[Pflienews] Complaint Asks for Emergency Suspension of Tiller's Medical License

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Complaint Asks for Emergency Suspension of Tiller's Medical License
KSBHA also asked to evaluate Tiller's competence based on poor physical 
health

TOPEKA, Kans., Sept. 30 /Christian Newswire/ -- A complaint has been 
filed with the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts demanding the 
emergency suspension of the medical licenses of George R. Tiller and 
Shelley Sella, whose involvement in a late-term abortion last week 
nearly cost the life of a 23-year old woman.

Allegations include:

    * Patient S.'s pregnancy was misdiagnosed by Tiller's staff to be 19
      weeks, even though according to her last menstrual period and
      previous medical examinations, she was actually 23 weeks pregnant
      at the time of the abortion, beyond the legal limit.
    * Patient S. developed severe pain and other complications after
      having received a digoxin injection from abortionist Sella that
      was meant to stop her pre- born baby's heart.
    * Patient S. spiked a fever of 103.7 degrees, yet was not treated
      for possible infection by Tiller or his staff.
    * Patient S. was locked in a room against her will for over 4 hours
      without treatment for over four hours while feverish and in pain,
      and was not allowed to communicate with her family.
    * Tiller threatened to withhold treatment from Patient S., even
      though she was sick, in pain, and had not yet delivered the baby
      that was presumed to already be dead.
    * Tiller threatened to send Patient S. to a hospital in Kansas City,
      three hours away, in spite of her life- threatening condition and
      incomplete abortion.
    * Because of her treatment, Patient S. feared she would be killed
      while under sedation.
    * During the final abortion procedure, Patient S. stopped breathing
      and her heart stopped. She was revived.
    * Tiller refused to call an ambulance and instead personally drove
      Patient S. to Wesley Medical Center in his private vehicle,
      further endangering her life.
    * Tiller was observed to be shaking excessively, an exhibited
      extremely poor eyesight during the drive to the hospital.
    * Tiller never provided follow-up care for Patient S.

In addition to the license suspensions, the complaint urges that the 
Board evaluate Tiller's fitness to continue providing surgical 
procedures due observations of extremely shaky hands and extremely poor 
eyesight.

"The situation at Tiller's abortion clinic constitutes a public 
emergency. This week, other women are submitting late-term abortions 
that are risky under the best of conditions. Based on what we have heard 
from Patient S., those women's lives are in immanent danger. We urge the 
KSBHA to close Tiller's clinic pending a full investigation into this 
complaint, before we see more women maimed or killed," said Operation 
Rescue President Troy Newman.

View a video and read the full account of Patient S.'s harrowing 
abortion ordeal 
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/About Operation Rescue®
Operation Rescue is one of the leading pro-life Christian activist 
organizations in the nation. Operation Rescue recently made headlines 
when it bought and closed an abortion clinic in Wichita, Kansas and has 
become the voice of the pro-life activist movement in America. Its 
activities are on the cutting edge of the abortion issue, taking direct 
action to restore legal personhood to the pre-born and stop abortion in 
obedience to biblical mandates./

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	To: National Desk

Contact: Troy Newman, President, 316-841-1700;

Cheryl Sullenger, Senior Policy Advisor, 316-516-3034;

both with Operation Rescue, info at operationrescue.org



# Operation Rescue 
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