![]() ![]() Tiller, some patients asked, be willing to help? That was when the younger Tiller learned, to his great surprise, that his father had been performing abortions, inspired to do so in the mid-1940s after a woman he had refused to help lost her life from a botched abortion. A family practice physician himself, Jack died in a 1970 plane crash that also took the lives of his wife, daughter and son-in-law-a tragedy that led George to leave dermatology, return to his hometown of Wichita, Kan., and take over for his father. George Tiller’s father, Jack, was one of them. ![]() Nonetheless, some brave physicians performed abortions on the sly before then, risking their licenses and livelihoods because they recognized how strong women’s needs were for their services. ![]() It was a specialty that did not become legal nationally until 1973 with the U.S. In addition to a family practice, Tiller decided to treat women who chose to have abortions. Instead, Tiller decided to enlist in what shouldn’t be-but is-one of the most perilous jobs in the United States: women’s reproductive healthcare. He could have led a comfortable, secure life with his wife, Jeanne, their four children and, ultimately, their 10 grandchildren. ![]() George Tiller planned to be a dermatologist. ![]()
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