Post by Logan on May 3, 2016 2:31:25 GMT -6
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas anti-abortion activist faces trial in federal court this week over a letter she sent to a Wichita physician saying someone might place an explosive under the doctor's car.
Opening statements are expected Tuesday morning in the 2011 lawsuit brought by the U.S. Department of Justice against Angel Dillard under a federal law aimed at protecting access to abortion services. The civil case highlights the federal government's heightened concerns about perceived threats to abortion providers in the wake of Dr. George Tiller's murder in Wichita.
The government has accused the Valley Center woman of sending a threatening letter to Dr. Mila Means, who was training to offer abortion services. At the time, abortions had not been openly performed in Wichita since Tiller, one of the nation's few late-term abortion providers, was fatally shot in May 2009 by anti-abortion activist Scott Roeder as the physician served as an usher at his Wichita church.
Dillard wrote in her 2011 letter that thousands of people from across the United States were scrutinizing Means' background and would know her "habits and routines."
Read more: www.goupstate.com/article/20160503/APA/305039925
Opening statements are expected Tuesday morning in the 2011 lawsuit brought by the U.S. Department of Justice against Angel Dillard under a federal law aimed at protecting access to abortion services. The civil case highlights the federal government's heightened concerns about perceived threats to abortion providers in the wake of Dr. George Tiller's murder in Wichita.
The government has accused the Valley Center woman of sending a threatening letter to Dr. Mila Means, who was training to offer abortion services. At the time, abortions had not been openly performed in Wichita since Tiller, one of the nation's few late-term abortion providers, was fatally shot in May 2009 by anti-abortion activist Scott Roeder as the physician served as an usher at his Wichita church.
Dillard wrote in her 2011 letter that thousands of people from across the United States were scrutinizing Means' background and would know her "habits and routines."
Read more: www.goupstate.com/article/20160503/APA/305039925