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| For the sake of my family's and especially my son's privacy, I've not often told the story in full detail....and won't now.....
Let's just say that my son is adopted, and that his bio mom had traveled a long way from out of state to visit Tiller's office for an abortion. I don't know all the details of Tiller's protocols, but she didn't meet them, and Tiller refused to abort her. She was showing signs of premature labor, and that was PART of the protocol against abortion. There were other factors. Thereafter, she attempted to abort herself thereby successfully inducing her own premature labor. Tiller AGAIN refused to abort her, but sent her to a hospital, where my son was born by an emergency c-section.
Like many other physicians and attorneys, Tiller maintained a waiting list of couples waiting to adopt "unaborted" babies. My wife and I paid a substantial (by OUR standards) amount of $ to be on his "referral list), hoping that it would encourage him to SAVE a kid.
The notion that Tiller sat around with a club waiting to smack babies born alive is ludicrous. While he had looser standards than many other abortion providers, he still maintained SOME protocols. The notion that he aborted every pregnancy that appeared in his office is also wrong.
Nobody likes the notion of abortion, but women have been seeking them for centuries. Everyone has their own notion of hos best to reduce the numbers. Some folks protest, and vote "pro-life". Some folks bomb Tiller's clinic. Some folks teach morality in Sunday School. My wife and I chose to do the latter, and also to spend our own cash getting on Tiller"s "referral list". It was our way of reducing the numbers.
There's lots more to the story. I'm not campaigning for sainthood for either Tiller, or myself. We're all going to have to do some serious "explaining" to our maker about our actions on this earth. NO doubt, Dr. Tiller will have MUCH to discuss with the great I AM. I'm just saying that he had the opportunity to abort my son, and didn't. Call it conscience, call it professional protocol, call it Divine Intervention, call it what you wish. Believing the worst about Tiller, probably didn't help. showboat | |
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George Tiller is dead.
