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Pro-Lifers Eye Slain Abortion Doc's Clinic

Operation Rescue's offer to buy is publicity stunt: Tiller's lawyer

By Ambreen Ali, Newser User

Posted Jun 10, 2009 2:13 PM CDT

(Newser) – The pro-life group that long tried to shut down the abortion clinic of slain doctor George Tiller wants to buy the Kansas site for office space, an offer Tiller’s attorney dismisses as a publicity stunt, the AP reports. The Tiller family announced yesterday that the clinic offering third-trimester abortions would close. The building and land are appraised at $734,000.

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In this 2007 file photo, Operation Rescue President Troy Newman stands outside Women's Health Care Services, which he now seeks to buy. (AP Photo/Larry W. Smith, file)

In this 2001 file photo, children and anti-abortion protesters gather at a Wichita, Kan. abortion clinic operated by Dr. George Tiller. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, file)

Tiller was murdered as he worked as an usher in his church. (AP Photo/Larry Smith, File)

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We would love to see that place established as a center for life, one that nurtures and cares for babies, rather than taking their lives.
- Troy Newman, president
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Doctor-Zaius

Jun 11, 2009 10:29 AM CDT

You are a fool Pole-Rider. Stop drinking the koolaid and pick up a book once in a while.

JonmarkP

Jun 10, 2009 8:20 AM CDT

Trixieguy, you know perfectly well that Dr. Tiller's clinic was not aborting viable fetuses unless the mothers' lives depended on it. You should take your insane rage out on yourself. I'd prefer to buy birthday cards for the mothers whose lives Dr. Tiller saved.

nick

Jun 10, 2009 7:19 AM CDT

Sell it to them, and then picket them and shout profanities at their customers everyday!

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Pro-Lifers Eye Slain Abortion Doc's Clinic