June 10, 2009
'Abortion fatigue' on both sides as Kansas clinic closes
by Robin Abcarian
Los Angeles Times
Shortly after the family of slain physician George Tiller announced Tuesday that his abortion clinic would be shuttered forever, the police cruiser that had been a fixture in the clinic's driveway was gone.
The gate was open, the parking lot empty and someone had hung a large red-and-white banner inside the clinic's perimeter fence: "Wichita Stands with Dr. Tiller. 35 Years of Saving Women's Lives."
Here, on a freeway frontage road, ground zero of the abortion wars for nearly three decades, there was, it seemed, nothing left to fight over.
Now the national conversation over legalized abortion has shifted away from Women's Health Care Services, the beige one-story building where Tiller practiced -- as one of only a handful of physicians in the country who performed late-term abortions.
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