Infamous Kansas Abortion Doctor George Tiller was shot and killed this morning at his church in Wichita. Read more about it below, see a photo and watch a video.
Dr. George Tiller
It seems that the police and emergency workers were called to Dr. George Tiller’s church, the Reformation Lutheran Church in the 7600 block of E. 13th Street in Wichita, Kansas at 10:03 this morning. Multiple sources have confirmed that the controversial abortion docter, George Tiller, was pronounced dead at the scene. He was 67 years old.
All updates to this story are below the fold.
The suspect fled the church and at this writing there is a manhunt underway. His car is described as a powder blue or light blue Taurus with a K-State vanity plate, license number 225 BAB. He is described as a white male in his 50’s or 60’s, 6′1,” 220 lbs, wearing a white shirt and dark pants.
Earlier this year, Tiller was acquitted of 19 misdemeanor criminal charges that he did not follow state law when getting a second opinion on late-term abortions. A jury acquitted Tiller of those charges on March 27th. Dr. George Tiller is quite infamous for being one of the few U.S. doctors who will perform late-term abortions. He also had a long history of performing partial birth abortions. His abortion clinic has repeatedly been the site of protests for about two decades and he was shot and wounded by a protester in 1993.
So, recapping, famous abortion doctor George Tiller has been shot and killed while attending church services in Kansas. The suspect is still at large though a manhunt is underway. For those of us who are pro-life, all life is precious, even the abortionist’s. Our sympathies to his family. We will continue to update this story as information unfolds.
Update: A man has been taken into custody, believed to be the killer of abortion doctor George Tiller though his name has not been released. No charges have yet been filed or motive for the killing known.
In a statement issued through George Tiller’s lawyers, his family — a wife, four children and 10 grandchildren — said their loss “is also a loss for the city of Wichita and women across America.”
The pro-abortion group Planned Parenthood called George Tiller’s killing “an enormous loss.” While, leading anti-abortion groups condemned the shooting, emphasizing they wanted to shut down George Tiller’s abortion practice by legal means not through violence. They called today’s act “cowardly.”
Update: The suspected shooter of Dr. George Tiller has been identified as 51 year old Scott Roeder. He has been arrested and is facing one count of murder and two counts of aggravated assault for threatening onlookers who tried to intervene.
Meanwhile, Barack Obama has issued a statement saying:
“I am shocked and outraged by the murder of Dr. George Tiller as he attended church services this morning. However profound our differences as Americans over difficult issues such as abortion, they cannot be resolved by heinous acts of violence.”
Well, those of us who are pro-life see abortion as a heinous act of violence as well.
Also, US Attorney General Eric Holder is dispatching US Marshals to protect abortion clinic and doctors around the country. Look for this horrible incident to be blamed on the whole pro-life movement in general and for radical abortion groups and others to use this to further their causes. Sadly, that’s just the way these things work.
Abortion Doctor George Tiller Video
May 31st, 2009 at 9:41 am
I’m all upset
May 31st, 2009 at 9:49 am
My sympathy to Tiller’s family and friends for their loss…they loved him and must be overwhelmed with grief.
That said, I can’t help but wonder how many lives the shooter saved today.
My ( and Tiller’s )generation began the ruination of this once great nation by embracing the liberal *anything goes *agenda. Women my age were the first to start using abortion as a form a birth control. They dehumanized the *fetus*, making the murder of the unborn acceptable at any stage of pregnancy.
We do reap what we sow.
May 31st, 2009 at 2:06 pm
Joanne you’re advocating what happened is okay: you can’t have it both ways. For a women to take control of her body is one thing, to advocate the murder of people walking around just cause they don’t fit someone’s politics is a totally another thing. You’re advocating the slippery slope of solutions for whatever is someone’s pet peeve.
May 31st, 2009 at 3:00 pm
With the exception of rape, all a woman has to do to control her *body* is keep her freakin’ legs closed. I do not believe women should have ever been given the *right* to murder their children…and those that help them, like Tiller, deserve no compassion. All those babies Tiller murdered would have likely chosen life, as would have Tiller..had he been given the *choice*.
