On Monday, Kansas City Star columnist Jene Osterheldt profiled 20-year-old Emily Boyer, a college student and volunteer with Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri who "changed the course of [her] studies" after Kansas-based abortion provider George Tiller was murdered in May 2009. Tiller...
MSNBC on Monday broadcast "The Assassination of Dr. Tiller," a documentary examining the events surrounding the May 2009 murder of Kansas-based abortion provider George Tiller, KSN TV reports. Tiller was shot to death in his Wichita church by antiabortion-rights activist Scott Roeder, who was...
The Wichita, Kan., property that served as the abortion clinic of the late George Tiller is up for sale, and some antiabortion-rights groups have discussed buying the facility, the AP/Topeka Capital-Journal reports. Tiller was one of the few abortion providers in the U.S. who performed the...
On Tuesday, the Kansas Board of Discipline for Attorneys recommended an informal admonishment for Eric Rucker -- who served as chief of staff for former state Attorney General Phill Kline (R) during an investigation of abortion provider George Tiller -- for misleading a state court about the...
On trial for first-degree murder for the shooting of abortion provider George Tiller, defendant Scott Roeder admitted on the witness stand Thursday to purchasing a gun, taking target practice, studying the doctor's schedule and, ultimately, fatally shooting him in his Kansas church on May 31...
Jury selection in the trial of Scott Roeder, the man accused of fatally shooting abortion provider George Tiller, began on Wednesday after Sedgwick County, Kan., District Court Judge Warren Wilbert agreed to open part of the process, the AP/Washington Post reports. Initially, Wilbert ruled that...
Sedgwick County, Kan., District Judge Warren Wilbert on Tuesday dismissed prosecutors' objections to a possible voluntary manslaughter defense in the trial of Scott Roeder, the man charged with fatally shooting abortion provider George Tiller, the AP/Houston Chronicle reports (Hegeman...
Nebraska-based abortion provider LeRoy Carhart has "taken up the cause" of serving women in need of abortions later in pregnancy to fill a void left by the murder of George Tiller, the New York Times reports. Since Tiller was fatally shot in May, Carhart has hired two people who worked at...
An attorney for the man charged with the murder of Kansas abortion provider George Tiller says in court records that his client has the right to argue in court that the slaying was justified to prevent future abortions, the AP/MSNBC reports.
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