Dr. George Tiller, one of the nation's few late-term-abortion providers, was killed Sunday in church.
Dr. Tiller, who had performed abortions since the 1970s, had long been a lightning rod for controversy over the issue of abortion, particularly in Kansas, where abortion opponents regularly protested outside his clinic and sometimes his home and church. In 1993, he was shot in both arms by an abortion opponent but recovered.
He had also been the subject of many efforts at prosecution, including a citizen-initiated grand jury investigation. In the latest such effort, in March, Dr. Tiller was acquitted of charges that he had performed late-term abortions that violated state law.
The shooting occurred at around 10 a.m. (Central time) at Reformation Lutheran Church on the city’s East Side, Dr. Tiller’s regular church.
Wichita police said that the shots were fired from a handgun in the church lobby during the morning service.
and things had been so quite on the anti-abortion terrorism front recently. like for almost a decade, actually...
i'm sure the extremist and eliminationist rhetoric the USian right has been screaming relentlessly since losing power is doing loads to avoid this sort of thing. you know, like how it worked to calm that guy that shot those cops in pittsburgh because the government was gonna steal his guns any day now.
pro-lifers who will cheer this news, (and yes, I do believe that they will consider this murder to be a thing to be celebrated-) will yowl up storms should this be properly tried as a case of domestic terrorism via assassination.