Let’s just call it a retro-active late term abortion for all you baby killing advocates, Brian.
I do, however, feel compassion for Tiller’s family for their loss, tho.
May 31st, 2009 at 3:03 pm
Brian.
How upset were you when Jeffrey Dalmer was killed ?
JoAnne did not advocate the vigilant actions.
But I think its appropriatte to celebrate the convenience of it all.
Someones politics ? Pet peeve ?
This guy was killing babys that could of survived outside the womb with minimal assitance you fricking nut. It was legal loophole that allowed this man to get away with it. What the assasin did by circumventing the system you despise so much was something a seperatist anarchist like you should of celebrated, right ?
May 31st, 2009 at 3:23 pm
No man is an island, entire of itself…any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. ~John Donne
I can’t celebrate any man’s murder. I also can’t celebrate this man’s choice to perform abortions. Unfortunately, his death will be used as a rallying cry for the left, for gun control and for painting conservatives as homicidal lunatics.
Vigilantism isn’t the way to bring about social change.
May 31st, 2009 at 4:49 pm
“Let’s just call it a retro-active late term abortion …”
JoAnne,
do not keep it all bottled up inside. tell us how you really feel
May 31st, 2009 at 4:52 pm
joanne you owe me an apology for mislabling and slandering me. you totally fail to grasp my argument, but that is your problem, not mine, as the law we have made in this country is clear. I don’t want others to think your solution is the right or legal one in our country as its not. And you calling me names to shut me up is so wrong and just feeds further violence when what our people need is a sane approach. If you want your sisters to behave better then launch an advocacy drive for better behavior. I for one do not approve of what all these men are doing and they should stop with good old fashioned self discipline and respect and be responsible caring human beings and not put a woman in that jeopardy. I think they can learn to do that as they once more or less did. It is they who I hold responsible as much as anybody, and if they grow up, they can make a difference. There is no need for violence, just thinking minds who are aware of what they are doing.
May 31st, 2009 at 6:24 pm
JoAnne, say you’re sorry so brian doesnt go makin up a whole nuther bunch of sh*t.
Brian, when you stop being a contemptuous liar you can start accusing people of slander.
Fair enough ?
Not put a woman in that jeapordy ? You mean like blind unbridled unresponsible sex
Gimme a break.
May 31st, 2009 at 6:38 pm
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May 31st, 2009 at 7:10 pm
Mr. Micky, don’t you think its about time you evolve out of “the need” to call me a liar? I find it curious and strange. First of all I am not a liar. Secondly I am not a liar. So I don’t get your game, but I do notice you personally attack people in the more extreme methods of character assasination. Left to their own devices the republicans drove this country into a wall, 2 plus wars we admit too, near financial collapse, completely out of whack budget, so…..we now know that we must speak up to all that nonsense so we don’t repeat the same mistakes. The kind of minute by minute blog attacks on obama are probably what should have happend to geobushw administration instead of giving them such a free pass. Now how is that a lie?
June 1st, 2009 at 12:39 am
Well, it seems to me that Dr. Tiller was a very courageous individual. I don’t think that you can argue with that. Here is someone who was threatened, who was shot, who was harassed, for years, and yet, he did not back down. I don’t think that it had anything to do with personal gain. I think that he honestly believed that if a woman needs a late-term abortion, that it is legally and ethically sound for her physician to perform it, and he was true enough to his profession, as he perceived it, not to be cowed. That’s what it looks like to me. Whenever someone puts themselves at risk for what they believe, then that’s pretty powerful stuff. Killing them is the worst thing you can do.
June 1st, 2009 at 6:33 am
I’m not exactly big on abortion, and would never advise someone I knew to abort. That said, people have a right to act within the law without fear of retribution or penalty.
This discussion is not about abortion, it’s about vigilante justice. Tiller was acting legally, but was killed because some whack job decided that his own personal views (on murder, at that) superseded the law. That’s not how things are done in a civilized world, no matter how sensitive or controversial a given issue may be.
Shame on Scott Roeder, and on those who defend him, be it explicitly or implicitly.
