Operation Rescue (Kansas) Wichita, Kansas, to focus its efforts on late-term abortion provider George Tiller, who was assassinated in 2009. After the FACE (Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances) bill was signed into law by then-president Bill Clinton, Operation Rescue West implemented new tactics that did not involve arrest. Operation Rescue operates a fleet of what it refers to as "Truth Trucks", large panel vehicles that bear images of aborted fetuses. These "Truth Trucks" travel around the nation showing what Operation Rescue describes as "grisly truth about abortion." The organization offers a $25,000 reward for reports of criminal activity at abortion clinics which
Assassination of George Tiller 2009, Roeder publicly confessed to the killing, telling the Associated Press that he had shot Tiller because "preborn children's lives were in imminent danger." Roeder was found guilty of first-degree murder and two counts of aggravated assault on January 29, 2010, and sentenced on April 1, 2010, to life imprisonment without any chance of parole for 50 years. George Tiller was shot dead on May 31, 2009, during worship services at the Reformation Lutheran Church in Wichita, where he was serving as an usher. The church is a congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Tiller was shot in