What Does Tiller Do With The Dead Babies?
WHAT METHODS DOES TILLER USE TO KILL BABIES?
WHAT DOES TILLER DO WITH THE DEAD BABIES?
DOES
TILLER PERFORM LATE-TERM ABORTIONS ONLY IN CASES OF HARDSHIP?
IS
ABORTION SAFE FOR THE WOMAN?
DOES A BABY EVER SURVIVE AN ABORTION?
LIES!
WHAT
CAN I DO TO STOP THE KILLING?
SCRIPTURES
AND QUOTES
After the abortion, Tiller offers several bizarre services for the mother of the dead baby. He refers to these as "stillborn activities". These include funerals, baptisms, and cremation.
Baby Funerals
Tiller offers funeral services for babies he has killed. Tiller encourages the mother to hold the aborted baby and have their picture taken together. He calls this an "identification and separation encounter" and claims this will help the mother in the "process of healing."
The Abortion Clinic Chaplain
Tiller had a clinic chaplain who often arrived about the same time the abortionist leaves.
Tiller has had more than one chaplin during the past few years. His latest chaplain is the "Reverend" Dianne Warren.
Dianne Warren
Warren is associated with Saint James Episcopal Church.
Tiller's long-time chaplain was the "Reverend" George Gardner who died in 2004.
Tiller's website still lists Gardner as chaplain more than three years after his death. Click on the image above to visit Tiller's website.
To see pictures from a baby funeral at
Tiller's clinic, click
here.
Warning! The pictures on this link are
graphic.
The Crematorium
The flat-top flue stack on Tiller's crematorium.
Tiller has installed a crematorium in his abortion clinic to dispose of the dead babies. Click here to learn more about Tiller's crematorium.
Tiller talks about baby funerals.
Following are two partial transcripts and sound clips from a 1996 video that Tiller made to advertise his late-term abortions.
Now, you may have a baptism if you wish. You may have a baptismal certificate. If you so desire we can give you our certificate of premature miscarriage. We can take a lock of hair, if you wish. You may have fetal footprints, if you wish. We can do about whatever it is that you would like to have done.
If you wish to see the baby, we call this an identification and separation encounter. About 2-3 hours after you deliver and after the twilight anesthesia has worn off, so that you will remember the process, we will bring the baby to you either at the bedside or we will go to our quiet room and we will bring the baby to you there. During this encounter we will describe to you what's right with your baby, we will identify what's wrong with your baby. You may hold the baby. We can take pictures of you and the family holding the baby, if you wish, and that is not an uncommon request. The identification/separation encounter may be very brief, five or ten minutes. It may even take less than that. Or the identification/separation encounter may involve 2 or 3 hours of bonding with the baby - the identification that this is your baby and you have had a delivery. We understand beyond a shadow of a doubt that the difficult part of this process is not the premature delivery of the stillborn. We understand that the easy part of this process is the premature delivery of the stillborn. The difficult part of the process is saying goodbye to the relationship that you have with your baby - saying goodbye to the hopes and the dreams that you have for this - you have placed this baby in your life someplace and you simply have to start the process of saying goodbye.
When you have finished your support - when you have finished your identification encounter you will separate from the baby by giving the baby to us and you will begin the process of saying goodbye on a long-term basis and you will begin your journey into growth, recuperation, recovery, and healing.
Her Story
Click here to read the unvarnished accounts of women who've been Tiller's patients.
On Tiller's waiting room walls are letters from former patients. Click here to read some of those letters.
Following is an excerpt from a newspaper article concerning Tiller's late-term abortions.
After Susan Crocker's second-trimester abortion in August, she and her fiance spent three hours cradling their daughter, Isabella, who had Down syndrome. They stroked her scrunched red face and kissed her rounded cheeks. They took pictures of her tiny, almost translucent hands, folded across a green-and-pink striped blanket.
Crocker, a 34-year-old customer service manager, keeps Isabella's ashes in a marble urn decorated with dolphins; she kisses it before she goes to bed each night. Her sons follow her lead. On Halloween, they each gave a Tootsie Roll to Isabella. Jordan, 5, shares his toys with her, propping a little plastic skateboard against the urn.
Los Angeles Times, May 31, 2005, "A Late Decision, a Lasting Anguish"
This picture accompanied the LA times newspaper. Notice the little boy holding the urn with his aborted sister's ashes. The top of a dolphin on the urn can be seen near the boy's right fingers.
Following is a letter that was supposedly sent to Tiller's clinic. This letter is found on Tiller's website.
(This letter is repeated below in text form.)
We are grateful to allow her to pass from our lives without pain and with dignity. We are grateful that we were able to see her, hold her, baptize her and tell her good-bye. We are grateful to have her tiny footprints as a visual reminder of her short existence. We are grateful for her ashes and urn that will remain a tangible part of our lives and will serve not only as a living memorial to her, but also a reminder of how fragile life is... We thank you and commend you for working to together as a group to help us begin our healing process with a positive, caring experience in what is the most negative set of circumstances. We are forever grateful.
Did you have an abortion at Tiller's clinic? Or did you accompany someone who did? If so, please click here. I'd like to hear your story.
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