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Iowa House bills surface that could protect killers of abortion doctors

By | 02.24.11 | 10:22 am | More from The Iowa Independent

Image by Matt MahurinTwo bills sponsored by Iowa House Republicans could have significant public safety consequences, and perhaps the most unnerving of those potential outcomes would be the justifiable use of deadly force against abortion or family planning providers.

When the two pieces of legislation are combined

DOJ Abortion Violence Suits Cratered Under Bush

By | 06.12.09 | 6:00 am

The fatal shooting allegedly by a known white supremacist at the Holocaust Memorial Museum Wednesday in Washington is the second murder apparently motivated by a hateful ideology that’s come to national attention in the last two weeks. James W. von Brunn, the 88-year-old suspect and 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…

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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