Feminists Celebrates Baby Killer

Tiller's appearance at NEA-hosted event draws pro-lifers' attention

Jim Brown - OneNewsNow - 3/26/2008 6:00:00 AM

The National Education Association is being denounced for hosting an event honoring infamous abortionist George Tiller who is facing 19 criminal charges for performing illegal late-term abortions.

George Tiller, a man many pro-lifers call "Tiller the baby killer," received a standing ovation at the Feminist Majority Foundation's annual Women's Leadership Conference held recently at the NEA's headquarters in Washington, DC. During his talk, Tiller attempted to justify his work by showing the approving audience pictures of babies he had aborted who had fetal abnormalities. The Feminist Majority Foundation then announced it was launching a new campaign designed to keep Tiller's Wichita, Kansas, abortion mill open.

Two employees with the group Students for Life of America secretly videotaped a conversation they had with Tiller after the event. Executive director Kristan Hawkins, who conducted the interview with the abortionist, says when she questioned Tiller about his views on infanticide, he stated that he was not even aware of the Born Alive Infants Protection Act. [Editor's note: The videotaped interview is available at the group's website.]

"He said that he has done abortions up until the day before delivery -- so that's 36 weeks, 35 weeks [in the womb]," says Hawkins. "He also said [if] you have 15 or 16 [abortions] and one slips out with a heartbeat, that's not a viable fetus." And the pro-life activist claims Tiller stated that if a baby is born alive during an abortion, "that's just sloppy medicine, that's just sloppy technique."

Hawkins says the National Education Association has no legitimate explanation for hosting Tiller. "It's pretty sickening," Hawkins shares. "We've have a lot of pro-life teachers write the NEA since we put the information out."

The activist's husband, who is a teacher, had written the NEA about its hosting of the conference and its guest speaker. According to Hawkins, the NEA responded that it sometimes allows "likeminded groups" to use the building for a small fee or no charge at all. "So they're classifying the Feminist Majority Foundation as a likeminded group," she points out. "Now this is an extreme pro-abortion organization."

Hawkins says although the NEA has a long history of pro-abortion activism, many pro-life teachers viewed the Tiller appearance as the "final straw" and have subsequently chosen to leave the union.