Programs: George R. Tiller, MD

PRCH Board member LeRoy Carhart, MD, presents
Dr. Tiller (right) with the 2007 Rashbaum Award.

Winner of the 2007 Rashbaum Award, George R. Tiller, MD, served on PRCH’s Board of Directors from 2002 to 2006.  He is currently the medical director of Women’s Health Care Services PA, in Wichita, Kansas. Dr. Tiller has been board certified in family medicine since 1973 and is past president of the medical staff of HCA Wesley Medical Center in Wichita.  He has been a clinical instructor in the Family Medicine Residency at Wesley Medical Center for more than 30 years and a clinical instructor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Kansas School of Medicine for more than 25 years.

Dr. Tiller is one of very few physicians in the United States who perform late-term abortions. He has been shot; his clinic has been bombed; and for more than two years, he lived under the eye of a federal marshal. Yet Dr. Tiller continues to provide late-term abortions.  He also has lectured throughout the United States, Australia, Canada, and Europe on the policies, procedures, and protocol of late-term abortions.

Dr. Tiller pioneered the use of sonogram imaging during surgery, as well as other procedures that have become standards of care worldwide. He is the founder of two political action committees, Pro-Choice Action League and ProKanDo, which have helped keep abortion legal and available in the United States.

Dr. Tiller is featured in Voices of Choice, PRCH’s short film that documents the experiences of physicians involved in abortion care and reform prior to Roe v. Wade.