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Wednesday, May 18, 2005From the e-mail bag:Last Wednesday, less than two weeks after Kansas representatives struck down HB 2503, another woman has been critically injured at George Tiller's late-term abortion mill here in Wichita. At approximately 10:10 AM, an ambulance screamed into George Tiller's parking lot and paramedics rushed in to treat the woman's life-threatening condition. Numerous eyewitnesses - including sidewalk counselors, television personnel, Choices Medical staffers, and policemen - observed and videotaped the ambulance and EMT crew staying over one-and-a-half hours at the abortuary before loading the injured woman into the ambulance and leaving with the woman's male friend and Tiller in the back of the emergency vehicle.The e-mail is a forward from a friend on the Operation Rescue list. For the record, I'm squeamishly pro-choice. And if I were pro-life, I'd be nervous about Operation Rescue, which has attracted its share of flakes, undermining the credibility of more reflective pro-lifers. However, the Tiller clinic undermines the credibility of the pro-choicers in a pretty big way. I don't know how often patients are rushed to the hospital from outpatient plastic surgery outfits, dental offices, etc, but the Tiller clinic seems to give OR an awful lot of opportunities to suggest that the place is either sloppy in its work or taking on cases for which it lacks the proper equipment. Neither of these is consistent with the "women's health," that the abortion industry euphemistically characterizes itself as providing. From the sounds of things, the Tiller clinic is about as close as you can get to sending a woman to the back alley with a coat hanger, yet abortion advocates treat it as a sanctuary. If they want their worst fears about abortion being banned to come true, they should keep holding their silence as even organizations as flaky as Operation Rescue stumble upon enough outrages to make their case. True advocates of women's health, however, ought at least consider the "safe" part of the Clintonian "safe, legal and rare." Those who would rather permit the excesses of the Tiller clinic than have one single abortion regulated show themselves to be indifferent to the women whose cause they supposedly espouse. And eventually the hypocrisy will catch up to them as the only logical conclusion to draw from their stance is that they are not pro-women, but pro-population control, and more than willing to toss in the life or health of a grown woman if that's what it takes to get rid of a potential poor child. 
posted by gbarto at 11:40 AM |
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