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George Tiller's funeral this morning drew large crowds and some protesters but was peaceful, officials said....Tiller's oldest child, Jennifer, said her father loved to relay axioms, "pearls of wisdom for how life should be lived...He believed in the effort and the joy of his work...as I look out on you today -- all of you, in many colors -- I see all the brush stokes. I see all the dots. I see all the people, the color, the canvas of my dad's life..."

Slain abortion doctor eulogized as generous By ROXANA HEGEMAN, Associated Press Writer WICHITA, Kan. – Hundreds of people gathered Saturday to honor slain abortion provider Dr. George Tiller, eulogized by a longtime friend as a passionate and generous man who repeatedly overcame difficult challenges. Tiller's funeral at College Hill United Methodist Church also drew small groups of protesters. Police and federal marshals provided heavy security. Tiller, one of the nation's few providers of late-term abortions, was killed by a gunshot last Sunday in the foyer of his own church, Reformation Lutheran, while he was serving as an usher and his...

Mourners Gather to Remember Slain Abortion Doctor as Small Group Protests Funeral Saturday, June 06, 2009 May 14: Physician George Tiller listens to testimony of former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline in Sedgwick County, Kan., District Court. WICHITA, Kan. — Hundreds of mourners gathered Saturday under tight security and amid small protests at a Wichita church for the funeral of a slain Kansas abortion provider. Groups of demonstrators and counter-demonstrators also congregated outside the memorial service for Dr. George Tiller, 67, who was shot in the head last Sunday at his own church. The funeral service began at 11 a.m....

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but aren't 3rd tri-mester abortions ONLY legal if they're "medically necessary"? I find it hard to believe that all of the abortions Tiller performed were medically necessary. Just saying.

WHERE WAS PVT. LONGS SECURITY!!! An Islamic jihadist murders an American soldier, and a hijab-wearing Muslim woman shows up at a memorial rally for him, claiming Muslim victimization and proclaiming Islamic supremacist dogma -- "Jesus was Muslim!," etc. -- and railing about how "Jews" control the New York Times and Fox News. Don't miss the point toward the end of the video when a friend of the hijabbed woman asks those conducting the memorial to "please go away" -- as if this is suddenly an event that the Islamic supremacists control.

Friday June 5, 2009 Fox’s Bill O’Reilly Responds to Criticisms that he Helped Kill Tiller “The murder of Dr. Tiller, as misguided as he was, can never be condoned,” he says, “But neither can the hateful, dishonest tactics of the far left.” By Patrick B. CraineJune 5, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Following the killing of late-term abortionist George Tiller on Sunday, blame for the murder has been thrown at the pro-life movement and social conservatives by abortion supporters and by much of the mainstream media. Fox’s Bill O’Reilly, host of ‘The O’Reilly Factor,’ has been one central target of accusations of...

Hundreds are expected to turn out this morning under tight security for the funeral service for George Tiller, the Kansas physician specializing in late term abortions who was gunned down in the vestibule of his Lutheran church where he was working as an usher Sunday. The suspect in his death, Scott Roeder, a 51-year-old man with dire financial problems who authorities say flirted with a number of militia-style protests against the government before becoming fixated on the abortion issue, has been charged in Tiller's death.

Community Standards Your problem is a theological one. But you did address a real problem. The problem you addressed is the problem you would not admit. The problem is that the American community agrees with the Supreme Court of the United States. The general American public agrees that abortion should be legal. Maybe it does not agree that the third-trimester abortions should be legal, but it is not going to throw out of office the civil magistrates who enforce the Supreme Court's ruling. In fact, the Supreme Court has authorized third-trimester abortion and any other kind of abortion, but the...

I'm wary of drawing too many lessons from anonymous message board comments. One could certainly pluck comments from Beliefnet's boards to prove that we harbor either right wing or left wing extremists. But it's worth perusing the message boards of FreeRepublic, a conservative community, to gauge the general mood of the most hardcore conservatives. First, quite a few people are saying that murder is wrong, no matter how evil the victim was. SnakeDoc: Thou Shalt Not Murder. Both the shooter and the victim will be judged. Patriot preacher: Pro-lifers should condemn this as antithetical to their philosophy and beliefs. Hopefully,...

