Tagged ‘murder’

 
Dr. George Tiller, one of only two providers of third-trimester abortions

Pro-Life groups react as trial set to begin for Scott Roeder

Scott Roeder, who was seen by eyewitnesses to shoot and kill Dr. George Tiller in his church last May, is set to stand trial in Wichita next week.  After having his “necessity defense” rejected (that’s based on the idea that he was preventing some greater harm by killing Dr. Tiller and preventing future abortions) Roeder [...]

Read More

Confessions of Tiller’s murderer

Scott Roeder, the man accused of shooting Dr. George Tiller, feels “relief and joy” that the doctor is dead, and expects to stay in prison a long time, according to an interview he gave the Kansas City Star. He showed no remorse in his testimony to the Star, calling the killing of abortion doctors “justifiable [...]

Read More

NY Times has more detail on Tiller and his murder

The New York Times today published a lengthy and detailed story about Dr. George Tiller’s career and reactions of Kansas Pro-Life activists to his murder.  Its fascinating reading for anyone who hasn’t gotten enough of this strange and tragic story.
The most notable facet of Dr. Tiller’s story is that he performed the rarest and most [...]

Read More

Can’t we all just get along?

Two days after his well-attended but ultimately peaceful funeral in Wichita, an editorial in the Wichita Eagle gives a nod to our movie’s coverage while bemoaning the impact the conflict over abortion has had in Wichita.  The cry of anguish reminds us of beaten convict Rodney King’s plea after the L.A. Riots, “can’t we all [...]

Read More

Lake of Fire

Dr. Tiller’s murder has truly flayed open the national wounds over the abortion issue.  Conversations on our Facebook page are fascinating but have become rather heated and our YouTube page is starting to resemble a bathroom stall at a truck stop.  The act of killing a man who’s saved so many women’s lives and ended [...]

Read More

Dr. Tiller in context

Here’s a video – really an expanded scene from “What’s the Matter with Kansas?” – which gives some background on Dr. Tiller, his clinic, and his significance to the abortion issue and its reverberations into American politics.  The Pro-Life movement made his clinic the focus of protests which, in 1991, sparked a conservative takeover of [...]

Read More

Still more thoughts on Dr. Tiller

The discussion on our Facebook page has been fascinating, here are some excerpts:

Connie Volkman at 12:23pm May 31

And what’s the matter with the so called Christians? They are not the Christinas that I associate with.

Alex MacKenzie at 12:28pm May 31

damn

Angel Fasulo at 12:29pm May 31

WOW

Patrice Lamoree at 12:32pm [...]

Read More

 
 

Copyright © 2012 Tallgrass Films. All rights reserved. Site developed by Item-9 Consulting