Flowers are being left outside the Reformation Lutheran Church in Wichita this week, and at the gated entrance of the Women’s Health Care Services there — all in memory of George Tiller, one of the few doctors in the country who would still help women who needed abortions late in their pregnancies, and who was murdered on Sunday as he left church.
This being the electronic age, tributes are being left online too, accumulating around the web in virtual gatherings of would-be parents, all of them Dr. Tiller’s patients, who describe his compassion when they faced terminating their wanted and cherished pregnancies because of devastating health news.
Salon.com is one such gathering place. There Susan Hill, the president of the National Women’s Health Foundation, explains that women in Tiller’s care were there mostly because life had dealt them a crippling blow.
“We always sent the really tragic cases to Tiller,” said Hill, who knew the doctor for 20 years. This included women who were newly diagnosed with cancer and who could not start chemotherapy unless they terminated their pregnancies; women whose babies would be born only to suffer from genetic illness and die; women – no girls – who were victims of rape or incest and who were so young that they didn’t know enough to know they were pregnant until they were many months along.
http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/04/patients-remember-dr-tiller/?hpThere are some stories at this site, and links to other places with stories. I wish someone would make a book. I also wish some of them would be courageous enough to go on Oprah or somewhere and tell their story.
O'Reilly and the wingnuts have no clue!!
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