Response to the tragic death of Dr. George Tiller

The members of the Advocacy Committee for Women’s Concerns wish to express their deep sadness over the recent murder of Dr. George Tiller. As a provider committed to offering safe reproductive health care services to women, including tremendously difficult yet sometimes necessary late-term pregnancy terminations, Dr. Tiller provided care essential to the health and well-being of countless women.

Along with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the Advocacy Committee for Women’s Concerns condemns gun violence, and certainly gun violence directed at reproductive health clinics and clinicians. ACWC affirms the value of life and healthy living, including the provision of safe and legal reproductive health services for all women. 

The Advocacy Committee for Women’s Concerns wishes to express sympathy to the family and friends of Dr. Tiller, and all those directly affected by this tragedy. In the face of this violence, we raise our voices of protest in solidarity with all people of faith, ever hoping for a world that better reflects the redemption we have in Christ.