So now Omaha, Nebraska is going to become the headquarters for the abortion
debate. Dr. Carhart is just as ungodly as Tiller. I can't imagine living the
life that he leads, having to be careful when he is seen out in public,
hurriedly eating his public meals, being the target of so much hatred and
animosity, etc. But most importantly, one of these days, just like Tiller
and other abortions, Dr. Carhart is going to have to face a wrathful God,
due to his evil crimes against the unborn.

Following is an article from the New York Times.


Abortion Battle Shifts to Clinic in Nebraska

By MONICA DAVEY - NYT

December 3, 2009


BELLEVUE, Neb. -- The national battle over abortion, for decades firmly
planted outside the Kansas clinic of Dr. George R. Tiller, has erupted here
in suburban Omaha, where a longtime colleague has taken up the cause of
late-term abortions.

Since Dr. Tiller was shot to death in May, his colleague, Dr. LeRoy H.
Carhart, has hired two people who worked at Dr. Tiller's clinic and has
trained his own staff members in the technical intricacies of performing
late-term abortions.

Dr. Carhart has also begun performing some abortions "past 24 weeks," he
said in an interview, and is prepared to perform them still later if they
meet legal requirements and if he considers them medically necessary.

"There is a need, and I feel deeply about it," said Dr. Carhart, visibly
weary after a day when eight patients had appointments at his clinic here.

The late-term abortions, coming after the earliest point when a fetus might
survive outside the womb, are the most controversial, even among some who
favor abortion rights. A few of Dr. Carhart's employees quit when he told
them of his plans to expand the clinic's work.

Opponents of abortion, who had devoted decades to trying to stop Dr.
Tiller's business with protests and calls for investigations, are now
turning their efforts to stopping Dr. Carhart. Troy Newman, the president of
Operation Rescue, an anti-abortion group, said he had traveled from the
group's headquarters in Wichita, Kan., to Nebraska six times in recent
months, portraying this suburb of fewer than 50,000 as a new battlefield in
the abortion fight.

"We're trying to get criminal charges against him, to get his license
revoked, and to get legislators there to look at the law," Mr. Newman said
of Dr. Carhart.

State law in Nebraska bans abortions in cases when a fetus clearly appears
to have reached viability, except to "preserve the life or health of the
mother."

Abortion-rights advocates say the need exists for late-term abortions, in
cases of extraordinary genetic defects and other dire health circumstances,
and some had worried that only a few physicians would be willing to provide
such care after Dr. Tiller's killing, an act prosecutors say was carried out
by an abortion foe.

"He's standing up, and so are some others," Vicki Saporta, president of the
National Abortion Federation, said of Dr. Carhart.

A few other doctors have long performed late-term abortions, and some said
both the threats against them and their efforts at security had increased
since Dr. Tiller's death.

Dr. Carhart, 68, knew Dr. Tiller for years, and would make regular trips to
his clinic in Wichita to perform abortions there, as other physicians did.
Though Dr. Tiller's clinic was not the only one in the country performing
late-term abortions, it was a focal point for controversy. Operation Rescue
even moved its headquarters to Wichita because of Dr. Tiller's practice.

Dr. Carhart, who has been performing abortions since the 1970s, is no
stranger to the debate; he has been a litigant in two abortion-related cases
decided by the United States Supreme Courtover a particular method of
abortion referred to by critics as "partial-birth abortion." And
immediately
after Dr. Tiller's killing, Dr. Carhart offered to continue operating his
clinic, but the Tiller family decided to close it.

Still, in the months since the killing, Dr. Carhart has made changes at his
clinic and to his lifestyle as he has openly moved to take up Dr. Tiller's
cause.

Visitors to the clinic here must pass through a metal detector, new security
cameras scan outside the building and a security consultant is employed full
time. Dr. Carhart says he goes out publicly only on short, unscheduled trips
and rarely eats out (and when he does, he says he stays less than 30
minutes). Dr. Carhart, an Air Force veteran, said his daughter was wed this
fall on a nearby military base, mainly for security and privacy.

"We do everything differently now," he said.

Dr. Carhart declined to provide specifics on how late in a pregnancy he
would be willing to perform an abortion. Dr. Tiller performed them, in some
cases, as late as in the third trimester of pregnancy. Dr. Carhart's fee
schedule lists prices for abortions up to 22 weeks and 6 days (at that
point, $2,100 in cash or $2,163 on a credit card), but notes that abortions
after 23 weeks are available "after consultation with our doctor," and that
abortions after the 27th week may take four days.

At his clinic in the past, Dr. Carhart said, he had performed abortions up
to about 22 weeks into gestation -- considered by some to be near the
earliest point at which a fetus can survive outside the womb, a notion known
as viability and one that is cited in many laws related to abortion.

Dr. Carhart's opponents insist that late-term procedures violate state and
federal statutes as well as professional rules. They have approached
officials in Nebraska seeking an investigation. Mr. Newman, who had
regularly called for investigations into Dr. Tiller's work but strongly
denounced his killing, has submitted a complaintabout Dr. Carhart to Jon
Bruning, Nebraska's attorney general. In it, Mr. Newman accuses Dr. Carhart
of using improper operating procedures under shoddy conditions.

Representatives of Mr. Bruning would not comment on whether an investigation
was taking place. Marla Augustine, a spokeswoman for the State Department of
Health and Human Services, which regulates physicians, said Dr. Carhart had
no formal disciplinary actions on his record.

(In 1993, she said, he signed an assurance of compliance with the state,
promising not to do certain things, like talk on the phone during surgical
procedures, but the agreement says it did not mean he had admitted
committing any violations and was not considered a disciplinary action.)

Dr. Carhart, meanwhile, said he had heard nothing lately from state
officials. "Anybody can file a claim," he said.

A brochure for his clinic shows a photograph of Dr. Carhart beside Dr.
Tiller, and says that the clinic dedicates "our services to women in honor
of" Dr. Tiller. Asked whether he feared a similar fate as Dr. Tiller's, Dr.
Carhart said he had signed up for this life.

"They have never targeted me more," he said of abortion
opponents. "But to
me, the most dangerous response would be for me to stop what I am doing. The
thought that killing Tiller might also succeed in closing another clinic --
that's my main reason for keeping open."



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