and trust. again, this is where the police say the initial call kale in and this is the address given at this planned parenthood in colorado springs where we re told the active shooting situation is going on inside. also, this tweet issued a short time ago by cecil richards says quote, the staff at planned parenthood rocky mountain provide care every day in matter what. please keep them in your thoughts and prayers. now, if this was a targeting of planned parenthood, it would be the latest in a string of attacks on abortion providing facilities or doctors who work with them. the most recent fatal attack was six and a half years ago, dr. george tiller shot and killed inside his church in wichita, kansas on may 31st, 2009. he was a director of a women services clinic that performed late-term abortions and scott roder was convicted and he s serving a life sentence. in october of 1998, dr. barnett
that are going to work in those clinics. and that s what it s meant to be. this is against the law. the act was passed to prevent and stop this very type of threatening effort. the person he refers to, mr. bray along with mr. leach and mr. roder are all identified with the most extremist wing of the anti-abortion network in this country. that s what he s talking about. it advocates the murder of doctors that provide abortions in an effort to end abortion. this is domestic terrorism. these are not speech issues, which some people say this is his right to free speech. this goes beyond that. it crosses the line into illegal activity under the freedom of access to clinic entrances law. this is a threat. the law says you can t use
cou country was shocked when the kansas abortion doctor, george tiller, was gunned down while standing in the entryway of his church. his killer, scott roder, is an extreme abortion protester and now is in prison for life. now he s speaking out behind bars with rhetoric. david leach has posted the tape of a phone call he purportedly had with roter, in which they discussed the reopening of the dr. tiller s clinic. if someone would shoot the new abortionist like scott shot tiller, hardly anyone will appreciate it but the babies. that s a very true statement. it would be a blessing to the babies. everyone else would panic.
pick up the gauntlet. this rhetoric has no places in our debate. joining me is kathy spiller. thank you for being here tonight. thank you. first, before we go on, i should note that msnbc cannot confirm that roder is the caller on the tape but prison officials in kansas tell uses there are, quote, reasonable indications that the man on the call is in fact the convicted murderer. so kathy, what s your response to this tape? well, i think it s a very serious threat against the new clinic and other parts of that audiotape they talk specifically about the new director, julie burkhart. they talk about a target on her back. in fact, they go so far to talk about the idea of maybe if we kill enough doctors, we will be able to end abortion in this country. this is nothing short of
place where dr. tiller showed up at the same time every week, a place they knew he could be found at that time, and scott roder shot george tiller dead. and when they killed george tiller in that church in 2009, that ended abortion in wichita. actually, in that whole part of kansas. dr. tiller s clinic was closed into after his murder. it has been vacant in wichita ever since. when we interviewed dr. mila means in 2011, she was planning on picking up where dr. tiller left off. she had begun the extra training she needed to become an abortion provider so she could offer that service in addition to her family practice. she was going to re-establish access to abortion in wichita despite the horrific litany of what had ended it there before. that was her plan. but it did not happen. dr. means was open about what she wanted to do. she soon found herself sued by her landlord for creating a clear nuisance after protesters showed up at her family practice. protesters also showed up at her ho