So who is Scott Roeder, the suspect in the George Tiller murder?
The 51-year-old resident of Merriam, Kansas has a record as a fanatical anti-abortion activist, who had made at least one other threat against an abortion provider. And he also has had ties to the a violent right-wing extremist group that came to prominence in the 1990s.Roeder believed in “justifiable homicide” — that is, that it’s OK to kill those who facilitate abortions — according to another anti-abortion activist, Regina Dinwiddie. Dinwiddie told McClatchy that in 1996, Roeder walked into a Kansas City Planned Parenthood clinic that was being picketed by protesters, and asked to see the doctor, Robert Crist.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=142185