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Kansas Abortion Stories and George Tiller Video

If you've never known a family who made the gutwrenching decision to abort or bring to term a fetus with physical anomalies "incompatible with life," you need to read the first person accounts on the website A Heartbreaking Choice. These are the kinds of pregnancies Kansas doctor George Tiller ended before he was murdered at church on Sunday.

I in no way mean to denigrate women who choose to carry to term babies who won't live long outside the womb. But I have to wonder, can Bill O'Reilly and his fellow anti-abortion hate mongers seriously read the passage below by an Andrew Sullivan reader and tell me this is the only option women should have?

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Imagine what it is like to walk around in your third trimester, obviously pregnant, while well-meaning people ask you about this baby that you don't expect to be taking home from the hospital. Innocuous comments become incredibly hurtful in this context. Then imagine the baby survives and days later you take home this child who will die. In case you might relax and pretend for a little while that everything is okay, a hospice nurse comes to your house every couple of days and reminds you the signs and symptoms of death. Every time you open the refrigerator you see the narcotics you've been given to ease the baby's suffering once things get really bad.
Eventually, this baby dies a grueling death in your arms and you go home to an empty house. You want another baby, but are paralyzed by the thought of having another child with the same condition, yet you desperately want a child that is related to the child you lost. You find yourself unable to conceive and resentful of those who have many healthy children so easily. The infertility takes its toll on your marriage. The suffering and injustice takes its toll on your faith.
I often wonder what would have happened if they had the abortion. I'm not sure my sister-in-law could have lived with that decision, but at least she was given the gift of making a deliberate choice and this did make a difference in how my brother and his wife perceived their circumstances. How do people respond when they feel trapped?
I agree with those who believe abortion is a selfish choice, but in some cases the cost to the self is too high and the benefit to the other is too hard to determine. I'm afraid that the murder of Dr. Tiller will hasten the decline in doctors willing to do this work and deny desperate people of options.

Indeed. How many late term abortion providers are left now that he's gone? Not enough, for reasons we outlined in this profile of Dr. William Rashbaum, one of the oldest living late-term abortion doctors in 2003.

Watch the late Dr. George Tiller talk about his work here:

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Disappointed

I'd hoped the video would be of Dr. Tiller talking about his work, as it's reported to do. This video is worthless in the context of your post. He makes absolutely no reference to his work.

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Dr Tiller's interview

I agree with Carlos. This U-tube Video is irrelevant. We do not hear Dr. Tiller talk about his work.

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Why?

Why do most of the media stories make Tiller a hero and go on at length about his killer being a white Christian but the stories about the killer of the soldier in Little Rock downplay or even fail to mention that the killer there was a black Muslim??

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Really?

Carlos, I respectfully disagree. He certainly talked about his office bombings, the assassination attempts, and why he was under federal protection....all in the line of duty.

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Not 'in the line of duty'

War heroes die in the line of duty. This man put himself in danger 'in the course of business'. He did other maverick things such as not obtaining a second opinion on the viability of the developing infant before recommending abortion and he made a lot of money at what he did.
This was *his* Choice, whatever his reasons for choosing this way of life. It does not serve the truth to pretend that it was imposed on him against his will, or frame him as something he was not.

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This was *his* Choice, whatever his reasons for choosing this way of life. It does not serve the truth to pretend that it was imposed on him against his will, or frame him as something he was not.

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War heroes die in the line of duty. This man put himself in danger 'in the course of business'.

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