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TR Update New.Pmd Presents The Tiller Report II The Newly Updated Shocking Exposé On America‘s Most Infamous Late-Term Abortionist Copyright 2004, 2006 Operation Rescue P.O. Box 782888 Wichita, KS 67278 www.operationrescue.org All Rights Reserved DISCLAIMER Operation Rescue’s stated purpose is to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ and to stop abortion by all legitimate forms of protest, and by complying with the Biblical Mandate in Ephesians 5:11, to have nothing to do with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. Nothing included in The Tiller Report is intended to encourage or to incite illegal acts. The names and addresses contained herein are published only with the intent of encouraging prayer for those listed and to encourage the public to use peaceful, legal means to speak out against the tragedy of abortion. Operation Rescue does not encourage or incite repetitive, threatening or abusive communications with these individuals and companies, be this by telephone call, fax, email or letter. Any reference to illegal acts is solely for the purpose of information and education, and are not in- tended to incite or encourage similar acts. OPERATIONRESCUE.ORG presents The Tiller Report II Table of Contents “Tiller the Killer” Page 1 ♦ Abortion Deaths ♦ Decadant, Lavish Lifestyle ♦ Christin Gilbert ♦ Following in Daddy’s Footsteps ♦ Coerced Abortions ♦ From Healer to Killer ♦ Coerced Adoptions ♦ Free Abortions ♦ Adoptions as Payoffs for Political Favors ♦ Chilling Lectures on Gruesome ♦ The Five-Year Abortion Dismemberment Techniques ♦ Abortion for a 12-Year Old Girl ♦ Exporting Murder ♦ Drugs, Alcohol, and Spirituality Disposal of Human Remains ♦ Abortion is Worth Going to Hell For Page 41 ♦ Crematorium Women’s Health Care Services ♦ Selling Baby Body Parts Page 7 ♦ Tiller’s Philosophy of Murder The Perpetrators Go Unpunished ♦ Tiller’s Four Rules of the Practice Page 42 ♦ Kansas Laws Ignored Tiller’s Cohorts: Abortion ♦ Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act Nullified Profiteers Page 11 ♦ KS Attorney General Investigates ♦ Abortionists Possible Criminal Acts ♦ Tiller’s Abortion Staff ♦ Former Employees Rat Out the Rat The Abortion Collaborators Page 47 The Abortion Page 18 ♦ Builders for Blood Money ♦ The Ultimate Complication ♦ Wesley Medical Center ♦ Fetal Indications Termination of ♦ Sunflower Travel Agency Pregnancy Program ♦ Best Cab Company ♦ Bizarre Services and Religious Rituals ♦ Diamond Security, L.C. ♦ Priests of Baal a.k.a. “Abortion ♦ Maggot Punks Punked Out Chaplains” ♦ Baby Chelsea The Enablers Page 52 ♦ Religious Coalition for Reproductive Botched Abortions and Other Choice Troubles Page 24 ♦ Exploration Place and the Central ♦ The Complications Branch YMCA ♦ Botched Abortions – Court Records ♦ Botched Abortions – Eye Witness Accounts ♦ No More Ambulances? (Continued) Table of Contents (Continued) ♦ Political Cronies ♦ ProKanDo and Campaign Contributions ♦ Buying Vetoes? ♦ Crumbling Support in Wichita’s City Government Conclusion Page 56 ♦ What you can do to stop the killing. References and Supplemental Documents Page 62 Space Ads THE TILLER REPORT II “Tiller the Killer” home in nearby Andover, Kansas. The Tillers have four natural children, now George Richard Tiller, adults, and raised a nephew, the son of 65, owns and operates one of Tiller’s deceased sisters. Women’s Health Care According to the Washington Post1 , Tiller Services, located at has amassed considerable wealth over his 5101-5107 E. Kellogg abortion career. His clinic has been Avenue, Wichita, KS assessed at $502,000 but known additions 67218, the largest to the property have increased the value outpatient late-term AP Photo to an estimated $1.5 million. He owns four abortion facility outside George cars, including a BMW convertible, a green of Communist China. “Tiller the Killer” Jeep Grand Cherokee, and a Cadillac He and his wife (and Escalade, which is driven mostly by his clinic co-owner), Jeanne, wife, Jeanne. make their home in an exclusive gated community Tiller graduated from the called The Foliage, located in University of Kansas School northeast Wichita, Kansas. of Medicine in 1967, and served an internship at the Decadant, Lavish Lifestyle U.S. Naval Hospital at Camp Pendleton, California from Tiller built the 18-room, 1967-1968. He worked as a 8,500 square-foot house in Reformation Lutheran Church Directory 2002 Navy Flight Surgeon until Wichita, once assessed at George and Jeanne Tiller 19702 , when his father, Dr. $732,000 but now worth over Jack Tiller, mother, sister, $1 million, after years of persistent and brother-in-law were killed in a plane picketing drove him from his previous crash near Yellowstone Park, Wyoming, while on their way to a medical conference in Canada.3 Following in Daddy’s Footsteps Prior to the death of his father, Tiller had taken steps to enter a residency program and pursue a career as a dermatologist. Instead, upon the death of his closest relatives in the plane crash, he returned to Wichita and assumed his father’s private family practice. Perhaps he did so out of a sense of duty or even as a memorial