Dr. George Tiller (1941-2009): Murdered Abortion Provider Remembered Democracy Now 6/1/09 1 of 5

Dr. George Tiller (1941-2009): Murdered Abortion Provider Remembered for Lifelong Dedication to Women's Reproductive Health

Supporters of reproductive rights are mourning the killing of the abortion provider Dr. George Tiller. The sixty-seven-year-old Tiller was shot Sunday as he attended services at his Wichita, Kansas church. The gunman fled the scene, but a suspect was later caught in a Kansas City suburb. The suspect, fifty-one-year-old Scott Roeder, has a history of involvement in anti-abortion activism and was once arrested and jailed on explosives charges. He has ties to the right-wing separatist group known as the Freemen. We look at the life of Dr. Tiller with five women who worked alongside him to uphold reproductive rights: two women doctors who fly into Wichita every month to work alongside him performing abortions; two of the attorneys who defended him through years of legal harassment, one in Wichita and one in New York; and Ellie Smeal of the Feminist Majority Foundation, who knew him for twenty years. [includes rush transcriptpartial]

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[superdoobo]

While I'm personally against killing abortion doctors, I don't believe in imposing my moral beliefs on others.

If you are against killing abortion doctors! then don't kill one!

[jeangrey65]

Gandhi said: "An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind".

Ghandi argued the Biblical approach of an "EYE FOR AN EYE" My God believes this approach is wrong as well. Violence from one is just as bad as violence by the other. I prefer Ghandi over mans Bible. To much fear and hate in mans Bible. My God''s not like that. God's not a hypocrite.

[iviewer100]

So many other people will now have life because of this man's death. It was sad that this was the only way that he could have been stopped, hopefully it will deter other doctors from making money in this way

[gingerbreadcorpses]

Abortion is LEGAL dumbasses. Any "Christian" who expresses gratitude over this man's death clearly doesn't have any faith in their god to settle things in the supposed afterlife. It's not like any of you would volunteer to care for those "babies" you wanted saved so you're all massive hypocrites and you know it.

[alonelychild]

I am sorry, i know it is anti-christian, but I cannot lament or mourn his death

[paul8kangas]

I provide abortions in Kansas in 2012.

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[VoiceOfModeration]

It's too bad he was murdered, but when you think of how many people he killed.....you know, it's just hard to sympathize for him. It was wrong, absolutely. I just can't really feel bad for him...

[Hughganaught]

@hectorbolshevik Your denial of God's existance shows contempt. Parenting is a serious commitment that belongs to the family, not the state. If you want to burn in hell, well that's your business.

[hectorbolshevik]

@Hughganaught: How can I hate god when he doesn't exist? You love the unborn, until its born. If being in heaven means I have to spend eternity with scum like you, Hitler, Klansmen, Fartwell, and other "pro-lifers"; then I hope I get sent to hell.

[Hughganaught]

@hectorbolshevik That's right bigot. You hate God. You hate the unborn. I wouldn't want to be in your shoes at Judgement.

[hectorbolshevik]

@Hughganaught: My point is this: what Ceausescu imposed on Romanian women is exactly what bible-beaters like you seek to impose on American women; forcing them to have unwanted children. If these women didn't have abortions, you people would be the last ones offering any kind of help, then where would the children go? Use your head, instead of burying it in that book of lies.

[hectorbolshevik]

@Hughganaught: You call me a bigot? Tiller was murdered by your kind for aborting fetuses, which is not murder. Ceausescu forced women to have children by criminalizing abortion, which is exactly what people like you advocate. Ceausescu should be an icon for you murdering "pro-life" fanatics. Delusional am I? I'm not the one calling death in the name of a nonexisting entity. You too stupid to see your contradictions.