U.S.: George Tiller was the wedge in the ultimate wedge issue, abortion
- protest Tiller’s clinic started getting regular picketers in 1975 and was a constant target of militant anti-abortion group Operation Rescue. The clinic was bombed by anti-abortion activists in 1985, and he was shot in both arms by activist Shelley Shannon in 1993.
- trials Earlier this year, Tiller was acquitted of 19 counts on claims that second opinions given in his late-term abortion cases were not independent. Kansas law requires that prior to a late-term abortion, a patient receive a second opinion completely unrelated to the first.