George Tiller

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Scott Roeder: No Regrets About Killing George Tiller -- Lawyer Rejects His Defense

AP | ROXANA HEGEMAN | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

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WICHITA, Kan. — An anti-abortion activist says he's the one who killed a Kansas abortion provider – and did it because it was necessary to...

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Reproductive Health Care Providers Deserve Our Protection

Sam Hoyt | Posted 11.05.2009 | New York

Read More: Abortion, George Tiller, Human Rights, Abortion Clinics, Reproductive Rights, Abortion Rights, New York News

While Dr. Tiller's work and his unflappable defense of a woman's right to choose abortion was extremely high profile, many physicians and abortion center staff face serious harassment.

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EBay Removes Drawings Glorifying Slaying Of George Tiller

Politics Daily | David Sessions | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics

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EBay has removed an auction posted by supporters of Scott Roeder, the man charged with the May murder of abortionist George Tiller. The listing featur...

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Ordinance Would Create 'Bubble' To Protect Abortion Patients, Providers From Protesters

Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 09.30.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Vi Daley, George Tiller, Abortion, Chicago Abortion Ordinance, Abortion Rights, Abortion Protection Zone, Anti-Abortion Protesters, Planned Parenthood, Chicago News

Arguing that abortion protests have grown more "vicious" and "in-your-face" since the May 31 murder of a Wichita, Kan., doctor, a Chicago City Council...

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Operation Rescue "Completely Out Of Money," Blames Economy

Kansas City Star | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

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The anti-abortion group Operation Rescue may need a little rescuing itself. The Wichita-based organization, which dogged abortion provider George T...

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Anti-Abortion Group Politicizes Memorial of Slain Pro-Life Activist

Chris Savage | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: James Pouillon, Owosso, Abortion, Operation Rescue, Michigan, Harlan Drake, Planned Parenthood, George Tiller, Politics News

Although anti-abortion groups decried the "politicization" of the killing of Dr. George Tiller, it appears that they are perfectly happy to use this tragedy to their own political advantage.

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Weekly Pulse: Mob Scene

The Media Consortium | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Lindsay Beyerstein, RH Reality Check, Gun, Weekly Pulse, Seiu, Reform, The Progressive, Riots, Town Hall, The Media Consortium, Protest, George Tiller, Talking Points Memo, Tmc, Tea Party, Alternet, Healthcare, In These Times, Politics News

Republicans and their allies are pressuring Democratic healthcare reformers at townhall meetings around the country. Addie Stan has a blockbuster piece in AlterNet that exposes the network behind the mobs.

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FBI's investigation of Tiller killing looks at Roeder's jail visitors

Kansas City Star | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics

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The list of those visiting and communicating with the man accused of killing Wichita abortion doctor George Tiller reads like a who's who of anti-abor...

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Abortion Doctor: "Hate Speech" Responsible For Tiller's Death

AP/Huffington Post | Posted 09.06.2009 | Media

Read More: Warren Hern Esquire, Death Threats, Warren Hern, Oreilly Abortion Doctor, George Tiller, Media News

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) ― In a profile to be published in Esquire's September issue, Hern said he got hate mail and death threats in 1970 when he starte...

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A Message To America's Wingnuts: Hey, Slow Down! (VIDEO)

Lee Stranahan | Posted 09.05.2009 | Comedy

Read More: George Tiller, Michele Bachmann, Wingnuts, Chuck Grassley, Protest, Glenn Beck Fox News, George Tiller Murder, Glenn Beck, Glenn Beck an Inconvenient Book, Healt-Care-Reform, Health Care, Tea Party, Rick Perry, Comedy News

Summertime and the Republicans are crazy. I mean, literally crazy in a way that usually gets people kicked off public transportation.

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The Anti-Gay Violence to Come

Wayne Besen | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Tiller, Abortion, Glbt, Love Wins Out, Homosexual, Lesbian, Dr. Michael Brown, New York Times, Ex-Gay, Charlotte Pride, Gay, Focus on the Family, Politics News

Tiller's death illustrates the danger posed by the violent language used by fanatics, and the aggressive tactics used against abortion providers are seeping into the anti-gay movement.

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Tucker Carlson Decries Doctors Who "Get Rich Performing Abortions"

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Abortion, Megan Carpentier, Ana Marie Cox, George Tiller, Tucker Carlson, Politics News

In yesterday's weekly "Balance Of Power" chat, Fox News contributor Tucker Carlson repeated one of the most inane and pernicious talking points that's...

