A Look At Tiller's Clinic
"Fort Tiller"
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
WOMEN'S HEALTH CARE SERVICES
5107 East Kellogg
Wichita, Kansas 67218
(316) 684-5108
(316)
684-5255
(316) 684-5155
(316) 261-8820 Pager
(800) 882-0488 Toll Free in the
USA
(316) 684-0052 Fax
staff@drtiller.com
George Tiller's clinic compound sits on the southeast corner of the intersection of Kellogg Avenue and Bleckley Drive in Wichita.
The clinic originally belonged to George's father Dr. Dean Jackson Tiller.
After Jack's death in a 1970 plane crash, George took over the clinic. In the mid 1970's, Tiller turned the clinic into a freestanding outpatient abortion clinic. He has specialized in late-term abortion since at least the early 1980s.
The clinic has a "hospital-like" area where the dead babies are born.
This picture was on Tiller's own website.
This area includes a ten-bed communal "labor and delivery" area where women are in close proximity to each other during late-term abortions separated only by a curtain.
Edna Roach (with clipboard) and two other employees stand in the center of the communal "labor and delivery" area. This picture is from Tiller's eight-page advertisement brochure. Click here to view a high-resolution scan of this picture.
The clinic contains a crematorium where he disposes of the dead babies.
Tiller's abortion clinic is never inspected by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. Governor Kathleen Sebelius has twice vetoed regulation that would have and established standards and inspection for Kansas abortion clinics.
The building was bombed in 1986. During the massive pickets and blockades in the summer of 1991, the building became the focus of nationwide attention. These blockades shut down the clinic for about six weeks and resulted in thousands of arrests for civil disobedience. Crowd-control fence sprang up in neighboring yards, yet Tiller's clinic appeared unchanged.
After Tiller was shot in 1993, he expanded the facility. He bought three adjoining houses and had them removed. He sealed all the original windows and the west entrance that faced Bleckley Drive and expanded the building to the south.
Above: In late 1994 or 1995, workers closed up the west entrance to the clinic. Below: How this looks today.
Tiller maintains an extensive network of security cameras. He maintains "airport like security" in the building's foyer including a walk-through metal detector. He even has a large standby generator.
The clinic property is valued at $734,100.
An aerial photo of the clinic from 1997
1. Entrance ramp to the clinic parking lot
2. Employee parking area (on both sides)
3. Patient parking area
4. Original building owned by George's father Dr. Jack Tiller
5. Building expansion which was added in 1995
6. Tiller's personal parking garage added in 1995
7. House at 538 S. Bleckley Drive that was later moved to make way for Choices Medical Clinic which provides alternatives to abortion
8. Bleckley Drive
9. Kellogg Avenue
10. Dry Creek - a drainage canal
11. Formerly the Davis-Moore Mazda dealership; 5025 E. Kellogg Avenue. This business moved in early 2008, and the property is now vacant.
12. Dopps Chiropractic Wellness Center; 5119 E. Kellogg Avenue
Do you have pictures of the clinic from before the 1995 expansion? Have you worked on this building? If so, please click here.
SOURCES:
"Tiller: Tired but Determined"; The Wichita Eagle; September 8, 1991
"Fetal Indications Termination of Pregnancy Program" video by George Tiller - 1996
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Click here to read about the Tillers' Colorado vacation home.
Looking southeast from the intersection of Bleckley Drive and Kellogg Avenue.
Looking northeast from Bleckley Drive.
Looking southwest from the Kellogg Avenue sidewalk. This is the parking lot and the back side of the clinic.
Looking north across the employee parking area toward the south side of the clinic.
The signs on the southwest corner of the building.
The decaying Kellogg Avenue sign said "Family Medicine Center". This sign was probably left over from the days when George's father owned the clinic. This sign was removed in 2005 after it fell apart in a wind storm.
Looking east from Bleckley Drive. The recessed wall on the right side of this picture was the west entrance. In the mid 1990s, it was walled shut as shown in the photos to the left.
The patio with a picnic table at the northeast corner of the building. Smokers can take a break here. Notice the flue from the crematorium overhead.
Tiller's standby generator sits behind a fence near the southwest corner of the building. Notice the rusty exhaust pipe on top of the generator. The green transformer brings electricity from the power grid into the building and the generator (behind) should provide power during an outage. But the generator may not function properly. "Jessica" said the electricity went out for about 5 minutes during her abortion.
Tiller's personal parking garage on the southeast corner of the building.
His flag pole. Under the American flag he sometimes flies his blue clinic flag that reads:
"W.H.C.S. Reproductive Freedom Outpost - Summer 2001"
W.H.C.S. is the abbreviation of the clinic name. Summer 2001 was the ten-year anniversary of the massive Summer of Mercy protests.
Protesters at the entrance to the parking lot.
The northwest corner of the building. Notice the security camera. Veterans Hospital is visible in the background.
Lights, Camera, Action!
A security camera mounted on a light pole in the southwest corner of the parking lot.
Warning signs on the fence at the parking lot entrance.
The security vestibule faces the parking lot. All patients and visitors must enter here. Once inside, they must pass through a metal detector (shown below).
A Shrine
Portraits, awards, and letters of appreciation cover the walls of the waiting room. To read some of those letters, click here.