A Death in Wichita: Abortion Doctor George Tiller and the New American Civil War

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With A Death in Wichita (originally published as The Wichita Divide) New York Times bestselling author Stephen Singular offers an in-depth account of the life and death of a controversial doctor the debate that sparked his assassination and the place where two Americas collide On May 31 2009 Scott Roeder walked into a Wichita church drew a pistol and shot Dr. George Tiller at point blank range. Tiller who was the most public practitioner of late-term abortions in America had been a lightning rod for controversy regularly referred to in the conservative media as "Tiller the Baby Killer." Tillers death was a pivotal public murder in a war that has been raging for decades. Its a war of violently opposing ideologies encompassing abortion but also questions of privacy sexuality and religion. Its being fought in our nations courtrooms school and churches on television sets at our dinner tables and in our bedrooms. And more and more the key battlegrounds are in Kansas once home to Brown vs. Board of Education and some of the bloodiest conflicts of the Civil War. This is a gripping look at a cold-blooded terrorist action two men representing opposite ideological extremes and the region where those violent forces clash.