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Tiller's Legacy of Reproductive Freedom Print E-mail
Thursday, June 4, 2009, 12:25 pm

This Letter to the Editor Appeared in the June 4th addition of The Courier Journal

We honor Dr. George Tiller's legacy of compassion and care throughout his life. Dr. Tiller devoted his life to ensuring that all women have access to comprehensive reproductive health including safe and legal abortion. As a highly qualified health care provider, his life's work was dedicated to helping women facing problem pregnancies and difficult decisions. Those of us who support quality health care for all women admire his dedication and courage. Our thoughts and sympathies go out to his family, friends, staff, and colleagues.


Sunday's murder of Dr. George Tiller serves as a shocking and tragic reminder of the risks health care professionals face providing legal reproductive services to women in our country today.  Regardless of how one feels about the subject of abortion, we can all agree that women have a right to health care free from harassment and intimidation and that health care professionals have a right to provide services free from violence.

Dr. Tiller believed women deserved kindness, courtesy, justice, love and respect. He believed in the emotional and spiritual heart of each woman.  Because of these beliefs he faced years of harassment and violence.  He continued to serve women even after he was shot in 1993.  He refused to cave into the relentless harassment and threats that he faced at his home, his clinic, and finally even his place of worship.

Dr. Tiller wore a button bearing his motto..."Attitude is everything."  It is time for every person, no matter their political or ideological beliefs, to seek the common ground of kindness, courtesy, justice, love and respect.

Derek Selznick
Reproductive Freedom Project Director, American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky

Judi Jennings
Executive Director, Kentucky Foundation for Women

Shirley Jones
President and CEO, Planned Parenthood of Kentucky
 
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