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WICHITA, Kan. - Defiant and unapologetic, a man accused of shooting a Kansas abortion provider confessed to the slaying Monday, telling The Associated Press that he killed the doctor to protect unborn children.

Scott Roeder, 51, of Kansas City, Missouri, spoke to the AP in a telephone call from jail, saying he plans to argue at his trial that he was justified in shooting Dr. George Tiller.

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OPEKA, Kan. - Operation Rescue, the militant anti-abortion group who had harsh words for the slain abortion doctor George Tiller, even after his murder, now wants to buy Tiller's shuttered clinic.

It would be the ultimate irony, and perhaps ultimate statement, for Operation Rescue to turn Tiller's murder into office space from which they can further their message.

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WICHITA, Kan. - Abortion providers say that threats of more slayings from a man accused in the shooting death of a high-profile Kansas abortion doctor proves the existence of a "violent, terrorist movement" coalescing around the issue.

Scott Roeder called The Associated Press Sunday from the Sedgwick County jail, where he's being held on charges of first-degree murder and aggravated assault in the shooting death of Dr. George Tiller last week at the doctor's church in Wichita.

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WICHITA, Kan. - Scott Roeder, the man charged with killing late-term abortion provider Dr. George Tiller has a long history of anti-government behavior.

In 1996, he was convicted of possessing bomb making materials, but released when a court ruled his car was illegally searched.

His ex-wife told CBS News he was obsessed with fighting abortion and was involved with anti-government groups for more than a decade.

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NEW YORK - The murder of George Tiller, a Wichita, Kan., doctor who performed late-term abortions, has sent many in the pro-life movement looking for ways to distance themselves from the violence.

Not Randall Terry, founder of Operation Rescue, a militant pro-life organization.

"George Tiller was a mass murderer," Terry told the National Press Club. "He reaped what he sowed."

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