Tiller's Business Partners

Some late-term abortion patients bring their children with them to Wichita. Often, a cab will drop off the children at Alice's place before dropping off the pregnant mom at Tiller's clinic.

The children help the mother keep the abortion a secret from her family and friends. If the mom goes away for a week without her children, there is suspicion. But if she takes her children with her and happens to have a "miscarriage" while she is gone, there is much less suspicion.

Alice gets upset when Pro-Life picketers display graphic pictures of aborted babies on the street near her house. But she seems unconcerned that the slaughter portrayed on those pictures is occuring just around the corner from her house.

Alice likes to portray herself as an innocent neighbor caught up in the abortion fray. But Alice was a Pro-Tiller counterprotester during the early 1990s. She moved to her Bleckley Drive residence in 1992 or 1993 shortly after the massive "Summer of Mercy" protest in 1991.

Alice is not afraid to call the police on a whim if Pro-Lifers upset her.

Operation Rescue

Oh Alice... you should SMILE for the camera!!

Tiller's Pawn

When Tiller expanded his clinic in 1995, he moved three adjourning houses and expanded his clinic to the south. Alice didn't seem to have a problem with this. But later, Alice led the fight against Pro-Lifers when they tried to get the next house rezoned. Pro-Lifers were wanting to build a clinic to provide alternatives to abortion.

"You can't have two places so opposed like that and not have trouble," she said. "It's gonna be hell over here."

Grim, who described herself as pro-choice and described Tiller as a man she likes and "a friend of the neighborhood," said it's so frustrating to live on the street that she's thinking of selling out.

The Wichita Eagle, June 8, 1997

In another article, Alice again showed her true colors.

The group plans to use the house, she said, as a quiet place to have private conversations with pregnant women. It will be used for peaceful and lawful purposes, she said, and will not disrupt the neighborhood.

But Alice Grim, an abortion-rights advocate who lives next door... said the neighborhood may become a war zone where clashes between demonstrators on both sides will "keep the cops busy."

''If they protest on their property, I will invite all the pro-choice people in the state of Kansas and the whole country to come to my house and be on my property," she said.

The Wichita Eagle, March 25, 1994

After a protracted legal battle, the Pro-Lifers prevailed and Choices Medical Center opened.

In 2005, Alice circulated a petition in the neighborhood to close Bleckley Drive to parking during the daytime. This was meant to inconvenience the Pro-Life activists who gather near Tiller's clinic.

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Alice's Handiwork

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