Operation Rescue turns its sights on Nebraska abortion doctor

By Barb Shelly, Kansas City Star editorial page columnist

Operation Rescue, the aggressive anti-abortion group based in Wichita, Kan., made tracks to distance itself from the murder early this month of abortion doctor George Tiller.

But now the group, which hounded Tiller for years, is turning its sights on LeRoy Carhart, the Nebraska-based physician who regularly assisted Tiller.

Operation Rescue has put out the word that it wants to hear from women who sought abortions from Carhart in the last five years. It's doing a "research project" on Carhart, according to its website.

If experience is any guide, this "research project" will result in unverifiable and downright bogus allegations, which the group will make public. It's the sort of information that just might inflame an unbalanced person like Scott Roeder, the man accused of shooting Tiller in his church -- where, by the way, Operation Rescue had protested and disrupted services numerous times.

But when tragedy occurs, Operation Rescue's leaders are shocked and appalled. Or so they say.

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Please take it seriously feds.

whereabouts at all times.

post some photos of them and their families.

I'm not advocating violence. Really.

Roeder had, when he assassinated Tiller

I would love to know how a convicted felon gets to lobby my state legislature.

and they want to keep him from doing so



I HATE all things operation miscue

someone want to claim that they've had an abortion by him? Get some inside info on what they're doing ...

I've met a couple of your foes in Omaha and they're pretty scary.