Ethics

Another Abortion Doctor Killed

By Ed Brayton

I've just been told by a friend and longtime Dispatches reader that Dr. George Tiller, a doctor from Kansas who has long been controversial for performing abortions, was shot and killed a short time ago during a church service where he was acting as an usher. I hope to be able to bring you more details shortly. Maybe all that nonsense about the Department of Homeland Security's report on right wing extremists will fall silent now, but I doubt it.

Update: I've got permission to post some of this. My friend Gretchen, who comments here almost daily, is in Wichita visiting her parents and her parents were at the church when this shooting took place. This is what they reported:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on May 31, 2009 (boomark / email).