A story is being re-told.  One that was ignored by the MSM somewhere between 1992 & 1994 when it was first published.  It was ignored because Dr. Tiller’s spokespeople were well prepared to discredit the ex-employee because she was just that – an ex-employee.  This ex-employee even admits that she was fired from Tiller’s office – no excuses as to how it was all Tiller’s fault and she is totally innocent.  Yet, the media seemed to have ignored it….until now.

Here is a portion of the text wrote in Celebrate Life, Sept/Oct 1994 issue (reprinted in 1996 on Catholic Fire blogspot) emphasis mine:

"From May to November 1988, I worked for an abortionist. He specializes in third trimester killings. I witnessed evidence of the brutal, cold blooded murder of over 600 viable, healthy babies at seven, eight and nine months gestation. A very, very few of these babies, less than 2%, were handicapped…I thought I was pro-choice and I was glad to be working in an abortion clinic. I thought I was helping provide a noble service to women in crisis….I was instructed to falsify the age of the babies in medical records. I was required to lie to the mothers over the phone, as they scheduled their appointments, and to tell them that they were not ‘too far along’ Then I had to note, in the records that Dr. Tiller’s needle had successfully pierced the walls of the baby’s heart, injecting the poison that brought death…one day, Dr. Tiller came up the stairs from the basement, where the mothers were in labor. He was carrying a large cardboard box, and ducked into the employees only area of the office so that he wouldn’t have to walk through the waiting room. He passed behind my desk as I sat working on the computer, and he turned the corner to go around a short hall. He called out for me to come and help him. The box was so big and heavy in his arms that he couldn’t get the key into the lock. So I unlocked the door for him, and, pushing the door open, I saw very clearly the gleaming metal of the crematorium-a full-sized crematorium, just like the one’s used in funeral homes. I went back to my computer. I could hear Dr. Tiller firing up the gas oven. A few minutes later I could smell burning human flesh. Mine was the agony of a participant, however reluctant, in the act of prenatal infanticide."

These are the words from Luhra Tivis.  She also spoke her words at a hearing to the Kansas Senate State and Federal Affairs Committee (I’m still trying to find the transcripts but many articles are confirming this.)  This is what is being wrote today – emphasis mine:

In addition to normal secretarial work, Tivis told the Eagle that she “underwent some sales training” when she began work in 1988. In a separate testimony, published on the Pro-Life Action League’s website, Tivis explained: “I thought they were going to tell me how they want the information sheet filled out and how to keep the phone record and this and that.

“But what I was handed instead was a packet of information – materials to study – on how to be a high-pressure salesperson over the phone, like telemarketing: how to convince somebody to buy your product.”…..

“I was seeing eight- and nine-month pregnant women come in,” she said, “and out of those two dozen a week, only about 2 percent had medical deformities. I thought I was pro-choice back then, but week after week I kept seeing these women coming in with healthy babies and I saw all the records. I didn’t think that was right.” ……

Discussing the typical abortion procedure, Tivis told the Pro-Life Action League in a previous interview: “[the mothers] have a sonogram, first thing and he tells them, ‘Oh, you’re not that far along.’ He’s very happy to take their money. Then the first thing he does to them is he kills that baby, because once that baby is dead, they can’t change their mind and get their money back.

“He uses the sonogram — a tool for life — to kill the baby. He uses that to guide the needle into the baby’s heart and he injects it with digoxin, which is a heart medication and it slows the baby’s heart down.

“The second day, the women come in and they have little group counseling sessions, but they don’t do any counseling until after that baby is already dead”…..

One of the more disturbing aspects of the abortion process at Tiller’s clinic was the “memorial services” he openly offered, as published on his website, to parents after they had killed their child. Tiller even employed a chaplain at his clinic, where he offered baptisms, baptismal certificates, and mementos such as a lock of hair or “fetal footprints.”

The clinic also offered parents a chance to bond with the child’s corpse for a little while after the abortion, in a process Tiller described in a 1996 promotional video as an “identification and separation encounter.”

“We will bring the baby to you, either at the bedside, or we will go to our quiet room, and we will bring the baby to you there,” said the abortionist.

“During this encounter we will describe to you what’s right with your baby, we will identify what’s wrong with your baby. You may hold the baby. We can take pictures of you and the family holding the baby, if you wish, and that is not an uncommon request. … the identification/separation encounter may involve 2 or 3 hours of bonding with the baby – the identification that this is your baby and you have had a delivery.”

I checked the statistics of what Tivis said about there being 2 dozen abortions a week.  In 1988 Kansas reported 911 abortions done in the 2nd and 3rd trimesters (16 weeks +) which amounts to 17.5 abortions a week.  Dr. Tiller was the only doctor in Kansas to do such late term abortions.  So, 20 years later her story is consistent with the facts that were not easily attainable in the early 1990’s.

This testimony is also consistent with the testimonies of women who had abortions there.  Here is a recent interview Bill O’Reilly had with a previous patient:

I wonder how many more people will come forward, if any, to tell a story.

Hat Tip:  Kristi