Attorneys for a man convicted of murdering a prominent Kansas abortion provider have asked for a new trial or an order of acquittal for their client. Attorneys for Scott Roeder signaled their intent in a motion for a new trial made public Monday. Among other reasons, they cite ...

The woman who shot and wounded Dr. George Tiller in 1993 has warned that abortion providers will "continue to be stopped," despite a Kansas jury's first-degree murder conviction of the doctor's confessed killer. Shelley Shannon, who is serving time in Minnesota for a series of clinic arsons, sent the message through the prison e-mail system's Web page ...

Those living on the virulent edge of the anti-abortion movement pinned their hopes on the man convicted of killing Dr. George Tiller, one of the few U.S. physicians to offer late-term abortions. Testifying in his own defense, Scott Roeder insisted he had committed a justified act for the defense of unborn children. If successful, the legal strategy had the ...

Scott Roeder had no intention of apologizing for gunning down one of the only doctors in the nation who offered late-term abortions. He certainly wouldn't show remorse. His lawyers knew they had only one option for Roeder, who was relentlessly open about how he planned to kill Dr. George Tiller and how he actually pulled it off. They had ...