Talk:George Tiller

Latest comment: 1 year ago by 136.32.195.44 in topic Christin Gilbert


Assassination? edit

Why is this even called an assassination here, rather than a murder? We define assassination as follows: "Assassination is the act of deliberately killing a prominent or important person, such as heads of state, politicians, royalty, celebrities, or CEOs." I don't believe Tiller fits any of those categories. -- Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 02:12, 31 December 2020 (UTC)Reply

You can regard physicians as important people as many people depend for life or quality of life on them. And beside that, according to the mentioned assassination page: An assassination may be prompted by political and military motives. And that political motive is loud and clear. The Banner talk 09:38, 31 December 2020 (UTC)Reply
Category:Murdered physicians has lots of entries. Tiller is the only physician whose death WP places in the special subset of murders called assassinations. -- Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 10:46, 31 December 2020 (UTC)Reply
A quick look on a few of them gives me the idea that some of them are mislabelled. The Banner talk 11:09, 31 December 2020 (UTC)Reply

Political spin term removed edit

@The Banner, WP:NPOV prevents us from using political spin terms such as "pro-choice" in articles. You can add "pro-abortion rights" if it helps you to clarify who he meant in the quote. Thanks. Elizium23 (talk) 00:51, 8 July 2022 (UTC)Reply

I call that censorship. And we have WP:SPADE. When backed up by sources, we should tell the truth. Not twiddle around it out of fear of hurting someone feelings. The Banner talk 08:45, 8 July 2022 (UTC)Reply

Text claims late terms abortions were only performed in extreme cases, but is contradicted by source edit

Tiller treated patients who discovered late in pregnancy that their fetuses had severe or fatal birth defects. He also aborted healthy late-term fetuses in cases where two doctors certified that carrying the fetus to term would cause the woman "substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function."

This doesn't seem to be supported by the source, which states that 3/4 of the abortions were teenagers who had hidden the pregnancy until late term. Similarly, the other late-term clinics state that the majority of late-term abortions are "elective". Ketil (talk) 06:53, 13 November 2022 (UTC)Reply

Christin Gilbert edit

Why is the death of Christin Gilbert not mentioned here? 136.32.195.44 (talk) 21:08, 15 March 2023 (UTC)Reply