The loss of Dr. George Tiller on May 31 is compounded today by news that the clinic he ran, Women’s Health Care Services, will permanently close. His family’s decision not to reopen the clinic after Dr. Tiller’s murder is understandable. The fault for the closing of this clinic lies squarely with the anti-abortion movement, bent on denying women their reproductive rights.
Judith Warner writes for a New York Times op-ed, “By averting our eyes from the ugliness and tragedy that accompany some pregnancies, we have allowed anti-abortion activists to define the dilemma of late abortion. We have allowed them to isolate and vilify doctors like Tiller. We can no longer be complicit — through our muted Read more …
Kate Harding of Broadsheet writes for Salon, “If any good can come of the murder of Dr. George Tiller, one of the very few providers of late-term abortions in the U.S., perhaps it’s the opportunity to have a conversation about the reality of termination in the second and third trimesters.”
NOW President Kim Gandy said, “Women across the country have lost a champion today. The cold-blooded murder of Dr. George Tiller this morning in church is a stark reminder that women’s bodies are still a battleground, and health care professionals are on the frontlines.”
Eryn Loeb writes for Salon, “Susan Wicklund has received death threats and worn a bulletproof vest to work. But what really scares her, she writes in ‘This Common Secret,’ is the war on reproductive rights.”
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