Scott Roeder

Kansas Abortion Doctor Targeted by Extremists -- Sound Familiar?

Katherine Spillar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abortion Rights, Scott Roeder, Ms. Magazine, Mila Means, George Tiller, George Tiller Murder, Leroy Carhart, Video, Politics News

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.

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Reading the Tea Leaves of Domestic Terrorism

Kimberly Krautter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Radicalized, Tea Party, Fundamentalist Chistian, Liberals, Obama Birther Conspiracy, Scott Roeder, Mein Kampf, Arizona, Wall Street Journal, Dr. George Tiller, War Crimes, James W. Von Brunn, Muslim, Holocaust Museum Shooting, Conservatives, Sara Palin, Islamic, Michael Welner, Fort Hood, Tuscon Shooting, Rush Limbaugh, Jared Lee Loughner, Lou Dobbs, Pro-Life, Nidal Hassan, Communists, Anarchists, Sean Hannity, Olympic Park Bombing, Dailykos, Gabrielle Giffords, Eric Robert Rudolph, Sheriff Dupnik, Holocaust Museum, Gabrielle Giffords Shooting, Sarahpac, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Arizona Shooting, Communist Manifesto, Jarod Loughner, Politics News

I have become keenly aware that deliberately overheated rhetoric and pernicious public speech by our national leaders tacitly grants permission for the weak minded and mentally ill to commit atrocities.

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

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

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

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

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Tiller, Amendment 62, Rachel Maddow, NAPW, Vanessa Valenti, Personhood, Scott Roeder, Documentary, Fetal Separatism, Anti-Choice, Colorado, Feministing, Lynn Paltrow, Home News

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

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Extremism, the Makeover, and Election 2010

Hans Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Citizenship, Supreme Court, Jerry Falwell, Social Security, 2010 Elections, Martyrdom, President Obama, 9/11, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Cincinnati, Scott Roeder, Mccarthyism, Lou Engle, Ten Commandments, George Tiller, Ken Mehlman, Chief Justice Earl Warren, Minimum Wage, 2012 Presidential Election, Mike Huckabee, Antigay Initiatives, 2010 Redistricting, Joe Miller, Gerald Ford, Clean Water Act, Kalamazoo, Contraception, Newt Gingrich, Carly Fiorina, Republican Party, Ground Zero Mosque, Americans With Disabilities Act, Scapegoating, Karl Rove, Intolerance, Sodomy Laws, Marco Rubio, Cenk Uygur, Anti-Abortion, Anti-Immigrant Laws, Hastings College of Law, Rand Paul, David Barton, Unemployment Crisis, Sarah Palin, LGBT Rights, Glenn Beck, Anti-Muslim Bias, Alveda King, Sharron Angle, Extremism, Elections 2010, Politics News

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...

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

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Tiller, Scott Roeder Jail, Scott Roeder Prison, George Tiller Murder, Scott Roeder, Scott Roeder Release, Scott Roeder George Tiller, Abortion Doctor Murder, Politics News

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

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

AP | ROXANA HEGEMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abortion, Women's Rights, Court, Crime, Wichita, Christian Extremist, Reproductive Rights, Abortion Rights, Late Term Abortion, Religion, Kansas, Christian Extremism, Prison, Scott Roeder, George Tiller, Christianity, Home News

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...

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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

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...

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What Would Jesus Do?

Ian Squires | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abortion, George Tiller, Scott Roeder, Anti-Abortion, Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Bill O'Reilly, Jesus Christ, Politics News

While considering what kind of relationship Scott Roeder and Dr. Tiller each have with Jesus Christ, I wonder: WWJD if He went to medical school? I think he'd probably become an abortion doctor.

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Roeder Convicted, Testimony by Former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline Ruled Out

Leonard Zeskind | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Phill Kline, George Tiller, Scott Roeder, Abortion, Abortion Debate, Politics News

Scott Roeder convicted himself of a calculated first degree murder. Otherwise, the major events in the courtroom were the ones that did not happen.

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Scott Roeder GUILTY: Killer Of Kansas Abortion Provider Convicted

AP | MARIA SUDEKUM FISHER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Scott Roeder, George Tiller, Scott Roeder Guilty, Abortion Doctor Killer Guilty, Scott Roeder Trial, Scott Roeder Found Guilty, Scott Roeder Convicted, Abortion Doctor Killer, Politics News

WICHITA, Kan. — A jury took just 37 minutes Friday to convict an anti-abortion activist of murder for putting a gun to the head of abortion doct...

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What I Learned From Speaking with Scott Roeder

Devin Friedman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abortion, George Tiller, Abortion Rights, Scott Roeder, George Tiller Murder, Bill O'Reilly, Scott Roeder Trial, Dr. George Tiller, Politics News

This country has a thriving culture of manufacturing dehumanizing lies about people with whom you disagree, be it Dr. George Tiller, or George W. Bush. It's dangerous, and it's a growing problem.

