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Sun, 05-31-2009 - 4:39pm

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090531/D98HDH9G0.html

Abortion doc George Tiller gunned down at church

By ROXANA HEGEMAN

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - Late-term abortion doctor George Tiller, a prominent advocate for abortion rights wounded by a protester more than a decade ago, was shot and killed Sunday at a church in Wichita where he was serving as an usher and his wife was in the choir, his attorney said.

Tiller was shot during morning services at Reformation Lutheran Church, attorney Dan Monnat said. Police said a manhunt was under way for the shooter, who fled in a car registered to a Kansas City suburb nearly 200 miles away.

National anti-abortion groups had long focused on Tiller, whose Women's Health Care Services clinic is one of just three in the nation where abortions are performed after the 21st week of pregnancy.

In 1991, the Summer of Mercy protests organized by Operation Rescue drew thousands of anti-abortion activists to this city for demonstrations marked by civil disobedience and mass arrests.

Some abortion opponents had resorted to attacks against Tiller long before Sunday's shooting. A protester shot Tiller in both arms in 1993, and his clinic was bombed in 1985.

Anti-abortion group Operation Rescue issued a statement denouncing the shooting.

"We are shocked at this morning's disturbing news that Mr. Tiller was gunned down," said Troy Newman, Operation Rescue's president. "Operation Rescue has worked for years through peaceful, legal means, and through the proper channels to see him brought to justice. We denounce vigilantism and the cowardly act that took place this morning."

Capt. Brent Allred said Wichita police were looking for a gunman who fled in a 1993 light blue Ford Taurus registered in the Kansas City suburb of Merriam, Kan. No other details about the shooting were immediately released.

The phone line at the home of Tiller and wife, Jeanne, had a busy signal Sunday.

Tiller began providing abortion services in 1973. He acknowledged abortion was as socially divisive as slavery or prohibition but said the issue was about giving women a choice when dealing with technology that can diagnose severe fetal abnormalities before a baby is born.

"Pre-natal testing without pre-natal choices is medical fraud," Tiller once said.

After the 1991 protests, Tiller kept mostly to his heavily guarded clinic, although in 1997 he opened it to three tours by state lawmakers and the media.

Tiller remained prominent in the news, in part because of an investigation started begun by former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline, an abortion opponent.

Prosecutors had alleged that Tiller had gotten second opinions from a doctor who was essentially an employee of his, not independent as state law requires. A jury in March acquitted Tiller of all 19 misdemeanor counts.

"I am stunned by this lawless and violent act, which must be condemned and should be met with the full force of law," Kline said in a written statement. "We join in lifting prayer that God's grace and presence rest with Dr. Tiller's family and friends."

Abortion opponents also questioned then-Gov. Kathleen Sebelius' ties to Tiller before the Senate confirmed her this year as U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary. Tiller donated thousands of dollars to Sebelius over the years.

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Sun, 05-31-2009 - 9:19pm
That would depend on who you ask.

 


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Sun, 05-31-2009 - 9:26pm

Products of conception describes quite accurately what Mr Tiller killed. All of us reading this board are products of conception. Why would anyone have a beef with this term?

Mr Tiller was himself a product of conception.

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Sun, 05-31-2009 - 9:39pm
This is quite true, and quite irrelevant to his murder.

 


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Sun, 05-31-2009 - 10:06pm

That's funny, but the gynecologists I know frequently use the term "products of conception" when a woman suffers a partial miscarriage or in medicalese, a missed abortion.

 

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Sun, 05-31-2009 - 10:09pm

First, you said this:

 

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Registered: 01-22-2009
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Sun, 05-31-2009 - 10:38pm

I don't have a problem with that term, or the first one.


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Sun, 05-31-2009 - 11:16pm

Just another example of BIBLE THUMPING HYPOCRITES thinking the law doesn't apply to them.


Guess they never heard of Roe vs Wade.


DC Snipers, Tim McVeigh, and Bin Laden are more worthy of respect that the anti-abortion nuts who go around killing doctors performing a legal medical procedure.




Edited 5/31/2009 11:22 pm ET by karotini
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Mon, 06-01-2009 - 12:02am

The title of the thread is why I posted my own. Just like op refers to Obama as "the One," clearly there is no room for objective discourse with someone who would entitle a thread regarding a healthcare provider, that provided legal services,



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Mon, 06-01-2009 - 12:20am

Thanks :)


~There IS an abortion debate board and religion board

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Mon, 06-01-2009 - 1:02am

I am curious. If George W. Bush had been assassinated, would you have titled your thread in the same way? Bush waged a "pre-emptive" war which has since seen over a hundred thousand deaths of fully sentient Iraqis. In addition, over 4,000 U.S. troops (also fully sentient) have been killed and ten thousands more been wounded.

Moreover, Bush sent henchmen to do his dirty work, deliberately misled the nation about the nature of "threat" and was protected, while so doing, by the Secret Service.

Think about it.

Edited to correct a mis-spelling.




Edited 6/1/2009 1:31 am ET by jabberwocka

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