Leonard Zeskind will be following and writing about the trial as it proceeds.

Picking the jury that will vote on whether Scott Roeder murdered Dr. Tiller in the first degree or whether he simply committed voluntary manslaughter is continuing. Thevoir dire process appears to be fairly thorough. Prospective jurors spend an average of thirty minutes privately discussing their views with the court. They also answer eighty-eight questions on a written firm.

To Understand the Trial of Scott Roeder Read
Wrath of Angels: The American Abortion War
by James Risen and Judy L. Thomas
Basic Books 1998

Leonard Zeskind will be following and writing about the trial as it proceeds.

If you want to understand the back story as Scott Roeder goes to trial in Wichita, Kansas for the murder of Dr. George Tiller, go to James Risen and Judy L. Thomas' 1998 book,Wrath of Angels: The American Abortion War. It is all there: the dynamic inside the "pro-life" movement that produces killers when the chances are not high that the Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade; the emergence of the Army of God as a supra-organizational name tag for clinic bombers; the first "Defensive Action" statement signed by people who supported doctor killers; Shelley Shannon's 1993 shooting of Dr. Tiller; and the mass civil disobedience of the "Summer of Mercy."

It’s not every day that GQ magazine puts a Kansan on its cover. The men's fashion monthly did just that in November of 2005, however, when it prominently featured Attorney General, Phill Kline and his anti-abortion crusade.  The magazine declared him “the future of the pro-life movement.”[1] Within four years of the GQ spread, Kline stood defeated in his epic battle against abortion. He finished the year under a cloud of professional misconduct—having been formally charged of ethical wrongdoing by the very state he once served.

IREHR President Leonard Zeskind will be following and writing about the trial of Scott Roeder, the accused killer of Dr. Tiller, as it proceeds. His first story is available now on the Huffington Post - click here to read it.  Check back often for updates as the trial progresses.