A Nebraska doc has vowed to pick up the fight in Kansas will offer services like Tiller's

OMAHA, Neb. - A Nebraska doctor says he'll perform third-term abortions in Kansas after the slaying of abortion provider George Tiller, even though Tiller's clinic is closed.

Dr. LeRoy Carhart declined to discuss details with The Associated Press on Wednesday, a day after Tiller's family announced his Wichita clinic was permanently shutting its doors.

Carhart isn't saying whether his plans include opening a new facility or offering the abortions at an existing practice. He says such details are "something that doesn't need to be talked about" until everything is in place.

http://www.kansas.com/news/breaking/story/847088.html

Preventing women from receiving medical attention at LEGAL clinics should be a federal offense.

There are many many women who will be thankful for the courageous.

to fight for the rights of women everywhere.

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federal protection for the forseeable future. The terrorists will no doubt put him at the very top of their hit list, and they are not above hitting his family, too.

but this doctor worked with Dr. Tiller

How brave he is.

K&R

and I pray for his safety and hope that he takes all necessary precautions

..until the domestic terrorists can be reigned in - IF they ever are.

I echo everybody's call for serious, massive protection. I wish there were a way to make a certain radius around the clinic private, giving legal recourse for keeping the nuts as far away as possible.

in hospitals. Large hospitals. And no one should be given the name/location of the hospital until after they've been thoroughly screened and scheduled for the procedure. That would be with massive, 24/7 security for all staff and family members. These people are pure evil. The charges need to be the heaviest of criminal charges and with the longest possible sentences.

One of the tactics used by anti-choice legislators is to require all abortion providers to be within a certain distance of a hospital, or require that abortion be reclassified as an inpatient procedure and only available in a hospital.

needs to change. Pro-choice, pro-women, legislators need to push back on anti-choice tactics.

Public awareness has been heightened by tragic circumstance. Dr. Tiller's murder can be used as an opportunity, and it should be. To makes new laws - revitalize and enforce The FACE Act - establish funding for both birth control and abortion services.

I guess it boils down to how much and how hard they/we are willing to fight.

proceudre- they become lightning rods. The procedure is legal- hospitals shld be forced to offer it.
Law enforcement would provide better security and the whole process would be less stigmatized, marginalized...less targeted.

I beg to differ - I was never able to get an affordable GYN exam from a provider in a hospital, but I was at a Planned Parenthood clinic. You cannot tell me that a hospital would have given them space that was as affordable as the strip mall that they were in.

My OB's office where I got my prenatal exams was near a hospital, but not in it.

Oral surgery, dermatological surgery, lasik, - they are done at facilities separate from hospitals. There are even freestanding birthing centers. I don't see a "ghettoization" of Dentists and dermatologists and optometrists. Many abortion providers are in these outpatient medical centers along with these other medical providers.

When seeking out a medical provider for a specific, specialize procedure, you are told to seek out an experienced provider who does this procedure as often as possible - ideally one that does nothing but this procedure.

Why should gynecologists be forced to rent incredibly limited, and therefore expensive space in a hospital for outpatient procedures that are no more risky than having a tooth pulled under anesthesia?? This is what PL lawmakers want. It limits access and the number of locations where a woman can go for an abortion.

It is not the job of law enforcement to stand guard at the entrances to medical facilities. They need to be investigating these wingnuts and haul them away when they violate FACE or are seen vandalizing clinics - like Roeder was.

i was talking about wider availability of abortions, in fact i didn;t say much of what you assume I did....wtf? it;s very either/ or to you.. all of this, so I wo;t bother to correct your assumtions or explain further..

are desperately needed FOR THE HEALTH OF MANY MOTHERS.

hope he stays safe!

he knows what he is stepping in to

Doesn't seem fair. That only a select few have to face death threats like this from something we all believe in.

Self perception, nor our cultural ideal, but that is the truth. Just look around you, we nearly collapsed when a couple of buildings were knocked down, yell, DISEASE and we run helter skelter light a flock of blind turkeys. No, the great majority are weak willed cowering wimps whose sole exhibition of bravery is when they gang up on one another over the mis-use of some currently in vogue politically correct term. Look in the mirror and look closely...chances are you fit that description...are you proud?

a member of this board, or our party, if this is your 'sole exhibition of bravery'.

'Look in the mirror and look closely...chances are you fit that description...are you proud?'

Good job. :sarcasm:

Oh. And welcome to DU. I expect your stay will be brief.

http://www.carhartt.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/HomeView?storeId=10051&catalogId=10101

Exceptional durability in the medical profession? Check
Quality of construction (built of strong material)? Check
Comfort (knowing a really caring physician will get you through the worst day of your life)? Check
Fit (one clinic has closed, but another may be on the way)? Check

and I'm sure he's already got security. He's the doctor behind the 2000 SCOTUS case that held Nebraska's "partial birth abortion" ban unconstitutional.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/99-830.ZS.html

I salute you, Dr. Carhart!

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clamps down on extremists. This La T Da attitude is killing this Country. And good people. These procedures need to be done in all Hospitals and there needs to be many people trained to do them in order to make it difficult to guess who is doing them.

As we mourn the tragic murder of Dr. Tiller, it may be a good time to ponder the following basic questions that should be a guide in taking a position on the issue of abortion: When does human life begin? When does a fetus become a iving, human person? Is it at conception? Is at birth? Or is it some specific, definite point in between?

carrying" and moreover "does the potential human stand a chance in hell if they are dead, brutally deformed, etc....". Just my opinion of course. I still think it is at times necessary and no one ever ever ever ever should make that decision for some one else. Particularly when it is a deep decision.