June 1st, 2009 at 7:00 am
I guess it’s too late to remind all that Dr. Tiller took an oath that says, among other things, “I swear by Apollo the physician….that I will not give a pregnant woman a pessary to cause an abortion”. Oh well, that is an old oath anyway.
June 1st, 2009 at 7:05 am
george tiller was an odious man. someone who without conscience or care killed viable wee babies while in the womb. that said…
you do not teach abortion is wrong by killing the abortionist. if life is precious then all life is precious even the odious dr. tiller’s.
if roedel is the murderer, he needs to be punished to the fullest extent of the law. dr. george tiller will be punished in the next life.
June 1st, 2009 at 7:26 am
@Hondo: Abortions are not performed using pessaries, so if we want to get technical, Tiller did not violate that tenet.
More importantly though, modern incantations of the Hippocratic Oath administered by medical schools almost never include the clause regarding abortion and euthanasia. I’m not sure of course, but my guess is that Tiller never swore to uphold that principle.
June 1st, 2009 at 8:03 am
Rhayader;
“Tiller was acting legally, but was killed because some whack job decided that his own personal views (on murder, at that) superseded the law. ”
Whack Job ? Maybe, but how “whacked” is it to kill a child for convenience sake that could live with minimal assistance ?
I dont agree with the anrchy either, but really folks, lets stop the intellectual dishonesty and admit that there are times when justice outside the law is quite appropriate.
I kicked the crap out of a pimp whom I saw beating his pregnant hooker and the cops just turned a blind eye because they knew the guys history. The guy who stabbed me got walked into a pole, knocking him out, did anyone cry foul ? It happens everyday everywhere in a society where people feel that the red tape, politics and bureaucracy on the hill has shorted us and the many innocent lives this guy has taken. Its about time someone stepped in, its sad it had to happen this way and I wasnt there to watch.
How many of you who are supposedly so righteous here that are stumping on the side of rigorous application of the law could do what this guy Tiller was doing ? Could you rip that baby out from its mother and shove that spike thru its brain while its still alive ?
What would you do if you had to witness something like that in its actuality and completetion ?
Yeah, everyone talks alot of self righteous crap but I’ll bet when it comes to real life scenarios and actually being there many of us sing a different tune.
Good for Tiller.
June 1st, 2009 at 8:50 am
Hey all, for some reason my last comment is being moderated, so once again I’ll asterisk everything in sight in an attempt to come up with a Wal Mart-friendly version.
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lets stop the intellectual dishonesty and admit that there are times when justice outside the law is quite appropriate
Actually I would contend that the sentiment you express here is itself intellectually dishonest. How can we preach a respect for the law, and for the rights of others, if the most basic law — that against m*rder — is left to the whim of those who can justify their actions in their own minds?
And sure, you can try to respond by calling ab*rtion m*rder. I don’t even think that idea is without merit. However, there is a clear legal distinction between the two, placing ab*rtion within the law and the m*rder of a living person outside of it. If this distinction is a bogus one, there are legal avenues through which that distinction can be investigated.
What Roeder did (assuming he is in fact the k*ller) was ev*l and reprehensible, no matter how strong his personal motivation. Within their own Islamof*scist framework, the horrors perpetrated by the Nine-Eleven attackers were justified as a response to western oppression. And that’s the whole point: one person’s moral and philosophical stance cannot supersede the law in a fair society, particularly when we’re talking about laws as universal as that against m*rder.
June 1st, 2009 at 9:38 am
“Actually I would contend that the sentiment you express here is itself intellectually dishonest. How can we preach a respect for the law, and for the rights of others, if the most basic law — that against m*rder — is left to the whim of those who can justify their actions in their own minds?”
The point is that how many of us would stand by in idol waiting for the law while we see murder being commited ?
Sure, this guy was covered by the law but I beg to find a majority that finds late term laws justifiable. Most of the country doesnt permit these types of abortions, right ?
So there is a majority that views this as a reprehensible act.
Like I mentioned before, how upset was the general community when Dalmer was killed in prison ? Did someone take the law into his own hands ? Yup.
Was the community more condemning of the vigilante or Dalmers history ?
“If this distinction is a bogus one, there are legal avenues through which that distinction can be investigated.”
