Word: tillers
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After deliberating for only about an hour, a Kansas jury convicted fervent antiabortion activist Rachelle Shannon of attempting to murder Dr. George Tiller last summer. Shannon admitted shooting the doctor and testified that she also considered bombing his Wichita abortion clinic...
...second time this year an antiabortion protester has shot a doctor who performs abortions. Rachelle Renae Shannon, 37, of Grants Pass, Oregon, is accused of wounding Dr. George Tiller in both arms outside his Wichita, Kansas, clinic. Shannon is in custody, but Tiller was back at work the next...
Reagan called on the conventioneers to support his successor, describing President Bush as a "level-headed leader... with a steady hand on the tiller through the choppy eaters of the 90's, which is exactly what we need...
...Tiller, who wears a bulletproof vest to work and checks his car for bombs every morning, has emerged as a hero to the pro-choice movement, refusing to be intimidated by protesters and death threats. To pro-lifers, he is a modern- ^ day Mengele. Says Paula Winter, a "sidewalk counselor" who tries to dissuade patients from entering the clinic: "He kills 10 to 20 babies a week in his 'abortuary' and then puts them into his incinerator and burns them...
Along the thoroughfare that adjoins Tiller's clinic, a dozen pro-lifers and half as many pro-choicers petition passersby with wrenching pictures and alarming slogans. Commuters honk to register their vote -- or throw cans, bottles and even bags of urine. Says Mayor Knight: "People who in my wildest dreams would never protest -- much less put themselves in a position to be arrested -- have done just that." The abortion debate has a way of inducing indignation even among the timid and indecisive. "I came out of the closet a week ago," says pro-choicer Paul Wilson, 75. "The silent majority...