Today is the seventh anniversary of the assassination of Dr. George Tiller. Tiller was the medical director of Women's Health Care Services in Wichita, Kansas, one of just three clinics across the nation that at the time provided late-term abortions. When Scott Roeder walked up to the doctor at his church and shot him in the head, it wasn’t the first time Tiller had suffered violence. He had been shot in both arms in 1993, and his clinic was firebombed in 1986. Violence has been a part of the forced-birther movement from early on.
The National Abortion Federation reports eight murders, 17 attempted murders, 42 bombings, 181 arsons, and more than 6,000 instances of other forms of violence against abortion clinics and providers since 1977....
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