Despite mounting a "justified murder" defense, Scott Roeder was convicted today of the First-degree murder of Dr. George Tiller by a Kansas jury!
Roeder, and avid anti-abortion rights activist shot and killed Dr. Tiller, an abortion provider as the Doctor attend Sunday morning services last year. Roeder, an extremist, sought to convince the jury he was justified in killing the doctor because the doctor performed late-term abortions. Dr. Tiller's was one of very few clinics where women could go to have their pregnancies ended in the Kansas area. Prior to his death, Dr. Tiller was charged with a criminal act in performing the abortions, but was later acquitted.
It took the Kansas jury only 37 minutes to convict Roeder. He has been found guilty of premeditated, first-degree murder in the assassination of Dr. Tiller.
No matter which side you come down on concerning abortion, it is never the answer to kill the doctor, and I think the jury made that very clear with this verdict. Dr. Tiller provided a legal service to women who felt, for one reason or another their pregnancies needed to be terminated. It was not for Roeder or any one else to determine the life of a man needed to be ended. I have never understood the argument against aborting a fetus that allows for the murder of a man. Roeder and his ilk seek to terrorize those whom they oppose. That is exactly what they should be called, "terrorists." I am renewed by the juries verdict, and while it can not bring the doctor back, I pray his family feels a measure of justice.
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