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On May 31, 2009, Tiller was fatally shot in the side of the head by Scott Roeder, an anti-abortion terrorist, while Tiller served as an usher during the Sunday morning service at his church in Wichita.
On May 31, 2009, George Tiller, a physician from Wichita, Kansas, who was nationally known for being one of the few doctors in the United States to perform late terminations of pregnancy, was murdered by Scott Roeder, an anti-abortion extremist.
Ten years ago today, Dr. George Tiller — an abortion provider in Wichita, Kansas — was murdered by an anti-abortion zealot. We remember Dr. Tiller’s courageous work as both a doctor and an advocate who stood up to violence for decades in the name of women’s health.
One of the few U.S. doctors to provide third-trimester abortions, George R. Tiller of Wichita, Kansas was shot by one of his many opponents on May 31, 2009.
On May 31, 2009, George Tiller was assassinated by anti-abortion extremist Scott Roeder during church services at the Reformation Lutheran church in Wichita. Tiller was working as an usher when Roeder walked over and shot him point blank in the head, killing him instantly.
His willingness to abort fetuses so late in pregnancies put him at the medical and moral outer limits of abortion. Yet he portrayed those arrayed against him as religious zealots engaged in a...
WICHITA, Kan. George Tiller, one of only a few doctors in the nation who performed abortions late in pregnancy, was shot to death here Sunday in the foyer of his longtime church as he handed...
