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In 1986 his clinic was bombed. tiller hung a sign outside the bomb out building hell no, we won't go. he reopened the next day at a secret location. >> we have had a major $100,000 bombing here in our organization, and one day later we're in business. >> in 1991 the radical anti-abortion group, operation rescue, called on thousands of anti-abortion activists from across the country to converge on wichita to physically shutdown george tiller's clinic. >> wichita is not used to guerilla tacks but it's learning. harassing patients, using children as human shields. >> eventually the radical fringe...

Just like julie is doing they fly doctors in from other states. and that makes those clinics even more vulnerable to getting shutdown by the crettive and aggressive anti-abortion forces. there's a whole class of laws known as trap laws, t-r-a-p regulations designed for one purpose, to shutdown portion clinic because clinics aren't supposed to be able to comply with these requirements. one of the more infashioned trap laws over the past several years is a rule of requiring abortion doctors to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital wherever they're practice. there's no medical reason for...

Guard had a gun. 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 standby 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 ca...

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...