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to provide late-term abortions for just any reason (or none at all, as some of the fevered posters like to claim), given that he was one of only three people in the entire country doing this and it's fairly delicate work to have an uninjured woman and fetus that may be viewed afterward. FWIW, here's what I understand to be his clinic's basic requirements:
Admission CriteriaIn order to offer you an appointment, we require that a physician refer you to our center. In addition, we need your genetic counselor or doctor to provide us with gestational and diagnostic information regarding your pregnancy. Over the past twenty-five years, we have had experience with pregnancy terminations in such situations as anencephaly, Trisomy 13, 18, and 21, polycystic kidney disease, spina bifida, hydrocephalus, Potter's syndrome, lethal dwarfism, holoprosencephaly, anterior and posterior encephalocele, non-immune hydrops, and a variety of other very significant abnormalities.
There were plenty of women who needed his help and had referrals from their own practitioners, so if it makes anyone feel better to imagine a bunch of trivial, vain sluts who decided to abort in order to get their figures back before swimsuit season, go right ahead-- I seriously doubt Tiller would have had time for that kind of nonsense even if it really existed, which there's no evidence it does.