This is what I mean about intellectual dishonesty, gimme a break, please.
These babys are killed in terms late enough where any idiot knows that outside of the womb they could survive with minimal life support.
My son was two months premature. Tiller, if asked, would of killed not potential life, but real life had he aborted my son at 7 months.
Oh, and by the way, you wouldnt want to leave me in a room alone with KSM or any of those b*stards regardless of the law.
I believe we should adhere to law as much as possible. Had I been in the precense of Tiller when this happened I more than likely would of tried to stop it from happening. But, here we are, and I dont give a sh*t.
This mans been in the spotlight for quite a while, his practices have been known, and hes been hiding behind a loophole we all know needs to be closed.
yYou can only get away with what he was doing for so long even in the face of the law. Frankly, I think he was nuts to not figure that sooner or later some rogue nut was going to catch up with him. If I were him i’d of told myself a long time ago. “Yeah, the law says I can, but I know I’m pi$$ing off enough folks where this is going to catch up with me one day”
“And that’s the whole point: one person’s moral and philosophical stance cannot supersede the law in a fair society, particularly when we’re talking about laws as universal as that against m*rder”
Yeah well, once you take it for granite that society is fair you’re setting yourself up for hard times.
I know the law, but I still wouldnt take a walk thru South Central L.A and flaunt my right to free speech.
Tiller was an idiot who almost got what he deserved
June 1st, 2009 at 10:00 am
Yeah I mean I’m not even all that interested in who Tiller was, how idiotic he was, whatever. Again, this really isn’t about Tiller; it’s about the actions of his murderer (presumably Roeder).
Oh and it is far from intellectually dishonest to say that objections to abortion laws should be carried out in a legal fashion.
Yeah well, once you take it for granite that society is fair you’re setting yourself up for hard times.
First of all I think you mean “take it for granted”. Granite is a rock.
Also, while fairness may not always be a practical fact, we do live in a theoretically fair society based on laws. We can’t defend that type of structure and support actions like Tiller’s murder; that constitutes pure hypocrisy.
June 1st, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Okay, I dont know what the deal is with the moderation but as much as I love the pundits I have to say its ridiculous if you’re trying to have a fluid back and forth conversation as close to real time as possible.
As much as I cant see whats so objectible heres the comment under moderation with as much of my own editing as possible.
No, I really meant that of you expect society to be honest you’re taking your clues from a rock, seriously.
Look, I’m not saying that this m*rder was 100% justified.
I believe I’ve said that we cant have anarchy while people run around performing their own brand of justice, I get it.
BUT !
Lets look at how many flowers were on 5th ave at the sight of Lenn*ns murder and how many we see at the sight of Tillmans m*rder. Its a church to boot.
Maybe Roeder took his cue from Sotomayor and told himself “I would hope that as a wise wh*te man with the richness of his experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than someone who hasn’t lived that life.” and decided that he was more qualified to know whats best.
Just sayin
June 1st, 2009 at 12:16 pm
C’mon guys !
Thats two pretty tame comments that are in moderation.
Why ?
June 1st, 2009 at 12:28 pm
Hah yeah Micky, the censors are feeling pretty cranky today huh?
And yeah I hear you; to many people, Tillman was a butcher who needed to be stopped using any means possible. To someone who was truly convinced that m*rder was taking place, with protection from the state, there wouldn’t be many places to turn.
And I’m not exactly against the idea of civil disobedience; in fact I practice it every time I enjoy a relaxing smoke. Ultimately though I think m*rder stretches the credulity of that concept a bit.
June 1st, 2009 at 9:54 pm
Brian;
“First of all I am not a liar. Secondly I am not a liar. ”
Thirdly, you just lied twice more.
Dont talk to me about character assasination when you lauch accusations against a man that you cannot prove.
Liar.
June 2nd, 2009 at 5:52 pm
micky you are so illogical it defys logic. basically that’s it in a nutshell. Perhaps a thesaurus or synonym handbook would be helpful for picking the right words to call another. Perhaps a tarot deck, unabridged edition. But you are vastly misusing the language, its meanings, and its useants.