Between 1993 and 2015 , 11 people were killed at American abortion clinics . Dr. George Tiller was shot and killed by Scott Roeder on May 31 , 2009 as Tiller served as an usher at a church in Wichita , Kansas . Witnesses said that Roeder walked up and put a gun to Tiller 's head before shooting him . As a consequence of his death , his family closed the clinic where he performed abortions . The murder was one of the first occasions in the United States where a clinic closed as a result of an abortion clinic related murder
Dr. George Tiller was shot and killed
Assassination of George Tiller
Abortion in Kansas