Following a lawsuit filed by Foliage Development Inc., Dr. Mila Means has agreed not to perform abortions in the office space that she leases from the company and stated that she will seek another space for her medical practice. Foliage Development claimed that by offering abortions, Dr. Means would create safety issues and a public nuisance due to the daily protests by anti-abortion groups.
Protesters have been gathering outside Dr. Means’ practice since December, when the Associated Press released a story that Dr. Means had been training to perform abortions at a Kansas City clinic. Last night, anti-abortion protesters demonstrated at Dr. Means’ home. Operation Rescue Wichita, the anti-abortion group that had plagued Dr. Tiller for seven years, had published her address on its website.
Abortion services have not been available to women in Wichita since Dr. George Tiller’s murder in May 2009.The Feminist Majority Foundation, which conducts oldest and largest national clinic defense project in the nation, had worked with Dr. Tiller and is helping besieged clinics in some 14 states. Harassment of abortion providers has increased since the election of a pro-choice President and Dr. Tiller’s assassination.
Watch Rachel Maddow Monday on MSNBC to see a report from Wichita on the aggressive harassment of Dr. Mila Means, who wants to give women the choice of safe, legal abortion services in Wichita once again. Maddow is repeatedly asking, “What kind of nation do you want to live in?”
Feminist Majority Foundation Legal Coordinator duVergne Gaines will be interviewed.
1 comment
Nicole says:
Apr 29, 2011
In answer to Bailey on 4/27/2011. It doesn’t murder an innocent baby. There is a small window where you can actually do this procedure. You are 17 years old and I am assuming not a doctor. So why would you tell people that it could cause sever damage to a woman, infertility, and high risk complications. Have you ever carried a child for nine months and felt it’s every move just to turn around and hand it off to some stranger. No, you probably haven’t. If couples are incapabale of having a child maybe that is the way God wants it. I love this country that we can all have our own opinions. Everyone has there own path and has to answer for their life. I perosnally had an abortion. I was on the pill and got pregnant. Sparing you the details. My choice to not carry that pregnancy was exactly that a choice I had to make. I can’t take it back and I can’t change it. But it was the hardest thing I have ever had to do. So make no mistake when you see protesters(mostly men)yelling about burning in Hell and then offering the Lord’s salvation, as that woman walks by with all of her emotions she is strong and I commend her. I now have a great job, a home, two beautiful children and a loving husband. Wouldn’t change anything! As for these doctors in Kansas. it’s ironic that it’s protesters right to freedom of assembly and of speech on someone who is licensed to perform medical procedures under the provisions of the law legally and they can torment someone to the point of being murdered. I would love to be on the opposite side of the “pearly white gates” when God gets to that case file. I see a some heat in a couple peoples future, you?