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Abortion Clinic Opens In Building Where George Tiller Practiced

AP | ROXANA HEGEMAN | Posted 04.04.2013 | Politics

WICHITA, Kan. — A new clinic offering abortions and other women's medical services saw its first patient Thursday in the Wichita building where ...

Abortion Legislation Preempts Parents' Call: Art, Politics Trade Places in Missouri

Tracy Weitz | Posted 03.25.2013 | Politics
Tracy Weitz

I am struck by how art and politics seem to have traded places in Missouri. The documentary After Tiller represents everything that is messy and complicated about the world, while politics here seem to exist in a fantasy world.

Doc Explores Lives Of Four Late Term Abortion Doctors

The Huffington Post | Katherine Brooks | Posted 01.23.2013 | Arts

On the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, one documentary at Sundance Film Festival addresses the enduring controversy surrounding abortions. "After Til...

Controversial Kansas Abortion Clinic Moving Forward

Reuters | Posted 03.24.2013 | Politics

By Kevin Murphy WICHITA, Kan, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Closed since 2009 after its doctor was murdered, one of the country's most embattled ...

Kansas: Storm Against the Future

Tom Hayden | Posted 02.11.2013 | Politics
Tom Hayden

The clinic where Dr. George Tiller performed abortions until being shot and killed during worship at his church on May 31, 2009, will be open for services in two or three months.

Abortion Fight Defines Contentious Race In Key State

AP | ROXANA HEGEMAN | Posted 08.04.2012 | Politics

WICHITA, Kan. -- There is no escaping abortion politics in Wichita, where the race between two Republicans for district attorney could come down to wh...

John Celock

Pro-Choice Group Plans To Aid Moderate GOP

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 04.10.2012 | Politics

A pro-choice group that worked with an abortion doctor who was gunned down in 2009 will be assisting Republican Kansas state senators in their bid to ...

Laura Bassett

State Floats Another Controversial Abortion Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 03.19.2012 | Politics

A new bill moving through the Tennessee House of Representatives would require the state to publish the names of each doctor who performs an abortion ...

Why I'm "Marching" for Trust Women Week

Ellen R. Shaffer | Posted 04.01.2012 | Politics
Ellen R. Shaffer

They tried to strip abortion coverage out of all insurance plans during health care reform, and I didn't speak up because I thought I might lose "more important things."

Andrea Stone

Is The Government Omitting Anti-Abortion Violence From Its Main Terrorism Database?

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 01.07.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The federal government's main database of global terrorism includes tens of thousands of attacks over the last seven years, a survey of ...

WATCH: Maddow Gives Her Viewers A Chilling Reminder

Posted 08.01.2011 | Media

Rachel Maddow took time out of her Tuesday show to remember Dr. George Tiller, the Kansas abortion doctor who was murdered almost exactly two years ag...

Kansas Abortion Doctor Targeted by Extremists -- Sound Familiar?

Katherine Spillar | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Katherine Spillar

In Kansas an escalating campaign of threats, harassment and terror is targeting Dr. Mila Means, who recently announced her plans to provide abortions in Wichita.

Is Providing Abortion Creating A 'Nuisance'?

Mother Jones | Kate Sheppard | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

The first doctor to try to offer abortion services in Wichita, Kansas, since Dr. George Tiller was gunned down in a church in May 2009 has been blocke...

On The Anniversary Of Roe v. Wade, Let's Honor Mothers

Rita Nakashima Brock, Ph. D. | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
Rita Nakashima Brock, Ph. D.

The Bible supports women's right to reproductive moral decision-making, and I think those who try to use it to deny women's reproductive freedom misuse it.

Donald Hertz Gets Probation For Colo. Abortion Threat

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver

DENVER — A Washington state man has been sentenced to five years of probation for threatening the family of a Colorado abortion doctor shortly a...

Grand Jury Weighs Whether There Was Conspiracy To Kill George Tiller

The Kansas City Star | Judy L. Thomas | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

More than 18 months after a Wichita abortion doctor was gunned down in his church, a federal investigation into a possible conspiracy continues in Kan...

Weekly Pulse: The Coming War on Health Reform, Government Cheese, and how CPCs Incubate Anti-Choice Violence

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
The Media Consortium

by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Republicans don't have the votes to repeal health care reform, but they are determined to use their ...

Weekly Pulse: Fear-mongering and Fetal Separatism in Today's Anti-Choice Movement

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
The Media Consortium

by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Rachel Maddow's documentary, "The Assassination of Dr. Tiller," premiered on Monday. The film tells ...

WATCH: Rachel Maddow Announces Special On Murdered Abortion Doctor

Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Rachel Maddow announced on her show Monday that she will be narrating a special on the murder of Dr. George Tiller, the Kansas abortion doctor slain i...

Extremism, the Makeover, and Election 2010

Hans Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Hans Johnson

Not long ago, a passing familiarity with Bible verses, a flair for rhetoric, and hunger for a following could be enough to land someone in a small-tow...

Death Threat: The Widening Gyre‏

Alan Grayson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Alan Grayson

First I was threatened with assault. Then I was threatened with murder. Do you see how they ratchet up the bullying, and try to cow us?

Scott Roeder: Abortion Doctor's Killer Complains Of Treatment In Prison, Files For Early Release

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

WICHITA, Kan. — The convicted killer of a Kansas abortion provider has filed a petition complaining of his treatment in prison and seeking his r...

Scott Roeder Sentenced To Life In Prison: George Tiller's Murderer Describes Abortion In Court

AP | ROXANA HEGEMAN | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

WICHITA, Kan. — Defiant in court, a man who murdered one of the few U.S. doctors who performed late-term abortions used his sentencing hearing t...

George Tiller Murder: Scott Roeder Faces Life Sentence, But Some Argue Abortion Provider's Killer Got His Way

AP | ROXANA HEGEMAN | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

WICHITA, Kan. — The man who gunned down one of the few doctors in the U.S. to perform late-term abortions could be sent to prison Thursday for t...

What I Learned from Dr. Tiller: Why "Trust Women PAC" and Affected Parents Oppose the Nebraska Abortion Ban

Julie Burkhart | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Julie Burkhart

What's happening in Nebraska right now isn't local. Abortion rights opponents are trying to shut down one of four US health care providers still performing specialized late-term procedures.