in january 2013 julie burkhart was camped out at the site of george tiller s shuttered clinic surrounded by contractors and a crew of lawyers and activists intent on bringing abortion access back to wichita. now six years later they ve accomplished that and then some. when she setout to reopen it julie burkhart was not sure anyone would want to come to this clinic again, the place that for decades had been the epicenter of america s often violent abortion wars. but like george tiller had always said, women need abortions and people did come to the clinic. in fact so many people came that three years after she got dr. tiller s clinic back up and running again in wichita julie opened another clinic three hours south in oklahoma city. it was a fight to get each clinic open. most days julie says it still feels like a fight to keep them
burkhart bought tiller s old clinic. and right away the network of anti-abortion activists who had just successfully fought back those other two doctors who had been trying to reinstate abortion access in wichita, right away when julie bought tiller s clinic they came for her. they tried twice to get the land the clinic sits on rezoned so a medical facility couldn t operate there. they held protests outside her house, and of course they distributed wanted-style posters and her photo and her personal information. is this scary to you to have this distributed and to have your home address and your picture? well, it s something that i take very seriously. we communicate regularly with law enforcement, so it s something that we take very seriously. but it will not deter us. it will not deter us. coming up next this is what it looks like when your job makes you the target for a whole radical movement of people who are bent on stopping you. who see this as a war and you as