attitude changed, they would no longer treat her. She was also told that she would have to drive over three hours to a hospital in Kansas City where her abortion would be completed. She refused to make the trip and demanded that Tiller finish the procedure.
Patient S. observed that she continued to feel movements in her womb. Her mother was present during the removal of the baby, and observed Tiller inserting a tube into the baby’s skull and removing the brains, a procedure that is illegal if the baby was still alive.
Before the final procedure, Patient S. said that she feared, “They’re liable to kill me under sedation.” During the procedure, Patient S. suffered an asthma attack and cardiac arrest, but was revived.
Instead of calling an ambulance, Tiller drove Patient S. to Wesley Medical Center in his personal Jeep. She feared for her safety since Tiller apparently could not see very clearly, and was verbally directed though traffic by a female employee who was with them.
She was treated and discharged from the hospital on Saturday, September 27, 2008, even though she was still in pain and feeling sick from her ordeal.
Patient S.’s experience closely resembles that of 19-year old Christin Gilbert, who died from untreated sepsis during a third-trimester abortion at WHCS on January 13, 2005.
“We have repeatedly begged the authorities in Kansas to hold Tiller accountable for the many women he had hurt just over the past few years. How many women must be maimed or killed before Tiller is brought to justice? We say it again: Tiller is a menace and we demand that he be held accountable for his dangerous, if not criminal, actions. This time, the public should not take ‘no’ for an answer,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman.
ACLU will pay outside pro-abortion agitators to influence the vote against Measure 11, the proposed abortion ban
Sioux Falls, SD – The ACLU has announced plans to bus in abortion supporters from more liberal states in an attempt to influence the outcome of vote on Measure 11, a proposed state ban on nearly all abortions. The groups are scheduled to descend upon Sioux Falls, South Dakota the first weekend in October. In addition, the ACLU has promised to pay all expenses for the out-of-state agitators, including lodging if necessary.
“Operation Rescue denounces this blatant effort by the ACLU to bring in paid agitators to influence the vote in South Dakota. We see this as an unscrupulous effort to buy the election,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. “The people of South Dakota have taken pride in the fact that Measure 11 is a law by South Dakotans for South Dakotans. They certainly don’t need the ACLU to bring in pro-abortion liberals to tell them what is best for their state.”
Polls have shown that the majority of South Dakotans support the abortion restrictions in Measure 11.
“We know that the good people of South Dakota embrace the traditional American values that cherish life and family. We urge South Dakotans to reject the liberal ACLU carpetbaggers and vote their consciences in support of Measure 11 on November 4,” said Newman.
St. Louis, MO — Operation Rescue and the Christian Defense Coalition have announced plans for demonstrations surrounding the Vice-Presidential debate to be held in St. Louis on October 2.
The groups, which are coordinating with Defenders of the Unborn, Concerned Women for America, and other pro-life groups, have planned events that will both support pro-life Republican vice presidential nominee, Gov. Sarah Palin, and stand in opposition to the pro-abortion Democratic vice presidential nominee, Sen. Joe Biden.
“Governor Palin has energized the faith and pro-life constituencies like no other,” said Rev. Pat Mahoney, Director of the Christian Defense Coalition Director. “This is an untapped resource I think is extraordinary.”
“Gov. Palin is a ray of hope that God is beginning to answer our prayers for the leadership of our nation,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. “She has helped vault the plight of the pre-born to the front burner of American politics. Sen. Biden, on the other hand, is an enemy of Life and should be exposed and rebuked.”
“She is a pro-life candidate. All Christians must band together to elect her to the White House,” said Mary Maschmeier of the St. Louis group Defenders of the Unborn.
Events scheduled so far include the following:
Rally and Prayer in preparation for the Vice-Presidential Debate
October 1, 2008 at 7:00 PM
IL Monastero- On the campus of St. Louis University
3010 Olive Street, St. Louis
Prayer and Prayer During the Debate
October 2, 2008 from 5-9 PM
Skinker and Forest Park Blvd., one block from Forest Park across from Lindell Blvd.
The specific times and locations for various other activities will be determined in the next few days.
Barack Obama wants us to believe his words matter. And why shouldn’t he? Other than a brief voting record, he has nothing else to offer. Unfortunately, what figures most prominently in that record is unwavering support for killing our unborn, newborn and disabled citizens.
It’s a sobering comment on our society that someone as contemptuous of human life as Adolph Hitler, Margaret Sanger or Osama bin Laden may well become the next president of the United States. In a country whose majority claims to be Christian, this contest should not be close; indeed, Barack Obama should not even be in the running. Yet ours is a society lost in a pother of relativism, in which “Christian” means little and human life means even less.
Contrast Obama’s objectification of people with Sarah Palin’s affirmation of them. Never has there been such stark contrast in American politics. Never. An enabler of the greatest threats to mankind– abortion, euthanasia, cloning and lethal experimentation– against a witness to the beauty, joy and sanctity of life. It’s not going too far at all to characterize this presidential race in biblical terms. Indeed, Obama’s carefully chosen words regarding “reproductive freedom” bring to mind the serpent’s lie to Eve; it’s the very same promise the abortion industry, euthanasia advocates and promoters of human cloning offer the gullible today: you will be like God.
Some suggest that Sarah Palin’s appearance in this election is providential. It’s easy to see why. Standing before the world, amid a culture that relegates children with Down syndrome quite literally to trash bins, Sarah Palin bears unabashed witness to a mother’s love for a baby she calls perfection. Such respect for the human person should trump all other considerations when choosing chief executives; alas, not in today’s America.
Foundering in a blood bath of our own making, the choice facing Americans never has been clearer: “change” leading to even more carnage or a renewed respect for life and all its blessings.
Los Angeles, CA — A new study published last week by the Family Research Council proves that laws that require parental involvement before minors can obtain abortions save a significant number of lives.
The findings of the study, conducted by Dr. Michael New, an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Alabama, show that even simple parental notification laws can reduce teen abortions as much as 13 percent.
“These findings are good news to those who are working enact common sense public policy that involves parents, such as California’s Prop. 4, an initiative that would require parental notification before minors can obtain abortions,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. “This should give added encouragement for voters to support Prop. 4 and other similar measures.”
Dr. New’s study found the following:
-If a state passes a pro-life parental involvement law it reduces the minor abortion rate by 13 percent
-If this law requires parental consent (rather than parental notice) it reduces the minor abortion rate by 19 percent
-If this law requires the involvement of two parents (rather than one parent) it reduces the minor abortion rate by 31 percent.
-These findings held true for all age groups that were analyzed –17 year olds, 16 year olds, and 15 year olds.
“Dr. New’s study results give support to Operation Rescue’s policy of working to save as many babies as possible now, while working toward total abolition of abortion the earliest moment,” said Newman. “Restrictive abortion legislation is just another tool in our hands, to save babies, as this study shows. It is immoral and unconscionable to allow babies to die that we have within our ability to save with common sense laws such as parental involvement legislation. It also gives us another means of holding abortionists, who are predisposed to violate the law, legally accountable for their actions.”
