By: Latoyia Kimbrough
CNN reports that Dr. George Tiller, 67, was shot and killed outside his Reformation Lutheran Church, shortly after 10 a.m. His Wichita, Kansas women's clinic has been the target of anti-abortion protests for years. Tiller was one of the few U.S. physicians who still performed late-term abortions but he survived a 1993 shooting. Wichita police said they were searching for a powder-blue Ford Taurus in connection with the killing. Witnesses to the killing provided a license plate number of the car the killer used to speed away from the church. The anti-abortion group Operation Rescue has led numerous demonstrations at Tiller's clinic but they condemned the shooting as a "cowardly act." Recently in March 2009 Tiller was acquitted of 19 counts of performing procedures unlawfully at his clinic which was in response to the charges made by abortion opponents. On the Operation Rescue website they refer to Tiller as a "monster" who has "been able to get away with murder." Randall Terry, the founder of Operation Rescue, called Tiller "a mass murderer." Randall also gave a written statement saying, “I am more concerned that the Obama administration will use Tiller's killing to intimidate pro-lifers into surrendering our most effective rhetoric and actions. Abortion is still murder, and we still must call abortion by its proper name." If Tiller was killed because of his work, he will be the fourth U.S. physician killed by abortion opponents since 1993.
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