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37 Years After Roe, Abortion Access Attacked in Kansas Courtroom

Janet Crepps | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abortion, George Tiller, Judge Warren Wilbert, Reproductive Rights, Abortion Rights, Roe v. Wade, Women's Health, Scott Roeder, Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Dr. George Tiller, Politics News

Allowing a voluntary manslaughter option negates the Supreme Court's constitutional protection of abortion rights and is an invitation to grotesque and self-serving vigilantism.

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Still Picking the Jury, A Word About Kansas

Leonard Zeskind | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Scott Roeder, Gerald Winrod, Ku Klux Klan, Defenders of the Christian Faith, Dr. George Tiller, Politics News

Still Picking the Jury for Roeder's murder trial in Wichita, Kansas By Leonard Zeskind Leonard Zeskind will be following and writing about the trial...

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Ex-Kansas Attorney General Subpoenaed In Tiller Murder Trial

AP | ROXANA HEGEMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Phill Kline, Abortion, Kansas, Wichita, Attorney General, George Tiller, Scott Roeder, George Tiller Murder, Roeder Murder Trial, Anti-Choice, Subpoena, Pro-Choice, Tiller Murder, Home News

WICHITA, Kan. — Defense attorneys for a man charged with killing one of the nation's few late-term abortion providers have subpoenaed two state ...

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Vigilante Injustice in Kansas?

Judge H. Lee Sarokin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Murder, Abortion, Anti-Abortion, Scott Roeder, Defense to Murder, Voluntary Manslaughter, Dr. George Tiller, Politics News

A premeditated murder cannot be converted into voluntary manslaughter merely because the murderer views his cause as righteous.

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EBay Removes Drawings That Glorify Slaying of Abortion Doctor George Tiller

Politics Daily | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pro Choice, Shelley Shannon, Abortion Providers, Crime, Ebay, Anti Abortion, Abortion Doctors, Scott Roeder, Goerge Tiller, Murder, Kansas, Defense Fund, Online Auction, Auction, Pro Life, Prison Drawings, Prison Cookbook, Extremism, Politics News

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

AP | ROXANA HEGEMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tiller Killer Confesses, Scott Roeder Confession, Roeder No Regrets, Tiller Trial, Scott Roeder, George Tiller, Scott Roeder Murder, Roeder Tiller, Scott Roeder Defense, George Tiller Scott Roeder, Scott Roeder Trial, Politics News

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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To Understand the Trial of Scott Roeder...

Leonard Zeskind | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Operation Rescue, George Tiller, Scott Roeder, Abortion War, Randall Terry, Books News

If you want to understand the back story as Scott Roeder goes to trial in Wichita, Kansas for the murder of Dr. George Tiller, go to James Risen and Judy L. Thomas' book, Wrath of Angels: The American Abortion War.

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EBay Removes Drawings Glorifying Slaying Of George Tiller

Politics Daily | David Sessions | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ebay, George Tiller Abortion Drawings, Scott Roeder Ebay Drawings, Ebay George Tiller Drawings, George Tiller Ebay, George Tiller Abortion, Scott Roeder, George Tiller, George Tiller Ebay Drawing, Ebay Abortion Drawings, Scott Roeder Abortion Drawings, Scott Roeder George Tiller, Politics News

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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Cold-blooded Murder: An Angel Made Me Do It

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Murder, George Tiller, Abortion, Scott Roeder, Warren Wilbert, Politics News

We are all familiar with the "devil made me do it" defense, but now the tables have been turned. Scott Roeder argues that an angel compelled him to kill.

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No One Is More American Than I Am

Cenk Uygur | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Terry Nichols, Fort Hood, America, Muslim Americans, Nidal Malik Hasan, Scott Roeder, Right Wing, Tim-Mcveigh, Fort Hood Shootings, Eric Rudolph, Politics News

Here is the unalterable fact that the right-wing of this country has to get used to: Muslim-Americans are 100% American. There are no degrees of how American you are.

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We Don't Negotiate With Terrorists

Dan Sweeney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ar-15, James Von Brunn, Jim Adkisson, Richard Poplawski, Karl Rove, Minuteman American Defense, Tom Delay, Terrorism, Health Care Reform, Joshua Cartwright, Scott Roeder, Health Care, Politics News

Note the phrase "threatened use of force" in the definition of terrorism, and then ask yourself what the guy at Obama's event with an assault weapon was doing, given the events of the past year or so.

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Preliminary Hearing for Scott Roeder Reveals Details

Leonard Zeskind | Posted 05.25.2011

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 05.25.2011

Read More: Abortion Doctor Killing, Tiller Killer, Scott Roeder, George Tiller, Abortion Murder Suspect, Abortion Doctor Murder, Tiller Killing, Politics News

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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