Abortion and The New Disability Cleansing

By Gregg Cunningham

Anyone who doubts that America is losing its sense of shame should download the website of abortionist George Tiller, accessible at http://www.drtiller.com/. The experience is certain to sicken any cyber surfer still in possession of a functioning conscience. After browsing through morbid photos of his "operating suite" you can read Tiller's bland acknowledgment that he kills babies at 37 weeks gestational age. For the arithmetically challenged, that's the ninth month of pregnancy. I call his victims "baby" (his term) because Tiller has now abandoned all pretense that they are otherwise. He even calls them "child." More alarming than his outrageous admission is its failure to provoke discernable public outrage.

Tiller is by no means the only abortionist killing near full term babies and he has plenty of company among abortionists on the net. But none of his colleagues showcase their handiwork with such self-promotional audacity. He is either contemptuous of public opinion or convinced that the public is beyond caring. Either way, his global ads seem to be reaching their target audience because Tiller's market penetration is deepening daily. German and Japanese television teams recently visited Wichita in search of interviews concerning the European and Asian women who are making the long journey to engage his grisly services. He recently doubled the size of his abortion clinic and in so doing, likely tripled his killing capacity.

It is difficult to confer clinical respectability on the killing of a neonate but Tiller takes a shot, so to speak, with the "Orwellian" term "fetal indications termination of pregnancy." Whew. That's Tiller-speak for the systematic extermination of developmentally "defective" babies. He also lists disorders which he says are among the conditions which justify killing these children. Several of these maladies are non-fatal and some may be only mildly disabling. He names "encephalocele," for instance, which The Merck Manual says "can be repaired and the prognosis is good for many of these patients." He also cites "hydrocephalus," concerning which the text, Diseases of the Newborn, Schaffer & Avery, Saunders, 6th Ed., 1991, says that with few exceptions ". . . every infant with neonatal hydrocephalus should be treated surgically . . . [and] 86% of infants survived following their shunt placement. Of these infants, 46% were reported normal on follow-up." Although Tiller denies performing these "terminations" without appropriate diagnostic evaluations, any intellectually honest clinician will concede the difficulty in predicting the severity of disorders whose very existence can be misdiagnosed.

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