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Rachelle Ranae "Shelley" Shannon's release from prison should be noted
I shudder to imagine a political movement in which cold-blooded murder does not make one an "extremist" within the movement. (ESkog)(Talk)02:43, 16 February 2026 (UTC)Reply
No, "extremist" is not a subjective term. The dictionary definition of "extremist" is "the quality or state of being extreme". The dictionary definition of "extreme" is "going to great or exaggerated lengths" and "exceeding the ordinary, usual, or expected". It's a fact that when Scott Roeder murdered Dr. Tiller, he was going to great lengths and exceeding the ordinary or usual. Jersey Jan (talk) 13:01, 2 June 2026 (UTC)Reply
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In one place of the article, it says that Dr. Tiller was the only abortion provider in Wichita, KS between the Roe v. Wade decision and "close to 40 years later".
Later in the article it says that there were other abortion providers in Wichita in 1999.
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I would really like to see better documentation to support the claim that "About three-quarters of these late-term cases were teenagers who had denied to themselves or their families that they were pregnant until it was too late to hide it", particularly since one of the two sources listed is from The National Right to Life Committee, hardly an unbiased institution. In Kansas, prior to 2009, it was illegal to perform third trimester abortions unless it was to save the woman's life, or continuing the pregnancy would cause her substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function, or if the fetus was non-viable, or if the fetus was affected by a severe or life-threatening abnormality. Given this, and the fact that Dr. Tiller was acquitted of performing illegal third-trimester abortions, I find it difficult to believe that his practice was jam-full of eight months pregnant healthy teenagers, carrying healthy fetuses, all crying "I was scared!" Jersey Jan (talk) 11:29, 2 June 2026 (UTC)Reply
