Abortion Doctor shot in church by Right-wing nut-2/4

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.

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[me11141]

SEE!!!!! if people are all OMG LIFe is so good! god is great! they're going to hel! lalala!!! THEN WHY DO PEOPLE KILL OTHER PEOPLE!!!

[PraecoNoctis]

What counts as a serious defect? People in my family (not America, UK) were told that haemophilia in their children was a defect that would give them the "right" to abort the kids.

[beatnikjd]

So called 'late term abortions' are actually rarely performed and most cases involve serious fetal defects or potential birth defects. I get so tired of these so called 'pro lifers' trying to foist their bronze age superstition on normal people. Abortion should be safe, legal and rare.

[blizzard7006]

killed in a church hah. Oh the irony. I bet some religous pro-life conservatives chose to take that life.

[Valkyria121212]

No, I agree with you on that notion. Late term abortions are not right. If there is no risk to the mother or serious physical defect to the baby then it is just murder to kill something that could live on its own.

I do not agree on assassinating late term doctors though. Many people who would need assassinating for different crimes of character, and the US would just sink into another terror by extremist country. Where would the assassinating stop, and who are extremists to carry out law?

[hourilo]

You are sounding like a broken record.

You know damn straight it is the late term abortions the good Dr. performed is what is making all of us so sick at heart.

Good Riddens to that sociopath. Feel free to follow him....

[Valkyria121212]

Free abortions to raped children, I might add.

[Valkyria121212]

I do not know what it is like to have my willpower taken from me during a rape, and then taken from me again by society when I am forced to born my raper's baby.

Nor do I know what it is like to be a little pregnant kid who does not even have hips yet.

This 'sub-human' who was murdered, gave free abortions to children, and even paid for their travel expenses. Yes, wish him dead asshole. Your type only see what you want to see in people.

[hourilo]

Do you know what it is like to have an abortion?

"we" don't have to be like you and thank God most Doctors would NEVER do what this sub-human person did. Glad he is goneeeeeeeeee.

Now - do the "adult" thing and abort your own life

[Valkyria121212]

It is rare. 12 per 100,000 births in the US. 500,000 a year worldwide.

What about raped children / young teens, or severe physical complications of the baby?