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Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison reiterated her support for restrictions on abortions but acknowledged she opposes overturning Roe v. Wade.

Jurors convicts confessed killer Scott Roeder of first-degree murder in the killing of Wichita, Kan., abortion provider Dr. George Tiller.
 

In a trial that never became the referendum on abortion that some abortion foes wanted, Scott Roeder, a 51-year-old airport shuttle driver, was convicted today of murdering George Tiller, one the nation’s few physicians who performed late-term abor…

Kansas jury rejects plea by Scott Roeder that he killed George Tiller to protect unborn childrenA jury in Kansas has rejected a plea by a man who admitted killing an abortion doctor that he acted in defence of the unborn and found him guilty of murder .The jury took just 37 minutes to convict born-again [...]

Scott Roeder, who had freely admitted killing prominent Kansas abortion provider Dr. George Tiller has been found guilty, after only 37 minutes of jury deliberation. He said he killed Tiller to protect unborn children.

Scott Roeder , the man charged with murder in the shooting of George R. Tiller , one of the few doctors in the country to perform late-term abortions, took the witness stand in his own defense on Thursday, and said that, yes, he did it.

Judge in Kansas rules born-again Christian who killed George Tiller with .22-calibre gun must stand trial for murderA born-again Christian who believes abortion is a sin failed yesterday to ­convince a judge that he need not stand trial for murder after he admitted shooting dead an ­abortion doctor.Scott Roeder, 51, told the court in Wichita, [...]

A judge has ruled that a jury cannot consider a lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter for a man who admits killing prominent Kansas abortion provider Dr. George Tiller.
 

An usher testifies that he watched the man accused of killing a prominent American abortion provider approach the doctor in church, put a gun to his head and pull the trigger.

Warren Hern is no ordinary doctor. He has lived under siege for 25 years, and seen eight of his colleagues assassinated. Even some of his own patients want him dead. John H Richardson meets the last late-term abortionist in AmericaThe young couple flew into Wichita bearing, in the lovely swell of the wife’s belly, a [...]