Roeder: No regrets after shooting doctor
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/01/28/abortion.roeder.testifies/index.html?hpt=T1
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
"abortion is murder."
"It isn't our duty to take life, it's our heavenly father's,"
What do you call putting a gun to a mans head in his church and executing him?
"You shall not murder/kill"
Guess this doesn't apply anymore huh?
He said he became born again in 1992 after watching an episode of "The 700 Club." Pat Robertson.
Explains the insanity.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/01/28/abortion.roeder.testifies/index.html?hpt=T1
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Scott Roeder says he has no regrets over killing Dr. George Tiller at church on May 31
- Roeder says abortion is murder, and he acted to save lives of the unborn
- Tiller ran a women's clinic where he performed abortions in Wichita, Kansas
- Roeder testified he thought of various ways to kill Tiller
(CNN) -- A man on trial for gunning down an abortion provider in church said he had no regrets because "abortion is murder."
Scott Roder, 51, said he shot and killed Dr. George Tiller as services began on May 31 to save the lives of the unborn.
"There was nothing being done and the legal process had been exhausted, and these babies were dying every day," Roeder said. "I felt that if someone did not do something, he was going to continue."
Roeder is charged with one count of first-degree murder. Tiller ran a women's clinic at which he performed abortions, including the controversial late-term procedure.
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Asked if he regretted what he did, Roeder said, "No, I don't." Upon learning that Tiller's clinic was shut down after his death, he said he felt "a sense of relief."
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Tiller, 67, was one of the few U.S. doctors who performed late-term abortions. He had already survived one attempt on his life before he was slain.
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He decided to kill Tiller at his church, he said, because "I felt that actually if he was to be stopped, that was probably the only place he could have been stopped. ... It was the only window of opportunity I saw."
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On May 31, though, the doctor was there, and "I did what I thought was needed to be done to protect the children," Roeder said. "I shot him."
"The lives of those children were in imminent danger if someone did not stop George Tiller," he said.
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Earlier, Roeder testified that his anti-abortion beliefs "go hand in hand" with his religious beliefs. He said he became born again in 1992 after watching an episode of "The 700 Club."
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Asked about incest, he said his beliefs were the same. "It isn't our duty to take life, it's our heavenly father's," he said.
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Defense attorney Steve Osburn, in opening statements Thursday, told jurors Roeder "killed Dr. Tiller because he believed that was the only way, necessary to save the lives of the unborn."
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"abortion is murder."
"It isn't our duty to take life, it's our heavenly father's,"
What do you call putting a gun to a mans head in his church and executing him?
"You shall not murder/kill"
Guess this doesn't apply anymore huh?
He said he became born again in 1992 after watching an episode of "The 700 Club." Pat Robertson.
Explains the insanity.