Abortion doctor shot dead at his Kansas church: reportA controversial provider of late-term abortions was shot to death Sunday as he walked into services at his Kansas church, local media reports. A lightning rod lightning rod, a rod made of materials, especially metals, that are good conductors of electricity, which is mounted on top of a building or other structure and attached to the ground by a cable. in the bitter culture war over abortion, George Tiller George Tiller (b. 1941)[1] is a physician in Wichita, Kansas in the United States. He is the medical director of an abortion clinic in Wichita, Women's Health Care Services, which specializes in the provision of late-term procedures. has been picketed, bombed and shot in the arms. He was shot to death just after 10 am (1500 GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) See UTC. GMT - Universal Time 1 ) as he walked into Reformation Lutheran Church in Wichita, Kansas
Wichita, also known as the Air Capital of the World, is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kansas, as well as a major aircraft manufacturing hub and cultural center. , the Wichita Eagle reported. Police contacted by AFP (1) (AppleTalk Filing Protocol) The file sharing protocol used in an AppleTalk network. In order for non-Apple networks to access data in an AppleShare server, their protocols must translate into the AFP language. See file sharing protocol. could not immediately confirm the report but said details of an incident at the church would be released later in the day. Tiller, 67, one of the few doctors who still performs late-term abortions in the United States, has been demonized by abortion opponents who regularly protest outside his clinic, located just off a busy highway that runs through Wichita. In 1986, someone placed a bomb on the roof of the clinic, seriously damaging the building. In 1993, Tiller was shot in both arms outside the clinic. Tiller recovered, and his assailant received an 11-year prison term. Some 2,000 protesters were also arrested outside the clinic during summer-long demonstrations in 1991. He was acquitted in March on charges that he performed 19 illegal abortions in 2003. 
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