by Marc and Julie Anderson
mjanderson@theleaven.org
PENSACOLA, Fl. — “A patient is a person, no matter how small.”
Thus believes Dr. William Lile, the keynote speaker for the Life & Hope Banquet to be held Sept. 4 at the Overland Park Convention Center. The event is an annual fundraiser for the Wyandotte Pregnancy Clinic and the Olathe Pregnancy Clinic.
For decades, Lile has practiced obstetrics and gynecology in Alabama and Florida, delivering 4,000 babies. In 1999, he took over a practice that was the largest provider of abortion services in the Pensacola area.
“We stopped all of the abortions on day one,” he said. “We told all of the staff members they were welcome to stay, but if they referred anybody in-person or over the phone to another abortion clinic outside of our area, that would be grounds for termination, and every one of the staff members stayed.”
Board-certified, Lile is also a trained member and board member of the Abortion Pill Reversal Network (APR), which has successfully helped 19 of 26 women bring their babies to term after taking the abortion pill and regretting it. The network itself recently celebrated its 7,000th documented case of an abortion pill reversal. The network has also trained more than 1,000 doctors, nurse practitioners and physician assistants. Annually, Lile said, there are approximately 40 million abortions worldwide through the abortion pill.
“Then, you do the math, and over 25 years, that’s over 1 billion babies,” he said. “There are only eight billion people on the planet.”
While he’s always been pro-life, Lile, who retired from his practice as of July 1, said he never imagined he’d be a speaker for the preborn.
One Sunday not long after taking over the practice, Lile went to his office to tour the part he’d not seen prior to taking over the practice: the second-floor surgical suites used for abortion.
“I’ll never forget for the first time walking up the stairs to the second floor,” he said, “and thinking about how many tens of thousands of moms in the previous 30 years had walked up those same stairs with a baby on the inside, spent a half hour or so, and then have a surgery done, and then came down the other set of the stairs without that baby on the inside. It just broke my heart.”
Lile approached his pastor about doing a presentation. That led to another and another and then another. Over the past 25 years, he’s given hundreds, if not thousands of presentations, along with hundreds of media interviews.
Lile said at his upcoming presentation, attendees can expect to be “taken to medical school” and “go into the operating room with us” as they are shown “the amazing way we treat the preborn as patients in the womb with 3D animation,” among other topics.
“I want every single person who is there to leave with tools that they didn’t even know existed before because that’s how we multiply our messaging,” he continued.
For more information about the Life & Hope Banquet and to reserve a spot, register online at: lifeandhopeteam.org/events.
