Letter: Wichita Abortion Clinic

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To the Editor:

Reading about Julie Burkhart and her team gives me hope ("Four Years Later, Slain Abortion Doctor's Aide Steps Into the Void," news article, Feb. 14).

As a doctor who provides abortions and a colleague of Dr. George R. Tiller, I have worried about the women left behind when he was murdered — not only the patients who came from far and wide for late abortions but the Wichita, Kan., women who depended on him for early procedures and family planning.

Their needs didn't die when he was murdered, and I applaud Ms. Burkhart for her determination to bring reproductive health care back to these women.

She seems unfazed by the anti-abortion furor kicked up around her. Maybe, like me, she finds solace in Dr. Tiller's memory and his conviction that women should be trusted with their health and lives.

WILLIE PARKER
Chicago, Feb. 14, 2013

The writer is a board member of Physicians for Reproductive Health.

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