Ten years ago, on 31 May 2009, George Tiller, an abortion provider in Kansas, was assassinated in his church by an anti-abortion zealot. Louisiana braces for latest turn of the screw on abortion rights Read moreThat’s because Tiller, during his lifetime, became the public face of late abortion provision. Dr Tiller provided third-trimester abortions in cases where wanted pregnancies had gone horribly wrong, due to severe or lethal fetal anomalies that had been discovered only late in pregnancy. In his Wichita clinic, he developed protocols to make the heartbreaking experience for these patients, which could stretch over four or five days, as humane as possible. The induction method of abortion that Tiller employed for third-trimester patients meant that women would eventually deliver a stillbirth.

Source: The Guardian May 31, 2019 12:45 UTC