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Randall Terry Compares Tiller’s Killer to Nat Turner

By | 06.11.09 | 3:53 pm

Despite delivering on his promise of wings and Guinness, Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry failed to draw a crowd to his news conference at the National Press Club today about, among other things, the recent murder of Kansas abortion provider Dr. George Tiller. Terry repeated More…

FBI Ignored Repeated Complaints From Tiller’s Clinic About Murder Suspect

By | 06.04.09 | 8:18 am

How is it possible that the FBI was told repeatedly just days before the murder of Dr. George Tiller that Scott Roeder, now the leading suspect, had repeatedly broken federal law by vandalizing the women’s health clinic where Tiller worked, including gluing the locks of the clinic, and the FBI More…

Anti-Abortion Groups Dodge Fallout From Tiller Murder

By | 06.03.09 | 1:31 pm

On Sunday, when he heard that abortion doctor George Tiller had been murdered outside of his Wichita, Kans. church, Fr. Frank Pavone was “overcome by sadness.” He had opposed Tiller’s work vociferously, for many years. But he didn’t want the fight against his late-term abortion practice to end like this. More…

Little-Enforced Law Opens Window for Suits Against Extremist Groups

By | 06.03.09 | 6:00 am

The threats started in 1995. It was the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, and the American Coalition of Life Activists decided to create a poster for their annual meeting listing the names and address of a group of doctors who performed abortions. They called them “the Deadly Dozen,” and declared More…

Conservative Iowa Radio Host: ‘Babies in Kansas Are Safer Today’ Now That Tiller is Dead

By | 06.02.09 | 12:41 pm

The Iowa Independent reports:

Steve Deace, who hosts a drive-time show on WHO-AM, said society helped create Scott Roeder, the man in custody for the killing of Tiller Sunday morning, by refusing to stop abortion by legal methods.

“Maybe the fact that we have a

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Don’t Assume Tiller’s Killer Acted Alone

By | 06.02.09 | 8:59 am

In a powerful and incisive show focused on the murder of abortion provider Dr. George Tiller,  Rachel Maddow interviewed George Washington University constitutional law scholar Jonathan Turley Monday about how the government can not only prosecute Tiller’s murderer, but also investigate the role of the many right-wing anti-abortion zealots More…

Sarah Palin on Abortion Clinic Murders

By | 06.01.09 | 10:21 am

The Republican governor of Alaska hasn’t reacted to the murder of abortion doctor George Tiller, but during the 2008 campaign she did get a chance to discuss whether abortion clinic attackers were “terrorists” and decided to compare them to Bill Ayers.

There is no question that Bill Ayers via

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A Late-Term Abortion Doctor Speaks

By | 06.01.09 | 9:19 am

The Colorado Independent has a reaction to the murder of abortion doctor George Tiller, from one of the only other doctors who performs late-term abortions in the United States.

Pro-Life Activists Angry Over GOP Support for Sebelius

By | 04.28.09 | 6:00 am

The battle against Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D-Kans.), President Obama’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, has gone better than many pro-life activists had hoped. Yes, it’s true that Sebelius is expected to be confirmed after an eight-hour debate and cloture vote are held in the Senate More…