Abortion Doctor Killed By Christian Fundamentalist (1/2)

Science & Reason on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/ScienceReason

Abortion Doctor Killed By Christian Fundamentalist (Part 1/2)

PART 2: Bill O'Reilly calls Dr. Tiller a "baby killer":
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9ao2LpNpAM

---
Please subscribe to Science & Reason:
• http://www.YouTube.com/Best0fScience
• http://www.YouTube.com/ScienceMagazine
• http://www.YouTube.com/ScienceTV
• http://www.YouTube.com/FFreeThinker
---

Dr. George Tiller (1941-2009): Murdered Abortion Provider Remembered for Lifelong Dedication to Womens 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.

• http://www.democracynow.org/2009/6/1/dr_george_tiller_1941_2009_murdered

Suspect captured in killing of Kansas abortion doctor

A Kansas doctor reviled by anti-abortion groups for his work providing "late-term" abortions was shot and killed in his Wichita, Kansas church on Sunday, and police said they captured the man responsible.

Police said they planned to charge a 51-year-old man on Monday with homicide and two counts of aggravated assault in the death of 67-year-old George Tiller, who died from a single gunshot. Tiller was shot while serving as an usher for Sunday services in the foyer at Reformation Lutheran Church. The shooter threatened two other men at the church who tried to intervene, police said.

"We feel that this is an act of an isolated individual, however our investigation continues," said Wichita deputy police chief Tom Stolz. Stolz said they were investigating whether the shooter had any ties to anti-abortion groups.

President Barack Obama expressed shock and outrage, saying in a statement, "However profound our differences as Americans over difficult issues such as abortion, they cannot be resolved by heinous acts of violence."

• http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE54U1JW20090601

Subscribe to Science & Reason:
• http://www.youtube.com/FFreeThinker
• http://www.youtube.com/FFreeThinker2
• http://www.youtube.com/BestOfAtheism
• http://www.youtube.com/Best0fScience
• http://www.youtube.com/SagansCosmos
• http://www.youtube.com/AtheistExperience
• http://www.youtube.com/TheAtheistExperience
• http://www.youtube.com/WissensMagazin
.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Abortion
• Doctor
• Provider
• Killed
• By
• Christian
• Fundamentalist
• Dr
• George
• Tiller
• Killing
• Murder
• Homicide
• Wichita
• Kansas
• Anti
• Activist
• Scott
• Roeder
• Democracy
• Now

[PrisonerNumber9653]

@soothfish those are the most vile of lies. Tiller was a courageous physician saving lives, not a murderer. Those trying to force women to be breed stock with no choice about when they have babies are enemies of freedom and equality, and of truth. If you're against abortion don't get one, or better yet support family planning organizations like Planned Parenthood which prevents unwanted pregnancies and abortions.

[lonogugeadult]

@rayjt17 you're a cunt wrap supreme

[samueldavs]

Iguess the christian show the love of jesus by killing... lying fucking jesus asshole

[rleary1]

@deqdweoifjiow You need to kill the Moms having abortions,not the Doctor.The Mom is the one that pre-meditated murdering her child (human being)The doc was the hired hit man.I'm curious? How many years in prison for 1st degree Murder should woman get for having an abortion? If you want it classified as murder which it is,should we give the Mom the death penalty or life in prison? If you want to kill abortion doctors you certainly want to kill all the Moms right? I'm interested in your opinion.

[rleary1]

There's nearly 3000 comments on here & I can't find 1 person arguing they should have killed the Mother instead of Tiller.If some religious Fanatic Nut is going to kill someone why is it the abortion Doctor? He was technically the 'Hit Man' or accomplice that the Mom hired to murder someone.I don't care if someone has an abortion but if you want it illegal/banned you have to give the Mom death penalty or Life in prison for 1st degree Murder. I've still never heard a Pro-Lifer say this. Why?

[deqdweoifjiow]

Kill them all, kill all these scums!

[vampyres32]

Wondering, if some "god" apposes abortion so much, why does it take crazy arse Fundies to stop it. I was on the verge of getting an Abortion, the night before my abortion appointment, I miscarried, spontaneous, and safe abortion, free of charge, now I don't believe in a god, but I found the Irony and the timing far to much not to go off on this line of thought, if life is all part of "gods" devine plan, why do you guys shoot Doctors,

[hieronomy]

@baalisgod666

When the sht hts the fan you are the frst motherfucker needng a boot up your ass.

[baalisgod666]

scraping out partly formed humans does not make this man a hero.

America is retarded.

[baalisgod666]

All abortions should come with mandatory sterilization. These sluts should then have to get a license to breed. Clearly flawed humans.

[baalisgod666]

The whole group should be arrested as accomplices.

[baalisgod666]

@lonogugeadult innocent soldiers HAhahahahahahahahahahaha.

Your parents must be siblings.