desk job stops being a normal desk job because while he does sit at a desk, his desk sits opposite a metal detector, and he wears a gun on his hip. carl swinny works for julie burkhart at the trust women clinic in wichita, kansas. he s the facilities coordinator there which means he s in charge of keeping the staff at that clinic safe as well as the patients who go there for health care. carl worked for dr. tiller s clinic, too. he was the security guard at dr. tiller s clinic up until the day tiller was shot at his church. carl remembers seeing the man who killed his boss. he had come by the clinic when dr. tiller worked there. you d seen scott roader here. i d seen him, yeah. what got me is what he said in court, or so i heard it. he was asked why he didn t try to shoot him here instead of in church and he said well the guard had a gun.
announced that they would not reopen the clinic. dr. tiller was the city s only abortion provider, so his death ended abortion access in wichita. and that had a real practical and immediate effect on all the women who had come to rely on tiller and on this particular clinic for this kind of care. anti-abortion forces in wichita were adamant about keeping the clinic closed in the wake of tiller s murder, keeping wichita abortion-free. late in 2010 more than a year after tiller s death and more than a year after the clinic had closed, the associated press reported two doctors in kansas were training to become abortion providers. those doctors names were leaked to the ap by the anti-abortion movement and the ap decided to print their names. and the threats and intimidation and harassment began immediately. one of those two doctors was dr. mila means. she chose to share her story
between these two states, you know, we have things coming at us all the time. whether it s protesters, what the state legislators want to do, what we have going on, you know, running through the judiciary, there might be patient issues, funding issues, physician recruitment issues. people still don t want to necessarily come to wichita. people still ten years after dr. tiller s assassination still view wichita has being this very violent volatile community. and i get that. but it makes it difficult for us in terms of recruiting doctors. i still don t have any physicians who live in wichita or live in oklahoma city. so all these years later we still fly people in. all these years later we still fly people in.
into the church george tiller attended, he walked in on a sunday morning, he held up a gun to tiller s head and he executed him at point-blank range. according to the killer, scott roader, he d been thinking about killing george tiller for years. but it was the result of that trial, george tiller s acquittal of all those misdemeanor charges that motivated him to actually go through with it, to actually do it. it seemed like that was the last attempt by the state of kansas to find if there was anything at all going on illegally in george tiller s clinic. and it seemed as though that was the last step and now he was acquitted. found not guilty. did you decide it was incumbent upon you to do something? there was nothing being done, and the legal process had been exhausted, and these babies were dying every day. and i felt that if someone did
scott roader shot him in the head. nine days later tiller s family announced they would not reopen the clinic. dr. tiller was the city s only abortion provider so his death ended abortion access in wichita, and that had a real practical and immediate effect on all the women who had come to rely on tiller and on this particular clinic for this kind of care. anti-abortion forces in wichita were adamant about keeping the clinic closed in the wake of tiller s murder, keeping wichita abortion-free. late in 2010 more than a year after tiller s death and more than a year after the clinic had closed the associated press reported two doctors in kansas were training to become abortion providers. those doctors names were leaked to the ap by the anti-abortion movement and the ap decided to print their names. and the threats and intimidation and harassment began immediately. one of those two doctors was dr.