The 1993 Shooting
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
What the lazy press didn't bother to tell you.
On August 19, 1993, an Oregon woman shot Tiller with a small caliber pistol.
The woman had taken a bus to Oklahoma City, rented a car, and driven to Wichita. Carrying the concealed pistol, she entered the clinic posing as a patient. When she was unable to get close to Tiller, she waited outside until he left. As he drove away, she shot him through the windows of his vehicle.
He was hit in each arm. Tiller tried to run over the assailant as she fled the scene. Tiller then circled around and drove back near his abortion clinic where he was taken by ambulance to Wesley Medical Center.
The assailant was later arrested in Oklahoma City as she returned her rental car.
She was convicted and sentenced to 11 years in prison for the assault. It was later learned from her diary that she had firebombed several abortion facilities across the West.
Tiller underwent surgery and returned to the clinic the next day.
The assailant had never before picketed at Tiller's clinic. Before the shooting, she had told the picketers that they were "not being effective" and they should go home. When she pulled out her pistol and shot Tiller, she held the firearm so close to the ear of Terry, one of the picketers, that he received powder burns and some hearing loss. The shocked picketers made note of her tag number. This is how the police were able to apprehend her as she returned her rental car in Oklahoma City.
Due to her violent and cowardly act, the assailant's name is not repeated on this website.
The peddlers of paranoia have used this incident to try to "prove" a conspiracy exists within the Pro-Life movement. Janet Reno, Clinton's Attorney General, took a personal interest in the Tiller shooting. Shortly after this shooting, Reno convened a Federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia to investigate a supposed violent conspiracy among Pro-Lifers. After a long and costly investigation, the grand jury found no evidence of a conspiracy.
James 1:20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
"In the long run of history, immoral destructive means cannot bring about moral and constructive ends." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
George Tiller's talks about the shooting:
I was leaving the office. It was 7:00 in the evening. As I'm driving out, I have to slow down and I have to stop. Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, and I thought to myself, "That lady is shooting me with rubber bullets. I'm not afraid of rubber bullets." Then I looked down and all this blood is all over the place. I thought, "She shot me. She can't do that! I'll get her." I saw her running through some front yards. So I zipped down the street, turned in front of her to block her escape. She stops and reaches into this little fanny pack that she's wearing in the front, and I thought, "She's going for her gun again. She shot you once, George. She'll shoot you again. You are in the wrong place at the wrong time."
So then I drove off. Ended up back at the office, and I don't remember anything for about 20 minutes. I remember trying to get into my car and drive myself to the hospital. I said, "Let's not make this a big media event." Well, I had lost 20 minutes and the TV trucks were there. I thought, "How'd they'd get here so soon?"
There was never any question in my mind that I was going back to work the next day. I belonged there and they were not going to separate me from my job and they were not going to separate me from my community. So I did go to work the next day, and we got everything done. People got taken care of, it took a long time. Arms hurt, bled a little bit, but so what? I am not going to be run over and I'm not going to run out. It's just that simple.
The above account is found on this website.
Click here to read about the 1986 bombing of Tiller's abortion clinic.
SOURCES:
Many articles in The Wichita Eagle and Wichita Eagle-Beacon
Personal conversation with picketer Terry A. on August 22, 1997
"An Unlikely Terrorist", Court TV
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