to his Photo: Operation Rescue dad, whose footsteps he had followed into The Tiller home in Wichita, Kansas 1 the medical setting and since 1980, Tiller has field. But specialized in abortions on second and there was third trimester children between 14 and more to the 37 weeks of gestation. elder Tiller’s “family” A true believer in a “woman’s right to practice that choose” death for her child, Tiller became the younger increasingly involved in a number of radical Tiller had pro-abortion organizations. In the known seventies, he served on the advisory board nothing of Planned Parenthood of Kansas. Today, about. Once he proudly holds membership in such rabid Tiller began abortion groups as the National Abortion Photo: Operation Rescue seeing his Rights Action League (NARAL), National Tiller’s abortuary: father’s Abortion Federation (NAF), National Family Medicine? patients, Organization for Women (NOW), they revealed to him that his father had Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights, been providing them with illegal abortions ProChoice Action League, National for years. Dr. Jack Tiller was an abortionist. Coalition of Abortion Providers, and This revelation launched George Tiller onto Physicians for Reproductive Choice and the path of becoming one of the most Health.4 heinous late-term child-killers in the world. Tiller has experienced more than the usual For years, the old rickety wooden sign attention. In 1986, his clinic was proudly displayed in front of Tiller’s firebombed, yet Tiller continued killing, abortion clinic, Women’s Health Care even ramping up his bloody practice by Services, ironically read “Family Medicine adding his now-infamous Fetal Indications Center” as a testimonial to the career of Termination of Pregnancy Program in 1989. his deceased father. In the summer of Although Tiller claimed that the arson was 2005 the sign finally rotted apart from the work of anti-abortion fanatics, local pro- neglect and was finally removed, the last lifers have told Operation Rescue that visible token of Dr. according to police Jack Tiller, but not of reports available at his legacy. the time, Tiller himself was the From Healer to prime suspect in Killer the arson. In 1975, Tiller, In 1991, Operation turned forever from Rescue conducted the healing mass rescues with profession when he over 2,700 arrests of opened Women’s peaceful protestors Health Care Services during the Summer and began to kill Photo: Operation Rescue of Mercy, closing Tiller defiantly displayed signs in his parking pre-born babies in lot expressing an ultra-militant attitude favoring his mill for 46 an out-patient clinic child-killing in July, 2001. consecutive days. 2 After receiving a sick attempt to 5 counseling for trauma commemorate the Roe v. after the Summer of Wade Supreme Court Mercy, Tiller increased his decision that 6 child-killing. decriminalized abortion. Although trumpeted as a Then, in 1993, Tiller was hero by pro-abortion shot in both arms by radicals for this “selfless” Shelley Shannon. In an gesture, in reality, the so- act of defiance and called “free” abortions are determination, Tiller available only to women reported for work the Photo: Operation Rescue who qualify for Medicaid following day in spite of One of the signs that lined Tiller’s assistance. There is no parking lot during his “abortion his wounds that had doubt that Tiller bills the allegedly caused give-away” in January, 2004. The many post-abortive women government program for permanent nerve damage. protesting Tiller that day strongly these abortions and is It is apparent that disagreed. compensated quite abortion means more to handsomely. George Tiller than a mere job. It is his identity. He has become “Tiller the Apparently altruism has its limit, because Killer.” Tiller has since ceased his “free abortion” program, with 2003 being his final year. Free Abortions Chilling Lectures on Gruesome Ever adamant about promoting abortion Dismemberment on demand for any reason, Tiller has Techniques engaged in a number of extremist activities, including the offering of free abortions in To further promote his cause, Tiller proudly lectures around the world on the killing techniques that he has invented and perfected. As he gained experience and expertise, especially in late-term abortions, Tiller became in demand on the pro-abort speaking circuit where he has delivered dozens of lectures7, including the following, that show his pioneering work of developing new and creative methods to snuff the life from late-term pre-born babies: Photo: Operation Rescue Tiller continues to display his lack of touch with ♦ reality by equating the murder of innocent pre-born “Augmented D & E for Late Mid- children with great American traditions such as ice Trimester Abortion” 1982 cream, apple pie and, of all things, motherhood. He claims that 43% of American women have had abortions. 3 Tiller discusses his “improvements” on the states, “Tiller told me at my hiring that he D&E, or Dilation and Evacuation, which is only did these late-term abortions for also known as “dismemberment abortion.” compelling medical reasons.
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