Irrational Anger vs. Courage: Tiller Documentary Showed Faces of “Culture Wars”
Rachel Maddow’s documentary, “The Assassination of Dr. Tiller,” was a very rare hour of prime-time coverage which was sympathetic to the pro-choice position in “the culture wars.” It accomplished this...
View ArticleMan Who Threatened Abortion Doctor Gets Probation
The man who threatened abortion provider Dr. Warren Hern and his family shortly after the death of Dr. George Tiller has now been sentenced to five years probation, according to the Washington Post. A...
View ArticlePro-Lifers Stand Up for… Murder?
See also other RH Reality Check reporting on this issue. The National Right to Life’s website promises the following: “Right to life issues including abortion, euthanasia and infanticide. Tracking...
View ArticleAnti-Choice Groups Oppose Anti-Terrorism Legislation
One of the most troubling aspects of the events that led to Scott Roeder’s assassination of Dr. George Tiller at Dr. Tiller’s Lutheran church was the possibility that the federal government could have...
View ArticleMaryland Father Newest Target for Anti-Choice Terrorism
Cheryl Sullenger appeared before the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) last week to speak out in favor of the abortion regulations known as TRAP (targeted regulation of abortion...
View ArticleKentucky News Outlet Glorifies Clinic Bomber
It seemed at first to be a sort of odd article to run on a day to celebrate a woman’s right to choose. A northern Kentucky media outlet decided that the 40th anniversary of Roe would be the perfect...
View ArticleLegal Wrap: Steubenville Rape Culture and Corporations as ‘Vessels’ of Faith
Legal Wrap is a weekly round-up of key legal reproductive rights and justice news. On Sunday, a juvenile court found two teenage boys guilty in the Steubenville High School gang rape trial. Our...
View ArticleKansas Inmate Claims Anti-Choicer Asked Him to Firebomb the Home of Dr. Means
The Associated Press and The Wichita Eagle reported yesterday that Robert Campbell, an inmate in Sedgwick County, Kansas has asserted that domestic terrorist Angel Dillard asked him last year to...
View ArticleLegacy of Tiller’s Murder: Anti-Choice Terrorists Threaten Staff at Wichita...
Every community has its own unique history shaped its people, its geography, and its circumstance. Wichita, Kansas, has been home to such notable people as Carrie Nation and Wyatt Earp. Its geography...
View ArticleJudge Rules Anti-Choice Terrorist Can Claim Religious Protection for...
On Friday U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten handed anti-choice terrorist Angel Dillard a win, ruling Dillard doesn’t have to disclose “ministerial discussions” she had with Scott Roeder, the man...
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Roeder to Be Disciplined for ‘Threats’ in Call to Army of God Member
Scott Roeder, the imprisoned convicted murderer of abortion provider Dr. George Tiller, will face disciplinary action for making threats against abortion providers in a phone conversation with a member...
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Scott Roeder Put in Solitary Confinement Over Threats Targeting Abortion...
A conversation with an Iowa anti-choice terrorist has landed Scott Roeder, the convicted killer of Dr. George Tiller, in solitary confinement for 45 days, according to Reuters. Roeder, who is serving a...
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Legal Wrap: States Ramp Up Anti-Abortion Activity, Again
Legal Wrap is a round-up of the latest legal and reproductive justice news. Last week, there was a flurry of action at the state level over the battle for abortion rights that reached well beyond the...
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How Can the Constitution Protect Threats to Abortion Providers?
In 2011, radical anti-abortion activist Angel Dillard sent a letter to Dr. Mila Means, who at the time was preparing to start offering abortion services at the clinic of the late Dr. George Tiller, in...
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DOJ Will Appeal ‘True Threat’ Ruling in Dillard Case
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) plans to appeal a ruling that a letter sent by anti-choice activist Angel Dillard to a Wichita abortion provider, stating that if she continued providing abortions...
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Kansas Judge Hears Arguments in Wichita Clinic Stalking Case
On Tuesday, a Kansas judge heard arguments on whether to dismiss the case of a pastor accused of distributing “wanted“-style posters with the picture and home address of a Wichita abortion clinic...
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Legal Wrap: New Year Kicks Off With Contraception Challenges
Legal Wrap is a weekly round-up of key legal reproductive rights and justice news. Happy New Year! While most of us were out celebrating the end of a tough year for reproductive rights, with a record...
View ArticleDr. Tiller’s Murderer May Have New Chance to Argue That Anti-Choice Violence...
It only took a jury about half an hour in 2010 to convict Scott Roeder of first-degree murder for the 2009 shooting death of Dr. George Tiller at Tiller’s church in Wichita, Kansas. Roeder admitted...
View ArticleDillard, Daleiden, and Dear: A Summer of Abortion Violence Trials Starts Now
A federal court in Wichita, Kansas, will begin seating jurors Tuesday morning in the Department of Justice’s civil case against radical anti-abortion activist Angel Dillard. Dillard’s case is the first...
View ArticleTimeline: Wichita, Focal Point for the Anti-Choice Movement
On May 3, Angel Dillard is set to stand trial in federal district court in Kansas for alleged violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. According to the Department of...
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