I love it when a reader decides to send a nasty e-mail from his company e-mail address in response to one of my columns. In this case, the e-mail came from Brian Sturtevant of Southern California Edison, who obviously disdains pro-lifers. Mr. Sturtevant wrote: 'You people disgust me. Although, I suppose we should all thank you.....in exchange for the murder of one American hero, we now have a National Martyr who will serve as an effective recruitment tool for the rights of women for decades to come. I expect to see all of you pushed back into the cave from...

A moral civil war: The truth is millions of Americans believe Dr 'Baby Killer' Tiller deserved to die By DAVID JONES 06th June 2009 Somewhere beside a busy freeway in the dreary suburbs of Wichita, Kansas, there stands an anonymous, single-storey building. Its cream walls are stained by exhaust fumes and it has no external windows. Guarded night and day by a private security patrol and CCTV cameras, and surrounded by 'No Trespassing' signs, it could be a top-security prison. As vandals have spattered the perimeter fence with something that looks like congealed blood, it might equally be a laboratory...

The Justice Department launched a federal probe Friday into whether the killing of a Kansas abortion doctor was part of a larger plot involving multiple accomplices

http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2009/June/09-crt-555.html Justice Department Launches Investigation into Federal Crimes in Connection with the Murder of Dr. George Tiller The Department's Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Kansas have launched a federal investigation into federal crimes in connection with the murder of Dr. George Tiller. The federal probe will consist of a thorough review of the evidence and an assessment of any potential violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE Act) or other federal statutes. The federal investigation will be conducted in close coordination with the Office of the Sedgwick County, Kan.,...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- MSNBC talking head Keith Olbermann has named pro-life nurse and blogger Jill Stanek the "Worst Person in the World" during that segment of his Thursday night broadcast. Stanek is the pro-life nurse who uncovered live birth abortions at a hospital in Chicago that led to a national law prohibiting the practice.On her blog, Stanek has noted how late-term abortion practitioner LeRoy Carhart of Nebraska is one of the few remaining people to do abortions so late in pregnancy now that George Tiller has been killed.As LifeNews.com has noted, Stanek posted pictures of Carhart's Belleview-based abortion...

Breaking on FNC.

Newsflash: Pro-lifers have not just gone away due to the recent murder of an abortionist! I think that because of the recent murder of abortionist George Tiller by a lunatic, some expected that pro-lifers would just give up and become pro-choice or at least shut up about abortion, but many pro-lifers are still inexplicably pro-life. NPR reports in a shock headline: Anti-Abortion Rhetoric Still Strong. Wow! What a shock. You mean pro-lifers haven't just called it a day and gone home? TampaBay.com reports that Barbara Zdravecky, CEO of Planned Parenthood of Southwest Florida, said "The terrorists are still there." Check...

In this epsiode of the Conscience of Kansas radio program I interview Alan Caruba, director of National Anxiety Center. Next, we discuss the George Tiller shooting. Lastly, I interview conservative youtube sensation, Seven Crowder. It's a fun education show and we invite you to listen and comment on the show!

Of George Tiller's soul, God is now the judge; though I have no doubt that from a human perspective his enthusiastic practice of child murder for profit will forever deserve our unequivocal condemnation. This of course implies no approval of the apparently deranged act that took his life. The aim of all authentic pro-life people is to restore respect for innocent human life. We rightly condemn and lament an action that harms the good we seek to achieve.

The press paid far more attention to the killing of late-term abortion provider Dr. George Tiller than it did to Army recruiter Pvt. William Andrew Long. The numbers here...

Home / Globe / Opinion / Op-ed Ellen Goodman IT IS believed that the shooter acted alone. Surely, that's true. No one else was standing beside suspect Scott Roeder when it is believed he murdered Dr. George Tiller in the sanctuary of his church. But Michael Griffin also acted alone when he killed David Gunn in 1993. Paul Hill acted alone when he killed John Britton in 1994. John Salvi acted alone and so did Eric Rudolph and James Kopp. This suspect is hardly lonely in this murderous cast of lone actors.