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Preliminary Hearing for Scott Roeder Reveals Details

Leonard Zeskind | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Scott Roeder, Preliminary Hearing, Trial Date Set, Dr. George Tiller, George Tiller, Pro-Life Movement, Abortion Rights, George-Tiler-Murdered, Anti-Abortion, Pro-Life, Anti-Abortion Protesters, Anti-Choice Movement, Dr. Tiller, Politics News

Scott Roeder, wearing a greenish suit with a red tie, sat impassive and stone-faced throughout the hearing. He had served time in prison before.

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Scott Roeder Pleads Not Guilty To Killing Abortion Doctor George Tiller

AP | ROXANA HEGEMAN | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

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WICHITA, Kan. — An anti-abortion activist pleaded not guilty Tuesday to opening fire on late-term abortion provider George Tiller after a witnes...

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Scott Roeder: George Tiller Killing Was Justified

AP | ROXANA HEGEMAN | Posted 08.26.2009 | Home

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WICHITA, Kan. — The man accused of killing one of the nation's few late-term abortion providers will get his first look this week at the evidenc...

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Scott Roeder: Operation Rescue Abandoned Me

Kansas City Star | Posted 08.26.2009 | Politics

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The Kansas City man charged with killing Wichita abortion doctor George Tiller said in an interview he was angry at a major anti-abortion group that h...

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Sessions' Hate Speech

Tom Gilroy | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Tiller, Jeff Sessions, Voter Intimidation, Socialism, Progressives, Sonia Sotomayor, Politics News

The point of putting a 'racially insensitive' white man up to question a Latina has nothing to do with bad GOP planning and everything to do with intimidation.

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Come Together to Prevent My Murder

Jen Boulanger | Posted 07.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, George Tiller, Anti-Abortion, Obama Abortion, Pro-Life, Anti-Abortion Protesters, Abortion Rights, Politics News

In my 15 years as the executive director of the Allentown Women's Center, a reproductive health care facility that also performs abortions, I have never felt more vulnerable.

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Are the Culture Wars Back?

Rachel Laser | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Hate Crimes, Culture Wars, Notre Dame, Progressives, Progressive Movement, Common Ground, Barack Obama, George Tiller, Gay Equality, Holocaust Museum Shooting, Sonia Sotomayor, New Hampshire, Pro-Choice, Third Way, Gay Issues, Gay Marriage, Politics News

An overwhelmingly popular President and a rising chorus of Americans are imploring policymakers to replace the culture wars with culture discussions. In this new moment, engaging in partisan warfare seems simply passé.

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Abortion Protest Leaves Tiller Clinic To Avoid Confrontation

McClatchy | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Troy Newman, Abortion, George Tiller, Anti-Abortion, George Tiller Murder, Christian Defense Coalition, Operation Rescue, Tiller, Politics News

A possible confrontation over abortion never came to pass Saturday as opposing groups convened at noon at different locations. About 30 abortion oppo...

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Operation Rescue Holds Memorial At Tiller Clinic

AP | ROXANA HEGEMAN | Posted 07.22.2009 | Politics

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WICHITA, Kan. — It took waiting eight hours, but abortion opponents succeeded in holding a memorial service Saturday at the closed clinic of sla...

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The White Supremacist in Us

Rinku Sen | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, White Supremacists, Economy, George Tiller Murder, Immigration, Recession, Barack Obama, George Tiller, Von Brunn, Unemployment, Implicit Bias, Bias, People of Color, Racism, Economic Recovery, Healthcare, Politics News

Collectively, we bemoan the backwardness of "some" people before we move on, thinking of racism as isolated extremism.

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WorldNetDaily Feeds the Extremists

Terry Krepel | Posted 07.17.2009 | Media

Read More: George Tiller, James Von Brunn, Right Wing Media, Joseph Farah, Worldnetdaily, Holocaust Museum Shooting, Scott Roeder, Federal Reserve, Right-Wing Extremism, Walter Williams, Devvy Kidd, Ellis Washington, Media News

If Fox News is guilty in hastening the death of Tiller, Farah and WorldNetDaily also are. Too bad WND Joseph Farah lacks the guts to honestly address the subject.

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Operation Rescue's Extreme Facebook Friends

Cristina Page | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Operation Rescue, Troy Newman, Anti-Abortion Violence, Army of God, Dr. Tiller, George Tiller, Scott Roeder Troy Newman, Scott Roeder, Politics News

Operation Rescue's Troy Newman may want to officially distance himself and his organization from violence against providers, but he doesn't want to go as far as to stop socially networking with individuals who endorse it.

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