Page 3 - Scott Roader News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Into the church george tiller attended, he walked in on a sunday morning, he held up a gun to tiller's head and he executed him at point-blank range. according to the killer, scott roader, he'd been thinking about killing george tiller for years. but it was the result of that trial, george tiller's acquittal of all those misdemeanor charges that motivated him to actually go through with it, to actually do it. >> it seemed like that was the last attempt by the state of kansas to find if there was anything at all going on illegally in george tiller's clinic. and it seemed as though that was the ...

Scott roader shot him in the head. nine days later tiller's family announced they would not reopen the clinic. dr. tiller was the city's only abortion provider so his death ended abortion access in wichita, and that had a real practical and immediate effect on all the women who had come to rely on tiller and on this particular clinic for this kind of care. anti-abortion forces in wichita were adamant about keeping the clinic closed in the wake of tiller's murder, keeping wichita abortion-free. late in 2010 more than a year after tiller's death and more than a year after the clinic had closed t...

Not do something, efs had he was going to continue aborting children. and so i felt that i needed to act and quickly for those children. >> scott roader did not get to this point of radicalization overnight. according to his ex-wife he had become involved in the antiabortion movement in the 1990s. he protested at clinics, including dr. tillers. he tried to super blow the locks shut on another candidate and also visited shelly shannon in prison. >> get down on your knees. >> on the day he murdered dr. tiller when he was arrested that day after the shooting, a scrap of paper was found in his get...

Court, when he too had to defend himself in court from charges that wouldn't have existed if not for relentless campaign by antiabortion activists went on topping him from doing his job, and how one of the spectators in that courtroom scott roader would be so galvanized by watching that spectacle. >> he was my only target. >> and would get so furious when the wall came down on tiller's side that he would murder him over it. >> do you worry someone was sitting in that courtroom who's going to be the next scott roader? >> absolutely, yes. yeah. >> that's a lot to carry around. >> that's why as m...

I thought i wonder why. >> these days mr. swinny still has his gun. he mans the lobby at the clinic. he signs in the patients. he keeps an eye on the protesters making sure they don't get too close. there are fewer protesters than there were in the tiller days but they can still get aggressive sometimes. they stand in the parking lot, drive by the entrance back and forth, back and forth. the threat they pose still feels like a very live one because it's hard to tell who's just a guy with a sign and who could be the next scott roader. carl says he keeps an eye out for what he calls the problem ...