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Weeks after Dr. George Tiller was shot and killed in his Kansas church, the U.S. Senate is debating a resolution condemning violence against abortion providers. But abortion politics has made even the simple task of passing a resolution denouncing violence into a contentious battle. The words “reproductive health care” could be a deal breaker with [...]

After the murder of Dr. George Tiller nearly two weeks ago and yesterday’s shootings at the Holocaust Museum by a man with white supremacist ties, some civil rights organizations — including the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League — say that a Homeland Security report on rightwing extremism was correct in its focus.
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Coleen Rowley, Minnesotan and former FBI whistleblower, told Talking Points Memo on Thursday that the FBI missed an opportunity to intervene before Scott Roeder murdered Kansas physician George Tiller.

Several hundred people gathered in Loring Park Tuesday night to remember the life of Dr. George Tiller who was murdered in his church Sunday morning. Tiller, who had experienced threats and a previous attempted murder, was gunned down by Scott Roeder because Tiller performed medically necessary late-term abortions.

A candlelight vigil will be held in Loring Park at 9 pm on Tuesday evening, June 2, to honor the life of Dr. George Tiller, a reproductive health physician who was gunned down in his church on Sunday by an anti-abortion gunman.
While the candlelight vigils have become an important way for the community to remember [...]

Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota (PPMNS) has been offered the protection of the U.S. Marshals Service in the wake of the murder of Dr. George Tiller. Tiller, a Kansas physician whose clinic performed later term abortions was gunned down in his church.
PPMNS has accepted the help of the U.S. Marshals.

After yesterday’s shooting death of late-term abortion doctor George Tiller in Wichita, Kan., a Colorado physician who provides abortion services said Tiller’s assassination was the “absolutely inevitable consequence” of decades of anti-abortion fanaticism, according to an interview with our sister site, the Colorado Independent.

Dr. George Tiller, a reproductive health physician and medical director of a clinic that performs abortions in Wichita, Kan., was gunned down in his church on Sunday. Anti-abortion groups immediately sent out a flurry of press releases, most condemning the murder but a few implying that Tiller had it coming.