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The documentary After Tiller portrayed late-term abortionists in a flattering light, highlighting the tragic stories of women who were carrying dying or disabled unborn babies. Dr. George Tiller, who the documentary is named after, was assassinated by a man who claimed to be \u201cpro-life.\u201d All established pro-life organizations condemned the murder, including Live Action.<\/p>\n

But was Dr. Tiller a kind, compassionate hero who relieved women of the burden of carrying dying babies? The reality is far different.<\/p>\n

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The pro-life group Life Dynamics has a recording of a speech Dr. Tiller made to the National Abortion Federation i<\/a>n which he said:<\/p>\n

We have some experience with late terminations; about 10,000 patients between 24 and 36 weeks and something like 800 fetal anomalies between 26 and 36 weeks in the past 5 years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If only 800 out of 10,000 post-24 week abortions were done on disabled babies, then the vast majority of Tiller\u2019s victims were perfectly healthy children.<\/p>\n

One of the youngest premature babies ever to survive, Kenya King, was born at 21 weeks<\/a>\u00a0and left the hospital a healthy child. Statistics show<\/a> that half of babies born at 24 weeks survive if given medical care. \u00a0 By 29 weeks, 92% of children survive.\u00a0 Tiller admitted to performing abortions at 36 weeks \u2013 nine months.\u00a0\u00a0 At this stage, the baby would survive even without medical care.<\/p>\n

The medical textbook Essentials of Prenatal Diagnosis\u00a0by Joe Leigh Simpson, M.D. and Sherman Elias, M.D says, of abortions at or beyond 24 weeks:<\/a><\/p>\n

The size of the conceptus at this stage in pregnancy [Post 24 weeks gestation] makes D&E technically problematic\u2026 Delivery of a fetus after 24 weeks gestation will frequently result in an infant capable of survival\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In a D&E abortion, the child is dismembered with forceps. Because many of the babies that Dr. Tiller killed were so developed, it was too difficult to dismember them. Instead, Tiller would inject the poison digoxin into the baby to kill him or her and ensure that the child would not be born alive. He induced labor and the women, one by one, delivered their dead children.<\/p>\n

And what happened to these dead babies after they were expelled\u00a0\u00a0from their anesthetized mothers? A former employee of Dr. Tiller, Luhra Tivis, reveals this<\/a> in her testimony:<\/p>\n

I thought I was pro-choice and I was glad to be working in an abortion clinic. I thought I was helping provide a noble service to women in crisis\u2026.I was instructed to falsify the age of the babies in medical records. I was required to lie to the mothers over the phone, as they scheduled their appointments, and to tell them that they were not \u2018too far along\u2019 Then I had to note, in the records that Dr. Tiller\u2019s needle had successfully pierced the walls of the baby\u2019s heart, injecting the poison what brought death\u2026one day, Dr. Tiller came up the stairs from the basement, where the mothers were in labor. He was carrying a large cardboard box, and ducked into the employees only area of the office so that he wouldn\u2019t have to walk through the waiting room. He passed behind my desk as I sat working on the computer, and he turned the corner to go around a short hall. He called out for me to come and help him. the box was so big and heavy in his arms that he couldn\u2019t get the key into the lock. So I unlocked the door for him, and, pushing the door open, I saw very clearly the gleaming metal of the crematorium- a full sized crematorium, just like the one\u2019s used in funeral homes. I went back to my computer. I could hear Dr. Tiller firing up the gas oven. A few minutes later I could smell burning human flesh. Mine was the agony of a participant, however reluctant, in the act of prenatal infanticide.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In a scene reminiscent of Nazi Germany,\u00a0Tiller loaded the bodies of dead, fully formed babies into a full sized crematorium in his clinic at the end of every day. According to pro-life demonstrators outside Tiller\u2019s clinic, a chimney releasing the ashes of the aborted babies could often be seen smoking on top of the building.<\/p>\n

Dr. George Tiller\u2019s death was not justified. Killing in order to protect life is hypocrisy. One cannot preserve human life by destroying human life. But Dr. Tiller was not a hero, selflessly helping women in the direst circumstances. Whatever his motives, he destroyed healthy babies who were months, weeks, or even days from being born, much the same as the late-term abortionists who were featured in the documentary that bears his name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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