Extremeists, Militants Frequently Contact Roeder in Jail

[Triana]

The list of those visiting and communicating with the man accused of killing Wichita abortion provider George Tiller reads like a who's who of anti-abortion militants, reports Judy L. Thomas of the Kansas City Star.

RH Reality Check broke the story last weekend of the removal of federal marshal protection from Nebraska Dr. Leroy Carhart, and is reporting on efforts by advocates, led by Kansas NOW, in Nebraska, Kansas, and surrounding states to counter expected protests and disruptions of the delivery of reproductive health services at Carhart's Bellevue, Nebraska clinic by Operation Rescue and other organizations planned for late August.

According to Thomas, recent visitors have included two convicted clinic bombers, the man behind the Army of God Web site and several activists who once signed a declaration that defended the killing of abortion providers. "And federal agents have now talked to many of them."

Advocates have been calling on the Department of Justice to more aggressively investigate the connections between Roeder and the network of extremist anti-choice advocates like the Army of God, which celebrates clinic bombers and the assassins of reproductive health doctors as "American heroes."

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http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2009/08/10/kansas-city-star-extremists-militants-frequent-contact-roeder-jail

[iris27]

1. "removal of federal marshal protection from Nebraska Dr. Leroy Carhart"...shit, seriously?

Carhart and Hern are the only two late-term abortion doctors really left in the country, and they're REMOVING protection from one of them? Wow, that sends me into levels of pissed-off I didn't know I had!