Contact: Troy Newman, President, 316-841-1700; Cheryl Sullenger, Senior Policy Advisor, 316-516-3034; both with Operation Rescue, info@operationrescue.org

WICHITA, Kans., Mar. 12 /Christian Newswire/ -- Just four days before jury selection begins in late-term abortionist George R. Tiller's criminal trial, a woman was transported to the emergency room by ambulance from Tiller's abortion clinic, Women's Health Care Services.

Sedgwick County ambulance number 23 left Tiller's clinic at approximately 2:15 PM Central Daylight Time and transported a woman to Wesley Medical Center with no lights or sirens running. The patient was rushed into the emergency room with her head covered, leaving witnesses to wonder if she was alive or dead.

Tiller followed the ambulance to Wesley Medical Center and was dropped off by unlicensed "nurse" Cathy Reavis at an entrance on the east side of the building, out of sight from Operation Rescue staffers who were photographing the incident near the Emergency Room entrance.

"Tiller's abortion clinic operates outside the bounds of the law and moral decency," said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman, who was on the scene at the hospital when the injured woman came in. "How many women must suffer life-threatening injuries or even death until he is jailed and his dangerous abortion business is shut down?"

Operation Rescue renews its plea that Tiller's abortion clinic be closed down on an emergency basis in the interest of public safety.

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Operation Rescue is one of the leading pro-life Christian activist organizations in the nation.  Operation Rescue recently made headlines when it bought and closed an abortion clinic in Wichita, Kansas and has become the voice of the pro-life activist movement in America.  Its activities are on the cutting edge of the abortion issue, taking direct action to restore legal personhood to the pre-born and stop abortion in obedience to biblical mandates.