Posted on 06/02/2009 7:35:23 AM PDT by Sig Sauer P220
Women's Health Care Services, the clinic run by slain abortion provider George Tiller, will resume operations next Monday, a physician who worked with Tiller said Monday.
The clinic at 5107 E. Kellogg will remain closed the rest of this week so staff members and family can mourn Tiller's death, said LeRoy Carhart, a Nebraska physician who has come to Tiller's clinic on a rotating basis for more than 10 years.
"What people need to know is... the women's services that we provided for 30 years are not going to change," Carhart said. "The same abortion services will remain available in Wichita."
Tiller, 67, was shot to death just after 10 a.m. Sunday in the foyer of Reformation Lutheran Church, where he was serving as an usher.
Scott Roeder, 51, of Merriam, has been arrested in connection with the shooting, according to the Johnson County Sheriff's Office. He remains at the Sedgwick County Jail pending the formal filing of charges.
Carhart said he drove to Wichita on Sunday night. He met with clinic employees and Tiller's wife and daughters Monday morning.
"It was a really, really good meeting," Carhart said. "It was a chance to go over all the important things and the good things George had done for each of us, and ways that we could appreciate all that he's done for the community and the women of this country.
"His daughters and his wife are doing far better than I would be doing if I just lost my life partner or my mother or father," he said.
Patients who had appointments this week have been notified of the clinic's closing, and other arrangements for their care have been made, Carhart said.
"Starting next Monday we should be back to 100 percent," he said.
Carhart said he and two other out-of-state doctors have been rotating weekly shifts at the clinic, and that will continue.
The two other doctors are licensed to practice medicine in the state of Kansas and have no complaints against them, said Kristi Pankratz, a spokeswoman for the state Board of Healing Arts.
Wichita police have stepped up patrols at the clinic on East Kellogg, said Daryl Ingermanson, chief deputy for the U.S. Marshal's Kansas district. But no U.S. marshals have been assigned to guard Tiller's clinic, he said.
"At this point, we haven't been directed to," Ingermanson said.
Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday ordered increased security for some abortion clinics and doctors in the wake of Tiller's slaying.
Jeff Carter, a spokesman for the U.S. Marshals Service, confirmed the decision "to increase security for a number of individuals and facilities" but would not disclose further details.
Tiller's clinic has been bombed, blockaded and vandalized at various times over the past two decades.
A staff member reported severe vandalism to the clinic to authorities May 2, and a letter threatening Tiller's life was reported May 4.
Authorities on Monday did not respond to inquiries about whether the suspect in custody is linked to the threatening letter.
Bridget Patton, a spokeswoman for the FBI in Kansas City, Mo., said she could neither confirm nor deny that the suspect arrested in connection with Tiller's death had been on any kind of an agency watch list.
"We do have an open investigation into the vandalism at that clinic," Patton said.
I suppose in future years Tiller will be known as th “slain abortion provider”, just as the Rev. Martin Luther King has been known as “the slain civil rights leader”.
Ain’t that a shame. Too bad. The country might have been better off if she had. Politically incorrect to the max, you bet!
If the far left pillories the guy too much, he may turn into a martyr and that would really piss off the far left IMO.
Those court orders don't fall under Federal jurisdiction. Not to say that Obama may necessarily be guided by such distinctions, but the fact is there, and those within the law enforcement community are mainly guided by the law. Of course, the police saying "sorry" is emblematic of the faulty nature of law.
On the other hand, Obama has to “do something”, after all he has only been in office 5 months and he’s already had TWO terrorist attacks on U.S. Soil, one of which actually targeted our military operations.
Therein lies the irony I pointed out. This was not a terrorist attack against our military operations. The killing of a soldier at a recruitment center was. Yet is the administration taking the same precautions at those sites? And, of course, this begs the question whether the term 'terrorist attack' is appropriate in the Tiller killing.
When you save a life that would have been taken otherwise, isn’t that some kind of defense that can be used.
I'm not sure how this relates to my post...
This is true, but neither does the local killing of a local doctor in Kansas, or the protection of locally operated, state chartered abortion clinics.
That's a home run, FRiend.
Good point. The only connection is the Federal courts mandating that abortion is legal. The administration has a far more direct connection to the recruitment center killing than this. But... tick, tick...
Maybe we are just being tested.
On your point, a lib nutcase like her would have been proud as punch to show everyone how “tolerant and un-bigoted” she was bu showing off her little h/y.
They better be real careful. The dirt is coming out about Carhart, how he sold aborted baby parts to the University of Nebraska for research....sick sick sick
May their House of Shame come tumbling down on their heads, and in full view of the public, in Jesus Name. Amen.
“Now Roeder will be summarily executed by the State to keep him from talking. They don’t want him to turn into the Pro-Life Mumia.”
If he does get the death penalty, I see great irony. The Kansas death penalty was challenged and upheld, after Phil Kline went before the US Supreme Court to argue in favor of it.
It may be ironic, but also just. No one has the right to take the law into their own hands, even if the justice system is broken and corrupt politicians circumvent it for their favorites (like Tiller) every chance they get.
Scott Roeder is no less a murderer than Mumia, but you won't see the liberals fighting for his right to live. That's where the real irony lies.
“It may be ironic, but also just. No one has the right to take the law into their own hands”
Oh, I agree with you. It would have been much better to eventually take Tiller to trial, and air out his outrageous acts in public. Also, this killing did not slow the pace of late term abortion one bit. A new guy, Carhart, has agreed to take the baton and keep going with the practice.
Also, the media is loving this. It fits their right wing fringe lunatic mold too perfectly.
But, I have absolutely zero compassion for Tiller...or even his family.
Wait a minute...isn't partial-birth abortion illegal now?
“Wait a minute...isn’t partial-birth abortion illegal now”
Yes! But in Kansas, there are exceptions made if the health of the mother is in danger. There are indeed rare cases where this is true.
Tiller, however, could dummy up a false medical reason for ANYBODY who walked through his door. This is the whole point of the case that Phil Kline was making against him...when Kline lost an election to Morrison, who was bought by Tiller.
Presto! He bought himself out of prosecution.
Of course its illegal...but that never stopped him.
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